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History of Hadley 



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Early History of Hatfield, South Hadley 
Amherst and Granby 



Massachusetts 



By Sylvester Judd 

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY 

George Sheldon 



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Family Genealogies 

By Lucius M. Boltwood 



Published by H. R. Huntting ^ Company 

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TOWN HISTORY 
GENEALOGY 
AMERICANA 



PREFACE 

TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION 



The town of Hadley is one of the oldest in the Connecticut valley. 
Differences of opinion in relation to discipline, baptism, and the qualifi- 
cations for church membership, had so rent the churches of Hartford and 
Wethersfield, that Gov. John Webster, Elder William Goodv^'in, and Rev. 
John Russell, with their friends, at length decided to seek a new home at 
a higher point on the river. 

To brave the journey of fifty miles through the wilderness and to lay 
again the foundations of a new town, was of course no small undertaking, 
yet the peace of the Colony requiring it, such was their resolve. Accord- 
ingly, on the 1 8th of April, 1659, the company to the number of sixty, 
met at the house of Nathaniel Ward in Hartford, and signed an agreement 
for their regulation and government, pledging themselves to remove to the 
"plantation purchased on the east side of the river of Connecticut, beside 
Northampton," as early as the 29th of September of the following year. 
For various reasons, twenty of the original signers failed to fulfil their en- 
gagements, yet their places were supplied by others, the town was settled, 
and has ever since continued to prosper. 

To trace the history of this enterprise, from its inception to the present 
time — to relate the toils, privations and dangers which beset the path of 
our ancestors — to describe their mode of life — to tell what they did for the 
cause of learning and religion — and to give some account of their families, 
is the object of the present work. In carrying out this purpose, no avail- 
able source of information has been overlooked. 

Induced by no expectation of pecuniary reward, but stimulated by an 
ardent love for historical research and a desire to preserve from destruc- 
tion the crumbling materials of a long and interesting history, at the press, 
ing solicitation of Major Sylvester Smith, Sylvester Judd, Esq.., com- 
menced the publication of this work. To it he devoted every moment 

III 



IV PREFACE 

which health would allow, and continued his labors until removed by 
death. 

With not a little reluctance, at the earnest desire of his family, shortly 
after Mr. Judd's decease, did I consent to complete the work commenced 
by one, who has well been styled, "the distinguished antiquary of North- 
ampton." To this task, amid a pressure of other duties, have I devoted 
my leisure moments; and having brought together the scattered fragments 
of family history left by Mr. Judd, and added to the same from my own 
collections, I am able at length to lay before the public, the result of my 
labors, having pursued the work with interest heightened by being able 
to trace my own descent from no less than five of those noble men, who 
more than two hundred years ago, in prayer and faith, laid such goodly 
foundations in this garden of New England. 

L. M. BOLTWOOD. 

Amherst, March, 1863. 



INTRODUCTION TO THE 
NEW EDITION 



Containing a Careful Study of the Lives of the Regicides 

AND an Inquiry into the Historical Basis of 

THE "Angel of Hadley" Legend. 



By GEORGE SHELDON. 



There are events in the history of Hadley of which her citizens 
are, and of right ought to be, very proud. They may tell of heroes 
living and dying there, whose dust sanctifies their soil — heroes of 
war, and heroes of peace. The actions of the former are usually 
on a stage where they can be seen and known of all men. For 
the most part these live and act conscious of a watching world, 
and assured that lasting memorials will perpetuate their names 
and deeds. We point to Hadley's farmer-soldier General Hooker 
on Beacon Hill. 

To the heroes of peace all this incentive to action is notably 
wanting. Their noblest deeds are often done in emergencies, 
on a sudden impulse, with no applauding crowd; more often 
without a witness, and with no thought of present reward or 
future fame. The greatest hero of Hadley, however, was of a 
still nobler and finer mold. Actuated by pure motives of humanity, 
sympathy and duty, and the loftiest pitch of patriotism, he patiently 
wrought in darkness and in silence. Through the anxious days and 
linge.';ing nights of more than ten years, he bravely stood within 
a hand's breadth of the gates of ignominious death. He never 
faltered for a single hour, nor ever sought to shift upon another 
the burden and responsibility. Month after month, summer and 
winter, year after year, zealously watching and guarding his 
trust, John Russell was virtually a prisoner within his own 
hamlet. Under his very rooftree he was secreting Edward 
Whalley and William Goffe, two of the patriot judges who con- 



VI INTRODUCTION 

demned to the scaffold that misguided and perfidious represen- 
tative of the "divine right of kings," Charles I., of England. 
These tv^o men w^ere nov^ proscribed; a price was set upon their 
heads, and a swift retribution awaited any who might relieve or 
conceal them. Any neglect of precaution, any unforeseen mishap 
to the premises, any single case of misplaced confidence, and both 
he and his guests were surely doomed to nameless torture and 
death. Of necessity there must have been those about him in 
the secret, but none failed him, although each knew that a single 
whispered word would bring a rich reward. All honor to these 
faithful souls. 

Whalley and Goffe were known to be in Boston in 1660, and 
also in New Haven in 1661; and zealous minions of Charles II. 
were for twenty years ransacking every corner of the Colonies 
with the ardor and persistence of bloodhounds; their very house 
of refuge was searched. Over these two men, themselves of 
heroic proportion, lovers of liberty, patriots of the highest type, 
Mr. Russell was in truth the real "Guardian Angel of Hadley." 

In 1672 Mr. Russell was appointed to a place of trust and honor, 
which would have taken him to Boston free of expense twice each 
year. This very desirable service he declined by letter, saying 
guardedly, that he must do so on account of "the special worke 
where with I stand charged." Seldom or never in all the years in 
which he was guarding that trust, could the steadfast pastor get a 
release from the stated Sunday and Fast Day service by an ex- 
change of pulpits; not once the refreshment and inspiration which 
the country minister was wont to get in the "Annual Conven- 
tion" at Boston. 

In 1674 GofFe writes to his wife that her father, General Whal- 
ley, was fast nearing his end; but no one knows when the day of 
rest came. All knowledge of the time or place of Goffe's departure 
has also passed with him behind the veil. In 1685, however, we 
find the faithful watchman breathing the free air of Boston. 
Probably his "special worke" came to an end finally with a 
second burial in his cellar. Mr. Russell died in 1692. Hadley 
has indeed reason to be proud of such sublime heroism as his, and 
it is passing strange that her citizens have so long delayed placing 
an indestructible memorial to mark the spot where, even in the 
shadow of the grave, loom up the truly grand proportions of John 
Russell. Here shone forth his intense love of liberty. Here he 
stood ready to sacrifice his life, in showing honor for the daring 
deeds of these two apostles of civil freedom, whom he was shield- 
ing from a horrible death. Here he emphasized his belief, that 



INTRODUCTION VII 

"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."' Evidence is not 
wanting, that the time is now ripe for Hadley to honor itself by 
doing honor to her most noble nobleman, brave John Russell; 
and we may hope and expect with confidence, that this long- 
delayed duty will soon be an actual achievement. His descendants 
may be scattered far and wide; but let Hadley see to it that his 
fame with her shall ever abide. 

The story of the town has been told with rare interest in Judd's 
History of Hadley. This book has been long out of print. More 
than thirty years ago, I bought the only copy I could find on sale 
in Boston. As it is indispensible to any well-equipped library of 
Americana, public or private, and has become so scarce that its 
price has reached a prohibitory figure to most students, there can 
be no question about the necessity of a new edition. Judd's 
History has been known as a standard work ever since it was 
issued. It not only covers Hadley, but the territory for a score 
of miles up and down the valley of the Connecticut. In it the 
searcher after knowledge of the manners and customs of the early 
days will find a full field from which to garner colonial, ecclesias- 
tical, scholastic, civic, industrial, mercantile, legal and legendary 
lore. The very opening chapter contains a clue to the obscure, 
but interminable church quarrels so common and persistent 
among our Puritan and Pilgrim fathers and mothers. The causes, 
when we can unlock their confusing mysteries, seem to us trivial, 
but examination shows that by these earnest, honest men and 
women, they were considered vital and controlling, as being 
matters of eternal consequence. It was one of these disturb- 
ing events in Connecticut that determined when and by whom 
Hadley should be settled. 

Judd was an enthusiastic student; generally seeking the material 
for his history at first hand — in old parchment-covered record 
books, files of musty time-stained papers, tattered letters, and 
long-forgotten diaries. Those who have seen the mass of his 
accumulated papers are surprised at the extent and diversity of 
his research. Although fate decreed that Mr. Judd should not 
have the final arrangement of his great store of genealogical data, 
this work was successfully accomplished by Hon. Lucius M. 
Boltwood, and is, and always will be, a rich mine for the delver 
after family history in the valley of the Connecticut. 

As before said, Mr. Judd must always be looked up to as a 
sound historical authority of the highest rank. If once in a great 
while he be found tripping, we can but say, that it is the common 
lot of all who depend upon original manuscript. New material 



VIII INTRODUCTION 

of this kind may and often does come to light, for the use and 
edification of the later writer. There was one topic upon which 
the painstaking Judd was led astray; that was in giving undue 
credit to President Ezra Stiles, in his History of the Three 
Judges. Through his faith in the standing of the man, Judd 
accepted as history, without his usual investigation, the Leverett 
Tradition, that on Sept. i, 1675, Hadley was attacked by Indians 
while the inhabitants were assembled in the meetinghouse holding 
a Fast Day service, and that the town was only saved from destruc- 
tion by the sudden appearance of General Goffe, at a critical 
moment. If this story is otherwise read by me, and my version 
be accepted as true, I am here embarrassed by an apparent claim 
to be the better student. I am not, and far be it from me to make 
such a claim. It may not be improper to say, that in common with 
all the later historians of New England, I had accepted the ac- 
count of President Stiles as an established fact, and no more 
thought of calling in question the authenticity of the Goffe story, 
than of any accepted fact of history, I had seen, however, so 
many traditions discredited in my general reading, that I had 
made it my rule to take nothing second hand which could be 
personally investigated, and so when possible, I went to the same 
original sources of information as my author. This I soon found 
necessary to the spirit of independent thought and expression, 
for not seldom, I found myself differing from the author in hand, 
in my interpretation of the same facts. 

It was in accordance with the above rule, that I began mining 
for the foundation of the "Angel of Hadley" story. To my sur- 
prise, I soon discovered that the corner stone, instead of being laid 
on bed rock or solid masonry, rested on nothing better than 
elusive quicksand. Had Mr. Judd entertained the faintest sus- 
picion about the main fact of the story, I make no doubt he would 
have investigated the matter, and would have reached the same 
conclusion which was fairly forced upon me. With all his general 
faith in Stiles, Judd was compelled to question some of his posi- 
tions on this subject, occasionally disputing him point blank; 
and he shows that some of the traditions upon which Stiles built, 
were "certainly false." Many other items are treated with 
small respect, "Some of which must be rejected," he says. Mr. 
Judd would doubtless be the last man to regret that the romantic, 
but baseless episode of the Angel of Rescue, so cherished by the 
sentimental, should be eliminated from the annals of the town, 
when its most potent factor is proved to be but the child of an 
indiscriminating credulity. 



INTRODUCTION IX 



It is expected by the publishers of the new edition of Judd's 
History that the Introduction shall contain a concise review of 
the evidence upon which rests the story of the Angel of Hadley, 
as given by Stiles and accepted in the main feature by Judd. 
Necessarily the field to be explored is obscure, the facts to be 
dealt with, fragmentary, widely scattered and individually of 
small account; but all these facts focused upon the objective point, 
will, it is hoped, give a final quietus to the angel fabrication being 
accepted as history. As material for romantic fiction, the myth 
will live for ages. 

General Edward Whalley and General William GofFe were 
members of the "High Court of Justice," which was the forlorn 
hope of civil and religious liberty for the English race, and which 
with one desperate blow so shattered the battlements of Preroga- 
tive, that its walls never have been and never can be fully built 
up again. With the restoration of Charles II., these two men fled 
to New England. When they left London, the King had not been 
proclaimed, but the news reached them while yet in the English 
Channel. The good ship of Captain Pierce, which brought them 
over, "came to anchor between Boston and Charlestown," July 
27, 1660. Whalley had assumed the name of Richardson, and 
Goffe the name of Shepardson. They at once took up their 
residence at Cambridge. The quotations which follow are from 
the diary of General GofFe. 

"July 29th, Lord's Day, heard Mr. Mitchell preach." They 
were well received here by men who knew their real character. 
Mitchell was the minister of Cambridge. "Aug. 9th, Went to 
Boston Lecture, heard Norton, Scotch ship brought threatned 
recognition by one who came in it. At night Maj. [Daniel] 
Gookin showed us a printed paper y' was brought by the Scotch 
Ship wherin the Lds doe order 66 members of the High Court of 
Justice to be secured with y"" Estate." 

While at Cambridge they also attended an Indian Lecture, 
probably by the apostle Eliot, and GoflPe makes note of the dis- 
cussion which followed and the searching questions put by the 
natives. After Aug. 9th, the Judges made no pretence of conceal- 
ment. 

"Aug. i6th, Sup'd with Mr. Chauncey [President of Harvard 
College] he was persuaded y^ Ld had brought us to this country 
for good both to them and ourselves." 

"Aug. 23d, visited Elder Frost," and on the 26th they were 
visited by Mr. Mitchell. By the above may be seen their status 
in Boston. So the Judges waited coming events. Would Charles 



X INTRODUCTION 

be sustained ? They had not long to wait. November 30th, a ship 
brought news that the King was firmly established on the throne, 
and furthermore, that complaints were abroad about the way the 
Judges had been received in the Colony. Action here became 
necessary, and on December 19th an "Address to the King" was 
sent over by the General Court. A gracious reply was returned by 
Charles. Before this had been received, however, orders had 
arrived for the apprehension of Whalley and Goffe. February 
22d the Court of Assistants met to consider the matter. The 
members did not agree upon any action, and nothing followed; 
but all saw that a crisis was near, and means were found to send 
the Judges away from the Bay. They were guided by an Indian 
as far as Springfield, and thence by Simon Lobdel through 
Hartford, reaching New Haven March 7, 166 1. A few days 
after they left Cambridge, a "Hue-and-Cry " w^as received from 
England, and March 8th, a warrant for their arrest was sent to 
Springfield, on their trail. But the birds had flown, as was 
doubtless expected. 

The pretended efforts of Governor Endicott did not blind 
observers in England. One Mr. Lang whites Rev. John Daven- 
port at New Haven, Oct. 28, 1661, "The Bay stirring soe much 
for the Apprehending of W: ^ G: signifie at present heere but 
little, because they were so long with them & then did nothing." 
Governor Endicott did not succeed altogether in saving his credit, 
but the Judges had fled beyond his jurisdiction and he was saved 
further embarrassment. They were well received as befitting 
their rank, by the leading men of Hartford and New Haven. 
They were probably sheltered under the roof of Rev. Mr. Daven- 
port at New Haven, but not for long. 

Forced by royal mandate, on the 7th of May, 1661, Governor 
Endicott sent Thomas Kellond, captain of an English ship, and 
Thomas Kirk, a young Boston merchant, two zealous royalists, 
to search for the Judges, as far south as New York. On their 
return May 29th, they made a detailed Report to Governor 
Endicott. From this Report we learn that they reached Guilford, 
Conn., May nth, 1661, and had a conference with William 
Lette, acting governor. On the 12th or 13th, they arrived at 
New Haven. There some time was spent in ineff"ectual eff'orts to 
induce the magistrates to give them authority to search for the 
Judges. The agents were put ofi^ chiefly by pretended difficulties 
in matters of authority. They say, "And soe findeing them 
obstinate and pertenaceous in their contempt of his Majestie, 
we came away the next day in prosecution after them, according 



INTRODUCTION XI 

to instructions, to the Governour of Manadas," by whom they 
received civil treatment and fair promises; after which "Wee 
made our returne by sea to give your honor an accompt." 

To this relation they made oath. News of the coming of Kel- 
lond and Kirk was received at New Haven by Mr. Davenport 
in advance of their arrival, and the Judges were spirited away 
to a safe retreat. Later a search of New Haven was made by 
the authorities, which ended as intended. The Judges remained 
in hiding in and about New Haven and Guilford until 1664, 
when, learning that Commissioners from England had arrived 
in Boston with special orders to search for Whalley and Goffe, it 
was thought they were no longer safe in Connecticut; and on the 
13th day of October, 1664, they began their long night journey 
through the woods to the house of Rev. John Russell, in Hadley. 
That little plantation was only five years old, but its sturdy stock, 
the pick of three towns, had already taken firm root in the virgin 
soil. The minister, who had led his flock out of a theological 
snarl in Connecticut, was leader still. Peter Tilton, the magis- 
trate, stood next in position. All were men of strong parts and 
sterling principles; men to be relied upon should the worst befall. 
In this little town, deep in the wilderness, the worn and hunted 
men found a sure refuge. One of them for a certainty here finished 
his checkered career, and here I believe his ashes still rest in an 
undiscovered grave. As to the younger. General Goffe, doubts 
may properly be raised. 

From Hadley the exiles corresponded by letter with their 
friends in England and in New England, under assumed names. 

The question of the Indian attack on Hadley Sept. i, 1675, 
and the appearance of the "Good Angel" Goffe to the rescue, 
will be considered in a general review of the evidence in the case. 
The wide dissemination of this story is chiefly due to Ezra Stiles, 
President of Yale College, in his History of the Three Judges 
published in 1794. For this work, Doctor Stiles attempted to 
make an exhaustive search in all directions for material, and he 
shows a commendable zeal and industry in hunting for recorded 
facts and traditions. Unfortunately, however, there appears to 
be in him a lack of the judicial quality. He delights to eat and 
drink of traditions, but he fails in their digestion. He plainly 
exhibits a certain twist in his make-up, which inclines him to give 
more weight to a faint family tradition, than to verified contem- 
poraneous facts. In justification of this criticism, I will cite a 
single example. I have spoken of the mission of Kellond and 
Kirk to New Haven, and their sworn return to Governor Endicott. 



XII INTRODUCTION 

This Report is printed in full by Doctor Stiles. The salient facts 
are, that the emissaries spent three days in fruitless efforts to obtain 
a warrant to enable them to search for the Judges. Failing in 
this, on the fourth day, they left Connecticut for New York, 
without making any search; and from New York they say "Wee 
made our returne by sea, to give your honor an accompt." After 
giving this Report, Stiles comments upon it thus: "They arrived 
at New Haven the 13th day; and it should seem that they left 
the town the next day, and this without any search at all; and 
particularly, no mention is made of their interview with Mr. 
Davenport. But the constant tradition in New Haven is, that 
they diligently searched the town, and particularly the house of 
Mr. Davenport, whom they treated with asperity, and repre- 
hension. ... It would seem that they [the Judges] were not in 
town while the pursuivants were here." 

Now, in the face of this Report and his own comments, Stiles 
in the same chapter gives page after page of obscure and con- 
flicting traditions, which he tries to soften and reconcile, to prove 
that Kellond and Kirk did search several houses, and that the 
Judges had several narrow escapes in the process. Further, 
that the pursuers returned home from New York not by sea, 
but through New Haven, where they continued the search; for 
so say some family traditions. Such treatment of evidence 
warrants a very careful scrutiny of other conclusions arrived at 
by Doctor Stiles. The knowledge that Whalley and Gofi'e were 
concealed at Hadley was "first made known to the world" in 1764, 
by Governor Thomas Hutchinson in his "History of Massachu- 
setts." In collecting material for this history, Hutchinson visited 
Hadley, and sought to find and garner every scrap of tradition 
concerning the Judges that might have floated down on the years 
of a century which he knew had passed since their lot had been 
cast in that town. His errand appears to have been nearly barren 
of results. Apparently no one there had any knowledge or 
tradition connecting Hadley with the judges. The result of his 
research so far as it appears, is this: "The tradition at Hadley 
is that two persons unknown were buried in the minister's 
cellar." That and no more. 

In 1793, President Stiles, while hunting material for his history 
of the Judges also spent some time in Hadley. He aroused the 
interest and secured the help of Rev. Samuel Hopkins, who had 
been the minister there since 1754. They made diligent search 
among the older people for any and every possible scrap of tradi- 
tion or legend — "Even fabulous ones," says Doctor Stiles — in 



INTRODUCTION XIII 

any way concerning the astounding revelation of Hutchinson in 
1764. Nothing direct or substantial was discovered. They 
found a few faint and shadowy traditions, varying and contra- 
dicting one another, although all pointed toward the fact of 
strangers, in the long past, being concealed in the houses of Mr. 
Russell and Mr. Tilton; and that "one of them died in the town, 
those who remember which, say Whalley." The results from this 
search are embodied in a letter from Mr. Hopkins to President 
Stiles. 

There is good reason to believe that the names of Russell, 
Tilton, and Whalley were later additions to the traditions. In 
this volume Judd printed all that was obtained by Stiles and 
Hopkins. Here will be found faint echoes of the real state of 
affairs at Hadley which leaked out in hints dropped by some of 
those in the deadly secret, long after all danger had passed. One 
of these traditions which appears the most trivial, is in reality 
the only one bearing internal evidence of being authentic. It 
shows conclusively that as late as 1725-30, while there were 
vague rumors in the air easily referable to the judges, nothing 
was publicly known about the facts in the case. There were only 
unrelated stories. This one tradition follows. Doctor Stiles states, 
that in May, 1792, he visited at Wethersfield, Conn., Mrs. Porter, 
"a daughter of Mr. Ebenezer Marsh, and born at Hadley, 1715, 
next door to Mr. Tilton's." In reply to his questionings, she 
told him that before she left Hadley, "there were many flying 
stories, but so uncertain that nothing could be depended on." 
She said that "When she was a girl, it was the constant belief 
among the neighbors that an old man, for some reason or other, 
had been buried in the fence between Deacon Eastman's and her 
father's" so that each could "be able to say that he was not buried 
in his lot; but why he should be buried in the lot at all, and not 
in the public burying place, she had never heard any reason or 
tradition. She said the women and girls . . . used to meet at the 
dividing fence, and while chatting and talking together for amuse- 
ment, one and another at times would say, with a sort of skittish 
fear and laughing, 'Who knows but what we are now standing 
on the old man's grave.'" The significance of this extract from 
Stiles, of which Hopkins could learn nothing, will appear when 
we come to consider his declaration that the story of Gofi^e, the 
angel, was known to everybody about 1690. 

I will now take up the main object of this presentation, and give 
consideration to the letter from Hopkins to which I have alluded. 
It was written to Doctor Stiles March 26, 1793. I shall comment 



XIV INTRODUCTION 

only upon this significant passage which covers the gist of the 
Angel Story. "Most of whom I have enquired for tradition say, 
that while they [the Judges] were here, the Indians made an 
assault upon the town; that on this occasion a person unknown 
appeared, animating and leading on the inhabitants against the 
enemy and exciting them by his activity and ardours; that when 
the Indians were repulsed, the stranger disappeared — ^was gone 
— none ever knew where, or who he was. The above is the general 
tradition among us. I shall now notice some things which were 
in the tradition, as given by some differing from the above, or 
adding somewhat to it." Then follow the stories which have 
been characterized as misty, and inconclusive. In none of these, 
it must be noted, is there the slightest reference to the attack on 
Hadley September ist, which Hopkins says in his letter, "is the 
general tradition among us." Whence comes this "general tra- 
dition".? Not from the stories which he gathered from the old 
families, and quotes. The source is not far to seek. Hutchinson, 
as we have seen, could not find at Hadley the slightest tradition 
or trace of Whalley or Goffe by name. The total result of his 
search was the story that "Two persons unknown, were buried 
in the minister's cellar." That, in 1763, was the sum and sub- 
stance of Hadley tradition. Col. Israel Williams, an intimate 
personal and political friend of Hutchinson, was born and lived 
all his days within cannon shot of the house of Mr. Russell, and 
had known hundreds of people whose fathers or grandfathers 
were contemporary with the events at Hadley in 1675, but he 
could add nothing to this meager information. If no trace of the 
Angel Story was to be found in 1763, how comes it to be so "gene- 
ral" in 1793 ? 

In 1764 Hutchinson published his history. For the first time, 
the generation then on the stage knew that the two Judges had 
ever been given shelter in Hadley. Here then is the base of this 
general tradition of 1793. After this strange revelation by the 
historian, it became the common topic of conversation. The 
matter was, of course, talked over and over by old and young, 
until at length it was incorporated in the town talk, and the people 
gradually assumed that the facts had always been known in the 
community. In truth they had always existed, to those born after 
1763. In view of what is now known, this seems a simple and 
justifiable solution of the "general tradition" of which Hopkins 
writes in 1793. 

We shall study Hutchinson's History only so far as it relates 
to Whalley and Goffe. When he wrote he had in his possession 



INTRODUCTION XV 

that part of the diary of General GofFe from May 4, 1660, the 
time he left England, until 1667. Up to that date Hutchinson's 
knowledge is absolute and cannot be questioned. After that 
date his narrative is more general although he held other original 
papers. The latter are now accessible and have been freely used 
in preparing this introduction. 

In his book, Hutchinson gives a general account of the arrival 
and reception of Whalley and Goffe at Boston and Cambridge, 
and of their sojourn at New Haven and Hadley. He says, "The 
story of these persons has never yet been published to the world. 
It has never been known in New-England. Their papers, after 
their death, were collected and have remained near an hundred 
years in a library in Boston." In a footnote of several pages 
Hutchinson enlarges; tells more particulars of their hiding and 
adventures at New Haven, until October 13th, 1664, when "they 
removed to Hadley near an hundred miles distant, travelling only 
by night, where Mr. Russell the minister of the place had pre- 
viously agreed to receive them. Here they remained concealed 
fifteen or sixteen years, very few persons in this Colony being 
privy to it," This footnote closes thus; and here is the nut to be 
cracked: "I am loth to omit an anecdote handed down 
through Governor Leveret's family. I find GofFe takes notice 
in his journal of Leveret being at Hadley. The town of Hadley 
was alarmed by the Indians in 1675, in the time of public service, 
and the people were in the utmost confusion. Suddenly, a grave, 
elderly person appeared in the midst of them. In his mein and 
dress he differed from the rest of the people. He not only encour- 
aged them to defend themselves, but put himself at their head, 
rallied, instructed and led them on to encounter the enemy, who 
by this means were repulsed. As suddenly the deliverer of Hadley 
disappeared. The people were left in consternation utterly unable 
to account for the strange phenomenon. It is not probable that 
they were ever able to explain it." 

We note this is not given as history by Hutchinson, but only as an 
"anecdote" and merely in a footnote. The mysterious stranger 
is not mentioned at all in the body of the book where he gives the 
history of Philip's War. Not only this, but he gives good reasons 
why the story could not be true. His notice of the affair described 
in the "anecdote" is this — "September the ist, Hadley was 
attacked upon a fast day, while the people were at church, which 
broke up the service, and obliged them to spend the day in a very 
different exercise." This much of the "anecdote" was accepted 
by the historian, as there is no other authority for it. Upon this 



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Stiles enlarges, thus: "Though told with some variation in dif- 
ferent parts of New-England, the true story of the Angel is this: 
During their abode in Hadley, the famous . . . Philip's War took 
place . . . and Hadley . . . was then an exposed frontier. That 
pious congregation were observing a Fast at Hadley on the 
occasion of this war: and being at public worship in the meeting- 
house there on a Fast day, September i, 1675, were suddenly 
surrounded and surprised by a body of Indians. . . The people 
immediately took to their arms, but were thrown into great con- 
sternation and confusion. Had Hadley been taken the discovery 
of the Judges had been inevitable. Suddenly, and in the midst 
of the people there appeared a man of a very venerable aspect, and 
different from the inhabitants in his apparel, who took the com- 
mand, arranged and ordered them in the best military manner, 
and under his direction they repelled and routed the Indians, and 
the town was saved. He immediately vanished, and the inhabit- 
ants could not account for the phenomenon, but by considering 
that person as an Angel sent of God on that special occasion for 
their deliverance; and for some time after said and believed 
that they had been delivered and saved by an Angel — nor did 
they know or conceive otherwise till fifteen or twenty years after, 
when it at length became known at Hadley that the two Judges 
had been secreted there; which probably they did not know until 
after Mr. Russell's death in 1692. This story, however, of the 
Angel at Hadley, was before this universally diffused thro' New- 
England by means of the memorable Indian War of 1675. The 
mystery was unriddled after the revolution, when it became not 
so very dangerous to have it known that the Judges had received 
an asylum here and that GofFe was actually in Hadley at that 
time. The Angel was certainly General GofFe, for Whalley was 
superannuated in 1675." 

Here we have the story of the attack September ist, and the 
full-fledged Angel enlarged from the "anecdote." Stiles has now 
woven it into history. This has been accepted by all historians, 
great and small, and spread broadcast over the civilized world. 
It is confessedly founded upon the anecdote — no other source of 
information is even hinted at. Doctor Stiles gives credit to 
Hutchinson for a new fact in Philip's War, which had been 
overlooked by all the contemporaneous historians. Hutchinson 
did indeed swallow so much of the myth as covered the attack; 
but he states distinctly, that GofFe could not have appeared in the 
fray, without its leading to his discovery and destruction. This 
was a self-evident conclusion. Stiles cannot be justified in 



INTRODUCTION XVII 

discarding this statement and foisting the Angel story wrongfully 
upon Hutchinson. 

Now a word about the origin of the "Anecdote." It was either 
one stroke of some imaginative genius, or as is more probable, 
the gradual growth of generations in the fireside lore of the Leverett 
family. Its roots were no doubt planted in Mather's story of the 
"Alarm" at HadleySeptember 1st, publishedin 1676. Its branches 
may easily have been scions grafted on the knowledge of the facts 
in the case, handed down in the Leverett family, that the Judges 
were in Hadley on that same day. This is Mather's account of 
what really did happen at Hadley Sept. i, 1675, as given in his 
history of Philip's War. "One of the Churches in Boston was 
seeking the face of God by fasting and prayer before him. Also 
that very day, the Church in Hadley was before the Lord in the 
same way, but were driven from the holy service they were 
attending by a most sudden and violent alarm, which routed them 
the whole day after." 

There can be no doubt that Mather's story of the "alarm" at 
Hadley was true. The same could have been said of Hatfield and 
Northampton, when the astounding news reached them of the 
attack that day upon Deerfield. No doubt they too "were in the 
utmost confusion," while making preparation for their defence. 
The usual method of Indians in warfare is, to watch chances for a 
surprise; then a swift stroke, and speedy retreat. But at Deer- 
field the first shock was unsuccessful; the Indians lingered, and 
in a measure besieged the garrisons, expecting to lay the whole 
town in ashes; part being busy in plundering and burning, out of 
musket range from the stockades. In the meantime this condi- 
tion had been discovered and reported by scouts from below. It 
was the first attack upon any town in the valley, and what would 
be their fate after Deerfield had been destroyed, was the main 
thought. Of course, the people of Hadley were "in consternation 
by a most sudden and violent alarm, which routed them the whole 
day after," and doubtless a sleepless night followed. We must 
always note that Mather does not give the story of the alarm as 
part of the history of the war. He was dwelling strictly upon the 
dealings of God with the people, and the effect of prayer in turn- 
ing aside His wrath. 

The matter-of-fact Stoddard makes no note of this alarm. 
When sending Mather material for his "History of the War," 
he wrote only of the "Remarkable Passages." This alarm was 
such a trifle among the terrible tragedies of the two weeks covered 
by his letter, as not to be worthy of any note, and it is heard of 



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only in the theological disquisition by Mather — save when it 
serves as a sub-base for the narrative of Stiles. 

Hutchinson says squarely that the know^ledge of the Judges' 
concealment at Hadley "had never been known to the world" 
before 1764, just one hundred years after the event. Stiles calmly 
ignores this declaration, and says unreservedly that the story of 
the mysterious stranger of September ist was known throughout 
the country in 1675-6, and that the stranger was believed to be an 
Angel until after 1688. Hutchinson was a Tory, his house had 
been sacked by a mob, and he had been driven from his native 
land. He died in comparative obscurity in 1780. Stiles was an 
earnest Whig, an ardent lover of civil freedom, a stout opposer 
of the Prerogative. Could he have supposed that the history of 
Hutchinson would also fall into disrepute, and be replaced by 
his own ? He knew full well how marvelous stories were adapted 
to the popular taste. 

We will now take up that part of the "anecdote" accepted by 
Hutchinson, and baldly say that the "Angel Story" could not 
be true for the reason that there was absolutely no attack on 
Hadley by Indians Sept. I, 1675. The evidence to support this 
declaration is chiefly negative, but it seems to me that it is positive 
in effect. In a history of Philip's War published in December, 
1676, Rev. Increase Mather, after giving an account of the fight 
at Sugar Loaf Aug. 25, 1675, continues: 

"Sept. I, The Indians set upon Deerfield (alias Pacumtuck) 
and killed one man and laid most of the houses in that new hope- 
ful Plantation in ruinous heaps. That which added solemnity 
and awfulness to that desolation, is that it happened on the very 
day when one of the churches in Boston [Mather's own] was 
seeking the face of God by Fasting and Prayer. Also that very 
day the church in Hadley was before the Lord in the same way, 
but were driven from the Holy service they were attending by a 
most sudden and violent alarm, which routed them the whole day 
after, sothat we mayhumbly complain, as sometime the Church did, 
' How long hast thou smoaked against the Prayers of thy People.' 
Not long after this Capt. Beers with a considerable part of his 
men fell before the enemy. Concerning the state of these parts 
at this time until Sept. 15, I received information from a good 
hand whilst things were fresh in memory, which I shall here 
insert as containing a brief History of the transactions which 
happened within the time mentioned [Sept. 1-15], these parts 
being the seat of the war. The letter I intend is that which fol- 
loweth." 



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The letter referred to is in this volume. It is from Rev. Solo- 
mon Stoddard, then minister at Northampton, dated Sept. 15, 
1675. It is a long letter, reciting minutely the movements of the 
contending forces in the valley. Stoddard tells of the disarming 
of the near-by Indians, August 24th, the affair at Sugar Loaf, 
August 25th, and says, "We heard no more of the Indians till the 
first of September, when they shot down a garrison soldier at 
Pocumtuck, that was looking after his horse, and ran violently 
up into the town, many people having scarcely time enough to 
get into the garrison: that day they burnt most of their houses and 
barns, the garrisons not being strong enough to sally out upon 
them, but killed two of their men from their forts." He gives 
a full account of the tragic events which accompanied the dis- 
truction of Northfield, September 2-6; the second attack on 
Deerfield September 12th; the relief expedition, September 13th, 
and the arrival of Captain Moseley at Hadley, September 14th. 
Hadley is not named at all September 1st, and who knew theevents 
of that day better than Parson Stoddard .? 

Samuel Mather, nephew of Increase Mather, then minister at 
Deerfield, wrote his uncle the fullest account of the assault 
which has been found. With all this information before him, 
Mather gives not the slightest hint of any trouble at Hadley but 
the "Alarm," which was obviously on hearing the news from 
Deerfield. That was enough; for Deerfield, as I have said, was 
the first town in the valley which was attacked by Indians. 
Mather writes the next year a History of New England. Hubbard 
published his notable History of Philip's War in 1677. Several 
contemporary pamphlets and letters are extant, but not one of 
these affords a scintilla of light on the alleged attack on Hadley. 
We also look in vain in the History of the War by Cotton Mather, 
a few years later. In fact, not a single word can be found on the 
matter before 1764. If the attack September ist were a verity, 
why this silence ? 

Judd attempts an explanation: it was because the Judges were 
concealed there. He says, "It was necessary at the time and 
long after, to throw a veil over the transactions of that day, which 
has been, and can be, only partially removed." Let us examine 
this explanation — does it explain! How could this silence be 
enforced! The facts must have been known to every person in 
Hadley, inhabitants and soldiers; to all in Hatfield and North- 
ampton. The story must have been repeated to the hundreds 
of soldiers who came to Hadley that week, for there was the 
headquarters of the army and the gathering place of the forces 



XX INTRODUCTION 

from the East and from Connecticut. Silence might perhaps 
have been imposed upon the magistrates and ministers, but 
what of the miscellaneous multitude ? All must see the utter 
impossibility of keeping their mouths shut, when, in the very 
nature of the case, no reason could be given, without betraying 
the fatal secret. On the contrary, if the people of Hadley believed 
they had been saved from destruction by an angel sent of God, 
why should not this amazing thing be proclaimed from every 
pulpit with joy and thanksgiving, be discussed at every fireside 
in the land, and preached in every camp that they were the chosen 
people of the Lord! This was by far and far the most important 
event in the history of New England; and how soon would the 
news have spread to the uttermost parts of the earth; and how 
would the literature of the times have teemed with the marvelous 
story. How the superstitious savage would have quailed in terror 
at this act of the white man's God! The bloody events of the 
current week show no such effect. If true, why do we not find 
traditions or recorded facts in the families of Barnard, Baldwin, 
Boltwood, Coleman, Dickinson, Hawks, Moody, Porter, Russell, 
Smith, Warner, or Wells, who were on the spot; or in those of 
Allis, Arms, Belden, Cowles, Field, Frary, Gillet, Graves, Hub- 
bard, Hinsdale, Kellogg, Lyman, Munn, Montague, Marsh, 
Morton, Parsons, Pomeroy, Sheldon, Stebbins and scores of 
others in the surrounding towns, descendants of all of which 
families are now living among us? Look at the contrast! The 
knowledge of this wonderful deliverance of beset Hadley, by the 
act of the heroic Goffe, or the direct act of God, lay dormant and 
unknown for ninety years, to creep out at length through a tra- 
ditionary anecdote handed down in a single family in far-off 
Boston, and then only preserved in a marginal footnote to a 
printed page. But Hutchinson, even, who published the tradition, 
did not believe the mysterious appearance part of the story, and 
the part which he did accept quietly slumbered for thirty years 
longer, until it was revived and printed by President Stiles, and 
so scattered broadcast as veritable history. 

It is certainly strange that subsequent writers should have fol- 
lowed Stiles in the main feature of the story. Most of them added 
to or varied it, as their fancy dictated, or their judgment impelled. 
Hoyt can find no warrant for September ist, and changes the date 
to June 9, 1676. Judd and Huntington find the attack was not on 
the meetinghouse. Holland adds many new features, following 
Hoyt in the date, and brings Major Talcott over from Northamp- 
ton to be at the finish. Palfrey and Robbins add eloquent and 



INTRODUCTION XXI 

picturesque descriptions. Farmer makes quite a different thing 
of it and quotes conversation with Goff"e. Drake accepted the 
story with great eff'ort, and can only fix the date " Some time during 
the war." 

There is one trifling but amusing feature which runs through 
all the accounts. We are expected to be impressed by the dra- 
matic exhibit, the venerable aspect of the stranger, his silver 
locks, his ancient garb, his flashing sword. Assuming that his 
wardrobe had not been replenished during his eleven years' stay, 
would it appear noticeably "ancient" in a land where garments 
were habitually handed down from father to son ? The man who 
wears my clothes is not pointed out on the street, although there 
has been no change in the fashion of his "garb " for well-nigh forty 
years. I do not believe the men of Hadley in 1675 were a bit 
more observant. The flowing locks of the old Round Head, and 
the ancient garb have been greatly overworked. I bid them a 
long adieu. 

The supposed grave of fVhalley. No one has ever been able to 
fix the exact date of Whalley's death, or the place of his burial. 
He was alive Aug. 5, 1674, but in a fast failing condition. It is 
generally agreed that he died within a few months. Of course, 
he was buried at Hadley. As to the exact place of burial, the tra- 
ditions or stories gathered by Hopkins and Stiles in 1793 at Hadley 
are worthless. There was not one direct tradition to be found. 
"It seems to have been a matter of conjecture among the inhabit- 
ants," half a dozen sites are guessed at. Taking an average. 
Stiles guesses that one of the Judges was buried at Mr. Russell's 
and one at Mr. Tilton's; that both were eventually removed to 
New Haven and laid near the grave of Dixwell, the third of the 
"Three Judges in America." No one is found supporting Stiles 
in this last supposition. Judd says, "It seems to be fabulous. . . 
It is certainly false in regard to Whalley, and is believed to be 
equally unfounded as to Goff'e. The necessity of secrecy would 
have prevented the removal as it must be done by oxen and cart." 
Judd thinks Whalley's grave has been found at Mr. Russell's. 
His views are stated in this volume. I will give a brief abstract, 
and my reason for a non-agreement. 

Mr. Russell's house stood on the east side of Main Street, 
fronting south. It was built in 1660 with no cellar. Its flank was 
on Main Street, and in 1662 a kitchen with a cellar was added to 
the rear. In this cellar, if anywhere at Mr. Russell's, Whalley 
was buried. In 1749 the house had passed to Samuel Gaylord. 
His son Chester Gaylord, born in 1782, informed Mr. Judd in 



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1859, that before he was born his father took down and rebuilt 
the kitchen end, and "the old cellar remained." The main build- 
ing was not changed in any way. Chester said, that when a boy, 
he had often taken up a loose board and gone down to the hiding 
place of the Judges behind the chimney. In 1795, he said the 
front part of the house was replaced by a larger, the extension 
being to the south. The kitchen was left standing. Some of the 
changes involved I do not understand, but I quote from Judd all 
that is essential. "In taking down the middle part of the front 
wall next the Main Street, the workmen discovered about four 
feet below the top of the ground, a place where the earth was 
loose, and a little search disclosed flat stones, a man's bones, and 
bits of wood. Almost all the bones were in pieces, but one thigh 
bone was whole, and there were two sound teeth. A doctor 
examined the thigh bone and said it was the thigh bone of a 
man of large size. This and other bones were laid on a shelf and 
in a short time they all crumbled into small pieces." 

From the condition of these bones, I am convinced that they 
were not the remains of one of the Judges. They were too far 
gone in decay. It is more likely that this was the grave of an 
Indian buried long before Whalley came to Hadley. The grave 
may have been disturbed when the cellar wall of Mr. Russell's 
kitchen was built in 1662; most of the bones may have been 
scattered at that time. Reasons for my doubt are found in my 
own observation, reinforced by established facts. I have dug up 
many skeletons in my own home lot, owned in the family since 
1701, and owned by other white men from 1667. Some of the 
graves contained bones in the last stages of decay. In those of 
more recent burial, the entire skeletons were in perfect condition. 
One of these skulls is now on exhibition at Amherst College, 
another at Worcester, several at Washington, all solid and in 
lasting condition. One was used by Hon. James S. Grinnell for 
an inkstand. Generally full sets of teeth remained, some much 
worn. In one case I found several decayed teeth. There could 
have been no burial here for over 200 years. Whalley had been 
dead only 120 years. 

John Dixwell, another of the Judges, died at New Haven 
March 18, 1689. His remains were exposed Nov. 22, 1849, ^^^ 
hundred and sixty years after death. The Dixwell family of Bos- 
ton were placing a monument over the grave in honor of their 
ancestor. The bones of Dixwell were in perfect condition, the 
skull so entirely sound that exact measurements were made for 



INTRODUCTION XXIII 



the purpose of scientific comparison. He had been buried forty 
years longer than Whalley. 

I was informed by Miss Fanny Chesebrough, who had exact 
knowledge, that when the grave of Lady Alice Fenwick at 
Saybrook, Conn., was invaded at the behest of the heartless 
railroad, the skeleton was intact. On reburial it was found that 
nothing but a single finger bone was lacking. Lady Fenwick 
had been buried 250 years, more than twice as long as General 
Whalley. 

Within a few years quite a number of complete Indian skeletons 
were discovered at Hadley. It may not be out of place to notice 
here the growth of a story, which has just come under my eye. 
Speaking of this very grave, the writer says, "The remains of 
Whalley were found in a stone vault, outside the wall of Mr. Rus- 
sell's cellar; it was covered by a single slab of hewn stone." Such 
is apt to be modern history as told in current literature. 

Another reason for discrediting this location of Whalley's 
grave is that the burial must have been made by digging on the 
main street, at the imminent risk of discovery, or by taking down 
part of the cellar wall from the inside, and making an excavation 
some three feet from the surface. In doing this, there would be 
great danger of caving in by wall and earth and consequent dis- 
covery. Then the wall must be relaid, and no old cellar wall can 
be so treated without leaving marks of the process. Again, a 
body laid so near a rough stone wall must in decomposition soon 
betray the secret. If the burial was in the cellar, as it doubtless 
was, the simple and natural thing to do was to dig the grave in 
the bottom of the cellar with no risk of discovery, and where the 
marks of disturbance could easily be concealed. As to the 
necessity of concealing the grave of the Judges, Doctor Stiles 
says, "Such was the vigilance, activity and malice of Randolph 
. . . that both their persons and ashes would not escape his ma- 
licious vengeance if discovered." It was known that the graves 
of their dead compeers in England had been violated in the most 
horrible manner. Stiles says further that so late as 1760 "some 
British officers passing through New Haven, and hearing of Dix- 
well's grave visited it, and declared with rancorous and malicious 
vengeance, that if the British Ministers knew it, they would even 

then cause his body to be dug up and vilified Crown 

officers so late as 1775" treated Dixwell's grave "with marks of 
indignity too indecent to be mentioned." 

The Removal of Goffe to Hartford. As I have said, the time of 
Goffe's death and place of burial are unknown. The general 



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tenor of tradition at Hadley before treated upon, points to Hadley 
as the place. Whatever value these traditions may have, Judd 
believed the close of his career was in that town. Some of the 
stories there indicate his removal to New Haven, to Virginia, to 
the Narraganset Country, to the West Indies, to Hartford. This 
last tradition I think will be found true. 

Philip's War broke out in the summer of 1675. Hadley was 
made headquarters for the forces sent to the Connecticut Valley, 
and the troops must have been billeted largely upon the inhabit- 
ants. It has always seemed a marvel that Goffe could lie con- 
cealed in that little village during this confused and congested 
condition; and it is easy to believe that he might have been 
spirited away to Hartford. Scattered evidence that this was 
done will be briefly considered. 

While the Judges were in hiding at Hadley, they were in con- 
stant correspondence with friends and relatives in England and 
elsewhere, under assumed names. Rev. Increase Mather acted 
as clearing house in Boston. Many letters are extant which were 
sent through his hands. GofFe passed as Walter Goldsmith, Mrs. 
Goffe as his mother, " Frances Goldsmith." She was the daughter 
of Whalley, who was "Mr. Richardson." Rev. William Hooke 
was "D. G.," his wife, "Aunt Jane," was a sister to Whalley. 
It was in the Hooke family in London where the wife and children 
of Goffe found shelter. Circumstances brought about a change 
of residence. In the difl&culty about Goffe's making a connection 
with the new address, evidence appears that Goffe was not in 
Hadley. 

As we all know the war brought desolation to the towns in the 
Connecticut Valley in the fall of 1675. In the spring of 1676 Mr. 
John Russell writes to the Bay a letter foreboding ill from the 
Indians, "We must look to feel their utmost rage. My desire is 
we may be willing to do or suffer, to live or die, remain in or be 
driven out as the Lord our God would have us." All signs 
pointed to trouble in the Valley, and for its protection Major 
Savage was sent with forces from Boston, with Samuel Nowell 
as chaplain; and Major Treat from Hartford, with John Whiting 
as chaplain. It is assumed that the hands of both chaplains 
will soon appear in the removal of Goffe, and notices of them 
will have a bearing on the evidence to be presented. Mr. Whiting 
was a leading man in Connecticut, and a minister of Hartford. 
His wife was Sybil, daughter of Edward Collins, an agent and 
correspondent of Goffe. His second wife was Phebe, daughter 
of Thomas Gregson, prominent at New Haven, a close friend of 



INTRODUCTION XXV 

Governor Eaton, and of John Davenport, while they were giving 
shelter to the Judges about New Haven. Mr. Whiting's daughter 
Abigail married Jonathan Russell, son of John of Hadley, and 
after the death of Mr. Whiting, the widow Phebe became the wife 
of John Russell. 

With no such close family relations, Chaplain Nowell was of 
old Puritan stock, and was in full sympathy with GofFe and Rus- 
sell. He never settled in the ministry, but held high office in the 
civil life of the colony, was intimate with clergymen including 
Increase Mather; was agent for the colony in England and often 
there. He was a man of action, was chaplain at the Great Swamp 
Fight Dec. 19, 1675, "where his bravery was much applauded," 
using, it is intimated, "other than spiritual weapons." When on 
the march from Boston to Hadley under Savage, March, 1676, he 
criticises the officers for being outwitted by Indian strategy and 
not making an effective onslaught on the enemy about Wenimesset. 
Again, on the return march to Boston, Major Savage had conditional 
orders about striking the enemy in the swamps near the route. 
Arriving at Brookfield, a council of war was held to consider that 
question. The captains were opposed, while the intrepid Chap- 
lain Nowell voted for the attack. With the opening of spring, 
1676, the Indians made attacks on many of the outlying towns 
at the Bay. The authorities at Boston became much alarmed. 
The alarm soon grew to almost a panic. As Hubbard says, "It 
was now full Sea with Philip his Affairs." Orders were sent 
Major Savage to forthwith leave the valley to its fate, and march 
to the protection of the Bay. Only a forlorn hope was left with 
Captain William Turner. Hadley was no longer a safe retreat 
for Goffe. Who so likely as the impetuous Chaplain Nowell to 
take the risk of a night removal to Hartford, where Chaplain 
Whiting had prepared a place for his retreat. 

From letters at hand, extracts will be given which bear upon the 
question of Goffe's removal from Hadley. Inference may also 
be drawn as to the bodily and mental condition of Goffe. Sept. 
8, 1676, Goffe writes to Increase Mather: " Rever'd and Dear 
S'' I have received the letters from England that you enclosed 
to M'' Whiting and give you hearty thanks for your continued 
care in that matter. It is a great comfort to me to hear so fre- 
quently [from my] so far distant and dear relations, and I esteem 
it a great mercy, that (through your care) all our letters have 
hitherto passed without any one miscarrying. My dear Mo*^ [wife] 
writes that the last she received came safe tho' it wanted the 
outer covering they vsed to have. But she desired me to do so 



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no more. ... I suppose their desire is that mine may be covered 
by yourselfe, as judging it most safe." This certainly indicates 
some change in location and mode of transmitting letters. In a 
second part of the same letter, GofFe w^rites, "I was greatly be- 
houlding to M"^ Noell for his assistance in my remove to this 
Town. I pray if he be yet in Boston, remember my affectionate 
respects to him." This could not refer to the removal to Hadley 
twelve years before. It must refer to Hartford as we shall see. 
Sept. 25, 1676, Samuel Nowell, our Chaplain, writes: "For 
his worthy friend M'' Jonathan Bull of Hartford." The letter 
was evidently written for the eye of Goffe. Its spirit agrees with 
our estimate of the writer. "Hon^ S"^, — The day before the 
arrivall of this bearer, M"" Bull, I had written a letter to my 
worthy friend M"^ Whyting & it was for your sake, in regard I 
did not know how to direct a few lines to you, & we have but little of 
news materiall stirring amongst us; there being no ship arrived 
lately from Engld. As for ourselves in New Engld, we are fearing 
a Generall Governour. How God will deale with us in our pres- 
ent buisinesse is uncertaine. I suppose you will judge it conven- 
ient to remove, if any such thing should happen, as that a Gov- 
ernour should be sent; although if this man live who is Governour 
at Boston [Governor Leverett], I believe the country will oppose, 
but if his head be once laid I do question whether he that shall 
come next will have spirit enough, or interest enough, to with- 
stand the Authority of Old Engld. I shall endeavour to give 
you as timely notice as I can from thence of whatsoever shall 
happen. I resolve to see your relations & so at present leave 
you under that Shaddow where you have been safe hithertoo. 
So desiring your prayers I rest, 

Y"' very humble serv', Samuel Nowell." 

It seems Nowell was going to England to watch the turn of 
affairs, and he would risk a visit to the family of Goffe. June 12, 
1677, Goffe writes Mather, "I have rec'd yours of 17th May, 
with those from England, as also the 12th left with you by M N." 
— doubtless Mr. Nowell. There is no signature to this letter. 
While at Hadley, Goffe's address was "Walter Goldsmith." 
Aug. 30, 1678, he signs another letter to Mr. Mather "T. D." 
He writes: "I have received the letter you sent me very lately 
from my dear Mo: for which with all your long continued kind- 
nesse, I heartily thank you; and am really ashamed to think how 
I am forced to be still so troublesome vnto you." In his letter 
from his wife he learns that Mr. Hooke, with whom she was 



INTRODUCTION XXVII 

living, had died, and that she had removed to another place; 
but she forgot to name the new address, although she gave it to 
Mather. 

Oct. 23, 1678, GofFe writes Mather as "T. D." "I lately gave 
you the trouble of a letter with one enclosed to my dear Mother, 
which should have been sent to a Friend that was to have returned 
to this Town, by whom I hoped to have rec''* a few words from 
yo'". But he falling ill, went not. So I was forced to give an 
honor'^ friend, the trouble thereof, who saide he would deliver it 
with his own hand. ... I was forced to send that to my Mo: with 
a naked superscription and this also because I am ignorant of 
both the place & person appynted (since Mr. Hooke, his death) 
to direct them to. ... I should take it as a great kindnesse to 
receive a word or two from you, if you please to enclose it to M"^ 
Whiteing, only with this short direction (Thes for M"^ T. D.). . . . 
It would be a great satisfaction to heare that you have rec^ my 
letters, and that you know the best way of sending them to Eng- 
land : & to be instructed by you, how to direct them for the future. 
Dear Sir, I desire to bear upon my Heart continually the many 
great concerns of this poor Countrey; especially of your Jurisdic- 
tion in reference to the many awfuU providences wherewith the 
Lord hath been awakening you." This refers to the political 
turmoil at Boston, and also to the prevailing small-pox. 

April 2, 1679, GofFe writes Mather again concerning "The 
various dispensations of Providence"; hopes he and his wife will 
receive "all the sanctified fruite of all his dealings with you. . . . And 
for your whole Jurisdiction. Oh that the Lord would help all 
his people there, to humble themselves vnder the mighty hand of 
God. . . . Then would he hear from heaven & forgive their sins 
& heale the land." No one in the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, 
would have written the above letters. GofFe was then in the juris- 
diction of Connecticut. The next direct evidence that the lone 
exile was in Hartford is found in a long letter to him from Peter 
Tilton, his old time Hadley friend. Extracts are given below. 
It is directed, probably under cover, to Mr. Whiting, "These 
for M-- T. D. present." 

"July:3o:i679: Worthye and much honor*^ S"",— Yours which I 
cannot but mention, dated M'^'\ 18: '78: I receaved, crying howe 
wellcome and refreshing to my poore unworthye selfe, (which as 
an honey combe, to use your owne similitude full of pretious 
sweetenes). I would you did but knowe, being a semblance or 
representation of what sometime though unworthye, I had a 
Fuller Fruition of;" referring to their former intercourse at 



XXVIII INTRODUCTION 

Hadley. Tilton speaks of sending several books and papers, 
one of which he v^ants sent back — "it being borrowed, only, 
of a neighbour, I being desirous you might have a sight thereof. 
I have here sent you by S. P. [Samuel Porter of Hadley ?] tenn 
pounds haveing not before a safe hand to convey it, it being a token 
of the love and remembrance of severall friends who have you 
uppon their hearts." He speaks of the great news from England, 
"which I presume M"^ Russell hath given you a full account of, 
as understanding he hath written to Hartford, that I neede not 
tautologize in that matter." If Goffe were in Hadley, he might 
himself have borrowed the book, and Mr. Russell could have told 
him "the news from England " face to face. Tilton, however, goes 
on — "I know what is writt from England by good hands, which 
I have by me, viz. that the most sober and wisest there feare that 
Black Cloude hanging over the nation will breake uppon the 
Protestant Interest." After a page of saddening and gloomy items 
Tilton tries to give Goffe a gleam of encouragement in spite of 
the desponding information. "Deare Sir, I hope God is makeing 
way for your enlargement. In the meanetime my poore prayers 
for you are, the Lord would make your heart glad with the light 
of His Countenance, and that the Lord of Peace would give you 
peace allwayes and by all meanes; Remember before the Lord, 
your vnworthye Friend, willing to serve you. Vale, Vale. P. T." 
This tender benediction and farewell of good Mr. Tilton is 
literally the last word known to have been written to the misera- 
ble prisoner of fate. 

The act, with which the evidence of Goffe's residence at Hart- 
ford will close, has not to my knowledge been seriously con- 
sidered by any historian. It has, rather, been spoken of as 
a farce — a bit of foolery by a worthless scalawag. On the 
contrary, I am sure the event is real history, although hardly 
sober history, for certainly the farcical element largely prevails, 
and the fashion of the drama is seen where a terrible 
tragedy is followed by a comedy. The action of the story exactly 
fits the character of the prominent actors. None of these are 
amateurs. All have been before in the public eye. Governor 
Andros, the feared and hated; Governor Leete, the daring suc- 
cessful diplomat; Major Talcott, guest of John Russell; Secretary 
Allyn, the all-seeing; Captain Bull, the fearless and defiant; John 
London, the notorious and condemned liar. The stage is Hart- 
ford, the denouement June lo, 1680. The prophecy of Chaplain 
Nowell had come true — a "Generall Governour" of New Ensr- 



INTRODUCTION XXIX 

land had been appointed, and the time had now arrived when 
GofFe did "find it convenient to remove." 

April 20, 1680, John London of Hartford or Windsor, made an 
affidavit at New York "that Capt. Joseph Bull, Sen: had for 
several years past kept privately at his own house in Hartford, 
Col. GofFe, who went by the name of Mr. Cooke; that the depo- 
nent and one Dr. Robert Howard of Windsor, saw said GofFe at 
Capt. Bull's house in May 1679; that the deponent took measures 
to seize him and carry him to New York, but that one Thomas 
Powell, his neighbour disclosed his plans to Major Talcott and 
Capt. Allyn, — who caused the deponent to be arrested, charged 
him with conspiring against the Colony and forbade him to leave 
the county without license." He says that "James Richards 
who was the oldest member of the Council and the richest man 
in the Colony, was Agent of GofFe and that if he, London, dis- 
covered the matter it would tend to his own ruin." At the date 
of this affidavit, Richards was probably on his deathbed, — he died 
June lOth. If so, London may now have considered himself safe in 
denouncing GofFe and claiming the reward. His movement the 
year before had terminated in a manner quite unexpected, and 
he considered Richards as the active agent. London was a worth- 
less fellow, who had been imprisoned for deserting, malicious 
lying against the Colony, etc., and it was easy to squelch him in 
his attempt to secure GofFe. The validity of his story now rests 
on the attending circumstances. Doctor Howard and Thomas 
Powell named in the affidavit were alive; they could dispute his 
story, and as well, Major Talcott, Captain Allyn and others. 
Furthermore, the actions ofGovernorLeete, Talcott, and Allyn con- 
firm the truth of the tale. On the strength of London's affidavit, 
Governor Andros wrote to Governor Leete and the Assistants: 

"Honbl^ S"; 

Being informed by Deposicons here taken upon oath, that Coll. Goth 
hath been and is still kept and consealed by Capt. Joseph Bull and his 
sons in the Towne of Hartford und"" the name of Mr. Cooke the s'^ Goth 
and Coll. Whaley (who is since dead in y""" parts) haveing been persued 
as Traitors, that I may not be wanting in my duty, doe hereby give you 
the above intimacon, noe ways doubting of yo*" loyalty in every respect, 
and remaine 

Hon*''^ S""^, Your affectionate neighbour and 
Humble Servant, 

E. Andross. 
New Yorke, 
May 18, 1680. 



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How fared this dispatch ? Hartford was one hundred miles 
away. A post riding express should have delivered it not later 
than noon on the 20th. The Colony records show that it was 
delivered to Leete June loth, twenty-one days later. In whose 
pocket had it reposed for three weeks ? We can only be sure that 
the owner of it was high in office and a good friend of Goffe. 

An affair of this kind was no new experience to Governor Leete. 
When acting governor of New Haven Colony, in 1661, he had 
dealt successfully, as we have seen, with the loyal messengers, 
Kellond and Kirk. Time was evidently taken to make provision 
for Goffe. When the coast was clear, it so happened that on June 
loth, Governor Leete, Secretary Allyn, and Major Talcott, were 
together, when the letter from Andros was received, no doubt to 
their great surprise. However, they seem to have been so well 
prepared for it, that "before we parted" they were able to send 
forth a long patriotic and carefully constructed warrant, without 
one earmark of haste upon it, based as they say, upon "letter to 
us just now received" from Governor Andros. The constable 
and marshal were ordered in high-sounding verbiage to visit the 
Bull's and "search in the houses, barns, outhouses & all places 
therein, for the sayd Col. Goffe," or any other place where there 
is "the least susspition. Hereof you may not fayle, as you will 
answer the contrary at your perill." 

The next day a long letter was sent to Andros from Hartford 
thanking him for his notice, and telling him of their prompt action, 
" being togetherwhen we received your letter." Heisinformed that 
after the diligent search, the officers "being upon oath, returned," 
that they "could find no such person as was mentioned, nor any 
stranger that in the least could be suspected to be any such person." 
They then say, "After the search o'' people were amased that 
any such thing could be suspected at Hartford, but the father of 
lyes is o"^ enemie & doth instigate his instruments to maligne this 
poore Colony, but we hope the Father of lights will vindicate vs 
in his due time." Andros is cautioned against believing all the 
flying stories against Connecticut, and told that if their men be- 
lieved all the stories against New York, it would breed bad blood 
between the Colonies. In every paper upon the subject the Gov- 
ernor and Assistants are careful to say that their action was instant 
upon receiving the letter, but we find no note of inquiry as 
to the tardy pace of the messenger; as though four and one-half 
miles a day was nothing uncommon for an express. There seems 
no need of further evidence, that for several years General Goffe 
was at Hartford. 



INTRODUCTION XXXI 

The influences affecting Gofi^e's condition during the period are 
revealed in what follows. In the earlier years of exile, the Judges 
were sustained by the expectation of being speedily made free by 
the downfall of Charles II. They had constant news of the politi- 
cal movements in Europe, and as the years dragged on with Charles 
in the ascendency, hope gradually died out, as may be seen by 
their letters. One by one the members of the "High Court of 
Justice" were taken and executed with the barbarity of Cannibal 
Islanders, some of them after a surrender on fair but false prom- 
ises. Others were betrayed by fickle friends to curry favor with 
the Crown. Some were murdered in foreign lands. One cheering 
report came to their ears, that they themselves had been killed 
in Switzerland. Mrs. Goffe, with her children, had been safe 
with her Aunt Jane Hooke, at London. She had kept the absent 
husband in touch with all household events; the death of one child 
in her years of promise, the marriage of another, the birth and 
death of a grandchild; had shared with him her joys and sorrows. 

But a change was to come. Mr. Hooke fell sick and Aug. 5, 
1674, Goffe wrote him a farewell letter. It was long and tender 
as befitting the occasion; but as "that Heavy word is not yet 
spoken," he still has "Hope the Lord may lengthen out your 
life & mine & so order things in His Providence, that I may yet 
see your face once again, even in this world, which hath indeed, 
nothing in it more Desirable than such faces." He deplores the 
necessity of his wife's removal, but hopes "the Lord who tells all 
her wanderings and puts her tears into his bottle . . . will provide 
some place where she may comfortably abide . . . and bless her 
& her poor afflicted family." It was soon after this that trouble 
began about their correspondence. Goffe was never able to find 
out the place of her abode. Goffe writes to Mather June 12, 1677, 
"I have rec'^ yours of the 17th of May, with those from England, 
as also the 12th left with you by M. N., for all which h for all 
former kindnesses, I return you my hearty thanks, which is all 
I am able to do. . . . Dear S*", You know my tryalls are considera- 
ble, & did you know my weakness, you would surely pitty & pray 
earnestly for me." He hopes the Lord's purpose is to teach him 
a "Lesson by bringing & keeping me into this Desolate state." 
He finds in the Scriptures, "Good & comfortable words from the 
Lord, or any of his people are very refreshing. But alas, I am 
worthy of neither." Alas, indeed, that these longed-for words are 
so few. He misses Whalley, and at Hartford his horizon is more 
and more obscure. In another letter to Mather he writes, "Dear 
Sir, I Beg the continuance of your Love & fervent prayers, that 



XXXII INTRODUCTION 

for the good will of him that Dwelt in the Bush, the Blessing may 
yet come upon the head, the top of the head of the poor worm 
that hath been so long seperated from his brethern and allmost 
from all Humain Society." 

After Mrs. Goffe's removal from the Hooke house, a new chan- 
nel for correspondence became necessary. Goffe as "T. D." 
writes in a letter to Mather, Aug. 30, 1678, that as regards Mr. 
Hooke, "that Heavy word has been spoken." He says "My 
Mo : writes that he being dead shee hath written to her Friend (by 
whom I suppose she means yourself) to send her letters to another 
place; but did so far forget herself, as not to inform me either of 
name or place." He encloses a letter to his wife, "which I hum- 
bly entreat you to cover and send away, , . and also that you 
would be pleased to give yourself the trouble of writeing a few 
words to let me know what place & person it is, that my Dear 
Mo: directs to, that I may know for the future how to superscribe 
my letter to her." 

To this reasonable appeal no reply was ever received, and no 
better heed was given later ones. "T. D." writes again Oct. 
23, 1678, "I lately gave you the trouble of a letter, with one 
enclosed to my Dear Mother . . . and hoped to have rec"^ a few 
words from y"". ... I was forced to send that to my Mo: with a 
naked superscription and this also; because I am ignorant both 
of the place & person appoynted (since Mr. H. his death) to direct 
them to. I beseech you sir, to vse your prudenc in the safe con- 
vayance of them, for tho' my letters be of little worth, yet my Dear 
Mo: is pleased to esteem them a comfort to her in this day of her 
great and long continued affliction. ... I should take it as a great 
kindnesse to receive a word or two from you, if you please to 
inclose it to M"" Whiteing. . . It would be a great satisfaction to 
heare that you have rec*^ my letters, and that you know the way 
of sending them to England, & to be instructed by you, how to 

direct them for the future I Beg your fervent prayers, as 

having more need of them than ever. I have been long in the 
furnace." 

April 2, 1679, the anxious and tortured T. D. makes another 
and last appeal to Mather — "I am also greatly longing to heare 
from my poor, Desolat Relations; and whether my last summer's 
letters got safe to them. It was a trouble to me that I was forced 
to send them to yourself so badly directed, and hoped to have 
received a few lines from you concerning it, and how you would 
have me direct them for the future. I Beseech you S"" to pardon my 
giving you this great & long trouble, and let me receive a word or 



INTRODUCTION XXXIII 

two by this Bearer. If I have missed it in anything, vpon the 
least intimation, I shall indeavour to rectify it, or reform for the 
future. Dear Sir, I earnestly Beg the continuance of your fervant 
prayers to the Lord for me & mine, as such as stand in great need 
thereof. I may truly say, I make mention of yourself in particular, 
at least twise or thise in a day before the Lord to whose Grace I 
recomend you & all yours, and remain. Dear Sir, your much 
oblidged and very thankfull friend, T. D. 

I sent you three letters last summer & hope you received them." 

How could the sorrowing husband and father account for the 
seemingly coldhearted refusal of Mather to heed his earnest 
supplications ? How can we explain it ? The keen hunt for 
Goffe was still on. It may be that Mather had heard or suspected 
that the Bull family at Hartford were more defiant than circum- 
spect in regard to "Mr. Cooke," and he feared to trust his signa- 
ture or the secret with them. The last words known to have been 
written by the sad exile are those which close the above letter, 
hoping that his letters to Mather had been received. With no 
assurance that this hope was well founded, without knowing that 
his desolate wife had received a single word from him after her 
removal; repulsed in all attempts to learn even the place of her 
abode; with his narrowing circle of faithful friends in England 
and New England; unable to account for the cutting coldness 
and neglect of the one who was the sole connecting link with his 
native land; helpless to offer comfort to his far-off wife in her 
loneliness; feeling that he should never more see the faces of 
wife and children, although he felt and had said, "This world 
hath indeed nothing in it more Desirable than such faces"; with 
a growing realization or fear of being a heavy, and perhaps un- 
welcome burden; the proud spirit of the old soldier humbled and 
humiliated in a vain attempt to win even the pity of Mather; 
with a price set upon his head and an ever-haunting fear of dis- 
covery, bringing ruin to his protectors. Was it not indeed time 
to die! and we seem to see the once lion heart of the hunted exile 
slowly breaking. 

General Goffe had played his high part before the eyes of 
watching nations. He had been a star of the first magnitude in 
the Lord Protector Cromwell's Councils, and acquitted himself 
bravely and well, as one having the courage of his convictions. 
Words fail to tell of the sadness and pathos of such a close to 
such a life. 

Did Goffe return to die in Hadley ? Shall we attempt to follow 
the fugitive from Hartford in 1680? No blazed path is found, 



XXXIV INTRODUCTION 

but we do find a faint trail leading back to Hadley. What little 
evidence there is points that way. Nothing is found opposing, 
but the case is not proven. So far as we know there had been 
no leak in the secret of Mr. Russell. Goffe had been driven away 
in the stress of war. It would still be a safe retreat and to all 
appearances a natural one. The diary of GofFe and his papers, 
including the letters written to him at Hartford by Tilton and 
Nowell given above, are found among the effects left by Mr. 
John Russell. How did they get there ? Would they not have 
been destroyed as a matter of precaution, had Goffe died else- 
where ? Again, we have the untainted tradition found by Hutch- 
inson at Hadley in 1763, "Two persons unknown were buried 
in the minister's cellar." It was the sum of all knowledge of the 
Judges, which Hutchinson could obtain in Hadley, or the vicinity; 
let that stand for what it is worth. Then there is the general 
probability, that after getting the consent of Mr. Russell he was 
transported back to Hadley; there was time enough for this 
between the opening act and the closing of the Hartford drama. 
It is pleasant, and is it not best, to follow these leadings 
and our wishes so far as to think that the worn wanderer came 
back to breathe out his life on the bosom of faithful John Russell; 
and that he rested at last beside his companion in exile, under the 
sheltering elms of Old Hadley. 



BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 



As the author of this History passed away before completing the work, and as it is now 
presented as a posthumous publication, it may not seem amiss, in connection with some 
account of its production, to insert a brief notice of his life. 

Sylvester Judd was born in Westhampton, Mass., April 23, 1789. He was a descendant 
of Dea. Thomas Judd, who came to this country from England, in 1633 or '34, and who re- 
sided the last part of his life in Northampton. His grandfather, Rev. Jonathan Judd, was 
the first minister of Southampton, and, after a ministry of sixty years over the same church, 
died in 1803. His father, Sylvester Judd, settled in Westhampton, in 1774, where he was 
prominent in the affairs of the town, and was a member of the Convention for framing a Con- 
stitution for Massachusetts, in 1779. The mother of Mr. Judd was Hannah Burt, daughter 
of Samuel Burt of Southampton. 

At the age of thirteen, with only such education as the common school in those times 
afforded, he was placed as a clerk in the store owned by his father and Doct. Hooker of 
Westhampton. After remaining there about two years, he went to Boston, where he passed 
not far from six months, a part of the time serving as merchant's clerk. Here he fell in with 
persons of intelligence, whose influence was to stimulate him to an appreciation of knowledge, 
and to a determination to cultivate his own mind, so that his return to his former occupation 
in Westhampton, after leaving Boston, marks an epoch in his mental history. Whatever 
money he could now get was invested in books, and all the leisure moments intervening be- 
tween the calls of customers, were given to their perusal. Yet this ill sufficed to gratify the 
thirst for knowledge that had arisen in his mind, and for many succeeding years, he was in 
the habit of sitting up until twelve, one, and two o'clock, engaged with his books. And here , 
in this little country town, with no stimulus from libraries, reading rooms, or literary com- 
panionship, and with no assistance in his studies, save a little aid he received from the Rev. 
Mr. Hale for about six weeks only, and under all the hindrances from business he had to 
encounter, Mr. Judd mastered the Latin language so far as to read Virgil; learned enough 
of Greek to understand the New Testament in the original; acquired a very thorough knowl- 
edge of French as a written language, and gained some acquaintance of Spanish. He went 
through a full course of the higher mathematics, penetrated deeply into History and Polit- 
ical Economy, and made himself quite extensively acquainted with general literature. Dur- 
ing this time, he exercised himself also in Composition, and contributed some articles to the 
Hampshire Gazette. 

Soon after attaining the age of twenty-one, he formed a partnership in mercantile business 
with Wm. Hooker, Jr. and H. T. Hooker, whose places of business were Norwich, North- 
ampton, and Westhampton, Mr. Judd remaining at the latter place. In January, 181 1, he 
married Apphia Hall, eldest daughter of Aaron Hall of Norwich. In 1813, the above part- 
nership was dissolved, and Mr. Judd carried on the business of the store in which he had 
been employed, by himself, and also engaged, to some extent, in farming operations. But 

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XXXVI BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 

his mind being always more bent upon the acquisition of knowledge than the accumulation of 
Property, the matter of dealing with dollars and cents was irksome to him, and from a variety 
of causes, his pecuniary gains were small, and all his business operations proved very dis- 
couraging. The year 1816, he devoted mostly to the gratuitous superintendence of building 
a new meeting-house in Westhampton. In 1817, he was chosen representative to the Gen- 
eral Court, which he attended, contrary to his inclination, as he had a great distaste for pub- 
lic office. 

In March, 1822, Mr. Judd purchased the Hampshire Gazette, one-fourth of which had 
been owned by his deceased brother, Hophni Judd, Esq., and was then in the hands of his 
father. He took up his residence in Northampton, in April of this year. All his energies 
were now concentrated upon making the Gazette, not only an interesting, but an instructive, 
paper. It was far from his idea of a newspaper, that it should be filled with stories, anec- 
dotes, and other matter, fitted only to amuse for the passing moment. He regarded it as 
an educator of the people, and occupied its columns with matter calculated to enlarge the 
boundaries of knowledge, and promote aspirations for further information concerning men 
and things. To enable him to do this, he expended money largely, in proportion to his 
means, in the purchase of books, from which he could furnish abstracts and extracts. The 
whole of the ponderous Edinborough Encyclopsedia, together with numerous books of Travel, 
History, Agricultural works, etc., were thus added to his library. His attention now began 
to turn to the early history of the Connecticut Valley, and he occasionally published leading 
articles upon Northampton, Hadley, and the neighboring towns. He early enlisted the 
paper in behalf of Temperance, and, it is believed, was the first who excluded liquor adver- 
tisements. The Gazette was highly esteemed by exchange papers, and doubled its number 
of subscribers, in his hands. Although, in the main, he had embraced Whig principles, yet, , 
he had nothing of the partisan in his nature, and his mind was ever open to the influx of 
what he believed to be the truth, coming from what quarter it might. In the party strife 
attending the administration of Gen. Jackson as President, he found himself, as editor of 
what had been a Whig paper, in a position so embarrassing as to result in his selling the 
Gazette in 1834. In reference to the subject, he wrote at the time: "The truth is, I have 
become too skeptical in politics to be the conductor of a public press. I have but little con- 
fidence in politics, parties, and politicians. I dislike high whiggism and high Jacksonism, 
and cannot go with either." 

On laying aside his engagements as editor and proprietor of the Hampshire Gazette, Mr. 
Judd felt no inclination for entering into any new active business that offered, although his 
pecuniary resources were very limited. He therefore made up his mind to live on, in a 
humble way, upon such means as he had, thus leaving himself free for such mental occupa- 
tions as he might be drawn to. At the age of seventeen, he had commenced filling manu- 
script volumes with copious abstracts of Chronology, Biography, History, etc., with occa- 
sional entries by way of Private Journal, which had been kept up, with more or less conti- 
nuity, until this time. He now gave himself largely to Miscellaneous Collections, to a minute 
Diary, and to Genealogical, Historical, and Antiquarian Researches, particularly with 
reference to the towns of Hampshire County, but extending also to the whole state of Mass- 
achusetts, and that of Connecticut. As the fruit of these labors, he has left about twenty 
manuscript volumes, entitled "Miscellanies," filled with an immense variety of little known, 
but curious matters, drawn from divers times and divers peoples, and gleaned from a wide 
range of miscellaneous reading. Here are found copious notices of our Indian tribes, vo- 
cabularies of their languages, and facts touching their domestic life; the varied experiences 



BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES XXXVII 

of the early settlers of this country; English and Scotch social life and manners, dress, furni- 
ture, etc.; prices of labor and merchandise, at different periods; religious dogmas, conten- 
tions, modes of worship, showing, among other things, the great strife that arose in New 
England, at one time, respecting the use of books of psalms and hymns, instead of getting 
the words for singing by a process known as "deaconing;" the history of woman in regard 
to social position, education, etc.; opinions concerning marriage, divorce, and the relations 
of man to woman generally; snatches of old song and quaint poetry, as well as the higher 
inspirations of the poet. The above citations furnish but a mere hint, as to the multifarious 
and rare matter contained in these volumes. In his Diary of eight or ten volumes, which 
was continued with regularity from 1833 to within a week of his death, besides much that 
serves as auto-biography, and an exponent of his feelings, principles, and opinions, he 
recorded, with scrupulous regard to exactness, the tri-daily state of the thermometer; 
the changes of wind and weather; the different stages of vegetation; the appearance and dis- 
appearance of birds, frogs, and different kinds of insects, their habits, and so forth. There 
are volumes of Collections labeled "Massachusetts" and "Connecticut." As a genealogist, 
it is stated by one well qualified to judge, that he "knew of no one who was his equal in 
New England." His labors in manuscript collections, amount to not far from seventy-five, 
closely filled, volumes. 

In the years 1842 and 1843, Mr. Judd was employed, for some months, by the State of 
Connecticut, in putting in a state of preservation, arranging, and indexing, old and valuable 
State documents. He was made an Honorary Member of the Connecticut and Massachu- 
setts Historical Societies, and of the American Antiquarian Society. In 1856, he published 
a pamphlet, entitled, "Thomas Judd and his Descendants." 

From the early part of his residence in Northampton, Mr. Judd had entertained the idea 
of writing a History of Northampton and the neighboring towns. But, from various causes, 
this was deferred, from year to year, until 1857, when, at the earnest solicitations of persons 
interested in the subject, particularly Maj. Sylvester Smith of Hadley, he commenced the 
present History, with a list of five hundred subscribers. But, his physical strength had now 
become impaired, so that he was subject to many interruptions from ill health, and this, 
added to his extreme caution in endeavoring to verify all his statements, caused the work to 
progress very slowly. Yet he labored on, with an assiduity ill proportioned to his strength, 
and thus cut short his days before his proposed task was done. Paralysis seized upon a 
system, enfeebled by general debility, and accomplished its fatal work in a few days. The 
1 8th of April, i860, witnessed his departure. He had lived within a few days of seventy- 
one years, and his mind had retained its vigor while his bodily powers were enfeebled. He 
I eft a wife and five children. Three had already gone before, among whom was the Rev. 
Sylvester Judd, the author of "Margaret" and some other works. 

He had printed about 430 pages of the 600 promised, and, it is believed, had little more to 
add to the work, except the Genealogical Tables, for which he had extensive materials in 
manuscript. His last conscious efforts of a business kind were expended in trying to send 
some directions to his printers. Immediately after his death, application was made to Hon. 
Lucius M. Boltwood of Amherst, for whose qualifications as a genealogist, it was known 
Mr. Judd had a high respect, to take in charge the finishing of the work, so suddenly bereft 
of the hand that should have carried it to its completion, and, much to the gratification of the 
family of the author, this request was complied with. It is regretted that so long time has 
elapsed in getting the book ready for presentation, but the delays seem to have been una- 
voidable. With all due confidence in him who so kindly consented to take the incomplete 



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work in hand, Mr. Judd's own family cannot but experience some pain in giving the work 
to the public, without its final supervision by the author's own, careful hand. 

Did space allow, it would be pleasant to delineate, in full, the personal character of Mr. 
Judd; but a brief summary of salient traits is all that can be attempted. And first, it is 
obvious to remark, that he was eminently a self-made man, having relied very little upon 
others for his knowledge or opinions. He was also a progressive man, never wedded to the 
old, because it had been established by authority in some former period, but ever ready to 
believe that the whole of truth might not yet have been found out, and not frightened lest 
new discoveries should conflict with received opinions. In this spirit, the efforts at reform 
in education and morals met with cordial sympathy from him. While religion, consisting of 
duties to God and man, was always a cardinal element of his being, he was no dogmatist, 
and willingly accorded to all the right of private judgment. A strong sense of justice and 
truth pervaded his whole nature, and led him often to err on the side of right, rather than 
run any hazard on the side of wrong. In business transactions, he was so lenient to creditors 
as to lose much that was justly his due, and in bargains of buying and selling, he was quite 
as careful of the interests of others as of his own. He could hardly be said to have a proper 
estimate of money, even for its uses, and not until compelled by necessity did he reckon 
closely his expenditures. For the present History, in collecting materials for which so large 
a portion of his life was expended, he did not expect to receive, and his family will not realize, 
any return, save the money actually expended in paper, printing and binding. In answer 
to hundreds of letters, asking for information, which he spent years in acquiring, compensa- 
tion was seldom demanded, and not often offered. His memory was exact and strong, and 
his mental powers of application seemed hardly to know a limit. His original physical 
constitution must have been strong, to bear such a life-long draft upon it as was made by his 
habits of study. His eyesight continued unimpaired, long beyond the usual period. He 
was cheerful in temperament, and remarkably genial in social intercourse, being a cherished 
companion for the young, as well as for the more advanced. Although little demonstrative 
in the inner feelings of the heart, his affections were deep and tender as those of woman, 
and the ties existing between him and his family were too strong for death to sever. 

A. H. 



CONTENTS 



Chapter I 



Early settlements on Connecticut River — Controversies in the church at Hart- 
ford — Decision of the council of 1659 — Difficulties at Wethersfield . I 

Chapter II 

Application to Massachusetts for land — Engagement at Hartford to remove 
to Massachusetts — Committee to lay out a town at Norwottuck; their re- 
turn, not accepted — Proceedings of the first settlers in 1659 and 1660 — 
Settlers on the west side of the river — Courts of Justice — The new town 
named Hadley— Contest with Mr. Bradstreet ..... 10 

Chapter III 

Division of lands in New England — Hadley Homelots and Street — Manner 
of distributing Hadley Intervals — East side and west side Intervals — 
Hatfield Homelots — Measuring Land — Common Fields and Fences — 
Gates ............ 22 

Chapter IV 

Highways — Bridges — Ferries — Grist-mills — Bolting-mills — Saw-mills and 

sawing boards by hand ......... 34 

Chapter V 

First Meeting-house — Bells — Mr. Russell, the first Minister — Salaries of 

Ministers — Hadley Church ........ 42 

Chapter VI 

The Grammar School or Hopkins School — Schools of New England — Gram- 
mar Schools — Free Schools — Instruction of Females — Schools and Schol- 
ars in Hadley — School Houses — School-masters — School Books . . 48 

Chapter VII 

Ordinary-keepers or Inn-keepers — Retailers of wine and liquors — Selling 
liquors to Indians — -Trial of Dr. Westcarr — Drinks in the 17th century — 
Distilling — Aquavitae — Intemperance in New England ... 62 

Chapter VIII 

Town Meetings — Townsmen's Accounts — Freemen — ^Town Officers — Pound 
— Town By-laws — Occupations of the people — Petitions of Hadley, in 
1665, 1669 and 1670 ......... 68 

Chapter IX 
Separation of Hatfield from Hadlev — Proceedings of Hatfield ... 78 

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Chapter X 



County of Hampshire — Towns and Churches before 1700 — Courts in Hamp- 
shire — Town marks — Hadley cases in Courts — Presentments for wearing 
silks — Expenses of Courts — Transportation — Sleds — Prices of grain — 
Contributions for Harvard College ...... 85 

Chapter XI. 

Lands in New England before it was settled by the English — Indian Burn- 
ings — Bushes — Burnings by the English — Wood and Timber — Fire-wood 
— Building Timber — Rift Timber — Clapboards — Saw-logs — Pasturing 
domestic animals in the woods ....... 96 

Chapter XII 

Good land of little value to Indians — Purchases by Penn and Pynchon — 
Purchases of the Indians in Norwottuck Valley — Remarks on the Indian 
Deeds — How Hatfield was purchased — How much Hadley paid for land 
— The name Norwottuck ........ 104 

Chapter XIII 

Indians near Connecticut River — The Norwottucks and their Forts — The 
Mohawks and their cruelty and cannibalism — The Mohawks in Hamp- 
shire County — Talks at Albany — Presents to the Mohawks — Entertain- 
ment of Indians — Wampum, or the money of the Indians ... 114 

Chapter XTV 

The Indian War of 1675 ^°*^ '^7^ — Erroneous notions about Philip — Im- 
portance of the Nipmucks — Destruction of Brookfield — Mr. Stoddard's 
account of the attempt to disarm the Norwottucks, and of their escape — 
Fight above Hatfield — Deerfield burnt — Men slain at Northfield — Capt. 
Beers and his party cut off at Northfield — Northfield deserted — Attack 
upon Hadley repelled by the aid of Gen. Goffe — Capt. Lathrop and his 
company slain at Bloody Brook — Deerfield abandoned — Burning of 
Springfield — Attack on Hatfield 127 

Chapter XV 

Indian War of 1675 and 1676 — chiefly 1676 — Fortifications — Indians in the 
winter — War with the Narragansets — Destruction of Lancaster — Mrs. 
Rowlandson taken — Troops march to Miller's River and thence to Hadley 
— Northampton assaulted — Ambuscade near Longmeadow — Three men 
slain at Hockanum — Scheme to bring the five Hampshire towns into two — 
The Falls fight above Deerfield— Attack on Hatfield— Major Talcott 
arrives from Norwich and Quabaug — Hadley assaulted — Expedition of 
Major Talcott and Capt. Henchman up the river — Indians flee to the 
Housatonnuc and are defeated by Major Talcott — War supposed to be 
at an end — Persons killed and captured at Hatfield and Deerfield in 1677 
— Recovery of the captives ........ 151 

Chapter XVI 

Fears on account of the attack upon Hatfield — Hadley fortifications — Num- 
ber of persons slain in Hampshire — Buildings burnt — Benevolence — Cost 
of the war — Headquarters at Mr. Russell's — War taxes in Hampshire — 
Colony expenses in Hampshire — Soldier's wages — Flint locks and match 
locks — Praying Indians — Noises in the air — Garrison at Quabaug — 
— Posts — Hadley Mill, the parley, etc. — Surgeon — Ferrymen and others 
— Scenes in Hadley ......... 179 



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Chapter XVII 



Bounds of Hadley and additions — Grant of 1673 — Grant of 1683 — Land at 
the Falls — Grant of 1727 — Survey of 1739 — Controversy with Hatfield, 
1707-1733 — New Houselots — Addition to old Houselots — New Street 
and lots — Grants of land — Skirts of Forty Acres and Hockanum — Fort 
River Pastures — Hadley Swamps ....... 185 

Chapter XVIII 

Coined Money — Taxation in 17th century — Hampshire County rates — War 
rates and charges in Hampshire — Money rates — How rates were paid — 
Grain for taxes — Hadley rates, 1682 and 1687 — Changes in Hadley . 195 

Chapter XIX 

Generals Whalley and Goffe — Hutchinson's Account — President Stiles' His- 
tory — The Russell house and the Judges' chamber .... 206 

Chapter XX 

The Militia and their postures and arms — Hadley militia — Hampshire Troop 
— Change in fire-arms — New Militia Law — New Military book — Bayo- 
nets — Colors — Calling the roll — Watches — Alarms . . . . 215 

Chapter XXI 

Witchcraft in Europe — In New England — In Hampshire County — Mary and 
Hugh Parsons of Springfield — Mary Parsons of Northampton — Death 
of John Stebbins of Northampton — Case of Mary Webster of Hadley — 
The witch mania of 1692 — Various notices relating to Witchcraft . . 224 

Chapter XXII 

The Poor of Hadley — Story of Rebekah Crow — Marriages and Weddings — 
Funerals and Mourning — Hadley Graveyard — Titles — Names — Old 
Style and New Style 233 

Chapter XXIII 

The second Indian War, 1688 to 1698 — Six persons killed at Northfield — 
Presents to the Maquas — Destruction of Schenectady — Troubles with 
Albany Indians — Persons killed at Deerfield and Brookfield — Murder of 
Richard Church of Hadley, and trial and execution of two Indians — 
Attack in Hatfield meadows — Expenses of the war — Pay of soldiers — The 
war in Hampshire — Hampshire soldiers — Taxes — Palisades — Contri- 
butions ........... 248 

Chapter XXIV 

Execution of Sarah Smith and Negro Jack — Sickness of 1689 — Change of 
Government — New Charter, 1692 — Connecticut and Hampshire County — 
Third Indian War began in 1703 — Destruction of Deerfield andPascom- 
muck, and other events in 1704 — Snowshoes — The war from 1705 to 1713 
— Expenses — Taxes — Pay and food of soldiers — Captives — Scalps — 
Dogs — Dutch at Albany — Mohawks ...... 261 

Chapter XXV 

Common lands — Division of Hadley lands now in Amherst — Division of 
Hadley lands now in South Hadley and Granby — The Crank — Highways 
and paths — Division of the Inner Commons in Hadley — Summary of 
Grants and Distributions — Hockanum — Peter Domo . . . 273 



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Chapter XXVI 



310 



Equivalent Land — New Towns — Land Speculation — Tar and Turpentine — 
Candlewood — Scarcity of Timber — Floating timber down the Connecti- 
cut — Logs on the meadows — Rafts of boards — Carting by the Falls — 
Hadley Landings — Island between Northampton and Hadley . . 281 

Chapter XXVII 

Paper Money, or Colony bills and Province bills — End of Province bills, 1750 
— Old Tenor — The shad and salmon fishery at Hadley and South Hadley 
— Lampreys — Gatherings at the Falls ...... loi 

Chapter XXVITI. 

Second Meeting-house in Hadley — Sounding-board — Square glass— Seats 
and pews— Seating — Spire — Clock — Weather-cock — Bells — Horse-blocks 
— Stoves — Plan of the lower floor ....... 

Chapter XXIX 

The second, third and fourth Ministers of Hadley — Ordinations — Inscrip- 
tions on the Gravestones of four Ministers — Texts and Sermons — The 
Lord's Supper — Baptisms — Lectures — Whitfield — Minister's wood . 318 

CHAPTER XXX 

Fourth Indian War, 1722-1726 — Expedition to the West Indies— Fifth War, 
1744-1749 — Sixth War, 1754-1763 — Smallpox — Road to Albany — 
French Neutrals — Pirates ........ 331 

CHAPTER XXXI 

Noxious Beasts and Birds — Wolves — Wildcats — Bears — Catamounts, Crows 
and Blackbirds — Woodchucks — Furred Animals and the Fur Trade — 
Beavers — Raccoons — Muskrats — Deer and Deer Hunting — Venison — 
Deerskin Garments — Wild Turkeys — Pigeons — Rattlesnakes . . 344 

Chapter XXXII 

Husbandry — Wheat, Peas, Rye, Meslin, Barley, Oats, Beans, Buckwheat, 
Indian Corn, Potatoes, Turnips, Pumpkins, Flax, Hemp, Broom Corn, 
and Brooms — Hay Grasses, native and foreign — Cider and Apples — 
Apple Molasses — Beer — Gardens ....... 353 

Chapter XXXIII 

Domestic Animals, etc. — Horses, Oxen — Fat Cattle — Butchers — Cows — 
Swine — Pork and Bacon — Puddings and Sausages — Sheep and Wool and 
trade to Newport — Domestic Fowls— Geese — Bees and Honey — Tobacco 
— Butter and Cheese — Flaxseed and Oil — Berries — Nuts — -Maple Sugar 
— Soap — Lights — Timepieces — Blue Dyeing — Cotton — Rags — Sleighs- 
Carriages — Wagon to and from Boston — Time of Planting, Harvesting, 
etc. — Statistics of four Towns, 1771 ...... 367 

Chapter XXXIV 

South Hadley — First Settlement — First Meeting-bouse and Minister— Mr. 
Rawson forcibly ejected from the pulpit — Mr. Woodbridge settled — Con- 
test about the second Meeting-house; one end cut down — The Parish 
divided — The First Parish — Tiie Common — Schools — The Poor — Inn- 
keepers and Retailers — The Revolutionary War — The Canal and Visitors 
— The Second Parish and Granby — Various matters . . . 387 



CONTENTS XLIII 



Chapter XXXV 



The Third Precinct, or East Hadley — First Meeting-house and Minister — 
Church Members — Minister's Wood — Deacons — Second Minister — East 
Parish— District of Amherst — Representatives and Justices — Plan to 
divide Amherst — The Revolution— Tories — Taxes — Minute-men — Del- 
egates and Representatives— Schools — The Poor — Innkeepers, etc. — 
Highways — Flat Hills — Physicians — Planters and householders — Insur- 
rection — School dames . ........ 

Chapter XXXVI 

Hadley Broad Street — ^Wearing of the banks by the river — New North Lane 
— Injury to Hadley by the river — Floods — Middle Street — Sidewalks — 
Shade Trees — Inhabitants in 1770 — North Hadley — Trees of Hadley — 
Mount Holyoke — Logs and Boards— Fences^Clearing Land . . 419 



GENEALOGIES 

Genealogies of Hadley Families, embracing the Early Settlers of the towns 
of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby 



404 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Sylvester Judd ..... 

Perils of our Forefathers 

The Churchyard, Hadley, England 

Table Stones in the Meadow Cemetery 

The Downlook on the Town from Mt. Holyoke 

The Birthplace of Bishop Huntington , 

The Birthplace of General Joseph Hooker 

The Russell Church and Hotel 

The Old Academy Building 

The Old First Church, Middle Street . 

The Famous Old Town Street 



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HISTORY of HADLEY 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 



CHAPTER I 

Early settlements on Connecticut River — Controversies in the church at Hartford — Decis- 
ion of the council of 1659 — DifEcuIties at Wethersfield. 

The first English settlement in New England was made at 
Plymouth in 1620. This was the beginning of the Plymouth 
Colony, which was united to Massachusetts in 1692. The old- 
est town in the colony of Massachusetts is Salem, which was 
planted in 1628. Charlestown was begun in 1629, and the foun- 
dations of Boston, Dorchester, Roxbury and Watertown were lain 
in 1630, and a beginning w^as made at Cambridge in 1631. In a 
few years, many towns were planted in Massachusetts. 

Previous to the settlement at Plymouth, some Dutch traders 
visited Hudson's River and Long Island Sound, and in 1614, they 
built a small fort on the island of Manhattan, now New York, and 
in the next year, began a settlement near Albany. These Dutch 
adventurers discovered Connecticut River, which they named 
Fresh River, and in 1614, Adrian Block sailed up the river as far 
as Windsor. A commercial intercourse began between the Dutch 
and the Plymouth colonists in 1627. The Dutch gave the Ply- 
mouth people intimations respecting the fertile lands upon Con- 
necticut River. 

The Indians on Connecticut River were harassed and terrified 
by the more powerful Pequots; and some of their sachems and 
others who had been driven out, made a journey to Plymouth and 
Boston in 1631, and urgently solicited the English to form a settle- 
ment on the river, but the English governors declined the invita- 
tion. The Plymouth colonists, whose vessels had visited the 
river, determined in 1633 to build a trading house there. They 
were anticipated by the Dutch, who, in 1633, built a light fort near 
the mouth of Little River in Hartford, having purchased some 

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2 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

land of the conquering Pequots in June of that year. They in- 
tended to exclude the English from the Connecticut. But in 
October, 1633, WilHam Holmes of Plymouth, ascended the river, 
with the materials for a house on board his vessel, and disregard- 
ing the menaces of the Dutch, he passed by their fort, and erected 
a trading house a little below^ the mouth of Windsor River, on a 
meadow^ that still bears the name of Plymouth Meadow. Holmes 
carried to the Connecticut some of the sachems, whom the Pequots 
had driven out. 

In September, 1633, John Oldham and three others went over- 
land to Connecticut River, to trade. These were doubtless the 
first Europeans, that passed by land from the seacoast of Massa- 
chusetts, to Connecticut River. In November, 1633, Samuel 
Hall and two others travelled through the woods to the river, and 
returned in January. In 1634, men were sent from "the towns 
in the Bay," to examine the country on the river. Those who 
took a view of the borders of the Connecticut, found fine lands 
and good situations for plantations, and their accounts of the fer- 
tility of the soil were spread among the people; and many of the 
planters in the towns around Boston, and some new-comers, 
resolved to take possession of these desirable places. In 1635, 
some of the Watertown people began a plantation at Wethersfield; 
those from Cambridge (then called Newtown) settled at Hart- 
ford, and those from Dorchester at Windsor. In October, about 
60 men, women and children from Dorchester, with their horses, 
cattle and swine, were 14 days in removing through the wilder- 
ness to Windsor. The ensuing winter was unusually severe, and 
the privations and suflferings of the inhabitants were extreme. 
The country about Springfield was examined in 1635, but 
William Pynchon and his small company from Roxbury did not 
establish themselves there until May, 1636. In June, 1636, Mr. 
Hooker, Mr. Stone and about 100 men, women and children, with 
160 cattle, traversed the forests from Cambridge to Hartford. 
They left Cambridge on the last day of May. 

The war with the Pequots occurred in 1637, and resulted in the 
destruction of many of that tribe, and in the subjection of the rest. 

The inhabitants of the new towns soon recovered from the dis- 
tresses attending their first settlement, and from the effects of the 
Indian war, and many years of prosperity and happiness suc- 
ceeded. They were industrious and frugal and their lands were 
productive. As early as December, 1644, the General Court 
were endeavoring to find a market for their surplus produce. 
They say, "Massachusetts and Plymouth complain of our over- 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 6 

filling their markets." They built good houses and barns, made 
additions to their furniture and implements, and multiplied their 
conveniences and enjoyments. 

The first emigrants to Connecticut River, knowing that their 
productions must be sent to market by the river, and their supplies 
be received from abroad through the same channel, selected 
places where the river was navigable. Even Mr. Pynchon and 
his associates did not plant themselves above boat navigation. 
But the great Falls above Springfield, now at South Hadley, were 
an obstacle sufficient to prevent any settlement north of them for 
many years. At length, in May, 1653, seventeen years after 
Springfield was begun, a number of men residing at Windsor, 
Hartford and other places, petitioned the General Court to grant 
them a plantation at Nonotuck, above Springfield; and their 
petition was aided by three of the principal men in Springfield, 
who were very desirous of having neighbors in the colony to 
which they belonged. The General Court in the same month 
appointed three men of Springfield, John Pynchon, Elizur Hol- 
yoke and Samuel Chapin, to divide the land into two plantations, 
and the petitioners were to have one of them. In 1654, the Com- 
mittee reported to the General Court, that they had laid out the 
bounds of one plantation, on the west side of the river, extending 
"from the little meadow called Capawonk or Mattaomet, down 
to the head of the falls;" reserving the lands on the east side of 
the river for another plantation. The Indian title was purchased 
by John Pynchon for the planters, Sept. 24, 1653. The settle- 
ment of Northampton began in 1654. The planters purchased 
Capawonk meadow (now in Hatfield) of the Indian owner in 
1657, this tract not being included in the purchase made in 1653. 
Hadley, the second plantation in the valley of Nonotuck, or Nor- 
wotuck, was commenced in 1659, five years later than North- 
ampton.* 

Differences in the churches at Hartford and Wethersfield were 
the principal cause of the settlement of Hadley in 1659; but if 
these disputes had not occurred, such desirable tracts of interval 
would not long have remained without cultivators. The church 
at Hartford was one of the largest and most eminent in New Eng- 



♦Hubbard says the differences in the churches in the years 1656, 1657 and 1658, "ended 
in the removal of one part of the churches and towns of Hartford, Wethersfield and Windsor 
to another plantation or two up higher, upon Connecticut River, the one of which was called 
Hadley, and the other Northampton." These partial errors of Hubbard are copied by 
Holmes, who fixes the settlement of both towns in 1658, which is not correct in regard to 
either. Religious differences had no concern in the first planting of Northampton. 



4 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

land, and the two ministers, Mr. Thomas Hooker and Mr. Samuel 
Stone, though unlike in some respects, were both great and good 
men, whose praise was in all the churches. Mr. Hooker was 
firm and decided, yet prudent and conciliatory, and there was no 
serious trouble or discord in the church while he lived. In a few 
years after his death, which happened July 7, 1647, ^ contention 
arose, having Mr. Stone and a majority of the church on one side, 
and a strong minority on the other. Several on each side, were 
men of distinction in the town and colony. The origin of the 
difficulty has not been clearly stated by any writer. Hubbard 
alludes to different opinions concerning the extension of the priv- 
ileges of those not church-members; and says, "the first appear- 
ance of disturbance which on that account happened among 
them, was occasioned on a call of a person to supply the place of 
Mr. Hooker." He does not tell when this occurred, nor who was 
the person to whom a call was given. In another place, he says, 
the differences at first were "about the enlarging of baptism and 
such like accounts." Mather says, the misunderstanding began 
between Mr. Stone and the ruling elder, (William Goodwin,) 
but its origin was obscure. Trumbull supposes, "that some 
member had been admitted, or baptism administered, which 
Elder Goodwin conceived to be inconsistent with the rights of 
the brotherhood and the strict principles of the Congregational 
churches." 

The minority were attached to the Congregational way of church 
order as professed and practiced under Mr. Hooker; they seemed 
to adhere to the Cambridge Platform, and were opposed to all 
important changes. They were sometimes called "strict Con- 
gregationalists." On the other hand, Mr. Stone was endeavoring 
to introduce some new practices into the church; to effect some 
innovations that were displeasing to the minority; and he seems 
to have been sustained by a majority of the church. Trumbull 
is of opinion that his changes related to three subjects, and that 
the whole controversy respected them, viz., the qualifications for 
baptism, church membership, and the rights of the brotherhood. 
These three points require some explanation. 

I. Baptism. Hitherto, only the members of churches in full 
communion, had their children baptized. Now, many ministers 
and others desired to enlarge the subjects of baptism, and a coun- 
cil or synod from Massachusetts and Connecticut met at Boston 
in June, 1657. and decided that baptism might be extended to 
the children of such baptized parents as were not scandalous, and 
would own the covenant, though not members of the church in 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 5 

full communion. Mr. Stone was one of this council, and is sup- 
posed to have advocated the introduction of this new measure, 
this "half-way covenant," as it was subsequently called. Another 
synod met in Boston in 1662 and recommended the same practice. 
This alteration met with much opposition in both colonies, and 
was but slowly introduced.* 

2. Church membership. From the first settlement of New 
England, only those who gave some evidence of their faith and 
repentance, were admitted to communion by the churches. There 
were individuals, perhaps many, who desired to have all admit- 
ted to the Lord's Supper who had competent knowledge, and 
whose conduct was not immoral, though not professing to be re- 
generate. No evidence has been adduced to show that Mr. 
Stone, or any other minister, or the majority of any church, at 
the time of the Hartford contentions, were in favor of such a lat- 
itude in admitting members to communion. The council at Bos- 
ton in 1657, which approved of "owning the covenant," was de- 
cisive against receiving any to full communion, except those who 
manifested faith and repentance. It may be doubted whether 
Mr. Stone differed much from Elder Goodwin and the minority 
on the question of full church membership. 

3. The rights of the brotherhood. Trumbull says, "Mr. 
Stone's ideas of Congregationalism appear to have bordered more 
on Presbyterianism, and less on independence, than those of the 
first ministers in the country in general." These ideas of Mr. 
Stone, with actions in some degree corresponding, will account 
for much of the controversy at Hartford. He was probably 
considered by the minority as claiming too much power, and 
encroaching upon the rights of the brethren."]" 

The papers containing the chief points upon which the parties 
differed, their grievances and complaints, and the decisions of 
the councils that were called to compose their differences, have 
not been preserved, except the account of the proceedings of the 

*Trumbull is mistaken in supposing that "owning the covenant" was not practiced in 
Connecticut until 1696. There is an old record in Windsor, relating to church matters, 
which states that Mr. Warham first began this practice, January 31, 1657-8, and continued 
it until March 19, 1664-5, when ^^ forbore, owing to scruples of conscience. Mr. Chaun- 
cey "set it on again," June 21, 1668, the church assenting to it. 

■fin 1670, the second church in Hartford was formed by "strict Congregationalists" who 
had been members of the first church. Their sentiments were apparently similar to those 
of the planters of Hadley. They complained of opposition by preaching and practice to 
the Congregational way. This is now the South Church in Hartford. The first church is 
that under the pastoral care of Rev. Dr. Hawes. 



6 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

last council in 1659. Indeed, the progress of the controversy is 
nearly as obscure as its origin. 

Councils from the neighboring churches convened about 1654 
and 1655, to reconcile the parties, but without effect. In June, 
1656, a council from the churches about Boston met at Hartford 
and gave their advice. The aggrieved minority seemed willing 
to comply, but the church did not submit to the advice given. 
The same council from Massachusetts was again invited to Hart- 
ford, and they went the latter part of April, 1657, and succeeded 
in effecting an agreement which was called a "Pacification," on 
the 3d of May. For reasons which do not appear, there soon 
followed what was called a relapse — a breach of the pacification, 
and each party accused the other of violating it. The parties be- 
came more embittered and alienated than before. Mr. Stone and 
the church undertook to deal with some of the principal men in 
the minority, viz., Governor Webster Andrew Bacon and William 
Lewis. After this, the minority formally withdrew from the 
church, and were about forming a union with the church at 
Wethersfield under Mr. John Russell. This withdrawal appears 
to have taken place in the latter part of 1657 or in the early part 
of 1658. Mr. Stone and the church were proceeding with the 
withdrawers in a course of discipline, when the General Court 
interfered, in March, 1658, and prohibited the church from pro- 
ceeding, and forbid the withdrawers to prosecute their object. 

It was apparently in the early part of 1658, that the minority 
of the church began to think seriously of removing to the colony 
of Massachusetts. They sent men up the river to view the lands 
east and north of Northampton. Others applied to the General 
Court of Massachusetts for a grant of land; they were favorably 
received, and obtained what they desired. In the spring of 1659, 
an agreement was formed, and it was determined to begin the 
plantation that season. In their grant from Massachusetts was 
a condition, that they should submit to an orderly hearing of the 
differences between themselves and their brethren. 

The former council from Massachusetts, with an addition 
from tvv^o more churches, were invited to meet at Hartford on the 
19th of August, 1659. The church at Dorchester declined send- 
ing their minister, Mr. Richard Mather, "in regard to his age 
and the difficulties of the journey," but intimated that they would 
afford their help if the meeting were somewhere in the Bay. It 
was finally agreed that the council should meet in Boston, on the 
26th of September. They heard the grievances, blamed both 
parties, and proposed terms of reconciliation, which were accepted. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 7 

After this, the churches of Hartford and Hadley held communion 
with each other. Their grievances presented to this council had 
all happened since the pacification of May, 1657; there was no 
allusion to the earlier subjects of controversy.* 

The General Court of Connecticut, in appointing the annual 
Thanksgiving in November, 1659, mention as one reason for 
thanks, "the success of the endeavors of the reverend elders of 
the last council, for composing the sad differences at Hartford." 

This reconciliation caused much joy in many churches. On 
the 23d of October, 1654, Mr. Mather recited to the church in 
Dorchester, the determination of the council, "and the loving 
acceptance thereof by both parties, with their readiness to make 
confession of the failings of each to the other, for which we ought 
to give God the praise. "f 

The Council of 1659. The result of this council is among the 
papers of the Massachusetts Historical Society. It is a long doc- 
ument, and not easily read. What follows is only an abstract, 
containing the substance of the decision. 

"A Council held at Boston, Sept. 26, 1659, concerning the long, sad, and afflicting contro- 
versy between the Rev. Teacher, Mr. Samuel Stone, and the brethren of the church at Hart- 
ford, on one part, and the brethren, the withdrawers from said church, on the other part, 
since the relapse, after the pacification of May, 3 1657." 

Six Grievances presented by the withdrawing brethren and answers of the council. 

1. Mr. Stone's non-administration of the sacrament. 
Council. They think Mr. Stone's conduct irregular. 

2. His sending for a dismission. 

Council. His desire of dismission, so soon after consenting to the pacification, was un- 
seasonable. 

3. His propositions. 

Council. His proposals of engagements to the church at such a time, were unseasonable 
and inexpedient. 

4. Rigid handling of divers brethren. 

Council. The dealing with honored Mr. Webster was unnecessary and should have been 
spared. The dealing with brother Bacon for his first speech was of the hardest. His sec- 
ond speech was more censurable, but might have been passed with a rebuke. We dare not 
censure the proceedings in brother Lewis's case, as rigid. 

5. Mr. Stone's nullifying the instrument of pacification. 

Council. Mr. Stone's expressions, candidly interpreted, did not nullify the pacification. 



*Trumbu!l supposes that three councils from Massachusetts met at Hartford, viz., one in 
1656, one June 3, 1659, and one Aug. 19, 1659; he omits the council that made the pacifica- 
tion in May, 1657, or perhaps he transfers its transactions to the supposed council of June 3, 
1659. There was no council at Hartford, Aug. 19, 1659, but there was one at Boston, Sept. 
26, 1659, whose proceedings in which are mentioned the other councils, Trumbull had not 
seen. These proceedings make no allusion to a council in June, 1659. 

fDorchester church records. 



b HISTORY OF HADLEY 

6. "Concerning the church's separating carriages, not taking congnizance of our com- 
plaints, and owning Mr. Stone in his offensive practices." 

Council. Affairs seem not to have been managed with such impartiality, and encourage- 
ment of the dissenters, as the state of things required. When Mr. Stone was blameworthy, 
the brethren who upheld him, were blameworthy. 

Breach of pacification is the principal point. Mr. Stone was guilty of actions which 
tended to unsettle the pacification, but not guilty of a breach of it. 

Six Grievances presented by Mr. Stone and the brethren of the church, and answers of 
the council. 

I. The withdrawers offered violence to the pacification. 
Council. They did break it by their actual withdrawing. 

2 and 3. The withdrawers transgressed in separating in a schismatical way, and their 
sin is scandalous. 

Council. The separation of the withdrawers was irregular, as there was no just cause for 
separation; and if there had been, council might have been had, and the dismission been 
orderly. Though their act was irregular, yet we look not on them as schismatics, because 
they were led thereto by a mistake concerning the act of the council of 1656. They have 
all along desired a council. 

4. The withdrawers are still members of the church at Hartford. 
Council. We admit that they are still members. 

5. The withdrawers transgressed in publishing their papers. 

Council. The offensive or accusatory part, we judge to be irregular, in respect to exact 
verity, and in respect to order. 

6. Their joining another church. 

Council. They cannot be members of two churches at once. We bear witness against 
such of the withdrawers as have joined another church, as being irregular. 

We desire that in case of mutual satisfaction given and taken, between all parties, that 
then there might be a returning of the dissenters into communion with the Hartford church. 
But if any of them, after satisfaction, shall choose to dispose of themselves elsewhere, and to 
remove their habitations, then our advice is that the church give them dismission on their 
request, and that such as have joined another church, do renew their covenant. We expect 
they will hold communion with the church at Hartford, and the church with them. 

The council closed with strong exhortations to the parties; and mentioned the great labor 
of the council at Hartford in 1656; the services of the messengers from Massachusetts, and 
the pacification of May 3d, 1657, and the relapse; and the labors of the present assembly. 

Signed at Boston, Oct. 7, 1659, by 14 ministers, viz., John Wilson, Charles Chauncey, 
Richard Mather, John Allin, Zech. Symmes, John Norton, John Eliot, Edm. Browne, Thos. 
Cobbet, John Sherman, William Hubbard, Samuel Danforth, Jonathan Mitchell, Thos. 
Shepard; and 3 delegates, viz., Richard Russel, Edward Tyng, Isaac Heath. 

Wethersfield experienced various vicissitudes, and most of the 
early settlers removed to other towns, and their places were sup- 
plied by new comers. After a few years, the inhabitants became 
more stable and prosperous, and the village contained many in- 
telligent and thriving men. Mr. Henry Smith, their minister, 
died in 1648, after preaching there eight or ten years. Mr. John 
Russell succeeded him in 1649. ^^ ^"^ ^ number of the church 
entertained opinions in unison with those of the minority at Hart- 
ford, while others seemed to sympathize with the majority. There 
was some difficulty at Wethersfield in 1658, and a complaint was 
presented to the General Court against Mr. Russell in August. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 9 

A few months after this, Lieut. John Hollister* was excommuni- 
cated by the church. In March, 1659, he complained that the 
charges against him had not been presented to him. The Gen- 
eral Court required Mr. Russell and the church to deliver to him 
a copy of the charges; and they desired the church to consider the 
matter and conclude upon some way to issue their sad differences. 

The town voted, December, 1658, that they had no settled min- 
ister among them; and on the 24th of March, 1659, they chose a 
committee "to procure a solid and approved minister." The 
committee were to consult Governor Wells, who resided in Weth- 
ersfield, and Mr. Stone of Hartford. On the 2d of May, 1659, 
the town chose another committee to engage a minister, prefacing 
the vote with these words: — "seeing it is commonly reported that 
Mr. Russell hath sent for his church to Norwottuck, to do some 
church act, whereby the town is wholly destitute." In June, 
1659, the General Court judged it to be the duty of the inhabitants 
of Wethersfield to provide a minister. 

It appears from these proceedings that Mr. Russell preached 
in Wethersfield until some time in April, 1659, though the town 
voted that they had no settled minister, some months previous. 
A majority of the town were opposed to him, but a majority of the 
church seem to have adhered to him. In October, 1659, the Gen- 
eral Court, referring to the long and tedious differences and 
troubles betwixt Mr. Russell and several members of Wethers- 
field church, particularly betwixt Mr. Russell and the lieutenant, 
desired the churches of Hartford and Windsor to send messengers 
to Wethersfield to give advice and counsel. "And the whole 
church belonging to Mr. Russell's charge, lately of Wethersfield, 
is to be acquainted herewith." The meeting was to be on the 
first Tuesday in November. The result of this council is not 
known. In March, 1661, the General Court remarked that di- 
vers members of the church at Wethersfield had removed from 
thence without notice to, or allowance from the court, magistrates 
or churches of that colony; those still remaining there were de- 
clared by the court to be the true and acknowledged church at 
Wethersfield. 

It may be concluded from expressions in the records and other 
circumstances, that a majority of the Wethersfield church-mem- 
bers settled at Norwottuck with Mr. Russell. The church was 



*John Hollister, usually called "the lieutenant," was an influential man in Wethersfield. 
His daughter Sarah married Rev. Hope Atherton, the first minister of Hatfield; and after 
his death, she married Timothy Baker of Northampton. 



10 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

not large. Goodwin, in his Foote Genealogy, states that early 
in the spring of 1659, all the members of the church, except six, 
voted for a removal. The General Court of Massachusetts, so 
careful to have the Hartford men separate from the church in an 
orderly manner, never suggested that there w^as any irregularity 
in the conduct of the Wethersfield members who settled in Hadley, 

Farmer's Genealogical Register says Mr. Russell was installed 
in Hadley. The correctness of this remark may be doubted. It 
is believed that the "church act" at Hadley, whatever it may have 
been, was not an act in which the aid or concurrence of any other 
church was sought. When a minister and a majority of his church 
changed their residence, no installing act was deemed necessary. 

Disputes in the church at Hartford and elsewhere continued 
long after Hadley was settled, but became less vehement. Mr. 
Bradstreet of New London, in his Journal in 1667, mentions that 
a synod was called at Hartford, to discuss some points concerning 
baptism and church discipline, and he expressly names the two 
parties, Congregational and Presbyterian. The Saybrook Plat- 
form of 1708 seems to have been the result of a compromise be- 
tween similar parties. 



CHAPTER II 

Application to Massachusetts for land — Engagement at Hartford to remove to Massachu- 
setts — Committee to lay out a town at Norwottuck; their return, not accepted — Proceed- 
ings of the first settlers in 1659 and 1660 — Settlers on the west side of the river — Courts 
of Justice — The new town named Hadley — Contest with Mr. Bradstreet. 

Capt. John CuUick and Elder William Goodwin, two promi- 
nent men among the withdrawers, (as they were then denomi- 
nated,) went to Boston and presented the following petition to 
the General Court, May 20, 1658: 

"Whereas your most humble servants, the subscribers, v/ith several others of the colony 
of Connecticut, do conceive that it may be most for the comfort of them and theirs to remove 
themselves and families from thence, and to come under your pious and godly government, 
if the Lord shall please so to order it, and yourselves to accept it. We do presume to pre- 
sent this our humble motion to your wisdom's consideration, whether we may, without 
offence, view any tract of land unpossessed within your colony, in order to such an end, and 
in case v/e can present any thing that may be to the encouraging of a considerable company 
to take up a plantation, either at Nonotuck or elsewhere, we may have your gracious allow- 
ante to dispose ourselves there; or in case that be not, then within any of your settled plan- 
tations, as the wise God shall direct us and show unto us; we being first of you, presume to 
tender ourselves first to you, which if you shall please to grant, we hope through the grace of 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 



11 



Christ, our conversations among you shall be without offence; so committing you and all 
your weighty affairs to the guidance and blessing of the Lord, we rest, 

yours in all due observance, 
Boston, zoth, 3d, 1658. JOHN CULLICK, 

[May 20, 1658.] WILL. GOODWIN." 

Their request was granted in the following terms: — 

"In answer to the petition of Capt. Cullick and Mr. Wm. Goodwin, in behalf of them- 
selves and others, the Court judgeth meet to grant their request, in reference to lands not 
already granted, and further gives them liberty to inhabit in any part of our jurisdiction 
already planted, provided they submit themselves to a due and orderly hearing of the differ- 
ences between themselves and their brethren." 

Consented to by both Magistrates and Deputies, May 25, 1658. 

In the same year, 1658, some of the withdrawers desired prop- 
ositions from Northampton in regard to Capawonk meadow, 
which belonged to that town. In October, 1658, the town of 
Northampton voted to "give away" Capawonk, on four condi- 
tions: — 1st. The Hartford men are to settle two plantations; one 
on each side of the river. 2d. They are to maintain a sufficient 
fence against hogs and cattle. 3d. They are to pay 10 pounds, 
in wheat and peas. 4th. They are to inhabit here by next May. 

The Agreement or Engagement of those who intended to re- 
move from Connecticut to Massachusetts, is dated at Hartford, 
April 18, 1659, and is recorded on the first book of Hadley records. 
The following is a copy of that Agreement and of some proceed- 
ings of a later date recorded with the other: 

"At a meeting at Goodman Ward's house, in Hartford, April i8th, 1659, the company 
there met engaged themselves under their own hands, or by their deputies, whom they had 
chosen, to remove themselves and their families out of the jurisdiction of Connecticut into 
the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts, as may appear in a paper dated the day and year 
abovesaid. The names of the engagers are these: — 



John Webster 
William Goodwin 
John Crow 
Nathaniel Ward 
John White 
John Barnard 
Andrew Bacon 
William Lewis 
William Westwood 
Richard Goodman 
John Arnold* 
William Partrigg 
Gregory Wilterton* 
Thomas Standley 
Samuel Porter 
Richard Church 
Ozias Goodwin* 
Francis Barnard 
James Ensign* 
George Steele* 



John Marsh 
Robert Webster* 
William Lewis Jr.* 
Nathaniel Standley 
Samuel Church 
William Markum 
•/ Samuel Moody 
Zechariah Field 
Widow Westly* 
Widow Watson* 
Andrew Warner 
Mr. John Russell Junior 
Nathaniel Dickinson 
Samuel Smith 
Thomas Coleman 
John Russell, senior 
John Dickinson 
Philip Smith 
John Coleman 
Thomas Wells 



James Northam 
Samuel Gardner 
Thomas Edwards* 
John Hubbard 
Thomas Dickinson 
Robert Boltwood 
Samuel Smith Jr* 
William Gull 
Luke Hitchcock* 
Richard Montague 
John Latimer* 
Peter Tilton 
John Hawkes 
Richard Billings 
Benj. Harbert* 
Edward Benton* 
John Catling* 
Mr. Samuel Hooker* 
Capt. John Cullick* 

not fully engaged 
Daniel Warner 



12 HISTORY OF HADLEY. 

1st. We whose names are above written do engage ourselves mutually one to another, 
that we will, if God permit, transplant ourselves and families to the plantation purchased, 
on the east side of the river of Connecticut, beside Northampton, therein to inhabit and 
dwell by the 29th of September come twelve months, which will be in the year 1660. [Mean- 
ing Sept. 29th, 1660.] 

2d. That each of us shall pay the charges of the land purchased according to his pro- 
portion, as also for the purchase of Hockanum. 

3d. That we will raise all common charges, of what sort soever, for the present, upon 
the land that men take up: mow, plow land and house lot, according to the proportion of 
land that each man takes of all sorts; and all charges shall be paid as they shall arise and be 
due, from the date hereof. 

4th. That if any persons so engaging be not inhabiting there by the time aforesaid, then, 
notwithstanding their payment of charges, their lands and what is laid out in rates shall 
return to the town: and yet this article doth not free men from their promise of going and 
inhabiting. 

5th. That no man shall have liberty to sell any of his land till he shall inhabit and dwell in 
the town three years; and also to sell it to no person, but such as the town shall approve on. 

Agreed that all those persons that will go up within three weeks shall give in their names 
by this day fortnight, and then those that are so agreed shall take up a quarter together, 
and so those that follow shall take up another quarter, so they do it together, or so far as 
their numbers run. 

Agreed also that no persons shall fell any trees upon any lot of ground lotted out, or to be 
lotted out, but upon his own ground or lot, or against his own lot within ten rods of the same 
in the highway. The land to be lotted is either what is for the homelots, or between the 
homelots and the meadow. 

It is agreed also by the said company, upon the 25th of April, 1659, that they will purchase 
the lands on the west side of the great river, above Napanset, if it can be bought, and that 
each of the said engagers will pay their several proportions to the said purchase, according 
to what they have put in to take up lands by, at the time of their said engagement: witness 
their hands, dated April the i8th 1659. 

At the said meeting William Westwood, Richard Goodman, William Lewis, John White 
and Nathaniel Dickinson were chosen by the whole company, to go up to the foresaid plan- 
tation, on the east side of Northampton, and to lay out the number 59 homelots, and to allow 
eight acres for every homelot, and to leave a street 20 rods broad betwixt the two wester- 
most rows of homelots; and to divide the said rows of homelots into quarters by highways. 
Those men, being willing to answer the desire of the said company, did undertake the work. 
They desiring to make some beginning there for themselves, the company granted them lib- 
erty, according to a former agreement, that they might choose in any of the quarters to lay 
out their own homelots, provided they took them together at one side of any of the said 
quarters. 

The plantation being begun by them and some other of the engagers, the rest of the en- 
gagers that remained at Hartford and Wethersfield, with those that were come up to inhabit 
at the said plantation, did upon the ninth of November (1659) at Hartford, and about the 
said time at Wethersfield, and at the said plantation, choose by vote, William Westwood, 
Nathaniel Dickinson, Samuel Smith, Thomas Standley, John White, Richard Goodman, 
and Nathaniel Ward, to order all public occasions, that concern the good of that plantation 
for the year ensuing. 

The said Townsmen made a rate upon the 22d of November, 1659, for the paying of the 
purchase of the said plantation, and for the minister's maintenance, levying it at 50 shillings 
the 100 pounds, which in the whole sum came to 180 pounds; for the speedy gathering of 
this rate, we sent the rate down to the two towns Hartford and Wethersfield, that the charges 
might be truly paid and satisfied, by every man according to his engagement, as is visible 
in the engagement itself, that is dated the i8th of April 1659." 

There are 59 names to the Agreement, and one not fully engaged. 
Of these, 31 first named, from John Webster to Andrew Warner, 
inclusive, belonged to Hartford, except Samuel Porter, who was 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 13 

from Windsor, but may have resided in Hartford in 1659. The 
next 20, from Mr. John Russell, Jr. to John Latimer, inclusive, 
belonged to Wetherslield; the next tw^o, Peter Tilton and John 
Hawks, were of Windsor, and 5 or 6 of the 7 below Hawks, were 
of Hartford. Those with this mark, * 18 in number, did not 
remove to Hadley, or remained there but a short time. 

The General Court, on the 28th of May, 1659, appointed a 
committee of five, viz., three from Springfield and two from 
Northampton, to lay out the bounds of a town, according to the 
grant made May 25, 1658. The order follows, copied from the 
printed records of the Colony, and retaining the orignial orthog- 
raphy, except a few contractions. 

"Whereas it hath appeared to this Court, that according to a former graunt to Capt. 
John Cullicke £? Mr Willjam Goodwyn, in behalfe of themselves and ffreinds that desired 
to remoove into our colony, they haue begunne to remoove to Norwoottucke with seuerall 
familjes, and made some begining on the east side the riuer in order to a plantacion, and 
that there are many desirable persons hauing a pastor with his church engaged to goe along 
with them, with another who may in tjme be joyned to that church for theire further helpe 
in the worke of the ministry, whereby they are enabled not only to carry on a toune, but 
church worke also, — this Court, being willing to remoove all obstacles out of theire way, and 
finding the people so many and considerable that haue engaged, with seuerall others that 
would engage if there might be encouragement found there for them, doe order, that these 
persons ffollowing, viz., Capt. Pinchon, Left. Holyhoke, Deacon Chapin, Willjam Holton, 
and Richard Lyman, shall be a committee fully impowered by this Court to lay out the 
bounds of the toune at Norwottocke, on either or both sides the riuer as they shall see cause, 
so as shall be most suitable for the chohabitation and full supply of those people, that this 
wildernes may be populated and the majne ends of our coming into these parts may be pro- 
moted. Voted by the whole Court mett together. 28, 3, 1659." 

The preamble of the order shows clearly that the Court deemed 
these emigrants from Connecticut to be estimable men, and a 
valuable acquisition to the colony. It also shows that the church 
at Wethersfield, (that is, a majority of its members) were about 
to remove with their pastor. The other minister alluded to, was 
Mr. Samuel Hooker, son of Mr. Thomas Hooker, of Hartford. 
He was then preaching at Springfield. In the agitation at Hart- 
ford, he appears to have harmonized in opinion with the minority 
of the church. 

The Committee appointed to lay out a new plantation at Nor- 
wottuck, made the following report, Sept. 30, 1659: — 

"In obedience to an order of the much Honored General Court in May last, appointing 
us whose names are subscribed, to lay out the bounds of the new plantation at Norwottuck 
on the river Connecticutt for the supply of those people that are to settle there; considering 
what people are to remove thither and the quality of the lands thereabouts, we have thought 
good to lay out their bounds on both sides of said River, viz. on the East side of said river 
their southerly bounds to be from the head of the Falls above Springfield and so to run east 
and by north the length of nine miles from the said river: And their Northerly bounds to 
be a little brook called by the Indians Nepasoaneage up to a mountain called Quunkwattchu, 
and so running eastward from the river the same length of nine miles: from their southerly 
bounds to the northerly bounds on the east side of the river is about ii or 12 miles, And on 



14 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

the west side of the river their bounds on the south are to join or meet with Northampton 
bounds, (which said bounds of Northampton come to a little riverett running betwixt two 
pieces of land called Capawonk and Wequittayyagg) And on the north their bounds to be 
a great mountain, called Wequomps; and the North and South bounds are to run west two 
miles from the great river; And from North to South on that side the river is about 
6 or 7 miles. 

JOHN PYNCHON 
ELIZUR HOLYOKE 
SAMUEL CHAPIN 
WILLIAM HOLTON 
Sept 30 1659. RICHARD LYMAN 

A postscript. Whereas it's said above that their north and south bounds are to run two 
miles west from the great river; it is intended that the south bounds are the riverett above 
mentioned upon what point soever it run, and the two miles west respects the straight line. 

The deputies approve of the return of this committee desiring the consent of the honored 
magistrates. WILLIAM TORREY, Clerk. 

Respited till nest court, [by the magistrates.] 

EDWARD RAWSON, Secretary. 

The report, it will be seen, was not accepted by the magistrates. 
Some of them had received grants of land, within the bounds laid 
out by the committee; and if they gave up these, they intended to 
take up other lands in the same valley. 

Hadley was never able to extend her bounds as far eastward as 
this committee proposed. Nepasoaneag brook, at its mouth, 
continued to be the northern limit. On the west side of the 
Capawonk meadow, then owned by Northampton, came up to 
the riverett, now Hatfield Mill river. Wequomps mountain was 
Sugar Loaf, now in Deerfield. 

All the transactions of 1659 that are recorded, may be found on 
pages II and 12. It may be presumed that the broad street and 
homelots were laid out in 1659; that a number of the engagers 
"came up to inhabit at the said plantation," in 1659, and built 
rude dw^ellings, where they lived during the next winter. Who, 
or how many, passed the winter there, cannot be known. The 
seven men, chosen Nov. 9, 1659, "to order all public occasions," 
and called Townsmen, were at the new plantation and made a 
rate, Nov. 22, 1659, and they, or a majority of them, probably 
wintered there with others. One of these Townsmen, Thomas 
Stanley, made his will, Jan. 29, 1659-60, in which he disposed of 
his house and land, "that are here at the new plantation," prov- 
ing conclusively that he then lived in the new town. 

No record whatever remains of their doings in 1660, previous 
to the 8th of October, and it may be concluded that no public 
business was performed that required a register. 

On the 8th of October, 1660, a Town-meeting, so called, was 
held at the house of Andrew Warner, and it was voted: — That no 
person should be owned for an inhabitant, or have liberty to vote 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 15 

or act in town affairs, until he should be legally received as an 
inhabitant — That all who sit down on the west side of the river, 
shall be one with those on the east side, in both ecclesiastical and 
civil matters, that are common to the whole; they paying all 
charges from their engagement, and all purchase-charges from 
the beginning. Those admitted for inhabitants on the west side 
of the river, are to be "inhabiting there in houses of their own by 
Michaelmas next," (Sept. 29, 1661,) and to sign an engagement 
by themselves, or some others for them. The votes or agreement 
at this meeting were signed by 28 persons, viz., John Webster, 
William Goodwin, John Crow, Nathaniel Ward, John White, 
Andrew Bacon, William Lewis, William Westwood, Richard 
Goodman, Thomas Standley, Samuel Porter, Ozias Goodwin, 
John Marsh, William Markum, Samuel Moody, Zechariah Field, 
Andrew Warner, Mr. John Russell, junr., Nathaniel Dickinson, 
Samuel Smith, Thomas Coleman, John Dickinson, Philip Smith, 
Thomas Wells, Thomas Dickinson, Richard Montague, Peter 
Tilton, Richard Billing. 

These 28 persons were perhaps all the engagers then in the new 
town, and included some who had not removed their families 
from Connecticut. 

Most of those who wished to settle on the west side of the river, 
signed an engagement for themselves, or their friends for them, to 
be dwellers there before Sept. 29, 1661. Some signed at the 
meeting, Oct. 8th, others Nov. ist, and some in January, Febru- 
ary or March, 1661. Twenty-five persons manifested an inten- 
tion before March 25, 1 66 1, to establish themselves on that side 
of the river, in the new town, viz., Aaron Cook, Thomas Meekins, 
William AUis, Nathaniel Dickinson, Jr., John Coleman, Isaac 
Graves (with his father, Thomas Graves,) John Graves, Samuel 
Belding, Stephen Taylor, John White, jr., Daniel Warner, Rich- 
ard Fellows, Richard Billing, Edward Benton, Mr. Ritchell (with 
his son,) Ozias Goodwin, Zechariah Field, Lieut. Thomas Bull, 
Gregory Wilterton, Nathaniel Porter, Daniel White, William Pit- 
kin, John Cole, Samuel Church, Samuel Dickinson. Of these 
25 persons, Aaron Cook and Samuel Church did not remove to 
the west side of the river; Ozias Goodwin, Lt. Bull, Gregory Wil- 
terton and William Pitkin continued to reside at Hartford, 
Nathaniel Porter at Windsor, and Mr. Ritchell or Richall and 
Edward Benton lived at Wethersfield. Sixteen were permanent 
residents on the west side. 

Two of these signers, Thomas Meekins and William Allis, be- 
longed to the Massachusetts Colony, and lived at Braintree. 



16 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

During the years 1659 and 1660, no permanent distribution of 
lands was made in the intervals or meadows. Men tilled parcels 
of the common lands, temporarily assigned to them. It was un- 
certain how many of the engagers would become actual settlers. 
The grants to Mr. Bradstreet and others, may have discouraged 
some; various things operated to dissuade others from the under- 
taking, and in the course of two years, many had changed their 
minds. New applicants appeared to supply their places, and 
there was no lack of settlers. 

Courts similar to County courts were ordered, by the General 
Court, in May, 1658, to be kept yearly, the last Tuesday of March 
and the last Tuesday of September, one at Springfield and one at 
Northampton. They were held by the Springfield Commissioners. 
In Oct. 1659, it was ordered as follows, concerning freemen and 
the new town: — 

"Those made freemen here, and who removed to Connecticut, and have now returned to 
this colony, are still freemen here, without any further oath. Those in the plantations on 
Connecticut River, who are not freemen, but capable by law to become so, are to be sworn 
by the Springfield Commissioners. The new town is to be under the power of the Spring- 
field Commissioners in regard to County Courts, till further order." 

"May 31, 1660. Mr. John Webster of the new town at Norwottuck, is by this Court 
commissionated with magistratical power for the year ensuing, to act in all civil and crimi- 
nal cases as one magistrate may do. He is to join the Commissioners in keeping the courts." 

Mr. John Webster, and the three Springfield Commissioners, 
viz., Capt. John Pynchon, Mr. Samuel Chapin and Elizur Holyoke, 
held a court at Springfield, Sept. 25, 1660 and another at North- 
ampton, March 26, 1661. On the same 26th of March, the 
Springfield Commissioners were at "Newtown or Norwotuck," 
(so they call the place) and the following persons took the free- 
man's oath before them, viz., Mr. John Webster, Mr. John 
Russell, Nathaniel Ward, William Markham, Thomas Dickinson, 
Andrew Bacon, Thomas Wells, John Hubbard, Nathaniel Dick- 
inson, Philip Smith, Thomas Coleman, Robert Boltwood, Samuel 
Gardner, Peter Tilton. There were others who had been made 
freemen in Massachusetts before they removed to Connecticut. 

Jurors from the New Town attended the Court for the first 
time, March, 1661, viz., Andrew Warner, William Lewis, John 
White, Samuel Smith. 

Mr. Webster, an eminent man, died on the 5th of April, a few 
days after this court. 

At a meeting. May 11, 1661, it was voted that all the freemen 
should meet at the house of Goodman Lewis "upon the next 2d 
day," (meaning the second day, or Monday, of the next week) 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 17 

with a committee, to consider of some things to present to the 
General Court, this month. 

Some things agreed upon at that meeting, may be inferred 
from the following order of the General Court, May 22, i66i, 
copied from the printed records: — 

"On the motion of the inhabitants of the new plantation nere Northampton, relating to 
sundry particculars, it is ordered by this Court, that the sd toune shall be called Hadley, and 
that for the better gouernment of the people, ^ suppressing of sinns there, some meete 
persons, annually presented by the freemen vnto this, shall be commissioned and empowred 
to act in seuerall services as followeth: first, the sajd commissioners, together with the com- 
missioners of Springfeild and Northampton, or the greater part of them, shall haue liberty 
& be impowred to keepe ye Courts appointed at Springfeild & Northampton; secondly, 
that the said commissioners for Hadley shall and are hereby empowred, without a jury, to 
heare ii. determine all ciuil actions not exceeding fiue pounds; 3dly, that the sajd commis- 
sioners for Hadley shall & are hereby empowred to dcale in all criminall cases according to 
laue, where the penalty shall not exceed tenn stripes for one offence; provided, that it shall 
be lawfull for any person sentenced by the sajd commissioners, either in ciuil or criminall 
cases, to appeale to the Court at Springfeild or Northampton; fourthly, that the persons for 
the yeare ensuing, & till others be nominated & chosen, for the toune of Hadley, appointed 
& authorized as aforesajd, are, Andrew Bacon, Mr. Samuell Smith, & Mr Wm Westwood; 
5thly,that the commissioners hereby appointed shall take theire oathes before Capt.Pinchon 
for the faithfull discharge of theire duty therein, who is hereby authorized to administer the 
same vnto them. It is also ordered by this Court, that the jurymen freemen for trialls at 
Springfeild & Northampton Courts shall take information & make presentments to ye 
Court of misdemeanors, as grand jurymen vsually doe, or ought to doe, and that the clarke 
of the Court for Springfeild & Northampton send forth warrants to the three tounes for 
jurymen, with respect to the ease of travill to each Court, & yt Mr John Russell, Sen, be 
clarke of ye writts for Hadley, and yt Mr Westwood, or, in his absence, one of the other 
commissioners, are hereby authorized to joyne persons in marriage at Hadley." 

This place, previously denominated the new town, the new 
plantation, or Norwottuck, was by the preceding act named Had- 
ley, and the incorporation of the town is commonly dated from 
the same act. The old towns in Massachusetts were not made 
legal bodies by any regular act of incorporation. A few words, 
declaring a place to be a town, and giving it a name, conferred 
all the powers and privileges of a town; and in some instances, 
the mere naming of a place seems to have been equivalent to an 
act of incorporation. In regard to Springfield and Northampton, 
no transaction of the General Court is recorded, which can be 
called an incorporation. 

Hadley, when it was named in 1661, had no established bound- 
aries, on either side of the river. The first purchases of the Indians 
had been made, viz., one on the east side, Dec. 25, 1658, and two 
on the west side in 1660. The three purchases cost the inhabit- 
ants 150 pounds. 

Hadley was named from Hadleigh or Hadley, a town in Eng- 
land, in the county of Suffolk, situated on the small river Berton, 
a branch of the Stour, a few miles west of Ipswich and east of 



18 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Sudbury. It is not far from the northern boundary of Essex, a 
county from which came many of the early settlers of Hartford. 
The Saxon name of Hadleigh was Headlege, according to Cam- 
den. When he wrote, about 1600, it was famous for making 
woolen cloths. In 181 1, the population was 2592, and it had a 
handsome church. 

It may be conjectured that some of the first planters of Hadley 
came from the town of the same name in England. No record 
remains to show who they were. The name in the town and 
county records is sometimes written Hadleigh. 

Hadley chose five townsmen in December, 1660, and these men 
held the office 13 months, though what is deemed an act of incor- 
poration took place about 5 months after they were chosen. 
Others continued in office without a new choice. 

The judicial power conferred upon the Hadley commissioners 
under the 2d and 3d heads, in the order of May, 1661, was unusual 
and it was abrogated and made null in 1663. The commissioners 
of the three towns were empowered, in 1661, to hold courts at 
Springfield and Northampton, but the Northampton and Hadley 
commissioners do not appear as judges of these courts until 
March 31, 1663. 

The General Court in 1653, when they appointed a committee 
to divide the land at Nonotuck into two plantations, evidently 
contemplated a plantation on the eastern, as well as one on the 
western side of the river. Yet through forgetfulness, inattention 
or ignorance of this part of the colony, the General Court in May, 
1657, permitted Mr. Simon Bradstreet, to whom they had pre- 
viously granted 700 acres, to take up his grant on the eastern side 
of Connecticut River, in the vicinity of Northampton. They 
also granted to Maj. Daniel Denison, 500 acres, and to Mr. Sam- 
uel Symonds, 300 acres, near Mr. Bradstreet's. Gen. Humphrey 
Atherton also had a grant of 500 acres "at Nonotucke beyond 
Springfield," May 26, 1658. 

There were no deputies present from Springfield and North- 
ampton in 1657 and 1658, and those from the eastern towns knew 
very little about this remote region of "Nonotucke beyond Spring- 
field." But those individuals who obtained grants of land upon 
the river, were not ignorant of their value, and not unmindful of 
their own interests. 

On the 27th of May, 1659, after it was ascertained that the 
Connecticut people were about to remove to Norwottuck, the 
Deputies passed the following" vote, and the Magistrates con- 
sented : — 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 19 

The Court have granted to Mr. Bradstreet, Mr. Symonds, Maj. Gen. Denison and Maj. 
Atherton, each of them, a farm, which they intended to take upon Connecticut River, above 
Springfield; but as the taking it there will be very prejudicial to the new plantation, now 
going on there, which this Court is very willing to encourage, the Deputies desire the four 
Magistrates to find out some other place to take their farms in, and if it shall not be equal in 
respect to quality, it may be made up in quantity. 

In November, 1659, the Court added 200 acres to Maj. Ather- 
ton's grant, and he took the 700 acres at Waranoke; on the 31st 
of May, 1660, the Court added to Mr. Bradstreet's grant, 300 acres, 
to Mr. Symond's, 100 acres, and to Maj. Gen. Denison's, 300 
acres, in consideration of their having resigned their former 
grants, for the accommodation of the nev\^ tovi^n. And they had 
Hberty to take up their lands in any place on the west side of the 
river, "provided it be full six miles from the place now intended 
for Northampton meeting house, upon a straight line;" or they 
might take their grants elsewhere in unappropriated lands. Mr. 
Bradstreet was to have the first choice. 

Mr. Symonds took his land elsewhere; but Mr. Bradstreet 
determined to take 500 of his 1000 acres on the west side of the 
river; and Maj. Gen. Denison, 500 of his 800 acres, near Mr. 
Bradstreet's. 

Hadley did not complain of the decision of the General Court, 
and Mr. Bradstreet did not apparently manifest any dissatis- 
faction for about two years, but after he was sent to England as 
an agent of the colony, his son Samuel Bradstreet sent a petition 
to the General Court at the May session, 1662, stating that his 
father had chosen 500 acres on the west side of Connecticut River, 
betwixt 5 and 6 miles in a straight line from Northampton meet- 
ing house, "being for the most part compassed about with a great 
brook, a long pond or ponds and Connecticut River." He re- 
quested a confirmation of this land for his father, and used some 
flimsy arguments to show that his father ought to have it, though 
he had not gone 6 miles from Northampton meeting house. 

It is hardly to be supposed that the Magistrates were much in- 
fluenced by his arguments; yet they wished to do Mr. Bradstreet 
a favor, and were willing that he should have the land petitioned 
for. The Deputies did not consent, but said the grant must begin 
full 6 miles from Northampton meeting house, as before ordered. 

The subject was again presented to the Court at the October 
session, 1662, and the Deputies again gave Mr. Bradstreet his 
500 acres north of the 6 miles. The Magistrates did not consent 
to this, but gave Mr. Bradstreet the land where he desired it, south 
of the 6 miles line, and the Deputies finally agreed with them. 
The Deputies did not manifest as much perseverance as in some 



20 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Other cases, when contending with the Magistrates or Upper 
House; and thus was consummated an act which Hadley people 
judged to be one of great injustice towards them; it was directly 
contrary to the order of May 31, 1660. 

This decision produced much excitement in Hadley. The land 
now granted to Mr. Bradstreet was an important interval or 
meadow, from which the settlers on the west side of the river had 
received, or were to receive, a large portion of their interval land. 
It was called the Higher Meadow, the North Meadow, and the 
Great Meadow. Its boundaries still are brooks, ponds and the 
river, and the southern part is within about a mile of Hatfield 
meeting house. It included near a fourth part of all the interval 
on both sides of the river. 

At the next General Court, May, 1663, earnest petitions were 
sent from the church and town of Hadley, and one from North- 
ampton in behalf of Hadley. They all believed that the act giving 
the Great Meadow to Mr. Bradstreet was not equitable. 

"The church of Christ in Hadley," in their petition, say, "we ask only what we have a 
right unto, derived from yourselves." They refer to the encouragement at first given by the 
court for them to settle at Hadley, and to the subsequent order requiring the gentlemen who 
had grants not to come within six miles of Northampton Meeting House. They request 
that this order may stand sure and steadfast. They estimate the interval given to Mr. 
Bradstreet, at "about one-fourth part of their serviceable land." They conclude with 
these words: — "the thing is likely to leave the house of God unfurnished amongst us as well 
as our civil society." The petition is signed by John Russell, Pastor; WUl. Goodwin, Ruling 
Elder; Nathaniel Dickinson and Peter Tilton, Deacons, in the name of the church. 

Henry Clarke, Andrew Bacon and William Westwood signed 
the petition in the name of the town of Hadley, May 25, 1663. 
This petition is much longer than that of the church and would 
fill two or three pages of this book. Some extracts and abstracts 
follow. 

They request the General Court — "to lend a listening ear to our cry, occasioned by our 
present necessity and distress. Having viewed this place, although we found it bare and 
mean enough, in itself to answer our ends, and accompanied with many inconveniences 
besides the great one of its remoteness, yet considering the court's encouraging answer to 
our motion, we doubted not of enjoying what the place would afford." They then refer to 
the committee, appointed in May, 1659, to lay out the bounds of the plantation, who allotted 
to them the land they were pleading for, as appears by their return. "All the land here 
would not be sufficient for such a competency as was thought not too much for our neighbors 
in the nest plantation; [Northampton] yet they think their neighbors will find their place 
hard and the work heavy enough. They complain because so much land was given to Mr. 
Bradstreet and Maj. Gen. Denison "which discouraged some of our company, and several 
fell off, and among others, our dear and precious help in the ministry, Mr. Hooker." "As 
to our engrossing too much land, ten of the greatest men amongst us have not so much inter- 
val land as this farm Mr. Bradstreet pleads for, and that within three-fourths of a mile of 
our houses, and the furtherest part of it within one mile and three-fourths of our houses." 
— "The place (Hadley) has proved far worse for wintering cattle than was expected; and 
the transportation of other things is tedious. We have purchased of the Indians at such 
rates as we believe never any plantation in New England was purchased." 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 21 

Northampton was interested in the prosperity of these new 
settlements, being very desirous of neighbors on both sides of the 
river. A petition was therefore signed by 35 of the inhabitants 
of Northampton, in favor of the people of Hadley, May 19, 1663. 
Some extracts follow: — 

Our brethren profess themselves to have set down there confiding in the honored court's 
grant. The accommodations they have there, if they have all they expected, are but mean 
and very inconvenient for such a company, the uplands here being of inconsiderable value 
to what they are in other places. What is raised here is at small price, foreign commodities 
are dear, and the charge and trouble in transporting by land near 50 miles, will be more 
felt by those that do it than others can readily conceive of. Should they fail of a supply of 
food and clothing for their families, and many remove elsewhere, and the plantation be 
scattered, how much should we be disappointed who have hoped for the comfort and refresh- 
ing of Christian neighborhood. May it please the honored court, to take such order in the 
case as that the worthy gentlemen concerned may be no losers, and yet our societies not 
broken, nor our beginnings routed, nor the work of the Lord hindered. 

On the nth of June, 1663, Mr. Bradstreet sent to the General 
Court, a protest against the claims of Hadley, and referred to the 
decision in his favor in October, 1662. The Court adhered to 
that decision, and the petitions in favor of Hadley were unavailing. 

At the October session, 1663, the south line of Maj. Denison's 
farm was fixed at an oak tree, at the side of a great plain, near a 
swamp, about six miles from Northampton meeting house; the 
line to run east and west from the oak tree; and to extend to the 
north one mile on the river, and then west from the river far 
enough to make 500 acres. 

The south line of this farm seems to have been then considered 
the north line of Hadley on the west side of the river, Mr. 
Bradstreet's farm being included in the township. 

The lands had been so allotted on both sides of the river, that 
it became necessary to purchase Mr. Bradstreet's farm, even at a 
high price, in order to give the planters on the west side, their pro- 
portion of meadow land. In April, 1664, Lieut. Samuel Smith 
was empowered by the town to purchase this farm, but he was 
not to exceed 200 pounds. Mr. Bradstreet would not sell for 
this sum. At length it was agreed that he should have 200 
pounds, and looo acres of land lying north of Denison's farm, if 
it could be obtained. Lieut. Smith was under the necessity of 
petitioning the General Court, at the May session, 1664, for a 
gift of 1000 acres to Hadley, to enable the town to pay Mr. Brad- 
street. The Court granted the petition and Hadley paid the 200 
pounds in 1664 and 1665. Mr. Bradstreet, for his original grant 
of 700 acres, received 200 pounds, in money, a large sum in those 
days, 1000 acres of land upon Connecticut River, some of it valu- 



22 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

able, and 500 acres elsewhere in the colony. The 1000 acres are 
now in Whately. 

The Denison Farm and this second Bradstreet Farm are well 
known to the people of Hatfield and Whately. A tract of land 
called Bashan, lying south of the Denison Farm, was not included 
in Bradstreet's Interval. 



CHAPTER III 

Division of lands in New England — Hadley Homelots and Street — Manner of distributing 
Hadley Intervals — East side and west side Intervals — Hatfield Homelots — Measuring 
Land — Common Fields and Fences — Gates. 

The fathers of New England evidently intended that every in- 
dustrious man should have the means of obtaining a competent 
share of the comforts of life; and for this end, land was distributed 
to all, and the cultivators were also proprietors of the soil. A 
distribution of land was a distribution of power. This was a 
wide departure from the system of Europe, where the land was 
owned by a few, and working men were poor, dependent and 
despised. 

The General Court granted lands in townships, but seldom pre- 
scribed the manner in which they were to be apportioned among 
the inhabitants. In making allotments, no uniform rule was 
observed; lands were variously distributed in different towns, and 
even in the same town. In making divisions, persons and prop- 
erty were considered. The head of the family and the sons, and 
sometimes the wife and all the children, were taken into account. 
Ministers, and some besides them, received land from other con- 
siderations. 

In many towns in Massachusetts and Connecticut, some tracts 
were distributed equally to all the proprietors. Homelots were 
sometimes nearly equal. In a few towns, the least share was 
half as much as the greatest, or the poorest man received half as 
much land as the richest. In others, the smallest share was only 
one-third, one-fourth, one-sixth or one-tenth as much as the largest. 
In some, the inequality was much greater, a few individuals re- 
ceiving very large allotments on account of large estates and dis- 
bursements. 

A much greater proportion of the people of the old towns in 
Massachusetts and Connecticut were freeholders and independent 
proprietors soon after their settlement than at any subsequent 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 23 

period. Church-members and freemen had no advantage over 
others in the distribution of lands. — The later divisions of large 
tracts of woodland in Northampton, Hadley and Hatfield were 
far more unequal than the early apportionments of intervals. 

Hadley Homelots on the east side of the river. — By the agree- 
ment at Hartford in 1659, every planter was to have a homelot of 
8 acres. This equal division did not extend to other lands. The 
deficiency in a few of the homelots, which were less than 8 acres, 
was made up in the meadows. 

The spacious street, 20 rods wide, and the homelots on each 
side, 80 rods in length, must have been partially laid out in 1659. 
The town plot was laid out into four quarters, two on each side 
of the street, divided by a highway. It was voted Jan. 21, 1661, 
that the homelots should be well fenced by the middle of April 
next, each man doing his proportion. The ends of the street, 
and the west end of the middle lane into the woods, were to be 
fenced by the town, with posts and rails and gates. The home- 
lots required about 16 miles of fence. 

The street extended across the neck* or peninsula, near its 
junction with the main land, and had the river at each end. The 
length of the street on the west side was not far from a mile or 320 
rods; the distance on the east side was considerably more. At 
the north end, the street turned easterly. The idea of a street so 
wide, may have been suggested by the Broad-street at Wethers- 
field. In forming it, they appear to have regarded both utility 
and beauty. Besides other uses, this enclosure of about 40 acres 
was very convenient for grazing ground, when they had but few 
fenced pastures. 

In 1663, there were 47 houselots. Samuel Church lived with 
his father and had no houselot. Aaron Cooke lived with his 
father-in-law, William Westwood, and had no houselot. 

The plan of the village on the next page, exhibits the street and 
highways, the 47 houselots, and the names of the proprietors in 
1663. The figures denote the number of acres in each lot. A 
full lot of 8 acres was 16 rods wide. There was a broad space 
between the small lots at the north end and the river, and some 
years later, several small houselots were granted next to the river, 
and men built houses on these lots and lived there many years. 
M. in the street is the place where the first meeting-house stood. 
It was built after 1663. 

*Neck was the appellation which our fathers often gave to a peninsula and isthmus, as 
well as to other projections or points of land. The whole of Boston was sometimes called a 
neck of land. 



24 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 



VILLAGE OF HADLEY IN 1663. 






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D 
O 

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RIVER 

Samuel Gardner, 4 

North highway to the meadow. 



North highway to the woods. 



Chileab Smith, 


8 


Joseph Baldwin, 


8 


Robert Boltwood, 


8 


Francis Barnard, 


8 


John Hawks, 


8 


Richard Church, 


8 


Edward Church, 


8 



Middle highway to the 


meadow. 


Henry Clark, 


8 


Stephen Terry, 


8 


Andrew Warner, 


8 


John Marsh, 


5i 


Timothy Nash, 


Sh 


John Webster, 


5i 


William Goodwin, 


8 


John Crow, 


8 


Samuel Moody, 


7h 


Nathaniel Wood, 


84 


William Markham, 


8 



South highway to the meadow. 
Joseph Kellogg. 

AQUA VITAE MEADOW. 

RIVER. 




John 
Ingram 

2 



John 

Taylor 

2 



Wm 

Pixley 

2 



William Partrigg, 8 

Thomas Coleman, 8 

Samuel Smith, 8 

Philip Smith, 8 

Richard Montague, 8 

John Dickinson, 8 

Samuel Porter, 8 

Thomas Wells, 8 

John Hubbard, 8 

Town Lot, 8 

Mr. John Russell, Jr. 8 



South highway to the woods. 
John Russell, sr. i 





Middle highway to the woods. 




John Barnard, 


8 


H 

w 


Andrew Bacon, 


7 




Nathaniel Stanley, 


5 


C/D 


Thomas Stanley, 


5 




John White, 


8 




Peter Tilton, 


8 




William Lewis, 


8 




Richard Goodman, 


8 




William Westwood, 


8 




Thomas Dickinson, 


8 




Nathaniel Dickinson, 


8 



Q 
O 
O 

o 



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Oh 
W 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 25 

Manner of distributing Intervals or Meadows in Hadley. — 
Those who intended to remove to Hadley, had put in a sum "to 
take up lands by," in April, 1659. When the lands were divided, 
each proprietor received allotments according to a sum annexed 
to his name, called estate. These sums varied from 50 to 200 
pounds, and must have been the result of friendly consultation 
and agreement. How persons and property were considered, can- 
not be known. Some of the engagers were worth three times the 
sum set against their names, and some were worth less than the 
sum so affixed. — Hartford had divided lands according to sums 
set against the names of proprietors. 

In June^ 1662, three young, single men applied for land, viz., 
John Taylor, John Ingram and William Pixley, and in December, 
a small houselot was granted to each at the north end of the east 
houseiots, and 40;^ allotments in the meadows. One of them had 
been a servant, and it is believed that all had. Yet these 
unmarried men, without property, received one-fifth as much 
land as the most wealthy head of a family. 

Among the original proprietors of Hadley, the largest share of 
land was only four times greater than the smallest, and after the 
addition of the three in 1662, five times larger. The distributions 
of land seem to have been satisfactory to all, and their equity was 
never called in question. 

It is supposed that v/hen a tract of land was to be divided, there 
were as many tickets, numbered I, 2, 3, 4, &c. as there were per- 
sons to whom it was to be distributed; and that a ticket was drawn 
for each man, the number determining where his lot was to be in 
the tract. 

There were 48 proprietors (not including Aaron Cooke) on the 
east side of Connecticut River, who had the whole of the interval 
land on that side, below Mill River, and about 360 acres on the 
west side. The town reserved a lot in each division, and is one 
of the 48. These 48 proprietors all received their lands according 
to the sums affixed to their names in the following list. They are 
arranged by house-row, (as they sometimes are in the records) 
beginning at the lower or south houselot, on the east side of the 
street, and proceeding to the north end, and then coming down 
on the west side. The numbers in the second column of figures, 
exhibit the order of the 48 lots in Hockanum meadow, as they 
were drawn in March, 1663, and the other figures show the 
quantity of land in each lot. Aaron Cooke's estate and lands 
were not separate from Mr. Westwood's. 



26 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 





Pounds. 


No. 


Acres. 


qrs. 


rods. 


Mr. John Russell, senr, 


'5° 


18 


6 


2 


29 


Nathaniel Dickinson, 


200 


31 


8 


3 


27 


Thomas Dickinson, 


80 


'9 


3 


2 


9 


Mr. Wm. Westwood, 


200 


II 


8 


3 


26 


Richard Goodman, 


140 


48 


6 


2 


23 


William Lewis, 


150 


10 


6 


2 


29 


Peter Tilton, 


100 


3 


4 


I 


33 


John White, 


150 


5 


6 


2 


29 


Thomas Stanley, 


"5 


16 


5 


2 


II 


Nathaniel Stanley, 


125 


I 


5 


2 


II 


Andrew Bacon, 


125 


41 


5 


2 


II 


John Barnard, 


150 


36 


6 


2 


29 


Mr. John Russell, Jr. 


150 


6 


6 


2 


29 


The Town, 


150 


4 


6 


2 


29 


John Hubbard, 


150 


39 


6 


2 


29 


Thomas Wells, 


150 


45 


6 


2 


29 


Samuel Porter, 


100 


17 


4 


I 


33 


John Dickinson, 


150 


43 


6 


2 


29 


Richard Montague, 


80 


13 


3 


2 


9 


Philip Smith, 


150 


9 


6 


2 


29 


Samuel Smith, 


200 


44 


8 


3 


27 


Thomas Coleman, 


200 


20 


8 


3 


26 


William Partrigg, 


100 


IS 


4 


I 


33 


Adam Nicholls, 


50 


29 


2 





36 


John Taylor, 


40 


12 


2 


I 


31 


John Ingram, 


40 


30 


I 


I 


3^ 


William Pixley, 


40 


2 


I 


I 


32 


Samuel Gardner, 


70 


46 


3 





9 


Chileab Smith, 


100 


3^ 


4 


I 


33 


Joseph Baldwin, 


150 


34 


6 


2 


29 


Robert Boltwood, 


100 


7 


4 


I 


33 
33 


Francis Barnard, 


100 


35 


4 


I 


John Hawks, 


150 


14 


6 


2 


29 


Richard Church, 


100 


27 


4 


I 


33 


Samuel Church, 


50 


26 


2 





36 


Edward Church, 


80 


28 


3 


2 


9 


Mr. Henry Clarke, 


200 


25 


8 


3 


26 


Stephen Terry, 


200 


8 


8 


3 


26 


Andrew Warner, 


200 


21 


8 


3 


26 


John Marsh, 


100 


41 


4 




33 


Timothy Nash, 


100 


33 


4 


I 


33 


Wm. & Thos. Webster, sons of John, 


150 


38 


6 


2 


29 


Mr. Wm. Goodwin, 


200 


37 


8 


3 


26 


John Crow, 


200 


40 


8 


3 


26 


Samuel Moody, 


100 


13 


6 


2 


29 


Nathaniel Ward, 


200 


47 


8 


3 


20 


William Markham, 


50 


24 


2 





36 


Joseph Kellogg, 


100 


22 


4 


I 


33 



6145 pounds. 
There are some errors in the acres of the 40 / proprietors ; and Samuel Moody has too many acres. 

Change of Proprietors. — In February, 1661, there were 46 east 
side proprietors, when the Meadow Plain was divided. Nine of 
these ceased to be proprietors in 1661 and 1662, viz., John Web- 
ster died in 1661, Robert Webster Hved at Hartford, EHzabeth, 
widow of Luke Hitchcock, married in Springfield, James Northam 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 27 

died in 1661, Capt. Cullick removed to Boston, Mr. Samuel 
Hooker was ordained at Farmington, 1661, Richard Weller re- 
moved to Northampton, John Arnold lived at Hartford. John 
Kellogg was perhaps a mistake for Joseph Kellogg. (John 
Hawks died 1662; left a family.) 

Eleven new proprietors were added before March, 1663, mak- 
ing 48, viz., the Town, which took Mr. Hooker's lots, Wm. and 
Thos. Webster as one, Henry Clarke from Windsor, Joseph Bald- 
win from Milford, who married the widow of James Northam, 
Timothy Nash from Hartford, Chileab Smith, Samuel Church, 
Joseph Kellogg from Farmington and last from Boston, John In 
gram, John Taylor,* William Pixley. 

Meadows on the East side of the River.— The alluvial meadows 
adjoining the Connecticut, induced men to settle at Hadley; for 
some years, grants of upland were not asked for. There were 
four meadows besides the School meadows, upon the east side of 
the river, that contained about 1200 acres; and these were allotted 
to the proprietors in 1661, 1662 and 1663, viz. 

I. Forty Acre Meadow, or Forty Acres, was north of the village 
towards Mill River. Hartford had a parcel of meadow so named. 
When distributed, it was estimated at about 67 acres, but con- 
tained considerably more. Those who lived in the north half of 
the village had the Forty Acres, and the Forlorn and some east of 
it, in the Great Meadow, as an equivalent for Fort Meadow, which 
the southern half of the village possessed. 

n. The Great Meadow included all the land upon the peninsula 
or neck, west and south of the homelots. It was divided into 177 
pieces or lots, containing according to the town measurers, about 
710 acres, and averaging 4 acres each Highways running westerly 
divided the meadow into oblong parcels denominated furlongs in 
the records. It is not far from two miles from the street to the 
extreme north-western point of the meadow; and more than a mile 
from the street to the river where Northampton bridge is. The 
north-west part of the meadow was called the Forlorn,f and 
sometimes Honeypot, from the name of a place in the river. 

The Great Meadow was formed into three divisions for dis- 
tribution, besides the Forlorn. One division adjoining the home- 
lots, was called the Meadow Plain. Excepting the homelots, 
this Plain was the first land divided among the settlers. The lots 
were drawn the last of February, 166 1. 

*John Taylor's lot on 24th page should be next to that of A. Nicholls. 
•|-A tract in Northampton, where deficiencies in other lands were made up, was called 
Forlorn. 



28 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Below the south highway, now the old road to Northampton, 
a tract of mowing was called Maple Swamp and Aquavitae.* 
The latter name was at first Aquavitae Bottle, from a fancied 
resemblance in the shape to a case-bottle. 

III. Fort Meadow, south of the village, and most of it north and 
west of Fort River, was estimated to contain 147 acres, besides 
some south of the river and some low swamps. Those who lived 
in the southern part of the village had this meadow at the rate of 
5 acres to the 100 pounds. Those in the northern part of the vil- 
lage had as an offset 5 acres and 143 rods to the 100 pounds in 
Forty Acres, and in and near Forlorn. 

IV. Hockanum Meadow, below Fort Meadow, was a long point 
or neck of land, containing about 293 acres, but reduced to 276 
in the records, by the process of equalizing. A tract called swamp 
in the south-eastern part, was not included. The meadow ex- 
tended from the eastern lot south-westerly about 467 rods, or 
almost one mile and a half. The width of the neck, or length of 
the lots, was generally from 80 to 140 rods; a few were shorter 
near the south-west end. That part of the meadow which had 
become quite narrow, 25 or 30 rods wide, by the long-continued 
wearing of the river, and through which the river formed a new 
channel, on the 25th of February, 1840, was not less than 100 
rods wide in 1663. 

The Hockanum lots were drawn in March, 1663, and 100 
pounds drew 4 acres, 73 rods. The number and quantity of each 
man's lot may be found on page 26. Lot No. i was at the south- 
west end, and lot No. 48, at the north-east end. 

Equalizing Land. — This was done in some of the Hadley 
meadows. A committee valued the various parts of a tract, and 
decided that some should be received at more and some at less 
than 160 rods to an acre, though most at 160 rods. Two acres 
were given for one in some places; and in one instance, 120 rods 
were accounted an acre. 

School Meadows, north of Mill River, will be noticed in another 
place. 

Four Meadows on the West side of the river. — It is difficult to 
ascertain the quantity of land in two or three of these, as the lands 
of several proprietors are not recorded. The four meadows may 
have contained as many acres as the four on the east side, or 
above 1200. Considerable allowance was made for ponds, 
swamps and light lands. 

*This valuable grass meadow is still named Aquavitae, but the word is commonly written 
Aquavita, which is not good Latin. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 29 

Swamps that produced hay which cattle would eat, however 
coarse, were deemed valuable, but some were too spongy and 
wet, and yielded only worthless aquatic herbs and shrubs. 

I. The Great, North, or Upper Meadow, which was purchased 
of Mr. Bradstreet, including a swamp adjoining, was separated 
into six divisions, and each west side proprietor had a lot in each 
division, and some was reserved. 

II. Little Meadow was at the north end of the street, and part 
of it east of the North Meadow. It was in two divisions. 

III. The South Meadow, or "the Meadow adjoining to the 
street," at the south end, was called Wequettayag by the Indians, 
and commonly Great Pansett in the records of Peter Tilton. It 
contained about 430 acres, with little or no waste land. The east 
side proprietors had the west part, called 205 acres, and the west 
side had the east part, about 225 acres, including Indian Bottom. 

Indian Bottom was the name of a tract of land adjoining the 
Connecticut in the South meadow, north of Hadley village. When 
Umpanchala sold this meadow and other lands, June 10, 1660, he 
reserved the Indian planting ground. He sold a part of this soon 
after, and the whole in a few years. From this reservation of 
Indian planting ground, the whole bottom has been called Indian 
Bottom or Indian Hollow. Most of it is productive and valuable 
mowing ground. 

The accession to Indian Bottom by the action of the river, has 
been extensive, but the original bottom is not yet doubled by the 
increase of 185 years. Hadley has lost more than Hatfield has 
gained. By the aid of the old records, the curved line of the 
river bank in 1662 can be nearly ascertained. The old bottom 
varied from 19 to 40 rods in width, exclusive of the western point. 
The new bottom nowhere exceeds 40 rods in breadth, and in 
some places is much narrower than the old. [This was written 
in 1847.] 

Opposite to this grass meadow, the inroads of the river upon 
Hadley have been destructive. The homesteads where some of 
the early settlers lived and died, the lands which they cultivated, 
and the highways which they traveled, have been carried away, 
and more serious consequences have been threatened.* 

IV. The south-west Meadow, which Northampton sold to 
Hadley, was then called Capawonk, and subsequently, Ampon- 
chus. Little Pansett, Little Pontius, &c. It is separated from 
Great Pansett by Mill River. The west side inhabitants had the 
upper part, denominated the Plain, at two acres for one. The 

*Tbe action of the river upon Hadley lands will be noticed elsewhere. 



30 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 



east side had all Capawonk, except the Plain; after being equal- 
ized and ponds and worthless swamps rejected, the number of 
acres was about 157.* 

Recapitulation of the Distributions of Lands to East side Proprietors: — 
East side land. 

Forty Acre Meadow, 

Great Meadow, ....... 

Fort Meadow, ....... 

Below Fort River, ....... 

Hockanum Meadow, ...... 



West side land. 
Little Pansett, 
Great Pansett, 



loo;^ drew as follows in each of the seven divisions: 



Total, 



67 


acres 


710 




147 
16 




276 

I2I6 




157 
205 

1578 





Acres, rods. 



5 


7i 


4 


73 


2 


55 


3 


00 


4 


00 


2 


120 


3 


40 


^5 


40 



1. In Fort Meadow, Forty Acres and Forlorn, half had 5 acres 

and half 5 acres and 143 rods, — average, 

2. In Hockanum Meadow, 

3. In the Plain, in Great Meadow, 

4. In Ploughland in do. 

5. In Last Division in do. 

6. In Little Pansett, West side, 

7. In Great Pansett, " 



Each loo pounds drew 25I acres of meadow land; 200;^ drew 50J acres; 150^ drew 37 J 
acres; 50^ drew i2| acres; ^o£ drew 10 acres, 16 rods. £6145 drew at this rate, 1552 acres; 
and 26 acres allowed for deficiencies in homelots, make 1578 acres. 

About one-half of the proprietors had seven lots each, and the other half, who drew in 
Forty Acres, 8 lots. There were some deviations, a few receiving in one division, their 
shares in two. 

Recapitulation of the Distributions of Land to West side Proprietors: — 

The number of proprietors who drew lots in the South Meadow and Little Meadow, was 
22, and the amount of estates, 2500 pounds; 23 drew in the North Meadow, and some land 
was reserved for others. 

ioo£ drew as follows: — 

In 3 divisions in South Meadow, ..... 

In the Meadow Plain, ....... 

In 2 divisions in Little Meadow, ..... 

In 6 divisions in North Meadow, ..... 

Each 100 pounds drew 27 acres, 60 rods, or 2 acres and 20 rods more than the east side 
proprietors had. This difference is not explained. The 23 proprietors drew about 700 acres. 

After the township was divided, it was estimated that Hadley had two-thirds of the im- 
provable or interval land, and Hatfield one-third. Hadley had not far from 1600 acres, 
and Hatfield about 800 acres. 

"So they made an end of dividing the country," as in the days of Joshua. This impor- 
tant business was performed harmoniously. No man claimed or received a great estate — 
no one had above 50^ acres of interval. The vast extent of upland was open to all equally 
for wood, timber and pasturage. 

*Pres. Dwight (Travels in N. E., Vol. i, p. 343,) estimates Capawonk at "eight or nine 
hundred acres of rich interval." He supposed, perhaps, that Capawonk included Great 
Pansett. The real Capawonk did not exceed 275 acres. 



res. 


rods. 


8 


144 


2 


55 


2 


22 


13 


159 


27 


60 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 



31 



VILLAGE ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE RIVER IN 1668, 
With the houselots granted by Hatfield, 1670 to 1672. 



Wm. King later 
Samuel FielJ, 
Beniamm Wait. 
John Graves Jr. 
Samuel Focte, 
Robert Danks, — 



Deerfield Lane. 

Isaac Graves, Jr. 
Samuel Northam, 
Richard Morton, 
Town lot, 



Estate. 
£100 

200 

200 

50 
100 

.50 

100 j 



John Hawks, 
Mill Lane. 

Samuel Kellogg, 

Obadiah Dickinson, 

John AUis, 

Daniel White, 

William AUis, 
iThomas Meekins, 
2Thomas Meekins, Jr. 

Eleazar Frary, 

John Graves, 

Isaac Graves, 
I Stephen Taylor, 
2Barnabas Hinsdale, 
lOzias Goodwin, 
2Mr. Hope Atherton, 
iZechariah Field, 
2john Field, 



Rods 
wide. 

16 
16 
16 
16 
16 



16 
16 
20 
16 

Acres. 
4 



Highway to Northampton. 

150/ I John Cowles, 

\ 2 John Cowles, Jr. 
100/ iRichard Fellows, 

\ 2Widow Fellows, 



w 
w 



Highway to the river. 

Thomas Bracy, 
Hezekiah Dickinson, 
William Scott, 
Daniel Belden, 
Samuel Allis, 
Samuel Marsh, 
Nathaniel Foote, 



Philip Russell, 
Estate. Samuel Gillet, 
£100 John Wells, 
100 John Coleman, (16 rods 
100 Samuel Belden, 
100 William Gull, 
100 Samuel Dickinson, 
100 f I Edward Benton, 

\2Nathaniel Dickinson, sr. 
100 f I John White, Jr. 

\ 2Nicholas Worthington, 
150 Nathaniel Dickinson, Jr. 
100/ Richard Billing, 

\ Samuel Billing, 
100 Daniel Warner, 
125/ iThomas Bull, 

\ iTown to Mr. Atherton, 



Rods 
wide. 



16 
16 
16 
16 

Acres. 
4 
4 
4i 

wide) 



SOUTH MEADOW. 



A committee was appointed, Jan. 21, 1661, to lay out houselots 
on the west side of the river. Richard Fellows is supposed to 
have been the first settler on that side. A few families planted 
themselves there in 1661, and more in succeeding years, and the 
whole number in 1668 may have been from 25 to 28. The Hill, 
so called, west of Mill River, was not settled till after Philip's 
war. 



32 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

The houselots of John Hawks and Philip Russell, and all below 
them, on the plan of the village, were granted by Hadley. Those 
above or north of them were granted by Hatfield, of which some 
were forfeited and given to others. Hatfield re-granted the lots 
of Goodwin, Benton and Bull. Mr. Atherton, the first minister, 
lived on the Goodwin lot, as did his successor, Mr, Chauncey. 
Barnabas Hinsdale married the widow of Stephen Taylor, and 
lived in her house. Nicholas Worthington married the widow of 
John White, Jr. and lived in her house. Thomas Meekins, sr. 
removed from the street and lived near his mill. John Coleman, 
about 1678, changed his residence, and lived on the Benton lot, 
and Samuel Belden resided on Coleman's first lot. No one lived 
on the Bull lot for many years. The greater part of the lots were 
of 8 acres; some were only 4. Those on the east side were short 
in the upper part, the 4 acre lots being 16 rods wide. The length 
of the street on the west side, from the highway to Northampton 
to the north end, was about 340 rods. The street formerly ex- 
tended farther south than now, against the houselots of Cowles 
and Fellows. 

Almost all the lands in the towns upon Connecticut River, were 
laid out without the aid of a surveyor's compass. The Town 
measurers commonly had a measuring chain, and perhaps a 
square to form right angles. Their calculations were in general 
sufficiently accurate, though not exact. The north star was some- 
times regarded in establishing important lines. 

Town measurers were first chosen in Hadley, Dec. 31, 1660, 
and were Samuel Smith and Peter Tilton. They were to lay out 
all the lands and keep a record of the length and breadth of every 
man's lot, and put stakes in the front and rear of every lot, with 
the initials of the man on his stake, "in some distinguishing let- 
ters." They were to receive three pence per acre for their trouble. 

Peter Tilton was the first recorder of lands in Hadley, chosen 
Feb. 9, 1663. With a few exceptions, he recorded all the home- 
lots and allotments in the intervals, with their bounds, width and 
number of acres, in a peculiar but legible hand. The lands of 
John Barnard, Frances Barnard, the town lots, and the lands of 
some proprietors on the west side, are not recorded. 

The first regular surveyor with a compass, that resided in any 
town upon the Connecticut, was Caleb Stanley, Jr. of Hartford. 
He bought a surveyor's compass a few years before 1700. Tim- 
othy Dwight, born in 1694, the grandfather of President Dwight, 
was the first surveyor and owner of surveying instruments that 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 33 

lived in Northampton. Nathaniel Kellogg, Jr., born in 1693, was 
the first surveyor that resided in Hadley. 

The surveyor's compass was used at Pocomtuck, (Deerfield) 
in 1665, by Joshua Fisher, of Dedham. 

The early settlers of New England were acquainted with com- 
mon fields in England, occupied by the tenantry of a parish or 
village; and they established common fields here, owned by free- 
holders. They could not have done otherwise in the intervals of 
the Connecticut. Where every man has his share of land in 
each division, the lots must be small; and if they were larger, par- 
tition fences could not be maintained against the river floods. 

A common field was necessarily surrounded by a common 
fence, except in places where a river, mountain, or fence about 
other land, served for a barrier against domestic animals. Each 
proprietor of a common field was to fence according to the number 
of acres he held in the field, and the place of his fence, like that of 
his land, was fixed by lot. A quantity of upland was sometimes 
included within the meadow fence. 

The Great Meadow was secured by the homelot fences. Hock- 
anum Meadow was protected by Mount Holyoke for a long dis- 
tance; a fence was necessary in some places near the south-west 
end of the mountain, and at the north, a fence was made in 1663, 
from Fort Meadow fence "to the mountain where it is impass- 
able," above 200 rods. At a later period, the fences of both 
meadows were united, making in all 700 rods, of which, near 500 
rods were on Lawrence's Plain and the lower part of Mount 
Holyoke. 

Great and Little Pansett, on the west side, were fenced in 1662, 
from the Connecticut at the lower end, round to the Connecticut 
east of the village. The east side proprietors made about 500 
rods of the southern part of the fence, and the west side propri- 
etors made the rest. 

Hadley ordered, in 1669, that Little Pansett fence should be 
made "vv'ith ditch, posts and two or three rails on the same," or 
as expressed in another vote, "with ditch and two poles or three 
rails on the same." The broad ditch and high bank of earth 
thrown out of the ditch, were an important part of the old com- 
mon fence; they may still be seen on both sides of the river. The 
ditch was on the outside of the bank and rails, for the main object 
of the fence was to secure the meadows from domestic animals 
that roved in the woods on the outside. — Some of the meadow 
fences and perhaps most of the homelot fences were made of 
posts and rails without a ditch. Fences 5 rails high, and 4 feet 



34 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

4 inches high, are mentioned on the west side. All fences were 
to be sufficient against horses, cattle, hogs and sheep. 

Gates in common fences that crossed public highways, were 
necessary appendages of the common field system, and were 
rather troublesome to travelers. Hadley had at first two such 
gates in the county road to Springfield, one called the mountain 
gate, near the end of the mountain, and the other, near the north- 
west corner of Fort Meadow. There were gates or bars in all 
highways into common fields, in the village and elsewhere. Bars 
were not common. If a person left open the gate or bars of a 
meadow, he was to pay 2s. 6d. Some meadow gates in county 
roads, continued down to the present century. 

In 1663, every man was ordered to bound his land with meer- 
stones; and those whose land adjoined, were to be called, to see 
the meer-stones set down betwixt them. 



CHAPTER IV 

Highways — Bridges — Ferries — Grist-mills — Bolting-mills— Saw-mills and sawing boards 

by hand. 

The early settlers of Hadley first designated the street and 
highways, and then laid out the lots of land contiguous to them. 
The supposition that the ways in this and other old towns were 
laid over the land of individuals is without the least foundation. 

In 1665, Peter Tilton recorded the street and eleven other 
highways in Hadley, all in the village and meadows. He seems 
to have considered the north highway into the woods, as a con- 
tinuation of the broad street. In 1667, the town ordered a pass- 
able cart-way to be made along the Forty Acres to Mill Brook, — 
the first road ordered by the town on the uplands. 

Before Hadley was begun, the Northampton people had a way 
to Windsor and Hartford through Waranoke, (afterwards West- 
field;) and they also had a way to Springfield on the east side. 
Mount Tom was an obstruction on the west side. They crossed 
the river to Hockanum meadow, and perhaps higher also. The 
people of Hadley made use of both of these roads; and they con- 
tinued the Springfield road up to their plantation. They selected 
a route along the side of Mount Holyoke, below the steep part of 
the acclivity, some distance above the present road, and this was 



HISTORY OF HADLEY IIF) 

traveled more than 80 years. Some of the ground at the foot of 
the mountain was considered too wet and queachy for a highway. 
There were complaints of bad and dangerous places in the 
highways, and the County Court appointed a committee, in March 
1664, to lay out highways on both sides of the river between Had- 
ley and Windsor, and to determine by whom they should be re- 
paired. The men were George Colton and Benjamin Cooley of 
Springfield, Henry Woodward and Capt. Aaron Cooke of North- 
ampton, and Andrew Warner and William Allis of Hadley. 
Five made their return, a copy of which follows, from the records 
of the county court : — 

Northampton, May ye 21st 1664. Wee doe agree and determine that ye highway from 
Hadley towne's end, on ye east side of ye great river, to ye Fort meddow gate, running as it 
now lyes, bee in breadth six rodds, and from thence to ye lower end of ye sd meddow in 
breadth two rods, and from thence (ye way lying still as it doth,) to ye end of Mount Holyoke* 
in breadth ten rodds, and from thence to Scanunganunk as ye cartway now runs in breadth 
twenty rodds, and from thence to Springfeild to the upper end of the causey going down 
into ye towne, six rodds, and from ye lower end of Springfeild to Longmeddow gate, running 
where it now doth, in breadth foure rods, and from ye Longmeddow gate to the bridge at ye 
lower end by the river's bank shall be in breadth two rods, and from ye lower end of the 
said meddow unto Freshwater river soe called, as the way now runs foure rodds, and from 
thence to Namerick where John Bissell had a barne standinge, as now the way runs, twenty 
rods, and from thence to Namerick brook where will best suite for a bridge, two rods, and 
from thence to the dividing lyne betweene the CoUonyes, where ye horseway now lyes two 
rods. And from the said dividing lyne on the west side of ye river towards Waranoak, in 
the way that is now improved, comonly called ye new way, that is to say, to two miles brooke 
fourty rods, and from thence to Waranoak hill where the trading house stood, twenty rods, 
and from thence to ye passage of ye river where ye way now lies six rods, and from thence 
through ye other meddow to ye great hill as the way now lyes six rodds, and from thence to 
Munhan river forty rods, and from Munhan river to ye lotts now laid out neere ye Mill 
river fourty rods, and from thence to the town of Northampton fToure rods, and from North- 
ampton along by the comon fence side unto ye great river six rods in breadth, & from ye 
river side just opposite on ye east side, to run cross to the middle way that leades to ye 
centre of Hadley towne two rods, and soe to Hadley towne two rodds, allowing for the con- 
veniency of landing places, an acre of land on each side of the river, to be in length twenty 
rods and in breadth eight rods, viz on Northampton side upp ye river from ye fence and on 
ye other side up & down the river, each towne to make its own landing place. The fferry to 
be appoynted by the next county Courte, and in ye meanetyme yt the way through North- 
ampton may be improved as formerly. And further we judge and determine that the towne 
of Hadley shall make and maintayne all ye highwayes and bridges from their towne to 
Scanunganunk, and Springfeild shall make & maintayne ye bridges & wayes from Scan- 
unganunk to the foote of the [falls,] and in case it appeares to be our collonyes right, over 
Namerick brooke, that the way be made and mayntayned by this county. And the wayes 
and bridges from the landing place at the great river [in Northampton] unto the top of War- 
anoak hill to be made and mayntayned by North Hampton, and from thence unto Windsor 
to be made and mayntayned by Hadley & Northampton mutually. And further wee deter- 
mine yt if Hadley & Northampton eyther or both of them shall at any tyme hereafter see 
cause to desert the highway they now use and shall make the way through Springfield their 
comon roade to Windsor for carting, then eyther or both shall contribute to ye mending the 
bridge at Long meddow. And for these several wayes & bridges to be made and repaired 
sufficient for travell with carts, wee determine that they be done by the severall townes 

*The mountain undoubtedly bore this name some years before 1664. 



36 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

respectively at or before ye sixth day of June next, as also yt such stones as are moveable 
in Scanunganunk river be turned aside out of the cartway and ye charge thereof to be paid 
by the County Treasurer. 

AARON COOKE ANDREW WARNER 
HENRY WOODWARD GEORGE COLTON 
BENJAMIN COOLEY 

These were the first county roads in Hampshire. They fol- 
lowed the ways previously used by the early settlers. These three 
towns maintained for some years two roads near 40 miles each, 
from Hadley and Northampton to Connecticut line, which was 
then supposed to be south of the present north line of Windsor. 
Northampton and Hadley sent men and perhaps teams, to repair 
roads where Suffield now is. They were complained of in Sep- 
tember, 1668, for defective way between Waranoke and Windsor. 
They amended the defects, and were discharged in March, i66g, 
on paying the recorder's fees. The large streams, Chickopee, 
Manhan, Waranoke and others had no bridges. It was hard 
carting on such roads.* 

Scanunganunk, where the road crossed the Chickopee, was 
not far from the present Chickopee Factories. Hadley made 
some efforts in 1665 and after, for a road near the Connecticut, 
through the low land. Such a road was laid in 1673, crossing 
Chickopee river at the Islands near Japhet Chapin's. Hadley 
thus gained access to the Connecticut near the head of boat navi- 
gation, below the Willimanset Rapids, and carted produce down 
to the boats. 

The passing between Hadley and Northampton was by the 
ferry at the lower end of Hadley street, and Northampton meadow. 
The road across Hadley meadow, proposed by the committee of 
1664, was opposed by the town, and never made. The two towns 
agreed in 1665, to have the road continue in Northampton mead- 
ow. — The travel between Springfield and Northampton, for a 
number of years, was chiefly through Hadley village. 

The Bay Road, or road towards Boston, has been in different 
places in Hadley. In early days, there was a "Nashaway Path" 
north of Fort River, which still bears the old name. In 1674 and 
many years after, the Bay Road crossed Fort River, near the 
south end of Spruce Hill. The road was laid out where it now is 
after 1688, but no record of the change is found. 

The Bay Road, which was used by Hadley and Northampton, 
met the Springfield Bay Road at Quabaug (Brookfield,) where a 
few English families settled about 1664, and where travelers 

*The complaint about transportation, on the zist page, was well founded. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 37 

often lodged. The Hadley road at a later period, and probably 
in early days, crossed Ware River and Coy's Hill north of the 
present Ware Village. East of Quabaug, there were ?t least 
three ways leading from the Bay towards the Connecticut — 
through Nashua (Lancaster,) Quinsigamond (Worcester,) and 
Hassanamesit (Grafton.) 

In December, 1661, Hadley voted 45 shillings, "towards laying 
out a commodious way to the Bay by Nashaway." In Septem- 
ber, 1 68 1, some men came from Lancaster to Hadley, to treat 
about laying out a way "from thence hither." A committee was 
chosen to confer with them, and with the committees of North- 
ampton and Hatfield. 

The fires of the Indians had destroyed most of the underbrush, 
the woods were open, and forests were crossed without much 
difficulty. Streams, hills and swamps impeded the traveler. 
The Indians had paths between their villages and tribes, which 
were sometimes followed by the English. They were only a foot 
wide, according to Johnson, and "seldom broader than a cart's 
rut," according to Wood, referring to the beaten path made by 
their feet. They traveled in "Indian file." 

The old ways to Quabaug and Nashua were only paths for 
men and horses. In 1692, Hatfield chose a man to join with 
som.e of Northampton and Hadley, "to lay out a way to the Bay 
for horses and carts, if feasible." It was not feasible, and wheels 
and runners did not pass from Hadley to Boston for many years 
after 1692. 

The first bridge built in Hadley for horses, oxen and carts, was 
over Fort River, on the Springfield road. A committee was 
chosen to build it, Sept. 4, 1661. The second bridge over this 
stream, on the road to Hockanum meadow as well as to Spring- 
field, was ordered Aug. 28, 1667, and was to be lower down than 
the old one. The third bridge over the same stream, on the same 
road, was voted Sept. 16, 1681, and was to be below the old one, 
"in the highest and most advantageous place." It cost ;^44. 15.3. 

The County Court in March, 1674, blamed Hadley for not 
joining Northampton in laying out a way to Quabaug, and re- 
quired Hadley to build "at least a foot bridge," over Fort River, 
on the way to Qiiabaug. On the 12th of February, 1675, the 
town voted to build a cart-bridge, and this was the first bridge on 
the Bay road. It was near the south end of Spruce Hill, and was 
much used by the troops in Philip's war. In January, 1688, a 
committee was chosen to consider whether it was best to build a 
new bridge or repair the old one. Between 1688 and 1699, a new 



38 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Bay road was laid, where it has since remained, and a new bridge 
was built near where the bridge and Smith's mills now are, about 
half a mile below Spruce Hill. There is no record of the laying 
out of this road, nor of the building of the bridge. Most of the 
records are missing from April lo, 1688 to January, 1690. This 
bridge was called Lawrence's bridge. 

On the 14th of January, 1684, the town voted to build a bridge 
over Mill River at the mill, "by tressels or otherwise as the select- 
men and Samuel Porter, senior, shall judge best." It cost only 
£ii.i'j.(). 

These bridges were built by calling out the people to labor, 
every man according to his estate. Other public works were done 
in the same manner. The price of labor was from 2s. 
to 2s^ 6d. per day. Those who did not labor, paid in grain, &c. 

In 1672, John Smith of Hadley, was directed by the Court, "to 
fell a tree across Swift River, for a foot bridge, if any such be near 
at hand." Such foot bridges were not uncommon. 

In October, 1686, one of the Fort River bridges was partly 
burnt in a time of drouth, apparently by fire from the woods. 
The Selectmen prohibited the firing of woods and fields. 

A small homelot in Hadley, below the south highway into the 
meadow, was reserved as a ferry lot, and in 1661, the town made 
an agreement with Joseph Kellogg to keep the ferry between 
Hadley and Northampton, and he built on the ferry lot. The 
attempt in 1664 to have a ferry on the Northampton side, in con- 
nection with a road in Hadley meadow, did not succeed. 

In January, 1675, a committee appointed by the Court made 
an agreement with Joseph Kellogg. He was to have a boat for 
horses and a canoe for persons, and to receive for man and horse, 
8 pence in wheat or other pay, or 6 pence in money; for single 
persons, 3 pence, and when more than one, two pence each. On 
Lecture* days, people passing to and from Lecture were to pay 
only one penny each, if 6 or more went over together. Troopers 
passing to and from trooping exercises, were to pay only 3 pence 
for man and horse. Kellogg might entertain travelers. 

In 1687, another agreement was made with Joseph Kellogg. 
The fare for horses, men and troops was the same as in 1675. 
Lectures not mentioned. After day-light till 9 o'clock, he might 
take double price. At later hours, and in storms and floods, 
those who would cross, must agree with the ferryman. Kellogg 
was still allowed to entertain strangers. Others might not carry 

♦Circular weekly Lectures were probably commenced in these towns some years before. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 39 

over persons within 50 rods of the ferry place, except men to their 
day-labor. — Joseph Kellogg, and his son John Kellogg, and his 
grandson James Kellogg kept this ferry until 1758, almost a cen- 
tury; and Stephen Goodman, who married a daughter of James 
Kellogg, kept it still later, and from him it received its last name, 
"Goodman's Ferry." 

The river was formerly near the lower end of the street, and the 
landing was not far from Kellogg's house. Aquavitae meadow 
has received a great addition from Northampton meadow, and 
the enlargement continues against and below the end of the street, 
and the river is now 45 or 50 rods south of the old landing place. 

There is no record of a regular ferry at the north end of the 
street, between Hadley and Hatfield, until 1692. Many on the 
east side owned and cultivated land on the west side, and canoes 
and boats were frequently passing. There were more lively 
scenes on the Connecticut in those days than now. John Ingram 
appears as ferryman at the north end in 1692, and the ferriage in 
1696 was 4 pence for a man and horse, 3 pence for a horse or 
horned beast, and one penny for a man, if paid down in money. 
If not so paid, Ingram might demand double, or do as they could 
agree. John Preston succeeded Ingram. 

A Grist-mill, (more often called by the English and our fathers, 
a Corn-mill,) was built in Hadley, in 1661, west of the Connecticut, 
upon Mill River. The stream in Hatfield, Hadley and many 
other towns, upon which the first mill was built, was named Mill 
River or Mill Brook. Hadley chose a committee to treat with 
Goodman Meekins about building a mill, on the first of April, 
1661, and in December, the town voted that they would have all 
their grain ground at his mill, "provided he make good meal," 
and they gave him 20 acres of land near the mill for building it. 
Thomas Meekins was a mill-wright and assisted to build mills in 
other towns. — On the 8th of November, 1662, the east side inhab- 
itants agreed with Thomas Wells and John Hubbard to carry their 
grain over the river to the mill, on certain days of the week, and 
bring back the meal, at three pence per bushel, to be paid in 
wheat at 3s. 6d., and Indian corn at 2s. 3d. per bushel. 

In 1665 and 1667, the people of Hadley, on the east side, 
thought of building a corn-mill upon their own Mill River, about 
three miles north of the village. About 1670, William Goodwin, 
one of the trustees of the Hopkins donation, conceiving that a 
corn-mill would yield a good income to the Hadley Grammar 
School, invested a portion of the donation in building a mill at 



40 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Mill River. In October, 1671, the town gave a piece of land near 
the mill as a houselot for the miller. In Philip's war, the mill 
was garrisoned at times, and was preserved until September, 1677, 
when it was burnt by the Indians, who had made an attack upon 
Hatfield. The people of Hadley again resorted to Hatfield mill. 

The committee or trustees of the Grammar School, declining to 
rebuild the mill, it was rebuilt by Robert Boltwood, encouraged by 
the town, about 1678 or 1679. The committee of the Grammar 
School obtained it in 1683; Samuel Boltwood had it in 1685; and 
it was again delivered up to the trustees of the Hopkins School in 
1687, in whose possession it remained. 

The mill and dam were rebuilt in 1692, after the great February 
flood of that year; a new mill became necessary in 1706, and 
another in 1721. 

Some of the mill-stones used in this valley in early days were of 
the red sandstone, called pudding stone, judging from fragments 
that remain. Other kinds of stone may have been used. When 
the School Mill was rebuilt in 1692, several days were spent in 
"looking for mill-stones," and one stone was purchased of John 
Webb of Northampton, for 8 pounds. It was probably sandstone 
from Mount Tom. In 1666, John Pynchon gave John Webb 
of Northampton, 20 pounds for a pair of mill-stones delivered at 
Springfield. 

The School trustees employed John Clary as miller in 1683. 
In November, 1687, Joseph Smith, the cooper, began to attend 
the mill, and had the care of it until old age, alone or with his 
sons. He had one-half the toll, and the use of a house and some 
land, and pay for his labor on the mill, excepting small repairs. 
The whole toll for 6 or 7 years, averaged only 26 pounds a year, 
chiefly wheat and Indian corn. Joseph Smith was the first per- 
manent resident at Mill River. 

'Bolting-mills moved by water were hardly known in England, 
when our fathers emigrated about 1630. They were moved by 
hand. Families sifted or bolted their own meal, or used it un- 
bolted. In New England, for 100 years after 1630, there were 
no bolters carried by water. The separation of bran from flour 
was the work of the family, and of the baker, and of those who 
sent flour to market. In Hadley, much flour was packed in 
barrels and sent down the river, and the meal was all brought 
from the mill to the village and bolted. Several persons had 
what was called a bolting-mill, as John Smith, William Partrigg, 
Philip Smith, Richard Montague, Mr. John Russell, Jr. and 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 41 

Timothy Nash. It required a frame and lo or 12 yards of nar- 
row bolting cloth for one of these domestic bolting-mills. Rich- 
ard Montague is said to have been a baker, and his bolting-mill 
was valued at 60 shillings in 1680. His widow sometimes bolted 
flour for others, by the barrel. Most housewives were satisfied 
with hair sieves; some had bolting-cloth sieves. Lawn sieves are 
mentioned after 1700. — ^Flour was sold in large barrels by the 
112 lbs. 

Boards had always been sawed by hand in England and not by 
saw-mills. There was no saw-mill in Virginia, when that colony 
had been settled 40 years. There were no saw-mills in the old 
towns in the colonies of Massachusetts, Connecticut and New 
Haven, for some years after their settlement. Boards, plank and 
slit-work were sawed by hand. The wages of sawyers were reg- 
ulated by the colonies, for a few years, and also by Hartford, 
Springfield and other towns. In New Haven, the "top-man" 
who was on the top of the log and guided the work, had a little 
higher wages than the "pit-man" who was in the saw-pit below. 
Two men were expected to saw about 100 feet of boards in a day, 
when the logs were squared and brought to the pit. The first 
saw-mill in Springfield was built by John Pynchon, in 1667, after 
the town had been settled 31 years. He had previously paid to 
hand-sawyers two shillings per day for sawing many thousands 
of boards. 

The early settlers of Hadley built houses and some commodious 
ones before they had the aid of any saw-mill. As Northampton 
had sawyers and saw-pits, it may be concluded that Hadley had 
them also, though they are not noticed in the records. The clap- 
boards of those days, which were split out like staves, helped to 
supply the deficiency of sawn boards. 

Hadley gave to Thomas Meekins and Robert Boltwood, lib- 
erty to set a saw-mill on Mill River, on the east side, Jan. 27, 1662, 
and they might fall pine and oak timber, except rift timber, in 
the Great Swamp beyond this river, and within 80 rods of the 
mill, on this side. The mill seems to have been built about 
1664 or 1665, and the town probably had to depend on pit-saws 
only 5 or 6 years. Thomas Meekins had a saw-mill on the west 
side, about 1669. 

Boltwood's saw-mill did not continue many years, and he sold 
his right to the place to three men in 1674. If they built a mill, 
it did not long remain. On the 12th of February, 1684, when 
they were destitute of a saw-mill, the town granted liberty for 



42 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

three, in one day, viz., one on Mill River, one south of Mount 
Holyoke, and one on Fort River, above where Dickinson's tannery 
now is. 

The first saw-mill erected in New England, was on a branch of 
the Piscataqua, about 1633. The workmen were Danes. 



CHAPTER V 

First Meeting-house — Bells — Mr. Russell, the first Minister — Salaries of ministers — Hadley 

Church. 

A house where the people might meet for public worship and 
religious instruction, was an early object of attention in Hadley, 
as in most other places in New England. On the 12th of Decem- 
ber, 1 66 1, the town ordered as follows: — 

"The town have ordered that they will build and erect a meeting-house, to be a place of 
public worship, whose figure is, (in length and breadth,) 45 feet in length and 24 feet in 
breadth, with Leantors [Leantos] on both sides, which shall enlarge the whole to 36 in 
breadth. 

The town have ordered that the meeting-house abovesaid, when prepared, shall be situ- 
ated and set up in the common street, betwixt Mr. Terry's house and Richard Montague's, 
in the most convenient place, as the committee chosen by the town shall determine. 

The town have ordered Mr. Russell, Mr. Goodwin, Goodman Lewis, Goodman Warner, 
Goodman Dickinson, Goodman Meekins and Goodman Allis, a committee for the afore- 
said occasions." 

Leanto is a significant English word, indicating a part of a 
building that seems to lean to, or upon a higher part. It was 
often used in reference to private buildings. — The house was to 
be erected in the northern part of the street, to accommodate the 
west side inhabitants. It was not built for several years. The 
work may have been delayed by the diflSculties with Mr. Brad- 
street and the payment of 200 pounds to him. On the 27th of 
August, 1663, the town voted to set about building the meeting- 
house, and chose a new committee, viz., Mr. Clarke, Lieut. 
Smith, Mr. Westwood, John Barnard, Nathaniel Dickinson, 
Thomas Meekins and Isaac Graves. They were to manage the 
work, order the form, call out men, and set the wages of men and 
teams. Meanwhile, the people did not neglect to meet on the 
first day of the week. A house was hired, and Dec. 10, 1663, 
Mr. Goodwin and John Barnard were chosen to seat persons in 
it "in a more comely order," and it was voted to hire the house 
another year. About two years later, Nov. 7, 1665, the meeting- 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 43 

house was said to be framed, but not raised. After it was raised 
and covered, the inside work was delayed, probably in conse- 
quence of the west side inhabitants desiring to be a separate 
parish, and seats were not voted till Feb. 21, 1668. The build- 
ing seems not to have been completed till Jan. 12, 1670, when the 
town chose the two deacons, the two elders and Mr. Henry 
Clarke, to order the seating of persons in the meeting-house. 
Every person seated was to pay a part of the expense for making 
his seat. 128 seats for 128 persons, male and female, were paid 
for, at 3s. 3d. each. These 128 persons were heads of families 
or at least adults. 

The form and dimensions of this house cannot be known from 
records nor tradition. The second committee had power to 
model it as they pleased, and they deviated considerably from 
the vote of Dec. 12, 1661. They appear to have rejected the 
leantos and to have made the upper part as wide as the lower. 
There was doubtless a turret, or place for a bell, rising from the 
center of the roof, as in most early New England meeting-houses. 
Galleries on the north and south sides of the house were voted 
Jan. 9, 1699, and a gallery, which must have been on one end, is 
referred to as partly built. This vote shows that the ends of the 
house were east and west and that the pulpit was at one end, 
apparently at the west end. There is no reason to suppose that 
the length of the house much exceeded the breadth. Some seats 
had to be altered, to make "a more commodious passage up into 
the galleries." The seats were probably long seats, like others 
of that age, holding 5 or 6 persons each. They were to be built 
"with boards and rails." In those days a few pews, square or 
oblong, were built against the walls of some meeting-houses, but 
pews in general were of later introduction. For a long tune, men 
and women occupied different seats* in Hadley, as elsewhere in 
New England. In nearly all meeting-houses, when the minister 
faced the congregation, the males were on his right, and the 
females on his left, on the lower floor, and in the galleries. The 
singers were mingled with the others, and all singing was congre- 
gational. 

The town voted, Jan. 11, 1672, "that there shall be some sticks 
set up in the meeting-house in several places, with some fit per- 
sons placed by them, and to use them as occasion shall require, 
to keep the youth from disorder." The youth were often trouble- 
some in the old meeting-houses. 

*This old custom of separating the sexes, I have noticed in Methodist churches within 
15 or 20 years. 



44 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

A few months after the meeting-house was finished, Sept. 3, 
1670, the town voted to buy the bell brought up by Lieut. Smith 
and others, and to pay for it by a rate, in winter wheat, at 3 shil- 
lings per bushel. "If Lieut. Smith gets 4s. 3d. for the wheat in 
Boston, he is paid; if less, the town is to make it up; if more, he 
is to repay." The freight of wheat to Boston was estimated at 
IS. 3d. per bushel. The debt for the bell was £j.io, or about 25 
dollars, indicating that the bell was small. Henry Clarke, who 
died in 1675, gave by his will "40 shillings besides 40 shillings 
formerly given, for a bigger bell that may be heard generally by 
the inhabitants." If a new bell was obtained, it was paid for by 
individuals and not by the town. The town voted, Dec. 21, 1676, 
"that the bell in the m.eeting-house shall be rung at 9 o'clock at 
night, throughout the year, winter and summer." Jan. 13, 1690, 
Mr. Partrigg was chosen to secure such a bell as is at Northan)p- 
ton; the selectmen to make the best they can of the old one. 

Hartford began to ring the bell at 9 o'clock, in 1665, "to pre- 
vent disorderly meetings," &c. This is the first notice of a nine 
o'clock bell upon the Connecticut River. — In Springfield, in 1653, 
Richard Sikes was to have one shilling for ringing the bell for 
marriages and funerals. The records of the other old towns 
upon the river, do not notice the ringing of a bell at marriages or 
funerals. 

In the old towns in Hampshire county and elsewhere, the turret 
for the bell was in the center of the four sided roof, and the bell 
rope hung down in the broad isle, where the ringer stood. It 
must have been so at Hadley. The minister always had the bell 
rope before him.* 

Mr. John Russell, Jr., the first minister of Hadley, was born in 
England. He graduated at Harvard College in 1645. There 
had been only thirteen graduates, previous to his class. He began 
to preach at Wethersfield, about 1649, and removed to Hadley 
in 1659 or 1660, where he died Dec. 10, 1692, in his 66th year. 

The engagers at first, and the people of Hadley afterwards, 
paid Mr. Russell 80 pounds per annum, but the records of Weth- 
ersfield and Hadley contain no agreement with him in regard to 
his salary. It was apparently 80 pounds, and he received allot- 
ments of land in Hadley, according to a 150;^ estate, or a home- 
lot of 8 acres, and about 38 acres of interval land. After some 

*Rev. Jonathan Edwards of Northampton, is said to have used few gestures in the pulpit, 
and to have looked much before him. After the rope was broken in the old meeting-house, 
one of his people observed, "Mr. Edwards has looked oj the bell rope." A bell rope form- 
erly came down in an aisle of some country churches in England. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 45 

years, the town gave him, in addition, the use of the town allot- 
ment, so called, which was estimated at lo pounds, and he thus 
received annually 90 pounds. He and the people lived in peace 
and harmony, with mutual kindness and confidence until the 
latter part of his life, when a difference between him and a major- 
ity of the town, in regard to the Hopkins School, produced un- 
pleasant feelings, and alienated some of his friends. After the 
final decision against the town, and in favor of the school trus- 
tees, in 1687, the town voted only 70 pounds per annum during 
the rest of his life, but he may have retained the use of the town's 
land and if so, he received annually 80 pounds. After the reduc- 
tion, no complaint from Mr. Russell, and no bickerings and con- 
tentions between him and the town, appear in the records. After 
his decease, his widow and sons claimed 40 pounds "for what 
was abated in the rate bills, several years, without Mr. Russell's 
consent," and the town voted 35 pounds, and the matter was 
adjusted to the satisfaction of both parties. 

There is no intimation in the records, that the town aided Mr. 
Russell in building his dwelling-house; nor does it appear that 
the people ever furnished him with fire-wood. The town assisted 
him to build an addition to his house in 1662. 

Mr. Russell at Wethersfield was ardent and resolute, and some- 
times indiscreet, and he had warm friends and powerful opposers. 
At Hadley, he appears to have been an active and faithful pastor. 
As a preacher, there is little known respecting him. He preached 
the Election Sermon at Boston, in May, 1665, from Psalms 
cxxii: 6. Most of his letters in this History were written in 
the time of the Indian war, and some in great haste. His firm- 
ness and decision of character are seen in his persevering efforts 
in favor of the Hopkins School. His fearlessness and constancy 
were manifested in his protection and concealment for many 
years, of two of the judges of King Charles I., Whalley and 
Goffe, whom he truly viewed as sufferers in the cause of civil 
liberty. New England people generally were friendly to the 
judges, and believed that Charles I. was justly sentenced to death, 
but not many would have been willing to hazard life and prop- 
erty by placing themselves in the dangerous situation of Mr. 
Russell. 

An inventory of the estate of Rev. John Russell was taken at 
Hadley, Jan. 10, 1693. His son. Rev. Jonathan Russell, of 
Barnstable, was admitted as administrator, in Suffolk county, 
Jan. 17, and a summary of the inventory, and a settlement of the 
estate, were recorded in the Boston Probate Office. After 



46 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

paying the debts, funeral charges, expense of tomb-stones for Mr. 
Russell and a former wife, and delivering to his widow, Phebe 
Russell, 106;^, most of which she brought with her, there remained 
for the two sons, Jonathan and Samuel, .^830, of which, 305;^ in 
real estate was subject to the widow's dower. The appraisement 
was considerably above money prices. Mr. Russell's kindness 
to the judges did not diminish his estate. In the inventory, are 
three negroes, — a man, woman and child, valued at 6o;{^.* 

Salary of Mr. Russell and others. — The salary of Mr. Russell 
was paid in winter wheat at 3s. 3d., peas at 2s. 6d., Indian corn 
at 2s., and other things proportionally. The cash price of wheat 
did not exceed 2s. 6d., peas 2s., and corn is. 6d. per bushel at 
Hadley. Yet the sum of 90;^, or even 8o;^, as Mr. Russell re- 
ceived it, was an adequate and honorable salary, and so esteemed. 
He educated two sons and left a good estate. 

The salaries of ministers in the agricultural towns of New 
England, in the 17th century, were paid in produce, or "provision 
pay," at prices much above money prices, and nearly all debts 
were paid in the same manner. Gold and silver were uncommon 
in country towns, money contracts were seldom made, and cash 
prices were not often mentioned. The salaries of ministers did 
not average 60 pounds or 200 dollars, if estimated in money at 
6 shillings to a dollar; and in small towns, they did not exceed 
150 dollars. But ministers commonly had from their people 
a farm or other lands, a house and fire-wood, and with the frugal, 
economical habits of those days, they had usually a good support. 
Mr. Chauncey, the successor of Mr. Russell, had a salary of 8o;^ 
in "provision pay," which he exchanged in 17 13 for bo£, or 200 
dollars in money, and the money was province bills. The salary 
of the first two ministers of Hatfield was (io£ in produce, equal 
to about 150 dollars in money. f 

Several of the early churches of New England had two minis- 
ters, one ordained as pastor, and the other as teacher. North- 
ampton procured Mr. Joseph Eliot as teacher, but the people 
soon grew weary of the expense of supporting two ministers, and 
he removed to Guilford. The first settlers of Hadley intended 
to have as a second minister, Mr. Samuel Hooker, and he signed 

*Mr. Russell and some other good men were interested in the detestable system of slavery, 
in an age when its injustice and wickedness had not been properly considered. 

■j-Northampton gave to Rev. Eleazar Mather a salary of 8o£ in 1658, and Pres. Dwight, 
who had not examined the old currency of New England, represents this as 80 pounds ster- 
ling. (Travels in N. E., Vol. I., p. 344.) This is a mistake. It was paid ingrain and the 
value was not more than 60;^ in Massachusetts pine tree money. There never was a sterling 
currency in these towns. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 47 

the engagement to remove. He changed his mind, and was 
ordained at Farmington, Nov. 6, 1661. He acted wisely for 
himself and for the people of Hadley. On the 26th of April, 
1662, Hadley voted to give a teaching elder 80 pounds a year. 
This is the last notice about a second minister. 

The church of Hadley is the oldest in the old county of Hamp- 
shire, except that of Springfield. It is not known when the church 
of Hadley began, but it is a year or more older than that of North- 
ampton. The church of Northampton was formed and Mr. 
Mather ordained, June 4, 1661; and there were present, as mess- 
engers from the church of "Hadleigh," Mr. John Russell, the 
pastor, Mr. Goodwin and Goodman White. 

Those who had withdrawn from the Hartford church, could 
not orderly unite with the Wethersfield members, till some time 
after the council in Boston in October, 1659. Perhaps there was 
no regular church at Hadley till 1660. The Hartford members 
were the most numerous. 

The first Ruling Elder of the church of Hadley was William 
Goodwin, who had previously held the same office at Hartford. 
He was an able and efficient man. He died at Farmington, 
March 11, 1673. No successor is noticed in the Hadley records. 
Nathaniel Dickinson and Peter Tilton were the first deacons of 
Hadley church. They were intelligent and influential men. A 
large portion of the heads of families on the east side of the river 
were members of the church, and there is reason to believe 
that they were generally pious and excellent men and women. 
Many of the men were qualified for public business. 

The recorders of Hadley and of some other towns were 
sparing of religious titles in the 17th century. Mr. Russell has 
not the title of Rev. during his life in the Hadley records. Mr. 
always precedes his name. The elders and deacons are seldom 
distinguished as such. When a man had a military and religious 
title, the former was commonly used. 

The dwelling-house of the Rev. Samuel Hopkins, the fourth 
minister of Hadley, was burnt in the night of March 20-21, 1766, 
and all the church records were destroyed. They must have 
contained a great deal of information in regard to ecclesiastical 
aff'airs. 



48 HISTORY OF HADLEY 



CHAPTER VI 

The Grammar School or Hopkins School* — Schools of New England — Grammar Schools — 
Free Schools — Instruction of Females — Schools and Scholars in Hadley — School Houses 
— School-masters — School Books. 

Edward Hopkins, Esq., after residing some years at Hartford, 
returned to England, and died in March, 1657. By his will, 
made March 17th, he gave a portion of his estate in New England 
to Theophilus Eaton, Esq., and Mr. John Davenport of New 
Haven, and Mr. John Cullick and Mr. William Goodwin of 
Hartford, to be disposed of by them "to give some encouragement 
in those foreign plantations for the breeding up of hopeful youths, 
in a way of learning, both at the Grammar School and College, 
for the public service of the country in future times." He also 
ordered that 500;^ more should be made over into the hands of 
the trustees, in six months after the death of his wife. 

Rev. John Davenport of New Haven and Mr. William Good- 
win of Hadley, the only surviving trustees, made a distribution 
of Mr. Hopkins's donation in April, 1664. They gave 400 pounds 
to the town of Hartford, for a Grammar School; and all the rest 
was to be equally divided between the towns of New Haven and 
Hadley, to be improved in maintaining a Grammar School in 
each, but they provided that 100 pounds of that half which Had- 
ley had, should be given to Harvard College. When the money 
was received, New Haven had 412, Hartford, 400, Hadley, 308, 
and Harvard College, 100 pounds — in all, 1220 pounds. Mrs. 
Hopkins lived until 1699, and the gift of 500 pounds was obtained, 
not by the schools of New Haven and Hadley, to which it belonged, 
but by Harvard College and Cambridge Grammar School, in 
1710. 

On the 14th of January, 1667, the town made the following 
grant of land and, on the 14th of March, appointed a committee 
to let it. 

"The town have granted to and for the use of a Grammar School in this town of Hadley 
and to be and remain perpetually to and for the use of the said school, the two little mead- 
ows, next beyond the brook commonly called the Mill brook, and as much upland to be laid 
to the same as the committee chosen by the town, shall in their discretion see meet and need- 
ful; provided withal, that it be left to the judgment of said committee, that so much of the 
second meadow shall be excepted from the said grant, as that there may be a feasible and 
convenient passage for cattle to their feed." Committee chosen: Mr. Clarke, Lt. Smith, 

♦The History of the Hadley Grammar School was written in 1847, but is now, 1857, 
reduced more than half. I found many of the original papers of the school in a lawyer's 
office in Northampton. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 49 

Wm. Allis, Nathaniel Dickinson, sr. and Andrew Warner. — -Note on the margin by Peter 
Tilton: — "These two meadows, are one the round neck of land; and [the other] the little 
long meadow that was reserved by the Indians in the first sale and afterwards purchased by 
itself." 

These two School Meadows adjoin the Connecticut and are 
separated by high upland which becomes narrow in the northern 
part. On this elevated ridge, the Indians had a fort and burying- 
place. One meadow is east of the ridge; the other is west of it 
in a bend of the river, and is greatly enlarged by the encroachment 
of the river upon Hatfield. Both were estimated at 60 acres in 
1682. They now (1847) contain with the upland, more than 
140 acres. 

On the 20th of March, 1669, Mr. Goodwin proposed to the 
town, that he would choose three persons, and the town should 
choose "two more able and pious men;" and that these five with 
himself as long as he lived, should have the full dispose and 
management of the estate given by the trustees of Mr. Hopkins, 
and of all other estate given by any donor, or that may be given, 
to the town of Hadley for the promotion of literature and learning; 
the five persons to remain in the work till death or the Providence 
of God remove any of them, and then the survivors shall choose 
others in their place. Mr. Goodwin desired that the school might 
be called Hopkins School. On the 26th of March, he informed 
the town that he had chosen Mr. John Russell, Jr., Lieut. Sam- 
uel Smith and Aaron Cooke; and the town voted as follows: — 

The Town voted their approbation of Mr. Goodwin's choice. The town also voted 
Nathaniel Dickinson, sr. & Peter Tilton to join with the three persons beforementioned, as 
a joint Committee who together with Mr. Goodwin while he lives, and after his death, shall 
jointly & together have the ordering & full dispose of the estate or estates given by Mr. 
Davenport and Mr. Goodwin, (as trustees as aforesaid to Mr. Edward Hopkins) to this 
town of Hadley, or any other estate or estates that are or may be given either by the town 
itself or any other donor or donors, for the use, benefit, maintenance & promoting of a 
Grammar School to & for the use & in this town of Hadley; as also jointly & together to 
act, do, conclude, execute & finish any thing respecting the premises faithfully & according 
to their best discretion. 

Voted also by the town that as to the five persons before expressed, if any decease or be 
otherwise disabled through the Providence of God, the rest surviving shall have the sole 
choice of any other in the room and place of those surceasing, to the full number of five 
persons, provided they be known, discreet, pious, faithful persons. 

Mr. Goodwin, with the consent of the other trustees, built 
from the Hopkins donation, a grist-mill upon Mill River, a little 
south of the school lands. No record is found of the year in 
which the mill is built, nor of any grant by the town of the use 
of the stream. A houselot for the miller was granted Oct. 16, 
1671. Perhaps the mill was built that year. It was burnt by 



50 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

the Indians in September, 1677, with the miller's house, the farm 
barn, fences and other property. The trustees of the school 
declined to rebuild, not having sufficient means, and apprehend- 
ing danger from the Indians. The town needed a mill, and as 
Robert Boltwood was not afraid of Indians, a majority of the 
trustees were induced to dispose of the right belonging to the 
school, to the town for 10 pounds; and the town, to encourage 
Boltwood to build a mill, granted to him the mill-place and the 
remains of the dam, Nov. 6, 1677, and they granted four acres as 
a houselot for the miller, June 3, 1678. The mill was rebuilt by 
Boltwood, in 1678 or 1679. 

Mr. Russell, always solicitous for the prosperity of the Grammar 
School, did not consent to the sale of the mill-place and dam; and 
on the 30th of March, 1680, he presented to the County Court 
at Northampton, the state of the school, and what had been done 
by the other trustees, the town and Boltwood. The Court decided 
that the sale by the trustees was illegal. "We may not allow so 
great a wrong." They judged that Goodman Boltwood should 
be repaid what he had expended, and that the mill should belong 
to the school. 

At the September Court, 1682, the committee of the Hopkins 
School rendered an account of the school estate. Mr. Goodwin, 
before his death, received from the Hopkins donation 308;^, 
from Thomas Coleman 5;^, Mr. Westwood 13;^ and Widow 
Barnard i£, making 328;^^. He and others expended £\']7..\\.if, 
for a house for the miller, a barn for the farm, fencing the farm 
or meadows before and after the war, loss on a house bought by 
Mr. G., paying a debt of Mr. Hopkins, &c., and the remainder 
of the 328;^ was expended in building the mill and dam, repairing, 
maintaining the school-master, &c. 

The school estate that remained, consisted of the school mead- 
ows, given by the town, estimated at 60 acres; 12 or 14 acres of 
meadow, (5 acres of it in Northampton meadow,) and his dwell- 
ing-house and one acre and a half from his homelot, given by 
Nathaniel Ward; 12 acres of meadow given by John Barnard; 
and 11^ acres of meadow given by Henry Clarke. 

The Boltwoods, father and son, were resolute men and tena- 
cious of their rights, but they did not like contention, and on the 
8th of August, 1683, Robert Boltwood agreed to surrender the 
mill and appurtenances to the school committee, and they were 
to pay him 138 pounds in grain and pork. They took possession 
about Nov. I, 1683. In the year 1684, they found that the town 
challenged some right to the stream and land, and there were 



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HISTORY OF HADLEY 51 

Other difficulties, and they refused to consummate the bargain. 
The committee and Samuel Boltwood (his father Robert died in 
April, 1684,) referred the matter to John Pynchon and John Allis, 
and in consequence of their decision, March 30, 1685, the mill 
was delivered up to Samuel Boltwood, about May i, 1685. 

Serious troubles to Mr. Russell and the promoters of the Gram- 
mar School next arose from another quarter. As the donation 
of Mr. Hopkins was almost all dissipated, and the mill was in 
the hands of Boltwood, and the estate that remained was nearly 
all given by Hadley and by individuals of that town, the people 
concluded that the estate might as well be managed by the town 
for the use of an English School. Some of the most influential 
men were in favor of this course, especially Peter Tilton, who had 
resigned his office as trustee, and Samuel Partrigg, who still re- 
mained a trustee, and on the 23d of August, 1686, the following 
votes were adopted by the town: — 

"Voted by the town that all that estate of houses & lands bequeathed & given by any 
donor or donors in their last wills and testaments to this town of Hadley, or to a school in 
said town or to the promoting and furtherance of learning in said town, as the legacy of 
Nathaniel Ward, John Barnard, Henry Clark, gent, they look on said estate and donations 
to belong nextly to the town to be improved according tothe willof the testators; and therefore 
take it into their hands to manage, order & dispose tothe use of a school in this town of Hadley. 
— They had a full vote in the affirmative. 

"Voted by the town that Ens. Nash, Francis Barnard, Neh. Dickinson, Thos. Hovey & 
Samuel Barnard are a committee from the town to make demand of the school committee 
of all the produce, increase & rents of lands & estates abovesaid, and accruing thereto, 
which are at present in their hands undisposed." 

After these votes of the town, four of the school committee, viz., 
Mr. John Russell, Aaron Cooke, Joseph Kellogg and Samuel 
Porter, presented to the County Court at Springfield, Sept. 28, 
1686, the declining state of the Grammar School, and complained 
of some persons in Hadley who obstructed the management of 
the school. The Court ordered that the lands given by Hadley, 
and the donations of Hopkins, Ward, Barnard and Clarke, should 
be improved for the Grammar School, and not for an English 
School separate from the Grammar School. Mr. Pynchon sent 
a copy of the order to Mr. Russell, and wrote to him a letter, 
dated Oct. 2, 1686, in which he mentioned the difficulties he had 
to encounter in getting the order passed. The Court was com- 
posed of himself, William Clark of Northampton, and Peter 
Tilton. Mr. Partrigg was present and spoke in favor of Hadley. 

"I am heartily sorry, says Mr. Pynchon, that Mr. Partrigg is so cross in the business of 
the school: nothing will be done as it ought to be till he be removed, which I suppose the 
President and Council may do. It is too hard for the County Court to do anything. Mr. 
Tilton, fully falling in with him, is as full and strong in all his notions as Mr. Partrigg him- 
self, and it is wonderful that any thing passed. Mr. Clark, though a friend in the business 



52 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

yet wanted courage.* Mr. Tilton said it would kindle such a flame as would not be quenched. 
But if to do right, & secure the public welfare, kindle a flame, the will of the Lord be done.-|' 
To get the order passed, I was forced to declare that if Mr. Clark did not assent, I would 
[give leave to record it myself, j] But he concurred, the order being a little mollified. If 
Mr. Partrigg will obstruct, it is necessary that he be removed by the President and Council, 
who must do this business; we are too weak in the county court. I am full for it to leave 
all with the President, § and glad it is like to be in the hands of them who will powerfully 
order. I pray God the school may stand upon its right basis, and all may run in the old 
channel." 

After the decision of the Court, Sept. 28, 1686, a paper was 
signed by those in Hadley who adhered to Mr. Russell and the 
Grammar School, and accepted the order of the Court. The 
signers were Samuel Gardner, John Ingram, Chileab Smith, John 

Preston, Joseph Kellogg, Samuel , Samuel Porter, senior, 

Aaron Cooke, William Marcum, Hezekiah Porter and widow 
Mary Goodman. These with Mr. Russell, made 12 persons in 
the minority. All the rest seem to have gone for the English 
School. 

Mr. Russell wrote to President Dudley, and he gave his opin- 
ion decidedly in favor of the Grammar School. Mr. Pynchon 
received an order from the President and Council, dated Oct. 
21, 1686, requiring him to examine the school affairs at Hadley 
and report. Mr. Pynchon came to Hadley, Nov. 18, and sent to 
Northampton for Capt. Aaron Cooke and Mr. Joseph Hawley. 
He desired a town meeting the next morning, that the town might 
depute some persons to give an account of the school affairs. A 
town meeting was ordered at sun a quarter of an hour high the 
next morning. II Capt. Cooke and Mr. Hawley came over. Mr. 
Tilton, Mr. Partrigg and others came as a committee from the 
town meeting, and were willing to discourse as friends, but not 
in obedience to the Council's order. The school committee were 
present and gave their reasons,** and the town's committeeff 

*Mr. Clark was in favor of the Grammar School, and at the same time, a friend of Tilton 
and Partrigg. 

•j-This is a noble sentiment of Pynchon; nearly equivalent to the old Latin, -fat justitia, 
ruat caelum. 

jThis seems to be the meaning, but it is difficult to read this part of the letter. 

§The despotic government of President Dudley, (soon followed by that of Andros,) was 
detested by most people in this part of the colony, yet some were willing to make use of it, to 
accomplish what they considered to be a good object. Doubtless the decision of the old 
Court of Assistants would have been similar to that of the President and Council. 

IJIt must have been a lively time in Hadley, when a town meeting was held at sun a quarter 
of an hour high in the morning. 

**The reasons why this estate should remain to support the Grammar School, are pre- 
served. They were drawn up by Mr. Russell, with many scripture references and quota- 
tions. 

j^The town's committee were Mr. Tilton, Mr. Partrigg, Ens. Timothy Nash, Nehemiah 
Dickinson, Daniel Marsh and Thomas Hovey. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 53 

read two or three long papers in reply. These things and many 
more are stated in a letter to the President and Council, dated at 
Hadley, Nov. 20, 1686, and signed by Pynchon, Cooke and Haw- 
ley. They request that some speedy course may be taken by 
the Council, "for quieting the hot and raised spirit of the people 
of Hadley." 

The letter of Pynchon, Cooke and Hawley to the President and 
Council, had the effect intended, and the following order was 
issued : — 

"By the Honorable, the President & Council of His Majesty's Territory & Dominion of 
New England, in America: 

Upon perusal of the return made by Major Pynchon & the committee for the affair of 
the Hadley school. The President & Council do order that the committee for Hopkins 
School be and remain the feofees of the Grammar School in the said town, and that Mr. 
Partrigg be, and is hereby dismissed from any further service in that matter. And that the 
said committee make report of the present estate of said Mr. Hopkins and other donations 
to the school (which having been orderly annexed to the Grammar School, are hereby con- 
tinued to that service,) unto the next county court of Hampshire, who are hereby empowered 
to supply the place of Mr. Partrigg with some other meet person in Hadley, And that the 
said court do find out and order some method for the payment of Boltwood's expenses 
upon the mUl, that the mill, farm and other lands given to the School may return to that 
public use. The President and Council hereby declaring it to be beyond the power of 
the town of Hadley or any other whatsoever to divert any of the lands or estate or the said 
mill stream, & the privileges thereof (which are legally determined to the said Grammar 
School,) to any other use whatsover. The President and Council judging the particular 
gifts in the town a good foundation for a Grammar School both for themselves and the 
whole country, and that the Grammar School can be no otherwise interrupted, but to be a 
school holden by a master capable to instruct children & fit them for the university — 

By order, 

ED. RANDOLPH, Secretary. 

Council House, Boston, December the 8th, 1686. 

At a new County Court, appointed by Andros, and held at 
Northampton, June 7, 1687, the order of the President and Coun- 
cil was read, and a petition and statement from the trustees of 
the school. Samuel Boltwood was summoned to appear and 
show cause why he detained the mill. He presented a paper 
giving a regular account of his father's building and selling the 
mill and of the award of Pynchon and AUis, which put the mill 
into his (Samuel Boltwood's) hands. Referring to the award, 
he says, "it seems rational, especially by those who profess relig- 
ion, to stand by what was done" or make good their bond. 
"What is my just right I plead for, and no other." 

The next day, June 8, the Court, after referring to the order of the President and Council, 
— Ordered those persons in Hadley who had taken the school estate into their hands for 
an English School, to return it speedily to the former committee, the feofees of the Grammar 
School, viz. Mr. John Russell, Aaron Cook, Joseph Kellogg, and Samuel Porter, to whom 
they added Chileab Smith, in the room of Samuel Partrigg, removed. They also ordered 
that Samuel Boltwood should deliver up the school mill and appurtenances to the same 
feofees, for the maintenance of the school. If the feofees and Boltwood could not agree as 



54 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

to what had been expended on the mill, by him and his father, the toll being considered, 
then Mr. John Allis and a man chosen by the feofees and another chosen by Boltwood were 
to give in their award & determine what Boltwood should have for the mill. 

The town yielded so far as to pass the following vote, Aug. 
29, 1687, which did not please the Court: — 

"Voted by the town that the lands seized and taken into their own hands with reference 
to an English School by their vote Aug. 23, 1686, wanting that formality in the seizure as 
might have been — the town do now let fall the said seizure, leaving said lands in the hands 
of the Committee called the School Committee as formerly, withall reserving a liberty to 
themselves and successors to make claim & plea according to law at any time for the future, 
for what may appear to be their right in the premises." 

The Court of Sessions sent the following letter to the Select- 
men of Hadley, March 7, 1688, to be communicated to the town. 
The members of the court were John Pynchon, John Holyoke, 
Joseph Hawley, Capt. Aaron Cooke of Hadley, Lieut. John Allis. 

Honored Friends 

Having had a sight of the vote of the town of Hadley of August 29, 1687, in way of 
compliance (as we suppose) with the advice of the Court of Sessions, held at Northampton, 
June 7, 1687, we judge meet to let you understand our sense of it, that it is far short of what 
we expected and advised to, being at best lean in itself, if not a justifying of yourselves in 
your former precipitant, illegal entering upon the school estate, rather than a delivering it 
up to the committee as you were directed actually to do, and forthwith to declare it under 
the hands of those that had acted in entering thereon; and presuming upon your readiness 
so to do it, we proposed it to the committee or feofees, if they saw cause to allow one half 
of the i6£ that was engaged toward a school master. But what you have done being so 
short of that directed to, & so worded as speaks your unsubjection to authority, especially 
in conjunction with your other actings, we must declare it no ways convenient the commit- 
tee should allow any part of the said i6£ & that you are accountable for your perverseness 
towards the school affairs, & for your slighting of such who have more regard to your own 
good & interest than yourselves. Such a spirit we see breathing forth from you as will 
necessarily call for some further animadverting thereon, if you do not retract some of your 
actings which we earnestly desire you to overlook and rectify. We would not particularize, 
and yet in way of caution to amendment, might mention your unkindness and crossness in 
not granting the use of a house that stands empty and your illegal rating of the school estate, 
contrary to the declared direction in all our books, of colleges, schools, hospitals, &c. are 
not to be taxed, which we do particularly insist on, for your speedy rectification of what you 
have disorderly done (that we may not have occasion to lay it before his excellency.) Sev- 
eral other things are before our consideration, which we do not mention, hoping and expect- 
ing you will revise your own actings & amend, which is the [scope] of these lines to prevent 
any thing that may prove uncomfortable to yourselves, being assured that a sense of your 
own crossness, perverseness, unsubjection to order, & repentance for what is done amiss, 
will but become yourselves, and is the plainest path to your own comfort, which we pray 
God to direct you in, and are 

Your assured friends. 

We let you know & hereby declare that we forbid the constables and all officers from 
levying or collecting any particular tax toward any town affair, upon the school estate. 
Springfield March 7, 1687-8. 

By order of this Session, 

JAMES CORNISH. 
[Cornish was Clerk under Andros.] 



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The selectmen of Hadley replied to this letter, and in June, 1688 
the Court sent another to Hadley, "enjoining them to seek their 
own peace." 

Samuel Boltwood gave up the mill to the trustees of the school 
in 1687, and arbitrators decided April 26, 1688, that he should 
be allowed 71;^ los. for what his father and he had expended 
about the mill, of which sum he had received all but nine pounds. 

The bitter controversy was now at an end, and in a few years, 
a good degree of harmony prevailed in the town. Peter Tilton 
and Samuel Partrigg were restored to public favor as soon 
as the arbitrary government of President Andros and Coun- 
cil at Boston was overthrown. Sam.uel Partrigg removed to 
Hatfield in 1687. He had been conspicuous in the English 
School party, and his conduct had been very offensive to Mr. 
Pynchon, and to Mr. Russell and those who acted with him. 
He was a powerful man, and his sway in the county of Hamp- 
shire, after Mr. Pynchon's death, was greater than that of any 
other man, for many years. 

There is no reason to condemn the motives of those concerned 
in these unpleasant contentions. The Grammar School was a 
favorite object with Mr. Russell, and he probably looked forward 
to a more elevated literary institution. His efforts for the school 
were constant and untiring. The people of Hadley are not cen- 
surable, because they judged it inexpedient to sustain a Gram- 
mar School after the Hopkins donation was almost all consumed 
or scattered. They had not families enough to require such a 
school under the law. 

When the people of the town accepted the propositions of Mr. 
Goodwin, March 26, 1669, and used the expression, "a grammar 
school to and for the use and in this town of Hadley," they seem 
not to have intended to give up their land to support a school for 
other towns. 

Schools of New England. — By a law of Massachusetts, passed 
in November, 1647, it was ordered that every town with fifty 
families should provide a school where children might be taught 
to read and write; and that every town with a hundred families 
or householders, should provide a grammar school, the master 
thereof being able to instruct so far as to fit young men for col- 
lege. Connecticut adopted this school law in nearly the same 
words. There were previously many schools in these colonies, 
but this was the first law requiring them. By a law of 1642, 
selectmen were to look after the children of parents and masters 
who neglected to train them up "in learning and labor." The 



56 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Puritans, before 1647, rne^"t that every child should be taught 
to read, at home or at school, and be able to read the Bible. 

Grammar Schools. — In England, the distinct object of a gram- 
mar school was instruction in Greek and Latin, especially in 
Latin. All the scholars were expected to learn Lily's Latin 
Grammar. The custom of forcing all to learn the rudiments of 
Latin, was strongly opposed by John Locke. 

New England grammar schools, with few exceptions, were 
Latin and English schools united. Some scholars were fitted 
for college, but perhaps nine-tenths were confined to English 
studies. Children were generally taught to read, at least in the 
primer, before they were sent to these schools. English Gram- 
mar was not taught in the grammar schools of Old or New 
England. 

Free Schools. — The law of 1647 ^'^ "^^ direct that schools 
should be free. In the towns upon Connecticut River and else- 
where, schools were commonly supported partly by the parents 
of the scholars and partly by the town. Schools were not main- 
tained wholly by towns, till after much discussion and agitation. 
Those in moderate circumstances, with large families, desired 
free schools. Some of the wealthy and of those with no children 
to send, were opposed to them. Few towns were willing to vote 
for schools entirely free to the scholars, till after 1700, and it was 
many years after 1700, before free schools became general in 
Massachusetts. 

Instruction of females. — The laws of the colony, and the votes 
of towns, relating to schools, used the word "children," and did 
not exclude females, yet it is abundantly evident that girls did 
not ordinarily continue to attend the town schools, many years, 
in the old towns. There was no controversy on the subject; it 
seems to have been considered unnecessary that girls should be 
instructed in public schools; and it may have been deemed im- 
proper for boys and girls to attend the same school, as it still is 
in England, except among the poor. 

There were many cheap, private schools in Massachusetts and 
Connecticut, in the 17th and i8th centuries, kept by "dames" 
in their own rooms where girls were instructed to read and sew, 
and in some, small boys were taught to read. Children who did 
not attend school, were taught to read at home, and nearly all 
could read, females as well as males. Writing was considered 
much less important, and it was not judged necessary that females 
in common life should learn to write; and indeed the ability to 
write, would have been of little use to them, in former days. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 57 

Probably not one woman in a dozen could write her name, 150 
years ago; and much later, at the time of the revolution, very 
many of those wives and mothers whose patriotism is so justly 
praised, could not write, but they could read. Some men of 
several generations made their mark. 

A few girls were sent to the public schools in Northampton and 
Hatfield before 1680, and undoubtedly in most other towns. 
Records do not show why or when they ceased to attend. Per- 
haps they did not cease in all places. Some of the newer towns, 
settled in the last century, were more liberal in schooling the girls 
than the old ones. School dames were sometimes paid by the 
town. Many of the old towns were long remiss. Boston did 
not permit females to attend the public schools till 1790, and 
Northampton did not admit them into the town schools till 1802! 
It was an unheard of thing for girls to be instructed by a master, 
in Ipswich, till about 1769. They learned to read and sew of 
school dames. 

Schools and Scholars in Hadley. — The first recorded vote of 
Hadley respecting a school, was April 25, 1665, when the town 
voted "to give 20 pounds per annum for three years, towards the 
maintenance of a school-master, to teach the children, and to be 
as a help to Mr. Russell, as occasion may require." Caleb Wat- 
son seems to have been the first school-master. He was here in 
January, 1667, and probably came in 1666. 

On the 2 1 St of December, 1676, the town voted to give the 
school-master 30 pounds per annum, a part from the school estate, 
and the rest from the scholars and town. There being great fail- 
ure in sending children to school, the selectmen were ordered to 
take a list of all children from 6 to 12 years old; all of these were 
to attend the school, and if any did not go, they were to pay the 
same as those that went, except some poor men's children. Jan. 
10, 1678, they voted to give Mr. Younglove 30 pounds for another 
year, to be paid by the school estate, scholars and town ; and he was 
to have the use of the house and homestead belonging to the school, 
and of twelve acres of land. Male children from 6 to 12 were to 
pay 10 shillings a year if they went, and five shillings if they did 
not go. Feb. 7, 1681, a committee was appointed to get a school- 
master to teach Latin and English; to give him 30 pounds a year. 
Latin scholars to pay 20 shillings a year, and English scholars 
16 shillings. Those from 6 to 12 that did not go, were to pay 8 
shillings a year. 

This school was far from being a free school, and the votes 
indicate that the girls and some of the boys did not attend. On 



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the first of March, 1697, "the town voted that there should be a 
constant school in Hadley; the teacher to be paid wholly by the 
school committee and the town rate." This was a free school, 
but it did not continue. Men who had no children to send, were 
dissatisfied, and the town voted, March 30, 1699, that one-half of 
what the school estate did not pay, should be paid by scholars. 
This was to stand 20 years. 

The Hopkins School was apparently the only public school in 
the old parish of Hadley, for more than a century, except a school 
for boys and girls voted in 1760 for that year. It was the com- 
mon town school. The master, with rare exceptions, was a man 
of collegiate education, and he instructed some in Greek and 
Latin, but most only in reading, writing and arithmetic. When 
Hadley had 99 families, in 1765, there was but one town school. 
The number of children taught by school dames is not known. 

School Houses. — Nathaniel Ward, who died in 1664, gave a 
piece of his homelot on the street, with his house, for the use of 
the school. A part of this building was used for a school-house 
many years. After 1688, a room was hired for the school. In 
1710, the Ward house was said to be "ready to fall down," and 
in 1 712, the school committee, having obtained leave from the 
Court, leased the school homelot of one acre and a half, with the 
buildings, to Doct. John Barnard, for 97 years, at 18 shillings a 
year. 

The town voted, July 13, 1696, to build a school-house, 25 by 
18 feet and 7 feet between joints, to be set in the "middle of the 
town." This was the first school-house built in Hadley. It 
stood in the broad street. 

TEACHERS OF HADLEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL, 
From 1666 to 1725. 

A few of the teachers are not known. 

About 1666 to 1673. Caleb Watson, a graduate of Harvard College in 1661. A native 
of Roxbury. [He removed from Hadley to Hartford, where he was many years a distinguished 
teacher. Salary not known. 

About 1674 to 1 680. John Younglove, from Ipswich; was a preacher first at Quabaug, 
and after he left Hadley, at SufEeld. Salary, 2o£ and use of house and land. 

1682 and 1683. Samuel Russell, H. C. 1681. Son of Rev. John Russell. Was min- 
ister at Branford, Conn. 

1685. Samuel Partrigg of Hadley. 3 months. 

1686-7. Warham Mather, H. C. 1685. Son of Rev. Eleazar Mather of Northampton. 
Was Judge of Probate at New Haven. 

1688-9. John Younglove again. 6 months. 

1689-90. Thomas Swan, H. C. 1689. From Roxbury. He was Register of Probate in 
Middlesex. 6 months. 

1693-4. John Morse, H. C. 1692. From^Dedham. Was minister at Newtown, L. I. 
He kept school near a year, 

1694-5. Salmon Treat, H. C. 1694. Son of James T. of Wethersfield. Was minister 
at Preston, Conn. Kept a year. Wages, 39£. 



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1695-6. Joseph Smith, H. C. 1695. ^°'* °^ Lieut. Philip S. of Hadley. Was minister 
at Upper Middletown. Kept 3 quarters, at rate of 38£. 

1696-7. John Hubbard, H. C. 1695. Son of John H. of Boston. Was minister of 
Jamaica, L. I. Kept one year at £30 as money. 

1698-9. John Smith, again. A year or more. 

1700-1. Samuel Melyen, H. C. 1696. Son of Jacob M. of Boston. Was minister at 
Elizabethtown, N. J. Kept one year. 38^. 

1701-2. Mr. Woodbridge. Either Ephraim or Samuel. Both graduated at Harvard 
College, lyoi. Both were ministers, i year. 38^. 

1702-3. Nathaniel Chauncey, Yale College 1702. Son of Rev. Nathaniel C. of Hatfield. 
Minister at Durham, Conn. 3 months. 

1703-4. Samuel Ruggles, H. C. 1702. From Roxbury. Was minister at Billerica. 
Kept 8 months, at rate of ^o£. 

1705-6. Samuel Mighill, H. C. 1704. Son of Rev. Thomas M. of Scituate. A teacher 
in Mass. and Conn. Died in South Hadley, 1769. i| year, at ^o£. 

1706-7. Jonathan Marsh, H. C. 1705. Son of Jonathan M. of Hadley. Was minister 
at Windsor, Conn, i year. 2°£ ^s money. 

1707-8. John Partridge, H. C. 1705. Son of Col. Samuel P. of Hatfield. Died 1717. 
I year. 40^. 

1708-9. Aaron Porter, H. C. 1708. Son of Samuel Porter, Esq. of Hadley, Was 
minister at Medford. Kept 6 months, at the rate of j^o£. 

1709-10. Daniel Boardman, Y. C. 1709. Son of Daniel Boreman of Wethersfield. 
Was minister at New Milford, Conn. Kept 8 months, at the rate of 26j;£ as money. 

1710-11. John James. A native of England. Honorary degree at H. C. 1710. He 
had previously been minister at Derby, Conn. 6 months, at the rate of 26|£ as money. 

17H-12. Elisha Williams, H. C. 171 1. Son of Rev. Wm. W. of Hatfield. Was Pres- 
ident of Yale College. 1 1 months, at the rate of 2,()^£ as money. 

1712-13. Thomas Berry, H. C. 1712. Was a physician. Lived at Ipswich. 6 months, 
at the rate of 30^ in money. 

1713-14. Stephen Williams, H. C. 1713. Son of Rev. John W. of Deerfield. Was 
minister at Longmeadow. i\ year, at the rate of 34^ in money. 

1714-15. Ebenezer Gay, H. C. 1714. From Dedham. Was minister at Hingham. 
9 months, at the rate of 26£. 

1705-16. Nathaniel Mather, Y. C. 1 71 5. Son of Rev. Samuel M. of Windsor, Conn. 
Minister at • — — . Kept 4 months. 

1716-18. "Mr. Chauncey's son." If he was son of Rev. Isaac C. of Hadley, he was 
only 16 to 18 years old. i§ year, at the rate of 36^. 

1718-19. Stephen Steel, Y. C. 1718. Son of James Steel of Hartford. Was minister 
of Tolland, Conn, i year. 4o£. 

1719-20. Solomon Williams, H. C. 1719. Son of Rev. Wm. W. of Hatfield. Was 
minister at Lebanon, Conn, i year. 40/]. 

1720-21. Hezekiah Kilburn, Y. C. 1720. He was born at Wethersfield and resided 
there. 1 year. 4o£. 

1721 to 1723. Daniel Dwight, Y. C. 1721. Son of Nathaniel D. of Northampton. 
Episcopal minister at Charleston, S. C. i\ year, at 40^ a year. 

1723-24. Benjamin Dickinson, H. C. 1723. Son of Nathaniel D. of Hatfield. A 
preacher many years. Lived in Hadley. 1 year. 40j(j. 

1724-25. Israel Chauncey, H. C. 1724. Son of Rev. Isaac C. of Hadley. He was an 
able preacher, but became deranged, and was burnt to death in a small building, near his 
father's, Nov. 1736. Kept f of a year, at the rate of 40^. 

In March, 1743, Josiah Pierce, H. C. 1735, a native of Woburn, began to keep the Gram- 
mar School. He was to instruct in reading, writing, arithmetic, Latin and Greek. He 
kept 12 years to 1755, and again 6 years from 1760 to 1766. His pay was 27^^ in N. E. 
currency, or 91 dollars, and he had the use of 25 acres of meadow land. 

These teachers were almost all educated at college, and they 
generally began to teach soon after they graduated. Their year 
or less time in the school, commonly .ncluded a part of two years. 



60 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Their yearly salary to 1709 was from 38 to 40 pounds payable 
in produce at the usual prices, or T,o£ at money prices. After 
1709, their wages were paid in province bills, commencing with 
26§ pounds per annum, and increasing to 40 pounds, after the 
bills depreciated. Out of this salary or wages, they paid for 
their board, which was 4s. 8d. to 5s. per week when the salary 
was about 40;^, and 3s. 6d. to 3s. 9d. when the salary was 30;^ or 
less. After deducting the board, these young men received only 
18 to 21 pounds or 60 to 70 dollars, per annum, in any thing equiv- 
alent to dollars at six shillings. Northampton gave to her Gram- 
mar School masters, who were all educated men, only 80 dollars 
a year and board, down to the Revolution. Almost all were 
single men in both towns. Mr. Pierce's compensation was greater. 

If half the accounts of tyranny and cruelty of English school- 
masters, given by English writers, are to be believed, they were an 
entirely different class of men from the school-masters of New 
England. Records and traditions furnish no evidence of the 
cruelty or profligacy of any of the old school-masters on Connect- 
icut River. Where can more worthy men be found than those 
composing the list of Hadley school-masters .? 

In 1682, Mr. Samuel Russell taught the school six months for 
15;^. About 50 scholars attended and paid 4 shillings each, 
except a few that paid 6 shillings. He received from the scholars 
;^io, 14s. and from the school committee, £^, 6s. 

For a few years after 1677, there was fear of Indians, and the 
School meadows were not fenced till 1680. They were let out in 

1 68 1. The rent from 1684 to 1700 was generally from 6 to 8;^, 
when paid in produce at money prices. From 1704 to 1706, it 
was ;^8, I2s. as money. In 1720, the number of acres was said 
to be 80. The school land in other meadows, about 36 acres, 
was leased at 4, 5 or 6 shillings per acre, according to quality, 
when paid in produce at the usual prices; or from one-quarter to 
one-third less, if paid in any thing equivalent to money. 

Hadley School Committee for 50 years. — In 1669, the first five 
were Mr. John Russell, Jr., Lieut. Samuel Smith, Aaron Cooke, 
Jr., Nathaniel Dickinson, Peter Tilton. As vacancies occurred, 
others were chosen, viz., Philip Smith, 1680, Samuel Partrigg, 

1682, Samuel Porter, 1685, Joseph Kellogg, 1686, Chileab Smith, 
1687, Thomas Hovey, Samuel Porter, Esq., Sergt. Joseph Smith, 
Deac. John Smith. The last five were the committee in 1720. 

In new towns, where they had few families and no school, it 
was considered the duty of parents to teach their children to read. 
In September, 1677, Goodman Lancelot Granger of Suffield, 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 61 

was presented to the Hampshire Court for the neglect of learning 
his children to read. He appeared at March Court, 1678, and 
declared he was using the means to learn them to read, and 
promised to do his best, and he was discharged. When a Hamp- 
shire town was without a school a number of months, it was pre- 
sented to the Court, and two or three towns in the southern part of 
the county were fined for their neglect. 

It was ordered by a law of 1642,* that the selectmen of every 
town, should see that none of their brethren and neighbors should 
"suffer so much barbarism, in any of their families as not to en- 
deavor to teach by themselves or others, their children and ap- 
prentices perfectly to read the English tongue," and to have 
knowledge of the capital laws, upon penalty of 20 shillings. 
This law was ordered to be enforced in 1668. 

At New Haven, in 1684, the Grammar School was to be kept 
9 hours in a day in summer, (less in winter,) and 6 days in a week. 
Two hours in the afternoon of Saturday were to be employed in 
catechising the scholars, — a practice in New England schools, 
that came down to the present century, in the forenoon of Sat- 
urday. 

School Books. — The early school books of New England were 
the same with those of Old England. John Locke, in his 
"Thoughts concerning Education," 1690, says the method of 
schools in England, in teaching children to read, has been to 
adhere to "the ordinary road of the Hornbook, Primer,t Psalter, 
Testament and Bible." These, he says, are the only books used 
"to engage the liking of children and tempt them to read." The 
"ordinary road" was the same in New England, and the same 
books were used in Hadley and other towns. Such books were 
sold to the people by John Pynchon of Springfield, from 1656 to 
1672 and after, and by Joseph Hawley of Northampton, to his 
scholars, except Hornbooks, from 1674 to 1680, and both sold 
many Catechisms, and paper and paper books for writers. Neither 
sold Spelling-books, nor does John Locke refer to a Spelling-book 
in his treatise. They were but little used in the 17th century. 
Samuel Porter, of Hadley, who died in 1722, sold Primers, 
Psalters, Testaments and Bibles; also Catechisms, Psalm Books, 
&c. Spelling-books, chiefly Dilworth's, were gradually intro- 
duced; were not common on Connecticut River till after 1750. 
Arithmetic was taught, but the books were rare. Traders sold 
the Latin Accidence or Grammar. — Hornbooks do not appear in 

*This law is in the printed laws of 1672. 

•[Our Primer differed from the English one, but the use in school was similar. 



62 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Hampshire after 1700. They contained the alphabet, with a 
few rudiments, on one page, covered, as Cowper says,- with "thin 
translucent horn," to keep them from being soiled. 

A book called a Primer has been used by children in schools 
for centuries. Our early Primers were imported from England, 
in 1644, 1655, &c. and were probably Puritan Primers. The 
New England Primer seems to have been published after the 
Restoration in 1660, and to have been fitted for a child's school- 
book. It has undergone many changes. The Catechism was 
formerly published by itself. 



CHAPTER VII 

Ordinary-keepers or Inn-keepers — Retailers of wine and liquors — Selling liquors to Indians 
— Trial of Dr. Westcarr — Drinks in the 17th century — Distilling — Aquavitae — Intem- 
perance in New England. 

When our fathers came from England, the people were addicted 
to malt liquors, the country was full of licensed ale-houses, and 
an alewife was a woman, and not a fish. Inns, taverns and ordi- 
naries were plenty. Distilled spirits were used, but wine and ale 
were the principal intoxicating beverages. The English were 
excessive drinkers, or as Shakespeare says, "most potent in pot- 
ting." "Drinking is the plague of our English gentry," says 
Peacham in 1622. "Drunkenness hath diffused itself over the 
nation," says Camden in 1617. 

The first planters of New England were some of the best portion 
of this wine-bibbing, ale-guzzling nation. They abhorred drunk- 
enness, and intended to be temperate drinkers, and they followed 
the English practice in licensing men to sell intoxicating drinks. 
As ale-houses were in bad repute in England, they avoided the 
appellation, and used the word ordinary, which in England sig- 
nified an eating-house. Our early inns in Hampshire were all 
denominated ordinaries. Inns were called ordinaries in Virginia. 

The people of Hadley, conscious of the evil effects of liquor 
houses, were in no haste to have an ordinary, and when the subject 
was agitated in January, 1663, they proceeded with great caution, 
choosing one committee of ten to consider the matter, and to 
report to another of seven, and the latter were to report to the 
town, who were to choose the most fit man to keep an ordinary. 
The town did not select a man, and the county book does not 
record the license of any one, until March, 1668, when Richard 
Goodman had his license "continued," showing that he was 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 63 

licensed in 1667.* After 1668, there is no notice of an inn or 
ordinary in Hadley or Hatfield for 24 years, but in Hadley, 
Joseph Kellogg, the ferry-man, had liberty to entertain travelers. 
Springfield and Northampton had houses of entertainment, for 
the courts were held in those towns, and the court-rooms were 
always in the ordinaries or inns. In March, 1666, Samuel Porter 
and William Lewis of Hadley, were both presented for selling 
strong liquors without license, and fined. It appeared that they 
were induced to do this, because no one in Hadley had liberty to 
sell liquors. 

In 1667 and 1668, Richard Goodman was licensed to sell wine 
and strong liquors; in 1671, Lieut. Samuel Smith was the next 
retailer in Hadley. In September, 1684, Deac. Philip Smith 
was licensed to sell wine to persons "in real need," meaning the 
sick. In March, 1678, Samuel Partrigg had liberty to sell liquors 
"to the neighbors," and in 1681, "for the helpfulnessf of 
neighbors." In 1685, he had liberty to retail wine, and he was 
afterwards a retailer of strong drink in Hatfield. The ordinary 
keepers and retailers, in those days, were very respectable men. 
Selectmen would not approve, nor the Court license, any other. 
John Pynchon was licensed to sell wine and strong liquors in 1671 ; 
the Court seem to have expected that he would reduc ethe price! 

In September, 1674, the Court that was sitting in the house of 
Nathaniel Ely, ordinary-keeper in Springfield, fined him 40 shil- 
lings, for not keeping beer that was according to law, viz., made 
with four bushels of barley malt to the hogshead, (63 gallons.) 
This beer which ordinaries were required to keep, was not so 
strong as much of the beer used in England. 

The first inn-keeper in Hadley after 1668, in the county rec- 
ords, was Hezekiah Dickinson in 1692 and 1693. Joseph Smith, 
cooper, was an inn-keeper in 1696. Luke Smith was a retailer 
in 1700 and an inn-keeper in 1701. Westwood Cooke was an 
inn-keeper from 1704 to 1707. Luke Smith was an inn-keeper 
most or all of the time from 171 1 to 1731, inclusive. No other 
inn-keeper or retailer in Hadley, is recorded in the county books 
that remain, during those 21 years. 

Selling intoxicating drinks to the Indians. — In consequence of 
the drunkenness of the Indians, "the fruits whereof were murder 



*In 1667, John Pynchon credited to Richard Goodman, for his "account of expenses 
at the General Training" and for other things, £8.2.0. There was a General Training in 
Hadley in 1667, and the officers were entertained by Goodman. 

•f-This kind of "helpfulness" has destroyed thousands of lives and millions of property, 
in Massachusetts. 



64 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

and other outrages," the General Court, in May, 1657, forbid all 
persons to sell or give to any Indian, rum, strong water, wine, 
strong beer, brandy, cider, perry, or any other strong liquors, 
under the penalty of 40 shillings for every pint so sold or given. 
The Courts in Hampshire county were prompt to punish infrac- 
tions of this law, and were sustained by almost all the people. 
There were a few persons who could not resist the temptation of 
exchanging spirits for wampum and beaver skins; and some- 
times a farmer or his wife thought there was no great harm in 
selling to the Indians, a few quarts of poor cider. The Indians 
were sure to be drunk whenever they could get liquor enough for 
that purpose. The following trial of Dr. Westcarr, and some 
other notices, are abridged from the county records: — 

In July, 1670, Doct. John Westcarr, of Hadley, was complained of by the Indians, for 
selling liquor to them. Capt. John Pynchon examined him and heard the witnesses. West- 
carr confessed that he had two barrels of liquor in the spring, and being asked what he did 
with it, said he used it for his own occasions and for neighbors who desired him to procure 
it. He refused to tell to whom he had sold any, yet it was all gone but half a cask. He 
said he used four or five gallons at a time in preparing medicines. 

Wequanunco testified that John Westcarr sold him two quarts of liquor in the spring 
when corn was so high (which, by his sign, was 2 or 3 inches.) Benjamin Wait* standing 
by, said in a deriding manner, may be it was 2 or 3 years ago. The Indian replied, "no, 
it was this spring; what I say is true; Homs (that is, an old man) will not lie. I paid for it 
in wampum after two fadom a quart; I paid in black wampum." The same Indian's wife 
testified that she saw Westcarr sell her husband two quarts of liquor. 

Tackquellawant testified that John Westcarr sells liquors to the Indians; "and about a 
month ago, I had four quarts of him and paid him a beaver skin. This is truth, and 
Chabattan and Wottellosin know it, and saw it." 

Chabattan appeared and said Tackquellawant had four quarts as he testified, of J. W. 
"I was with him and saw it, and saw him pay a beaver skin for it." 

Nuxco testified: — "I fetched liquors from John Westcarr when the Indians were drunken, 
and my wigwam was broken and spoiled by the drunken Indians this summer. I was 
before the Northampton Commissioners about it. I had sis and a half quarts of liquor of 
J. W. and paid him a great beaver skin of my wife's. I also fetched three quarts more, 
and paid him six fadom of wampum." Nuxco says it is a known trade among the Indians, 
that it's two fadom of wampum for a quart. 

Mr. Pynchon bound over Doct. Westcarr to the Sept. Court at Springfield, 1670. The 
preceding testimonies were read. Dr. Westcarr owned that the Indians so accused him. 
The Indians affirmed that Westcarr threatened to lay them in irons, if they told of him. 
He denied, but the Indians told him to his face that it was true and that they were afraid 
to speak all. Nuxco and Tackquellawant said he had feared [frightened] them so that they 
might not speak. Wamequam said Westcarr did so speak. Squiskhegan said Westcarr 
was angry with Mattawan, his son. Mattawan said J. W. told him the Indians were naughty 
for telling the Northampton Commissioners of his selling liquors, and J. W. took away his 
gun because of it. Doct. Westcarr here said he took the gun for debt. Mattawan said he 
owed him not a penny. Mattawan and Squiskhegan said J. W. lied, and that he took 
away the gun because Mattawan informed against him and he was angry. 

John Westcarr tendered to take his oath for his purgation, but the Court refused, and 
gave their reasons. The Court adjudged him guilty of selling at least 10 quarts, and fined 
him 4o£. He appealed to the Court of Assistants at Boston, and was bound in So£, and 
Francis Barnard and John Coleman in 40;^ each, as sureties. 

*B, Wait had also been complained of by the Indians and fined. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 65 

In September, 167 1, it appeared that there had been no issue of the case at Boston, the 
bench and jury not agreeing. The County Court, as he had been at considerable expense 
and trouble, accepted his offer of five pounds, and the matter was settled. He had been 
fined 30;^ in 1667, for selling 15 pints of strong liquor to the Indians. In 1674, ^^^ Indians 
again accused him, and he was bound over by the Hadley Commissioners. At March 
Court, 1675, '^^ wished to be tried by the jury, except Lt. Smith and P. Tilton who had 
bound him over. He was tried by the other ten. The Indians did not appear. He put 
in his defence in writing, and John Smith of Hadley replied to it. The jury decided that 
he was "not legally guilty." 

In 1667, a man in Springfield was fined ;£i6 for selling four quarts of cider to the Indians. 
In 1672, another Springfield man was complained of for selling cider to the Indians. He 
said it was water-cider. As it was such that an Indian was probably made drunk by it, and 
did mischief, the Court fined him 40 shillings. In 1673, ^ Northampton woman was pre- 
sented for selling cider to the Indians. She appeared and acknowledged that she sold some 
sour cider mixed with beer. The Court fined her 45 shillings. 

In Sept. r670, the Court say: — "the woful drunkenness of the Indians cries aloud to use 
the utmost laudable means to prevent what may be of that sin among them." In Sept. 
1673, they say: — "the Indians are very often found drunk, and cross to all good order and 
laws." 

The Indians in this valley were miserable, degraded beings, 
when these towns were settled, and it is evident that they did not 
become any better. The Connecticut Indians were similar. Ac- 
cording to the General Court of that colony in Oct. 1654, "the 
great and crying sin of drunkenness reigns amongst them." 
The Court attributed this to the sale of cider and strong beer to 
them, which had not been forbidden, and these were now pro- 
hibited as well as wine and spirits. Penalty, 5 pounds for every 
pint sold to an Indian. 

In Daniel Gookin's History of the Christian Indians, in 1677, 
he remarked — "A very little strong drink will intoxicate their 
brains; for being used to drink water, they cannot bear a fourth 
part of what an Englishman will bear." 

Drinks in the 17th century. — The early drinks in New England 
were wine of several sorts, comprising that called sack, beer, in- 
cluding ale, and strong water or aquavitae, which was of two 
kinds, viz., brandy distilled from wine, and a liquor made from 
malt or grain, and named usquebaugh. Wine and beer were the 
principal drinks, until rum was brought from the West Indies. 
Rum was called "kill-devil" by Josselyn, and the General Court 
of Connecticut, in 1654, termed it "Barbadoes liquor commonly 
called rum-kill-devil."* It was much cheaper than aquavitae 
from Europe, and its use became much more common. Strong 
beer was first made of imported malt, and in a few years, of malt 
from grain raised here. Much ordinary household beer was 

*This liquor was strangely misnamed. Instead of killing the devil, it has greatly extended 
and strengthened his kingdom. Josselyn called it a "cursed liquor." Aquavitae, which 
signifies, water of life, had also a very wrong name. 



66 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

made. Hops grew wild in the intervals of the Connecticut. 
After some years, cider was added to the beverages. The second 
Henry Wolcott, of Windsor, had an extensive nursery and orchard, 
and he began to sell cider in 1648, at 2s. 8d. per gallon; in 1650, 
the price was is. 8d. and in 1653, is. 4d. and 30 shillings a barrel. 
He also sold boiled cider. In 1678, cider in Northampton was 
ID shillings a barrel, and before 1700, 6 or 7 shillings. It was 
not very abundant, and beer was a more common drink than 
cider in the Hampshire towns until after 1700. New England 
rum, distilled from molasses, was added to the list of intoxicating 
drinks, about 1700. 

Other liquors, as mum, perry and metheglin, are noticed in 
New England in the 17th century. There were various prepa- 
rations of wines and spirits, as mulled wine, or wine burnt or 
stewed, and sweetened and spiced; and cherry rum or brandy, 
called cherry-bounce. Flip made of beer, sugar and spirits, 
appears near the close of the century, and punch not long after. 

Malt-houses were early established, and they continued in some 
of the villages on Connecticut River more than a century. John 
Barnard, who died in Hadley in 1664, had a malt-house in Had- 
ley, and another in Wethersfield, and was called "maltster." 
Andrew Warner hired his malt-house in Hadley, and it was burnt 
in 1665. He then built malt-works for himself, and was the 
maltster of Hadley-, and his son Jacob seems to have succeeded 
him. Francis Barnard had a malt-house. 

Distilling. — Small stills, often called limbecs, were common in 
England more than 230 years ago, and housewives distilled cor- 
dials, sweet waters and medicinal waters, from herbs, flowers, 
spices, &c. The early settlers of Massachusetts, in Boston and 
vicinity, had many of these small stills in their houses, which 
appear in their inventories, valued at from 15 to 45 shillings each. 
There were some at Hartford and Windsor. Several ministers 
had one of these little stills. Andrew Warner of Hadley, had a 
small still valued at 10 shillings, and Doct. Hastings of Hatfield, 
had one valued at 40 shillings. 

There were larger stills, and spirits were distilled in Massa- 
chusetts, Plymouth and Connecticut, from grain apparently, 
before 1662. This kind of distillation could not have been 
extensive, nor of long continuance. Henry Wolcott distilled 
something called brandy before 1680, perhaps from cider, but 
not much cider-brandy was made in New England till after 1750. 
Samuel Porter of Hadley, had a still and worm, in 1722, valued 
at 9 pounds. What was distilled in it, is unknown. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 67 

Aquavitae was imported into New England in small casks, 
and in bottles packed in cases, perhaps like the gin-cases of later 
days. Such cases were brought to Hadley, and these bottles, 
probably from their shape, gave a permanent name to Aquavitae 
Meadow. John Barnard, in his will, in 1664, gave to a kinsman 
"my piece of land that lieth in the Nook, or Aquavita Bottle." 
The last word was not retained. The contents of these bottles 
were esteemed very precious, and Mary Barnard, widow of John, 
in her will, in 1665, gave to four friends "one glass of strong 
water" each, that is, one bottle of brandy each, and reserved 
other glasses for the use of sick and weak persons. — "Aqua- 
vitae" and "aquavitae bottle" are found in Shakespeare. 

Lechford, who wrote in 1642, says drunkenness was then rare 
in Massachusetts. Intemperance increased after the means of 
intoxication were more easily procured. There were many com- 
plaints in the 17th century, that some men spent their estates 
and impoverished their families, by excessive drinking. In Sam- 
uel Clough's New England Almanack for 1702, are the following 
lines, which doubtless give a correct description of a Boston bar- 
room, and of some in the country, 156 years ago: — 

Under December. 
"The days are short, the weather's cold, 
By tavern fires, tales are told, 
Some ask for dram when first come in, 
Others with flip or bounce begin." 

Under January. 
"Ill husbands now in taverns sit, 
And spend more money than they get, 
Calling for drink and drinking greedy, 
The' many of them poor and needy." 

Intemperance was more common in Boston and on the sea- 
board than in the agricultural towns, but Hampshire was not 
entirely free from intemperate drinking and its evil consequences. 
The County Court, in March, 1675, remark — "it is found by 
experience that there is too much idle expense of precious time 
and estate, in drinking strong liquors, by many of our youth and 
others in our towns." The Court ordered that retailers should 
sell only to governors of fam.ilies of sober carriage, "the intent 
being that such persons as have liberty to sell, should use their 
best to prevent a trade of drinking and drunkenness." — John 
Pynchon retailed brandy at the rate of 12 shillings per gallon in 
1653, and rum at 6s. to 6s. 8d. in 1673. He did not commonly 
retail wine and spirits, but when he had rum for sale, there was no 
lack of purchasers. Rev. Pelatiah Glover, the m.inister of Spring- 



68 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

field, bought of him about two gallons of rum, and six quarts of 
wine, in a year, from 1672 to 1675. Mr, Pynchon, at the raising 
of his mill-dam, in 1654, furnished wine and cakes to the amount 
of 13s. 6d. In Hadley, in 1665, the wine and cake at the funeral 
of John Barnard's widow, cost 40 shillings — a bad practice 
derived from England. When the Hadley School mill was raised 
in 1706, II quarts of rum at 4 shillings per gallon were used. As 
intoxicating liquors became more plenty, their use and pernicious 
effects became more common. 



CHAPTER VIII 

Town Meetings — Townsmen's Accounts — Freemen — Town OfBcers — Pound — Town By- 
laws — Occupations of the people — Petitions of Hadley, in 1665, 1669 and 1670. 

The fathers of Hadley intended to have all business done in an 
orderly, methodical manner. In December, 1660, they voted 
that a moderator should be chosen at every town meeting, and 
when they chose Nathaniel Dickinson, to transcribe all town 
orders, they directed that the orders made by the town, should 
be read openly in the presence of the meeting, before it broke up. 
When Peter Tilton was chosen to record town orders, Sept. 1661, 
he was to receive two pence for each order, and he was to forfeit 
four pence for every order not recorded before the next meeting. 
Mr. Tilton was a systematic, well educated man. 

In January, 1662, the following regulations for town meetings were voted by the town — 
Warnings were to be accounted legal, when each inhabitant had had notice by telling him, 
or some of his family, or by leaving word at his house, at least the evening before the meeting; 
otherwise not legal. Every person not coming to the meeting within half an hour of the 
appointed time, was to forfeit 6 pence, and not coming within an hour, 12 pence, unless 
excused at the next meeting, after giving a rational plea for absence. If the major part of 
the voters did not appear within an hour, those present might go away and attend to their 
own occasions, but if a major part appeared, it was a legal meeting. "The townsmen 
before every town meeting shall choose one of themselves to be moderator, who shall have 
the ordering of the meeting, of speech and silence therein," and no person shall depart 
without leave of the moderator, under the penalty of 6 pence, "and being accounted as one 
that gives an evil example of disorder to others." All in the meeting were to direct their 
speech to the moderator, and "he to value and make answer thereto, until it be ripened for 
a vote; that so we may avoid personal jangling." [Abridged.] 

They also voted to choose Townsmen yearly in January, who should have power to order 
and transact all public occasions but the following: — Admitting inhabitants, giving of land, 
laying out highways, alienating fences and properties, erecting common buildinQ;s, as houses, 



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mills, bridges, &c. of considerable value, levying of rates, and some other things. In all 
these, the townsmen must have the consent of the town. 

In 1662, the ^townsmen were to meet the first Monday of every other month, to consider 
matters that concern the town. — The proceedings of townsmen and selectmen were seldom 
recorded. 

There was no town Treasurer in those days, and no need of 
any. Rates were not levied in money, and town debts were not 
paid in money. The townsmen kept the accounts, and after 
their year was out, the new townsmen with two other persons 
appointed for that purpose, examined their accounts, and the 
result was recorded. The record of these audits for many years, 
may be seen in the town book. There was no Treasurer in Had- 
ley till some years after 1700. 

Richard Billings, of the west side, sued the agents of the town, 
in 1664, for witholding some of his land. He attended a town 
meeting, March 25, 1664, and offended them by his free and earnest 
speeches, and the town deliberately voted, "that the carriage of Rich- 
ard Billings at this present meeting, is offensive." He gained his 
cause at the next Court, and did not trouble himself about the 
vote. 

Freemen. — By the early laws of Massachusetts, none but 
church-members could be freemen; and none but freemen could 
hold offices or vote for rulers. These regulations were modified 
in 1647 ^^^ 1658, and some non-freemen were allowed to vote 
in town affairs generally, and might hold town offices; and in 
1664, some who were not church-members could be freemen. In 
those days, town offices were burdensome and were avoided, and 
many members of churches, in order to exempt themselves from 
public service, would not be made freemen, and in 1647, ^ "^^ 
was made compelling such men to serve, if chosen, or pay a fine 
not exceeding 20 shillings. 

In Hadley, the distinction of freemen and non-freemen is 
seldom alluded to in the records. It is evident that town meet- 
ings were open to all, and that all came together and debated 
and voted freely, respecting town affairs. Only freemen voted 
for Magistrates or Assistants, County Commissioners and Treas- 
urer, and they chose deputies to the General Court. Their 
votes and choice are not recorded in the town book. 

OFFICERS CHOSEN BY THE TOWN, 

And some appointed by others. 
Townsmen, were called Selectmen, after a few years. There were five from the beginning. 
They were chosen by the engagers, in November, 1659, in three places. They were chosen 
at Norwottuck, Dec. 14, 1660, viz., Andrew Bacon, Andrew Warner, Nathaniel Dickinson, 
Samuel Smith and William Lewis. The town of Hadley chose five Jan. 27, 1662, three 
from the east side and two from the west side. For a century after 1663, a selectman was 
very rarely chosen two years in succession. 



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Raters or Rate-makers, viz., Samuel Smith, Nathaniel Dickinson and William Allis, were 
first chosen to make the rates, Dec. i6, 1661. For some years after, S. Smith, N. Dickinson 
and Peter Tilton were chosen. The raters were sometimes called assessors, before 1700, 
and commonly after 171 5. 

Auditors. — Two were chosen yearly, to unite with the new townsmen, in settling the 
accounts of the old ones. The first were William Partrigg and Peter Tilton, who were 
chosen Dec. 11, 1661, to audit, with the townsmen, all rates and accounts for two 
years past. 

Constables. — They took their oath before the County Court. Thomas Coleman was 
the first Constable of Newtown, March, 1661, and Stephen Terry was the first Constable of 
Hadley, March, 1662. William Partrigg, for east side, and Isaac Graves, for west side, 
were chosen Jan. 27, 1663. Substantial men were elected to this office. After Hatfield 
became a town, only one was chosen annually in Hadley, until 1704. 

The constable had many duties to perform, and in executing them, he carried a black 
staff, 5 feet long, tipped with brass. In Massachusetts, he was the collector of taxes or 
rates. 

Town Recorder or Clerk. — Nathaniel Dickinson, who had before acted as recorder, was 
chosen to record town orders, Dec. 17, 1660; and Peter Tilton was chosen to record town 
orders, Sept. 4, 1661, and to record lands, Feb. 9, 1663. Mr. Tilton held the office 31 
years and a half. Samuel Barnard was chosen in 1693, and is the first that is called Clerk 
in the record. 

Sealer of Weights and Measures, was called in England, and sometimes in Massachu- 
setts, Clerk of the Market. John Barnard of Hadley was sworn by the County Court in 
1663, and William Partrigg in 1665. Joseph Smith, the cooper and miller, was chosen by 
the town, in 1696, and he was sealer many years, and was succeeded by his son Joseph. 

Hadley and Northampton were complained of to the Court, for not having standard 
weights and measures, Sept. 1664. They were allowed until the next March to get stand- 
ards. Hadley voted brass weights in 1707. 

In England, in the time of Elizabeth, according to Holinshed, many clerks of the market 
contrived to leave the measures too big or too little, in order to have another fee for repair- 
ing. Some dealers had one measure to sell by, and another to buy by, yet all sealed and 
branded. It was the same with weights. Poor tenants that paid their rent in grain to their 
landlords, were often dealt with very hardly. The "golden days" of Queen Elizabeth, 
furnish abundant examples of all kinds of dishonesty and wickedness. 

Commissioners to end small Causes. — By a law of the colory, the towns where no magis- 
trate dwelt, might request the County Court to appoint three Commissioners, to hear and 
determine causes, where the debt or damage did not exceed 40 shillings. A magistrate had 
the same power. The General Court appointed Commissioners for Hadley, in May, 1661, 
when the town was named, with unusual power, viz., Andrew Bacon, Samuel Smith and 
William Westwood. In April, 1662, the town chose the same men. In May, 1663, the 
General Court allowed Henry Clarke, Samuel Smith and Andrew Bacon to be commission- 
ers till the next September, and their extraordinary power was then to cease, and Hadley 
was to have commissioners to end small causes as other towns. The same three men, 
Clarke, Smith and Bacon, were sworn by the County Court, as commissioners for small 
causes, in Sept. 1663, and Bacon was continued until 1669, Clarke till 1675 and Smith till 
1678. Others were John White, Nathaniel Dickinson, Peter Tilton and Philip Smith. 
These town Courts ended with the first charter. 

Clerk of the Writs. — Every town might nominate a Clerk of the Writs, to be allowed by 
the shire Court, to grant summons and attachments in civil actions. They were to receive 
two pence for a warrant, three pence for an attachment, and four pence for a bond. The 
first Clerk of the Writs in Hadley, was John P.ussell, sr., appointed by the General Court, in 
May, 1661; no other is recorded until March, 1681, when Richard Montague was sworn by 
the County Court; Samuel Partrigg was sworn in 1682, and Samuel Barnard in 1686. 

Tithing-men, in Massachusetts, were first ordered in 1677. Hadley selectmen chose four, 
and they were approved by the County Court, in March, 1678, viz., Timothy Nash, Samuel 
Moody, Samuel Church, Chileab Smith. After 1680, they were chosen by the town, four 
for some years, and then only two. They were to inspect the conduct of liquor-sellers, 
Sabbath-breakers, night-walkers, tipplers, &c. and present the names of the disorderly to 
a magistrate. 



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Surveyors of Highways were first chosen Jan. 27, 1663, viz., Edward Church and Chileab 
Smith, east side, and Nathaniel Dickinson, Jr., west side. After the town was divided, only 
two were chosen, one from the north and one from the south part of the village. 

Measurers of Land. — Were not chosen annually. After Samuel Smith and Peter Tilton, 
1660, none were recorded for many years. In 1696, Capt. Aaron Cooke, Nehemiah Dick- 
inson and Samuel Porter were chosen. 

A Packer was chosen to pack meat and fish intended for market. He was to inspect 
casks, and was called gauger of casks. The first one recorded in Hadley was Samuel Part- 
rigg, in March, 1679. Daniel Marsh was packer, 1694-1698. Sergt. Joseph Smith, the 
cooper, miller, sealer, &c. was chosen packer in 1669, and many years after, and his son 
Joseph succeeded him. — Samuel Partrigg understood the cooper's business, and the others 
were coopers. 

Fence Viewers. — Mr. Westwood and Brother Standley were chosen, April 24, 1661, "to 
view the meadow fences." Four regular fence viewers were appointed in April, 1662, two 
or the east side, and two for the west side. After some years, two were annually chosen for 
i'ort Meadow and Hockanum, two for Great Meadow, two for Forty Acres and School 
Meadows, and one or two for Little Panset, on the west side. They were appointed by 
the selectmen till 1693, and afterwards chosen by the town. 

Hayward. — Goodman Montague was chosen a common Hayward, May 11, 1661, and 
again in 1662. He was to have 12 pence each for cattle and hogs, two shillings for a horse, 
and 20 pence for 20 sheep, that he should find loose in the meadow, and bring out; to be 
paid by the owners. At a later period, these officers were called Field Drivers, and two 
were chosen annually. In a colony law, 1693, ^^^Y ^''^ called "Haywards or Field-drivers." 

Hogreeves were ordered by a law of 1720. No earlier law is found. Hadley first chose 
hogreeves in 1721. 

Hog-ringers. — In March, 1706, the town voted to choose hog-ringers annually, and they 
were to ring all swine 14 inches high, found unringed on commons or fields, from March i 
to Dec. I. To have 4 pence for each. The west side voted that hogs should be ringed in 
1663 and 1664. Hogs seem to have run at large if ringed, or sometimes if yoked and 
ringed. 

Cow-keeper. — There was a cow-keeper in Hadley, on the east side, in 1662, and long 
after, who had the care of the cows in their great pasture, the woods, and was paid by the 
owners of the cows. He is seldom noticed in the records. There was a cow-keeper on the 
west side, 1663. Sometimes there was a keeper of the dry herd. 

A Shepherd was to be hired, April, 1686 and 1687. Pens were to be made to fold the 
sheep at night, 1687, and "their lodgings" would help pay the charges. Selectmen to 
order. A shepherd had sometimes been employed years before. 

Grave Digger. — It was voted, March 9, 1663, that Richard Montague should have four 
shillings for every grave he makes for a grown person, and two shillings for the grave of a 
child under ten years. 

The persons who rung the bell and swept and took care of the meeting-house, are not 
noticed in the record. 

A Pound was ordered to be built by the "four quarters on this side," each quarter its 
share, Feb. 9, 1663. It was not built till Sept., 1664, after complaint to the Court. The 
place was not mentioned, but a few years after, the pound was in the middle highway into 
the meadow, which was 6 rods wide, and Thomas Webster, who had a little house in this 
highway, was called "pound-keeper and shepherd," 1684. A new pound was voted in 
1689. 

There was a Guard on the Sabbath before there was any Indian war. The town voted, 
April 4, 1664, that the military officers "should choose the guard for the defence of the town 
upon Lord's days, Lectures and public meeting days of God's worship." In 1667, it was 
voted that every soldier, who attended on the guard a year, should receive a pound of powder 
and a pound of lead. The service was light. The soldier carried his arms to the place of 
meeting, and sat in the seat of the guard. 

By-laws and Orders of the town, voted May 3, 1693, and allowed by the County Court, 
Sept. 23, 1693, for directing and managing the prudential affairs of the town. Abridged. 

I. Ten men, including a majority of the selectmen, having assembled, may proceed with 
the business of a town meeting, the meeting having been legally warned. 



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2. Common fences are to be made good by March 20th, yearly — to be 4^ feet high, or 
ditch and rails, or hedge equivalent thereto. To be so close as to keep out swine three 
months old. 

3. Owners of defective fences, after one day's warning and nothing done, are to pay the 
viewers double price for mending the same. 

4. Every man to have a stake iz inches high at the end of his fence, with the two first 
letters of his name, facing the way the fence runs. 

5. Hockanum and Fort Meadow are to be cleared yearly on Michaelmas day, (Sept. 29;) 
the Great Meadow a fortnight after; unless the selectmen order otherwise. 

6. Those who leave open gates and bars of common fields, between March 20, and the 
opening of the fields, are to pay 5 shillings besides all damages. 

7. No man to trespass by going over his neighbor's land with team or cart, or by baiting, 
without leave. Fine, 2s. 6d. and to pay damages. 

8. Horses, cattle, sheep and swine found in the common fields without a keeper, within 
the time aforesaid, are to be pounded, and hogs at all times. Horses and cattle to pay for 
each poundage, one shilling, and two pence for the keeper of the pound; hogs and sheep 6 
pence and a penny for the keeper, besides damages. 

9. All heads over 16 years, are to work one day on the highway; and owners of meadow 
land at the rate of one day for 20 acres. 

10. Any person refusing to work after 24 hours warning, forfeits 2s. 6d. 

1 1 . All heads over 14, when called out by the selectmen to cut brush or clear the commons, 
shall work one day yearly in June, or forfeit 2s. 6d. 

12. All young cattle should be herded annually at some place remote from the town; the 
owners to pay the expense. The selectmen to expend what is necessary. 

Occupation of the inhabitants of Hadley. — The early settlers 
were generally thrifty, substantial men. They all had lands 
and derived the greater part of their support from their lands and 
labors. Most of them were farmers, as they had been in the 
towns from which they came. There were some artificers, and 
a few that had been in trade. Several left buildings and lands 
in Connecticut. The estates of a number of them were worth 
from 800 to 1 100 pounds, after their decease. 

Trade must have been quite limited at Hadley in the 17th 
century, yet some persons connected traffic with their other 
employments, at times, as William Partrigg, Lieut. Samuel 
Smith, Philip Smith, Samuel Porter, and William Lewis. The 
fur-trade with the Indians was in the hands of John Pynchon, 
and he had agents in the towns. In Hadley, on the west side, 
Zechariah Field traded with Indians and whites, and failed 
about 1664. On the east side, Doct. John Westcarr had the 
Indian trade for a year or two before the Indian war of 1675. 
Previous to 1670, the people of Hadley bought many goods of 
John Pynchon at Springfield, and paid him in wheat, flour, pork 
and malt. — The second Samuel Porter, who died in 1722, was 
the most extensive trader there had been in the county of Hamp- 
shire, except John Pynchon. He left a large estate. 

The artificers or mechanics were commonly farmers also. 
Timothy Nash was a blacksmith. John Russell, senior, was a 
glazier, a trade that required some skill in the days of diamond 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 73 

glass. Richard Montague was a baker, but there was not much 
demand for his services in Hadley, except in the Indian war. 
William Partrigg was a cooper, as well as trader. The first 
Samuel Porter had a set of joiner and carpenter's tools, valued 
at £b, 2s. 6d., and he undoubtedly sometimes used them, and 
his son Hezekiah was a carpenter. Robert Boltwood may have 
been a carpenter; he could build a mill. The records do not make 
known the names of the men who built chimneys, made garments, 
or made shoes. 

Petitions or Addresses of Hadley relating to public 

AFFAIRS. 

I. Petition when the General Court was contending with the 
Commissioners of Charles II., 1665. 

King Charles II. asserted his right to interfere in the domestic 
concerns of Massachusetts, and sent commissioners, in 1664, to 
regulate the affairs of New England. The inhabitants of Mass- 
achusetts, relying on their charter, resolved to resist the orders 
of the king, and to nullify his conmiission, and they succeeded. 
The requisitions of the king gave birth to the parties of prerog- 
ative and of freedom, which continued to divide Massachusetts 
till the establishment of independence. The dawning strife of the 
new system against the old one had begun.* In the midst of the 
contest between the General Court and the royal Commissioners, 
Hadley sent a long petition or address to the General Court, 
dated April 25, 1665. It was drawn up by Mr. Russell, who 
was a zealous opposer of the pretensions and encroachments of 
England. Northampton also sent a petition, dated April 19, 
1665, signed by 86 persons, requesting the Court "to stand for, 
confirm, and maintain our former and ancient liberties and priv- 
ileges, both in church and commonwealth." It was only about 
one-fourth as long as that of Hadley. Mr. Russell was inclined 
to be wordy, and was not always explicit. f 

To the much honored General Court of the Massachusetts now assembled at Boston, the 
humble petition of the inhabitants of the town of Hadley: 

Honored and worthy fathers, if we call you fathers and Gods too, we speak but after the 
most high one of these relative titles, bespeak the tender and natural love we confide in you 
for; the other tells us what power you have in your hands to help us and the end for which 
God hath clothed you therewith; both show us our duty of repairing to you for help (in time 
of danger) under him who is over all. If ever there were appearances of danger towards us, 
we think now more. The cry of our sins as well as the Lord's threatenings being so manifest 
to them that have ears to hear. Had the Lord but spoken by the meanest of his messengers, 
tender hearts would have trembled; but when the Lord hath seconded so many voices of his 

♦Bancroft's History of United States, Vol. II. 

fif my minutes are correct, Mr. Russell preached the election sermon at Boston, May, 1665. 



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precious servants by the midnight cries of those portentous signs* in the heavens, once and 
again; and that in conjunction with the disastrous state-shakings among us, we would not 
Pharaoh like harden our hearts, or refuse to see the lifting up of the Lord's hand. Either 
of these might administer sad thoughts of heart; both together give us more cause to look 
out that with the prudent we may foresee the danger and hide ourselves, rather than with 
the simple, pass on and be punished. 

The Good Lord our God (forever blessed be his name) hath in a day of danger in the 
world, bid us enter into our chambers and hath kept us safe with himself. His eyes have 
been upon us, his salvation for walls and bulwarks; when we nor had, nor could have any 
other, he hath graciously made his word to be verified to us, that he would go before us and 
be our rere-ward, himself creating on all our dwelling places, his cloud and smoke and flam- 
ing fire; and upon all the glory causing a defence to be; affording here a tabernacle for a 
shadow from the heat, and a place of refuge and covert from the storm. Have we seen the 
Lord assaying so to do to any other since he brought his own redeemed his son and first 
born out of Egypt ? May we not look from one end of the earth, yea and heavens too, to 
the other and not see it ? And in what way the Lord hath done this for us, and what statutes 
and judgments he hath caused us to keep; which hath been our wisdom and made us great 
in the sight of the nations, hath been a thing too public and glorious to be concealed or doubt 
ed of. By what shepherds the Lord hath led and fed us here, and what hath been the in- 
tegrity of their hearts and skillfulness of their hands; would be wretched ingratitude if we 
should so soon forget, especially having so often and lately sung the Lord's praises for the 
same. That we have not so carried toward these as we ought we know, and desired to be 
humbled for. We know also that there is a dreadful difference between serving the Lord 
under these, and other services. That we may not know this, as fools come to understand 
good and evil, is our humble petition and request to yourselves; who under God are the only 
means to save us therefrom, and whom we have trusted with all we have for this very end. 
We humbly but most earnestly beseech you that the same may be kept for us and for the 
Lord. Nor do we herein ask any more than the Lord allows and commands us to do. We 
would fear God, and honor the king. Whatever royal grants of grace we have received 
either from the Lord in Heaven or kings on earth, the accepting, holding fast and maintain- 
ing of the same with due thankfulness, is the true magnifying of that grace, and to throw 
away, or cowardly to suffer ourselves to be flattered or frightened from it, is the despising 
and dishonoring thereof. The faster we hold the grace of God, even when he seems to be 
angry and thrust us away; the more we honor and please him. The king of heaven will 
give his poorest subject on earth, leave to challenge resolutely his right and not to let it go 
for frowns or threats. And why should we think that a just and gracious king on earth will 
not do in like manner. We have right from God and man to chuse our own governors, make 
and live under our own laws. Our liberty and privileges herein as men we prize and would 
hold as our lives; this makes us freemen and not slaves. Our privilege herein as Christians 
in regard of the kingdom, name, glory of our God is far more precious than our lives. Here- 
by we enjoy and are not without God in the world. And we must give an account of our 
holding and improving thereof, to the hazard of much more than the worth of our lives. 
We would not live so accursed as to live having betrayed our trust herein. We should then 
be ashamed to live and afraid to die, when now through the maintaining of the same, thro' 
the Lord's grace, we are neither. Nor is it our own portion only that we trade with in this 
case, but our children's stock also — even their advantages as men and Christians to serve 
the Lord and be accounted to him for a generation forevermore. Can we bear to think 
that they should rise up and call us cursed for betraying them in their successive generations, 
and to publish the same to the ends of the earth. 

Honored and endeared in the Lord, you are our nail, we hope, in a sure place. On you 
we hang our enjoyments, houses, lands, liberties, wives, children, lives and all our sanctu- 
ary vessels. At your hands we look for them again, and the Lord will require them. True, 
what danger is, you are in the forefront of it, but is it not the Lord that set you there ? And 
he that gave Joshua so many charges to be strong and very courageous knows what all his 
Joshuas need, and will withhold no good thing from them that walk uprightly. Your place 
is not worse than David's valley of the shadow of death; he that was with him will be with 
you and then no fear of ill. Nor is your help less than Jonathan's when the Lord wrought 

*One of these signs was the comet of 1664 and 1665. 



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such deliverance for and by him. We with our prayers and endeavors, heads and hearts, 
and lands and estates and lives will be with you and subject unto you. He can deliver if 
he will; if not, we are not careful in this matter. We again beseech you, Let us give fear, 
honor, tribute, obedience to the Lord and the king, with all humility, constancy, and willing- 
ness as his due. And what is given us for ourselves and for our God, let us never bereave 
ourselves nor rob him of. We crave pardon for the length and plainness of our speech 
(which yet, we hope hath not been rude.) Our hearts have been and are full of affection. 
We desire to leave this testimony of it with yourselves and to pour out the remainder before 
the Lord in our earnest and hearty prayer for his presence with and blessing upon you and 
your resolves; to your own comfort, the continuance and increase of the prosperity of our 
Zion, and the advancement of the honor of his most glorious name. And so hoping in the 
Lord, we rest your humble suppliants. 
Hadley, April 25th, 1665. 

This petition was signed by gi persons, who must have included 
almost every male in the town, above 21 years of age. About 63 
belonged to the east side of the river, and 28 to the west side. 

II. Petition of Hadley against the impost or customs, 1669. 

On the 7th of November, 1668, the General Court of Massa- 
chusetts ordered that duties should be imposed on goods and 
merchandise, and on horses, cattle and grain imported into this 
colony, after the first of March next. Petitions against this act 
were sent from some towns on the sea-board, and from Spring- 
field, Northampton and Hadley on Connecticut River. These 
three towns apprehended that Connecticut would retaliate, and 
impose a tax on their produce sent down the river. The duty 
was reduced in i66g, and suspended as to Connecticut and Ply- 
mouth in 1670. The Hadley petition is subjoined. It appears 
to be in the hand-writing of William Goodwin. 

Northampton stated that it cost is. 8d. a bushel to transport 
wheat to Boston, viz., is. to Windsor, 2d. thence to Hartford, and 
6d. from Hartford to Boston. This was the cost of transport 
when grain was carted to Windsor. 

To the Right Worshipful Richard Bellingham, Esq., Governor, and to the rest of the 
Worshipful Assistants and Deputies of the General Court of the Massachusetts Colony. 

The humble petition of the inhabitants of the town of Hadleigh sheweth: 

That whereas we have been informed of an order made the last General Court about 
customs to be laid on all (unless some specials excepted) imports and exports, which order 
was left with some preparatives (in case) towards an execution this next ensuing March. 
The sense we have and fears that we are filled with of evil and danger towards the whole in 
general, and ourselves in special (with reference to the same) do enforce us to present these 
following considerations to this honored Court. 

I. Liberty, liberty of the subject and commons being the great thing we have made 
(and we trust in sincerity) profession of, the clogging and loading of trade, the freedom 
whereof is the advance of a people, will it not administer matter of discouragement, sink- 
ing discouragement to our own people and occasion of evil report among others, that we 
who have been an example of seeking liberty should become an example of taking it away 
from ourselves and others f 



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2. The moving (that we say not commotion) of men's spirits generally at the thing, as 
indeed we find it which (we think) we may say of all sorts among us, demonstrates the tender 
sense that people have thereof, and the working of passions within. Now the general 
motions of spirits hath still been accounted a thing regardable in societies of all sorts, and 
this we find to be as of one man with us against this thing. 

3. Its to us matter of no small fear lest the thing itself circumstanced with the dissentions 
and strivings about it, should administer occasion of drawing of an heavier yoke upon us 
from others and afford a plea for the expediency and necessity of the same to us, who could 
not live without customs nor agree in having them. 

4. We cannot but suspect the product thereof will be the diversion of trade especially as 
to our neighbor colony in Connecticut, and then if the trade be gone the customs will be of 
little avail to the supply of our wants or others. 

5. We ourselves in this part of the colony are like to have not only the common share in 
the evils and dangers likely hereupon to ensue, but also a burden even a sinking load of 
overplus more than we can bear, for our transport being unavoidably through Connecticut 
Colony we must look to have so much taken from us as will make our trading (without 
which we cannot subsist) intolerable. How much we may or shall suffer we Imow not, 
but words are high and that which sounds in our ears is, that its no reason they should be 
losers by our colony; hence they say its but equal that they should take so much again as 
is by our order taken from them. And so we shall bear the burden of the whole colony 
though we sink under it. 

6. Seeing we are required (and according to righteousness joyfully do it) to bear our share 
of the burthens and duty belonging to the whole, we trust we shall share in the privileges 
proportionably and find such protection and safeguard under the government as that the 
laws and order thereof may not expose us (more than others of the colony) to detriment and 
ruin. 

In respect of all these as well as of other considerations our humble request to the Hon- 
ored Council is that if possible there may be no procedure to execution of this law (which 
passed so barely also in the General Court) until the next General Court; that so we 
may have liberty and opportunity to present our petitions unto and seek help from them, 
that either the thing may not proceed or some effectual course may be taken that we be 
not thereby oppressed beyond measure only because we are members of this colony. 

Thus craving pardon for our so far troubling of you and beseeching your help in this our 
distress, we rest your suppliants ever wishing and praying for your welfare and prosperity 
in the Lord. 

Hadley, Feb. 19, 1668-9. 



East Side. — 34. 
Henry Clarke, 
Andrew Bacon, 
William Goodwin, 
Samuel Smith, 
Joseph Kellogg, 
William Marcum, 
Thomas Dickinson, 
John Russell, Jr., 
John White, Sr., 
Philip Smith, 
Nathaniel Dickinson, Sr., 
John Russell, Sr., 
Will. Westwood, 
Aaron Cooke, 
Peter Tilton, 
William Lewis, 
Andrew Warner, 
Samuel Gardner, Sr., 
Samuel Church, 
Chileab Smith, 
Timothy Nash, 



John Crow, 
John Taylor, 
Samuel Porter, 
Richard Goodman, 
Thomas Coleman, 
Richard Mountague, 
Edward Church, 
John Dickinson, Sr., 
Francis Barnard, 
Robert Bolt wood, 
Joseph Baldwin, 
Thomas Wells, 
John Hubbard. 

East Side.— 30. 
Caleb Watson, 
Nehemiah Dickinson, 
Hezekiah Dickinson, 
Azariah Dickinson, 
Samuel Foote, 
John Smith, 
Samuel Gardner, Jr., 
Thomas Partrigg, 



Daniel Marsh, 
Isaac Harrison, 
Noah Coleman, 
Joseph Warriner, 
Samuel Marsh, 
Richard Lyman, 
Samuel Crow, 
Philip Lewis, 
William Webster, 
William Rooker, 
Isaac Stanley, 
John Abot, 
Isaac Warner, 
Samuel Partrigg, 
Peter Mountague, 
John Westcarr, 
John Dickinson, Jr., 
John Warner, 
John Peck, 
Jonathan Baldwin, 
Samuel Bolt wood, 
John Barnard. 



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77 



West Side. — 28. 
Thomas Meekins, Sr., 
Thomas Meekins, Jr., 
Isaac Graves, Sr., 
John Graves, Sr., 
William Allis, 
John Allis, 
William Gull, 
Nathaniel Dickinson, Jr 
Daniel White, 
Philip Russell, 
Richard Billing, 



Samuel Hinsdell, 
Samuel Billing, 
John Hawks, 
John Coules, Sr., 
Daniel Warner, 
John Coules, Jr., 
Isaac Graves, Jr., 
John Graves, Jr., 
Samuel Dickinson, 
Obadiah Dickinson, 
Samuel Kellogg, 
Samuel Allis, 



Samuel Gillet, 
Samuel Field, 
James Brown, 
Barnabas Hinsdell, 
Joseph Allis. 

East side, 34 old names. 

" " 30 later names. 
West " 28 names. 



Total, 92 " 
A few did not sign. 

III. Petition of Hadley and Northampton in reference to the 
provocation of the people and God's displeasure, 1670. 

"To the worshipful and much honored General Court of the Massachusetts now sitting 
in Boston: 

It being abundantly manifest to them that know the Lord and do consider the operations 
of his hands that his carriage towards his churches and people in this country hath not 
been as in former times the years of the right hand of the most high; but that instead of 
his wonted blessing and lifting up the light of his countenance, he hath shewed us both 
many signs of his displeasure against and departure from us; which if he proceed to do then 
is that fearful woe Hosea 9: 12 accomplished towards us. The consideration and fear 
whereof occasioneth us to present this our humble enquiry to this honored Court, viz. 
Whether the rod of God upon our churches and land has not this speaking voice to us, that 
there should be some public and solemn enquiry what it is that hath provoked the Lord 
(who doth not afflict willingly, but if need be) against us. The genuine and tender filial 
spirit when it sees the father angry, cannot rest without inquiry why it is; the example of 
that made after God's own heart 2 Samuel 21 : 1,2 (as well as others) is a pattern to us. 
Our own distresses and dangers may necessitate us to faithful and diligent search if there 
be any Achan or Jonas that may hazard the loss and ruin of all. The finding and unan- 
imous agreeing in what our evil is seems to be the necessary and just means and part of 
our turning to the Lord, whereby only we can hope for his return (in mercy) unto us, 
according to his wonted loving kindness, which, that we may surely and speedily [word 
illegible] is the earnest prayer of your humble servants. 

Hadley, May 3, 1670. HENRY CLARKE, 

JOHN RUSSELL, 
SAMUEL SMITH, 
In behalf of the freemen of Hadley. 
WILLIAM HOLTON, 1 , „ , 
WILLIAM CLARKE, / °^ Northampton, 

in the name of sundry of the freemen there, who have had the consideration 
of the above writing. 

This petition or address was written by Mr. Russell, Jr. The 
signature of John Russell may be that of his father. North- 
ampton had no settled pastor at that time.* 

In May, 1670, the writing from Hadley and Northampton was 
considered by the deputies, and a committee of five including 
Peter Tilton, made a report, which was accepted, wherein were 
noticed the causes of God's displeasure, the effects of it, and the 
means of removing it. Among the prevailing evils were men- 

*Rev. Eleazar Mather, the first minister, died July 24, 1669. Mr. Russell assisted at 
his ordination, June 18, 1661. The Northampton church was organized the same day, 
and not June 4, as stated page 47, 



78 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

tioned, innovations threatening the ruin of the Congregational 
way. Some days after, in another paper, the deputies censured 
the magistrates and ministers who consented to the organization 
of the third church in Boston, (now the Old South,) composed of 
seceders from the first church, who had not been dismissed. 
They contended for "the liberty of every church to exercise all 
the ordinances of God among themselves." An altercation en- 
sued between the magistrates and deputies. The papers of the 
latter are in the hand-writing of Peter Tilton. The persons 
censured by these deputies were justified by those of the next year. 



CHAPTER IX 

Separation of Hatfield from Hadley — Proceedings of Hatfield. 

The settlers of Hartford, on each side of Little River, managed 
many of their concerns separately, in what were called side-meet- 
ings. The planters of Hadley, settled on both sides of the Con- 
necticut, and followed the example of Hartford, each side per- 
forming many things apart. The settlers on the west side held 
side-meetings and kept side-records which still remain. In 
March, 1665, the town voted that the west side should make and 
maintain all their ways and bridges, and the east side all their 
ways and bridges, except the mill-bridge on the west side, which 
was to be maintained by both sides. In June, 1665, the east and 
west sides voted to carry on the work of town and church as one 
"until the Lord make it appear that one part of us have a call 
to make a society of themselves." 

The west side people began to think of becoming a separate 
parish in 1665, but they did not send a petition to the General 
Court, to be a parish or society, till May, 1667. They were 
appaiently too few in number to support a minister, and build a 
meeting-house, but they were united, active and persevering, and 
such men commonly perform what they undertake. Their peti- 
tion, which follows, may contain a little exaggeration, but those 
who live near the Connecticut can readily believe the account of 
their trouble in crossing the river, and of the screeching of the 
women and children. The Latin quotation was not called for. 
The word "ordinances," as used in the petition, refers especially 
to the usual services of the Sabbath. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 79 

To the Honored Governor, Dep. Governor, Assistants and Deputies, now in General 
Court assembled: 

The petition of us whose names are underwritten, being inhabitants of the west side of 
the river at Hadley, sheweth — (May 3, 1667,) — that, whereas it hath pleased God to make 
you the fathers of this Commonwealth, and it hath pleased the Lord, by your great care 
and diligence under him, to continue our peace and plenty of outward things, and in a 
more especial manner the chieftest and principal of all, the Gospel of peace, with the liberty 
of his Sabbaths, which mercies your humble petitioners desire to be thankful unto God and 
you for, that you are so ready and willing for to help those that stand in need of help, which 
hath encouraged us your humble petitioners for to make this our address, petition and 
request, to you for relief in this our present distressed state and condition. 

First, your petitioners, together with their families within the bounds of Hadley town, 
upon the west side of the river, commonly called by the name of Connecticut river, where 
we for the most part have lived about 6 years, have attended on God's ordinances on the 
other side of the river, at the appointed seasons that we could or durst pass over the river, 
the passing being very difficult and dangerous, both in summer and winter, which thing 
hath proved and is an oppressive burden for us to bear, which, if by any lawful means it 
may be avoided, we should be glad and thankful to this honored court to ease us therein, 
conceiving it to be a palpable breach of the Sabbath, although it be a maxim in law: nemo 
debet esse judex in propria causa, yet, by the Word of God to us, it is evidently plain to be a 
breach of the Sabbath: Ex. xxxv: 2; Levit. xxiii: 3, yet many times we are forced to it; 
for we must come at the instant of time, be the season how it will. Sometimes we come 
in considerable numbers in rainy weather, and are forced to stay till we can empty our canoes 
that are half full of water, and before we can get to the meeting-house, are wet to the skin. 
At other times, in winter seasons, we are forced to cut and work them out of the ice, till 
our shirts be wet upon our backs. At other times, the winds are high and waters rough, 
the current strong and the waves ready to swallow us — our vessels tossed up and down so 
that our women and children do screech, and are so affrighted that they are made unfit for 
ordinances, and cannot hear so as to profit by them, by reason of their anguish of spirit; 
and when they return, some of them are more fit for their beds than for family duties and 
God's services, which they ought to attend. 

In brevity and verity, our difficulties and dangers that we undergo are to us extreme and 
intolerable; oftentimes some of us have fallen into the river through the ice, and had they 
not had better help than themselves, they had been drowned. Sometimes we have been 
obliged to carry others when they have broken in, to the knees as they have carried them 
out, and that none hitherto hath been lost, their lives are to be attributed to the care and 
mercy of God. 

There is about four score and ten persons on our side of the river, that are capable of 
receiving good by ordinances, but it is seldom that above half of them can go to attend, 
what through the difficulty of passage and staying at home by turns and warding, some 
being weak and small which, notwithstanding, if the means were on our side the river, they 
might have the benefit of the ordinances which now they are deprived of to the grief of us all. 
Further, when we do go over the river, we leave our relatives and estates lying on the outside 
of the colony, joining to the wilderness, to be a prey to the heathen, when they see their 
opportunity. Yet, notwithstanding, our greatest anxiety and pressure of spirit is that the 
Sabbath, which should be kept by us holy to the Lord, is spent with such unavoidable dis- 
tractions, both of the mind and of the body. And for the removing of this, we unanimously 
have made our address to our brethren and friends on the other side of the river, by a 
petition that they would be pleased to grant us liberty to be a society of ourselves, and that 
we might call a minister to dispense the word of God to us, but this, by them, would not be 
granted, although, in the month of June, in the year 1665, it was agreed and voted, at a 
town meeting, that when the west side had a call of God thereto, they might be a society of 
themselves. We sent a second time to them, entreating that according to said agreement 
they would grant our request to put it to a hearing, but they will not, so that we, your humble 
petitioners, have no other way or means, that we know of, but to make our humble address 
to this honored court for relief, in this our distressed state, humbly praying this honored 
court to vouchsafe your poor petitioners that favor as to be a society of ourselves, and have 
liberty to settle a minister to dispense the ordinances of the Lord unto us, which we hope 
will be for the furtherance of the work of the Lord amongst us, and for our peace and safety. 



80 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Not that we desire to make any breach among brethren, for to attain our desires, nor yet 
to hinder the great work of the Lord amongst us, but that which we aim at is the contrary. 
Thus, committing our cause to God and this honored court, and all other your weighty 
affairs, we leave to the protection and guidance of the Almighty, which is the prayer of 
your humble petitioners. — May 3, 1667. 

Thomas Meekins, St., Daniel White, John Allis, 

Wm. Allis, John Welles, Obadiah Dickinson, 

John Coule, St., Nathaniel Dickinson, Jr., Samuel Gillet, 

Isaac Graves, Eleazer Frary, John Field, 

Richard Billing, Samuel Billing, John Coule, Jr., 

Wm. Gull, Samuel Dickinson, Ursula Fellows, 

Samuel Belden, Thomas Meekins, Jr., Mary Field. 

John Graves, Samuel Kelog, 

Daniel Warner, Barnabas Hinsdell, 

John Coleman, Philip Russell, Samuel Allis and Benjamin Wait did not sign the petition; 
perhaps they did not all reside on the west side in May, 1667. 

An abstract of "the Answer of the inhabitants of Hadley on 
the east side to the complaints made by them of the same town 
on the west side." 

We have done our brethren and neighbors no wrong. We hold to the covenant made 
between us, which was done upon their desire. This covenant related to the upholding of 
the worship of God among us. We think that granting what they request will be the break- 
ing and marring of them and ourselves, as we are together too weak. Should we grant 
their desire we should sin against the Lord, ourselves and them. We desire that nothing 
may be done by this Court to the making void of the agreements between us. — May 7, 1667. 

This answer was signed by 44 of the inhabitants of the east side. 

The General Court heard the allegations of both parties, pre- 
sented by Thomas Meekins, William Allis and Isaac Graves, in 
behalf of the petitioners, and by Mr. John Russell, pastor, Mr. 
Samuel Smith and Mr. Peter Tilton in behalf of the town. They 
judged it not best to make a division at present; thought the best 
expedient would be for them jointly to settle another minister, 
who would accommodate those on the west side, when the pass- 
age of the river was difficult. 

The petition of the west side was again presented in September, 
1667, and a committee reported, but the two houses disagreed, 
and the report was not accepted. 

The two sides had some correspondence in 1667, and in the 
early part of 1668, but could not agree. The east side were will- 
ing to have a second minister, but expected the west side people 
would attend worship on the east side, except when the passage 
was difficult. The west side desired to be a society by them- 
selves, and to have a minister constantly with them. 

In April, 1668, the east side inhabitants sent to the General 
Court another answer to the complaints of those on the west side. 
It was written by Mr. Russell, and is very long. Some part of it 
follows. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 81 

When we moved to this plantation, we engaged to each other to have two ministers. We 
gave to poor men liberty to suit themselves, and those who had more estate denied them- 
selves, not taking up half as much as they might have done, no man having more than 45* 
acres of interval land. This was done in respect to maintaining the ministry and ordi- 
nances. When those on the west side of the river took up land there, they did it on condi- 
tion that they were to be one with us and to come to the east side on the Sabbath, except in 
extraordinary times, one of the ministers would go over to them. The meeting-house was 
to be set where it is, for their sakes, to our great inconvenience. The difficulties of crossing 
the river were presented to them at first, and they chose to go. In some other towns, the 
river is crossed on the Sabbath. It is doubtful whether they can make a plantation of them- 
selves. The place does not afford boggy meadows-j- or such like, that men can live upon, 
but their subsistence must be from their homelots and intervals. A great part of these 
men are in near relation to us and we would not injure them. If the Court judge that our 
brethren have a call of God to be by themselves, we trust we shall do our duty without dis- 
turbance. Our place is hard, remote and inconvenient. In asking that the river may be 
the bounds between them and us, and all the land on that side pay public charges to them, 
they demand what is unjust. We are about 46 or 47J families, and if the river be the 
bounds, we shall not have so much land to maintain public ordinances as they, who are a 
little more than half as many. Signed by Henry Clarke, John Russell, Jr., William Good- 
win, Andrew Bacon and William Lewis, in the name of the rest of the inhabitants of Hadley, 
on the east side of the river. 

April 22, 1668. 

William Allis and Isaac Graves, who were in Boston, made a 
long reply, May, 1668, in behalf of the inhabitants on the west 
side, to the declaration of their brethren and neighbors on the 
east side. 

They owned the covenant of 1660, but did not suppose such a covenant perpetual, when 
things should so change as to require an alteration. Thought they had a clear call of God 
to be a society. Mentioned the hazard of passing the river. In nine Sabbaths from Dec. 
15 to Feb. 16, 1667-8, they were hindered from going over by the danger of the river. There 
was danger from the Indians. One of their houses was burnt on the Sabbath some 
time ago, and they saw the beginning, but could render no relief. They had only their 
proportion of the lands jointly purchased. All was equalized by a committee. "When 
the meeting-house was put where it is, we declared that it should be no engagement to us, 
and desired them to set it where they pleased." — The subject was postponed to the next 
session. 

November 7, 1668. "In answer to the petitioners on the west side of the river at Hadley, 
the Court judgeth it meet that they be allowed to procure an able minister to settle with them 
on their side of the river, for whose maintenance they are carefully and comfortably to pro- 
vide, and shall be freed from the maintenance of the minister on the east side, unless the 
inhabitants on the east side of the river and they shall agree together for the maintenance 
and allowance of both jointly; provided that the inhabitants of the west side shall not rate 
any of the estates or lands of the inhabitants of the east side lying on the west side of the 
river, towards the maintenance of their ministry." 

In May, i66g, John Russell, pastor, and William Goodwin, 
ruling elder, in the name of the church, pointed out some diffi- 



*This is nearly correct. Though some had 50^ acres of land, this included 4 or 5 acres 
of the Meadow Plain, that was not interval land, and was not so considered. 

■j-They here allude to the water grass or sedge, of which much was formerly mowed. 

^According to this statement, the number of families had not increased in 5 or 6 years. 
The population had increased. 



82 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

culties in the preceding order, and desired explanations from the 
General Court. The Court replied and made explanations, and 
judged it reasonable that the inhabitants of the west side should 
have the unappropriated lands on that side. 

Thomas Meekins and Isaac Graves informed the Court, May, 
1669, that the west side had done much towards setting up a 
meeting-house, and as to a minister, "we have already pitched 
upon a man, who is recommended to us by sundry reverend and 
godly persons, and hope we shall obtain his help. The man whom 
we have in our eye is one Mr. Atherton, a son of the late Worship- 
ful Humphrey Atherton, of Dorchester." 

In October, 1669, the east side remaining unsatisfied, the Court 
appointed a committee from Northampton and Springfield, but 
they do not appear to have met; and on the 22d of December, 
1669, the following agreement ended the contest for many 
years. 

"Articles of agreement between the inhabitants on the east side of the river in Hadley 
with those of the same town on the west side of the river. 

1. It is covenanted and agreed that those on the east side of the river do grant and give 
to those on the west side, liberty to be a distinct town or township of themselves, and so 
of and among themselves to carry on all of their common or town occasions; and this to 
take place as soon as the Gen. Court shall grant their approbation or allowance thereof. 

2. For the bounds of each society or town, those on the east side are to have and enjoy 
now and forever the free and full disposal of all the land on the east side of the river, for 
the maintaining of all common charges respecting things ecclesiastical or civil. 

And on the west side, the bounds between the two societies or towns are to be the high- 
way between their several furlongs of land, viz. the highway running from the river to the 
Widow Fellows her house; and from thence downwards, the fence to be the bounds until 
it comes to the Mill river, and then the river to be the bounds until it meets with Mr. Webster's 
lot in Little Ponsett; and from thence the fence of Little Ponsett to be the bounds unto Con- 
necticut River, where the end of the said fence is; this to be and remain forever the bounds 
of each society or town, for the maintaining of the rights and privileges of each; viz. all the 
land on the lower or southwest side of the highway shall be unto the society or town of Had- 
ley on the east side of Connecticut, and all every parcel thereof to pay all common charges 
to the said town of Hadley on the east side of the river. Except those lands within the said 
highway and fence which are already either given or sold to inhabitants on the west jide; 
which land or parcells of land are the whole accommodations of Mr. Terry on the west side 
the river; and the whole accommodations of Nathaniel Dickinson, sen. and half of Mr. 
Webster's accommodations there, and John Hawks his whole accommodations, and all Joseph 
Kellogg's, and all Adam Nicholls his, and that which was Sam.uel Gardner's in Little Pon- 
set, and Goodman Crow's in Little Ponsett, and Nathaniel Stanley's in Little Ponsett, and 
Richard Montague's in Great Ponsett; and Jos. Baldwin's whole accommodations, and John 
White's in Great Ponsett, and John Dickinson's in Little Ponsett; and except 12 acres and 
a half above and besides all this when it shall be given or sold to an inhabitant or inhabit- 
ants on the west side of the river; all the other land within the lower part or S. West side of 
the highway and the forenamed fence to be to the town on the east side of the river forever. 

And the Society on the west side of the river are to have for their bounds all the lands on 
the west side of the river of Connecticut, except what lies within the highway from the river 
to the widow Fellows her house, and within the fence abovenamed. All the rest of the land 
not within the said highway and fence to be to the town and society on the west side of the 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 83 

river and at their free and full dispose forever, for the maintaining of all common charges 
respecting things civil and ecclesiastical. And they also are to have all the land within the 
highway and fence on the south west or lower side of the river, that is already given or sold 
to any inhabitant on the west side, which land in all the particulars and parcels of it is 
above specified, with 124 acres more, which shall be next given or sold to any inhabitants, 
&c.; to be to the society and town on the west side for the maintaining of all common charges 
forever. Only provided they shall not dispose of any land without the consent of the town, 
to any that are not approved and settled inhabitants of the town, until the General Court 
have granted them to be a town of themselves, and then forthwith and forever to have the 
full dispose of all the land on the west side the river except that above excepted, for the main- 
tenance of all common charges. 

3. It is mutually agreed and covenanted that the society or town of Hadley on the east 
side of the river, have liberty to get fencing stuff on the west side of the river, for their land 
lying on that sidethe river, both now and from time to time always, as also to get timber 
if any see cause to build a barn or shelter for securing his fruits raised there. The present 
fence in being, and the rest of the common fence [an omission here.] 

4. The inhabitants of the west side shall allow to those on the east side the sum of (i£, 
as the remainder of what is due for purchase money to the said inhabitants on the east side. 

5. In case there shall hereafter be a ferry between these two places, this agreement shall 
be no detriment with respect thereto to those on either side more than if they continued one 
town. 

Hereunto as a full and final issue of all controversy respecting our bounds of each society, 
and the manner or way of maintaining their public charges, (notwithstanding all manner of 
sales or gifts that shall or may be,) we who were chosen by each Company, viz. those on 
the east and those on the west side the river respectively, and impowered to issue the said 
difference, have set to our hands, this present zzd of December, 1669. 

Henry Clarke, Tho. Meekins, sen. 

[ohn Russel, Jr. William Allice, 

Samuel Smith, John Coule, sen. 

Nathaniel Dickinson, sr. Isaak Graves, 

Peter Tillton, Samuel Belden. 

This agreement was copied from the original paper in the hand- 
writing of Mr. Russell, which was sent down to Boston by Hadley, 
in the second controversy with Hatfield, about 1710, and remains 
among the public archives in the state-house. 

The town of Hatfield was incorporated on the 31st of May, 
1670, and a copy of the acts from the printed records, is annexed. 

"In answer to the petition of the inhabitants of Hadley on the west side of the riuer, that 
they may be allowed to be a toune of themselves, distinct from Hadley on the east side, the 
deputy of Hadlev certifying that that toune haue consented to release them if this Court 
doe approove thereof, &c. this Court doe therefore allow them on the west side of the riuer, 
to be a touneship distinct from them on the east side of the riuer, and doe grant them a 
tract of land westward, sixe miles back into the woods from the great river; their southerly 
bounds to be Northampton northerly bounds, and the land which Hadley reserves to them- 
selues, and from their sajd southerly Ijne to runne vp the riuer northerly upon the square 
sixe miles; their northerly bounds likewise to runne backe from th; great riuer sixe miles 
westward, as before, reserving proprietjes formerly granted to any person; and that this 
toune be called Hattfeilds." 

Hatfield was named from one of the three Hatfields in Eng- 
land, perhaps from Hatfield Broad Oak in Essex, so called from 
a broad-spread oak. 



84 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Proceedings of the West Side and Hatfield. — On the 6th of 
November, 1668, the west side held a side-meeting, and voted to 
build a meeting-house 30 feet square, and chose a committee to 
procure timber, call out men, &c. On the 21st of November, 
they chose three men to procure a minister "to dispense the word 
of God to us," and in April, 1669, they sent men to Boston, who 
"pitched upon" Mr. Hope Atherton of Dorchester. The side 
manifested unanimously, May 17, 1669, that they were willing 
to call Mr. Atherton to the work of the ministry, and to give him 
50;^ a year. Before Nov. 25, 1670, Mr. Atherton had accepted 
a call from the town of Hatfield to settle among them, and they 
had voted to give him a houselot and meadow land, to build him 
a house 40 feet long and 20 wide, double story, and to allow 
him 60 pounds a year, two-thirds in wheat and one-third in pork. 
There is no record of the forming of the church, or of the ordina- 
tion of Mr. Atherton. These acts took place after March 28, 
1671, perhaps in April. Before the close of 1671, this small 
town had settled a minister, giving him bo£ a year, and built a 
house for him which cost above 90;^, and a meeting-house. Only 
6 of the males were members of any church, including Mr. Ath- 
erton. The church-members and those not so, were like-minded 
and united in all their proceedings. 

Hatfield may have had 30 families in 1670. The persons taxed 
in 1678, after the Indian war, were 48, and in 1682, 57. The 
number of families in 1682 may have been 48 or 50. They had 
five selectmen and other town officers as in Hadley. The herd- 
men and shepherds were recorded. Men were employed in the 
spring to burn the woods. Hatfield usually had a school after 
1678, and probably before; and a school-house was built in 1681. 
Doct. Thomas Hastings was one of the teachers, but most of 
them were educated at Harvard College. They received from 
30 to 35;^ a year in grain at the usual prices, and boarded them- 
selves, previous to 1700. A few girls attended the school, or 
might attend if they paid the same as boys. The scholars paid 
about two-thirds of the salary, and the school did not become 
free till 1722. — The small meeting-house had galleries and a 
turret and bell, and the bell was to be rung at nine o'clock in 1686. 
The meeting-house was in the street, and the pulpit was at the 
west end, and there was an aisle from the east door to the pulpit. 
A second meeting-house was voted Nov. 13, 1699; it was to be 
45 feet square, "with gable windows upon each squareof theroof." 
— Mr. Hope Atherton, the first minister, died June 8, 1677. Mr. 
Nathaniel Chauncey, the second minister, died Nov. 2, 1685. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 85 

He had of the town a house, barn, homelot, firewood, and a salary 
of 60 pounds, in produce at the usual prices. Mr. William Will- 
iams was the third minister, 1686. His salary was 'jo£, — not 
equal to 175 silver dollars. 

In 1692, Hatfield began a new contest with Hadley, demanding 
that the river should be the boundary between them, and gained 
her object in 1733. The attempt of Hatfield to carry her south 
line into territory long in possession of Northampton, failed in 
1720, after a dispute of 26 years. Col. Samuel Partrigg or Part- 
ridge was powerful in Hatfield, and for many years was the most 
prominent man in the county. 



CHAPTER X 

County of Hampshire — Towns and Churches before lycxj — Courts in Hampshire — Town 
marks — Hadley Cases in Courts — Presentments for wearing silks — Expenses of Courts — 
Transportation — Sleds — Prices of grain — Contributions for Harvard College. 

Feb. 26, 1662, Springfield appointed a committee, "concerning 
settling the towns in this western part of the colony, into 
the form of a county," On the 7th of May, 1662, the General 
Court established the County of Hampshire, by the following 
act: — 

Forasmuch as the inhabitants of this jurisdiction are much encreased, so that now they 
are planted farre into the country vpon Conecticott Riuer, who by reason of their remotenes 
cannot conveniently be annexed to any of the countyes already setled, & that publicke 
affaires may with more facility be transacted according to lawes heere established, it is 
ordered by this Court & authority thereof, that henceforth Springfeild, Northampton, and 
Hadley shall be & hereby are constituted as a county, the bounds or Ijmitts on the south to 
be the south Ijne of the pattent, the extent of other bounds to be full thirty miles distant 
from any or either of the foresajd tounes, & what tounes or villages soeuer shall hereafter 
be erected within the foresajd precincts to be & belong to the sajd county; and further, 
that the sajd county shall be called Hampshire, & shall haue & enjoy the libertjes & priv- 
iledges of any other county; & that Springfeild shall be the shire toune there, & the Courts 
to be kept one time at Springfeild & another time at Northampton; the like order to be 
observed for their shire meetings, that is to say, one yeere at one toune, & the next yeare at 
the other, from time to tjme. And it is further ordered, that all the inhabitants of that 
shire shall pay their publicke rates to the countrey in fatt catle, or young catle, such as fitt 
to be putt off, that no vnnecessary damage be put on the country; & in case they make pay- 
ment in corne, then to be made at such prises as the same doe commonly passe amongst 
themselves, any other former or annuall orders referring to the prises of corne notwith- 
standing. 

When Hampshire was incorporated, it had but three towns, 
Springfield, Northampton and Hadley. Westfield was allowed 



86 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

to be a township, May 19, 1669. Hatfield was incorporated May 
31, 1670; it was settled before Westfield. Deerfield* was allowed 
the "liberty of a township," May 7, 1673; it was destroyed in 
1675 and re-settled about 1682. Brookfield was incorporated 
Oct. 15, 1673; it was destroyed in 1675 and re-settled by a few, 
and a garrison was kept there. It had not town privileges again 
till 1 718. Suffield, often called Southfield, had an informal in- 
corporation, June 3, 1674; the people dispersed in 1675, and 
returned after the Indian war. Enfield was made a town. May 
16, 1683. These nine towns (including Brookfield) composed 
the county of Hampshire in 1700. Squakeag, (Northfield,) 
granted in 1672, had been twice settled and twice broken up. 
Swampfield, (Sunderland,) was granted in 1673, to sundry inhab- 
itants of Hadley, and preparations were made for settlement, but 
owing to Indian wars, and fear of Indians, it remained deso- 
late forty years. Longmeadow and West Springfield were old 
settlements, but belonged to Springfield. 

Nine churches were organized in the county before 1700, viz., 
1st, at Springfield; 2d, Hadley; 3d, Northampton, 1661; 4th, 
Hatfield, 1671; 5th, Westfield, 1679; 6th, Deerfield, 1688; Suf- 
field; Enfield; West Springfield, 1698. 

Courts in Hampshire. — County Courts were regularly held 
twice a year, viz., at Northampton in March, and at Springfield 
in September. They had probate jurisdiction. Capital causes 
were tried by the Court of Assistants at Boston, and not by County 
Courts. The Hampshire courts were held by the Springfield 
commissioners till March, 1663, excepting two courts where John 
Webster was the principal judge. In 1663, 1664 and in March, 
1665, the courts were held by the town commissioners of the 
three towns. From 1665 to 1687, one or two magistrates with 
two, three or four men, nominated by the freemen of the county, 
and approved by the General Court, and called .A^ssociates, were 
judges of the County Courts. John Pynchon was the first mag- 
istratef in Hampshire county, and was chosen in 1665, and Peter 
Tilton was the second, in 1680. They presided in the County 
Courts, and were members of the house of magistrates at Boston, 
and judges of the Court of Assistants. John Webster and some 
others had "magistratical power," but it did not extend beyond 
the county. From 1663 to 1687, the commissioners and associate 



*It was then Pacomtuck. It had no other incorporation. 

•j-His father, William Pynchon, was a magistrate at Springfield many years, before there 
was any Hampshire county. 



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judges from Hadley were Henry Clarke, 1 1 years, Samuel 
Smith, 8 years, Andrew Bacon, Peter Tilton and Philip Smith, 
about 3 years each, and Samuel Partrigg, one year. Capt. 
Aaron Cooke was one of the justices of the courts from 1687 
until his death in 1716. 

The courts were differently formed under Andros in 1687: and 
under the new charter, 1692, a Superior Court was substituted 
for a Court of Assistants, and Courts of Sessions, of Common 
Pleas, and of Probate, for County Courts. — Provision was 
made for a yearly session of the Superior Court at Springfield, 
but owing to hazard from the Indians, and the necessity of a 
guard for the judges, it is supposed that no regular Superior 
Court was held in Hampshire county till some years after 1700, 
perhaps not till 1716. In 1698, some judges that came up to 
Springfield, to try a person for murder, had a guard up of 26 
troopers. 

Twelve jurors from the towns attended at every County Court. 
There was but one jury previous to 1687, the jury of trials serving 
as a grand jury, as provided in the act incorporating Hadley, May 
22, 1661. The Court remarked in 1676, that this was allowed as 
a favor, the county being small, to prevent the charge of two juries. 
Corporal Richard Coy, from whom Coy's Hill received its name, 
was a juror from Brookfield in 1674 and in March, 1675, but 
that place, which was laid waste in 1675, sent no other juror for 
more than 40 years. 

A county Treasurer was chosen yearly. Peter Tilton held the 
office about ten years. A county Marshal was appointed by the 
court in 1668. After 1692, there was a county Sheriff instead of 
a Marshal. The second Samuel Porter held the office several 
years, and in 1696, executed two Indians for murder. Elizur 
Holyoke was Recorder for the courts from 1660 to his death in 
1676. Samuel Partrigg succeeded for Northampton courts, and 
John Holyoke for Springfield courts. James Cornish was Clerk 
under Andros, 1687 to 1689. 

A prison or House of Correction, with a house for the prison 
keeper under the same roof, was begun at Springfield in 1661 
and finished in 1668. Most of the boards, plank and timber were 
sawed by hand. It was 40 feet long. Simon Lobdell was the 
first prison keeper in 1668. It was burnt by the Indians in 1675, 
and another was built, 1677 — 1680, which cost about to£. 

A prison was built in Northampton in 1707, 24 by 16 feet 
besides the chimney, and a small house at the end for the keeper. 
It stood near the site of the new town hall. 



OO HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Town marks in Hampshire. — Every town was required to 
have a distinct mark for cattle and horses, appointed by the 
General Court, and all these animals which fed in open common 
without constant keepers, were to have a brand-mark upon the 
horn, or left buttock or shoulder, that it might be known to what 
town they belonged. In 1681, brand-marks were ordered by the 
Court for the Hampshire towns, viz., S. P. for Springfield, N. H. 
for Northampton, H. D. for Hadley, H. F. for Hatfield, W. F. 
for Westfield, and S. and something else for Suffield. The two 
letters for each town were united, as H3 for Hadley. 

Hadley Cases in Court. 

The people of Hadley were in general staid, regular and peace- 
ful, and not inclined to quarrels and law-suits. Most of the 
people of Northampton and Hatfield were similar. There were 
more contentions and litigious persons in the southern towns in 
the county, especially in Suffield. Hadley people had but little 
business for the courts. Misdemeanors were rare, and those who 
committed them were usually servants, transient persons, or a 
few wild young men of the town. A large portion of the white 
servants in this country for a century were Europeans, brought 
over by captains of vessels and their services sold for a few years, 
to pay their passage. The poor people of Great Britain could 
come to the colonies in no other way. 

i66z. Richard Fellows sued Judith Varlete (a Dutch woman) of Hartford, for defa- 
mation, in saying Fellows had played the rogue. Jury found for plaintiff los. damages, 
and 13s. 6d. costs. 

1662. William Pixley vs. Joseph Root of Northampton, for slander. The jury found 
for Pixley, ;£io. 

1663. Benjamin Wait, for being the author of a libelous writing found about Goodwife 
Hawks's door, defaming her, was to pay her ^£ and pay costs. 

1664. Hadley was fined forty shillings, for not prosecuting their appeal from the County 
Court to the Court of Assistants, in the case of Richard Billings, respecting land. 

1664. Richard Goodman had a servant named John Mardin. He ran away and stole 
a gun, powder and a hdkf. He was taken at Windsor: and was sentenced to be whipped 
10 stripes. The damages and expenses amounted to £5.0.4, and he was to pay this, by 
serving his master six months after his apprenticeship had expired. 

1665. The legatees of John Barnard demanded of Andrew Warner, pay for a malt-house, 
which was burnt down in his occupation. The parties agreed. 

1666. Thomas Meekins, the miller on the west side, was fined 3s. 4d. for not carrying 
his weights and measures to the sealer when notified. 

1666. Wm. Goodwin had a servant named Thomas Helme, and Stephen Terry had 
one named Joshua Wills. Both ran away, and took a horse from ^r. Goodwin and some 
other things. The horse valued at io£ was lost, and they were ordered to pay treble dam- 
age, 2°£> ^^'^ charges, £10, us. Helme was to serve Mr. Goodwin two years and Wills 
to serve him 18 months, and Mr. Terry 6 months, after their time had expired. Also both 
fined 40 shillings each. 

1668. Sept. Hadley was presented for one or two defective bridges, in the way between 
Hadley and Chickopee river. They amended the defects, and were discharged. 



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Death of Samuel Nash and Decision of the Court. 

"May 23, 1668. A Jury of twelve men was summoned by the Constable of Hadley to 
enquire concerning the sudden and untimely death of Samuel, son of Timothy Nash. 

The child was about 9 or 10 years old. Mr. Henry Clark and Andrew Bacon gave the 
jury their oath. They, after diligent search respecting the cause of this death, did find: — 
'That said boy coming riding upon a mare from pasture, having a long rope fastened about 
the mare's neck, & fastened about the boy's waist, a dog coming out, frightened the mare, 
so that the mare threw the boy & ran away with him, dragging him about 40 rods, and 
broke over five rails, the rails being broken down, he was dragged over them into and through 
a narrow gate, into his father's yard, and died forthwith.' [Signed by 12 Hadley men.] 

"Att a County Corte* holden at Northampton ye 30th day of ye ist Month 1669 [March 
30, 1669.] 

"Tymothy Nash of Hadley presenting a complaynt this winter before ye worshipfull 
Capt. Pynchon against Mr Goodwin concerning the untimely death of his child ye last sum- 
mer, and the sde Capt Pynchon by warrant under his hand dated Feb. 27 — 68 warning the 
sde Mr Goodwin to appeare at this Corte, he being very weake in body & not able to attend 
ye Corte in his own person, Mr Andrew Bacon and William Lewis appeared to answer on 
his behalfe. And now at this Corte the sde Timothy Nash presented his complt in that his 
child, a member of this Common Wealth is lost; and that as he apprehends by means of 
Mr. Goodwins dog frightening the mare upon which the child rode shee throwing the child. 

The Corte having heard ye case long debated & considered ye allegations & evidences on 
all hands doe conceive & judge yt there is not ground to lay such blame on Mr. Goodwin 
as is pretended in the sde Timothy Nash his complt, for yt it doth not appeare yt Mr. Good, 
win or Mrs. Goodwin had sufficient notice given them of their dogs curstness or any due 
warning to restrayne their dog; and therefore the Corte doth acquitt them, as to have such 
legall warning as aforesaid; But yet inasmuch as it appeares that the sde dog was something 
more than ordinary active in running after persons riding their horses in ye street whereby 
diverse persons have had falls from their horses. This Corte doth apprehend that Mr. 
Goodwin or Mrs. Goodwin might probably know something yt way, and Mr. Crow who 
exercised care about Mr. Goodwin's affaires: And therefore yt they may be blame worthy 
in not taking care as they ought, to have restraynd that dog. And therefore this Corte 
doth beare witness against all neglects in such matters whereby the lives of persons may be 
hazzarded. Also ye Corte apprehends that the said dog hath been partly an occasion of 
the death of the said child, though yet divers other things did concur to yt sad accident, but 
specially the child's winding a rope about its own wast ye other end whereof was tyed about 
ye mare's neck, & the child having nothing whereby he might well rule her, yt when shee 
threw ye child, shee dragged him after her to its destruction. 

Wherefore the Corte also accounteth Goodm. Nash or his Wife blame worthy in not have- 
ing a more strict watch over their son, but letting him go to fetch ye mare from pasture with 
such meane tackling. And there being much trouble in hearing this case, the Corte ordered 
yt Mr. Goodwin and Goodman Nash shall pay los. apiece towards defraying Corte charges." 

Remarks by Rev. Sylvester Nash. — The decision of the Court obviously turned on a legal 
quibble, viz., the want of legal notice, while the court allowed that Mr. Goodwin probably 
knew of his dog's curstness. And well they might, if diverse persons had been thrown from 
their horses, endangering their lives! The decision may be deemed at least a legal 
curiosity. 

1669. The names of several persons in Hadley were returned to the court, for not living 
under family government. The court ordered the selectmen of Hadley to inquire into such 
disorders, and settle young persons under government, according to law. 

1670. Richard Fellows (son of Richard) and Benjamin Allen, of the west side, for com- 
ing into the yard of Thomas Meekins, Jr. and cutting off the hair of the mane and tail of 
his horse, were fined one 30s., the other 15s. Allen was a servant. 

1670. March. Mr. Russell's negro servant, Margaret, had a child, and was to be 
whipped 15 stripes; and the father, John Garret, was to be whipped 24 stripes, and pay to 
Mr. Russell £7, los. 



♦Corte is a contraction of the recorder for Courte. 



90 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

1674. Hezekiah Dickinson sued Garret Tueason of Albany. Jury found for Dickinson, 
16 pounds of beaver, and costs, 29s. 6d. [There was some trade by people on this river 
with the Dutch at Albany.] 

1675. March. Joseph Selding was presented for cutting and disfiguring John Smith's 
horse. Maj. Pynchon was directed to deal with him. 

1676. Sept. Joseph Selding was fined 20 shillings for abusing the Constable. 

Great Riot in Hadley, chiefly of young men, Feb. 15, 1676. — 
At March court, 1676, nine men were charged with being actors 
in a riotous assembly in Hadley, on the 15th of February, where 
there was a public aff^ronting of authority, in the stopping and 
hindering of the execution of a sentence which was ordered by 
authority. The record does not tell what the sentence was, nor 
against whom it was directed. It was in the time of Philip's war, 
when there were many soldiers in Hadley. 

Edward Granris was a leader in the riotous assembly, and said the sentence should not 
be executed. He was adjudged to be whipped 12 stripes, well laid on. Jonathan Gilbert, 
Jr. and Joseph Selding were bound in a bond of 10 pounds each for good behavior. Thomas 
Dickinson was fined 3^. Nehemiah Dickinson, William Rooker, Thomas Croft and 
Jonathan Marsh were fined ^£ each. Samuel Barnard was present in the riotous assembly 
with his club, though his father, Francis Barnard, commanded him not to be there, and he 
was accused of plotting with some of the garrison soldiers to go to Narraganset. The court 
adjudged him to be whipped 12 stripes, but he made a humble acknowledgment, and his 
father pleaded for him, and his sentence was changed to a fine of ^£. 

1677. Daniel Hovey vs. Mr. John Russell, Jr. for defaming him at the last court in 
Springfield, by saying he was a man of scandalous life. Jury brought in for Hovey, cost 
of court, 33s. 6d. 

1677. John Fisher of Hadley, for slandering and reviling Thomas Beaman of Hatfield 

and his mother, saying that he was the son of a w and that his mother was a witch and 

that he looked like one, was ordered to pay the county 20s. and Thomas Beaman 40s. [To 
say that a person was a witch and had bewitched any one, was slanderous and actionable 
in England. — Comyns.] 

1677. Thomas Beaman was ordered to pay los. to the county and los. to John Fisher, 
for falling upon him and beating him. 

1678. Jane Jackson, servant of Lt. Philip Smith, had stolen from her master, and then 
lied about it. Sentenced to be whipped 20 lashes, upon her naked back which punishment 
was performed in Court. [She would have been hanged for stealing in England.] 

1682. Gershom Hawks for having a pack of cards and refusing to tell whose they were, 
was fined 20s. 

1682. March. Joseph Kellogg, Jr. and Gershom Hawks were fined los. each for breach 
of the Sabbath, having traveled till midnight in the night before the Sabbath. 

1683. William Wake, a vagabond, for enticing away the servant of Joseph Selding, and 
stealing some of his goods, was adjudged to be whipped on his naked body 20 lashes, well 
laid on. 

1686. March. Cyrus, Mr. Russell's negro, for fraudulent dealings with the Indians 
and violent carriages in his master's house, was to be whipped 15 stripes at Hadley, on the 
next lecture day, or pay 50s. to satisfy the Indians, &c. 

1690. An illegitimate child was born in Hadley in 1690, the only white child born out 
of wedlock in Hadley in the 17th century. The parents were married a few months after. 

1693. Mr. Peter Golding of Hadley was fined c,£ for scurrilous and vilifying expressions 
respecting Peter Tilton, Esq., charging him with packing a court, &c. Mr. Golding appealed 
to the Superior Court at Charlestown. 

1696. Joseph Selden, (or Selding,) being in the court room when two of his relatives 
named Church were fined 20s. each for abusing the constable, spoke out, and said there 
was no color of law in what was done; that the men were not guilty; and when in discourse, 
Samuel Partridge, Esq., one of the justices, said, "so it seems," Selden, in a scoffing manner 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 91 

replied, "so it seems," and again Partridge said "so it seems," and again Selden replied 
"so it seems." Further, Selden took up the tongs in the room where the justices sat and 
lit his pipe, and threw down the tongs violently and used many unhandsome expressions. 
He was fined 20 shillings. [This Joseph Selden, so passionate and unruly in Hadley, 
became a wealthy and respectable man, in the north part of Lyme, Conn.] 

Wearing of the river. — In 1692, the year of the great flood, the river did much damage to 
the county road at the south end of the town (village.) The court appointed three men of 
Northampton, to join with the selectmen of Hadley, and consider what must be done to 
settle said highway. — The river had been wearing there some years. This is the first notice 
of it by the County Court. 

Law regulating dress. — Sumptuary laws restraining excess of 
apparel in some classes, were common in England and other 
nations for centuries. Massachusetts enacted such a law in 1651, 
ordering that persons whose estates did not exceed 200 pounds, 
and those dependent on them, should not wear gold or silver lace, 
gold or silver buttons, bone lace above 2s. per yard, or silk hoods 
or scarfs, upon penalty of los. for each offense. Any persons 
wearing such articles might be assessed in country rates, as if 
they had estates of 200 pounds. 

The first attempt to have this law observed in Hampshire, was 
made in 1673. At the March court, 25 wives and 5 maids, be- 
longing to Springfield, Northampton, Hadley, Hatfield and West- 
field, were presented by the jury, as persons of small estate, who 
"use to wear silk contrary to law." Six of these belonged to 
Hadley, viz.. 

Wife of John Westcarr — was acquitted. 

Joseph Barnard— was fined los. and cost, 2s. 6d. 
Thomas Wells, Jr. — was admonished. 
Edward Grannis — was admonished. 
Joseph Kellogg — was acquitted. 

Maid, Mary Broughton^was admonished. 
Of the thirty, only three were fined, and the fines were remitted 
at the next court. 

At the March court, 1674, the wife of Edward Grannis was 
again presented for wearing silk. Her silk hood and scarf were 
brought into court, and ''though something worn, they had been 
good silk." She was fined 10 shillings. 

At the March court, 1676, the jury presented 68 persons, from 
five towns, viz., 38 wives and maids, and 30 young men, "some 
for wearing silk and that in a flaunting manner, and others for 
long hair and other extravagancies." Two were fined 10 shil- 
lings, and many of the others were ordered to pay the clerk's fees, 
2s. 6d. each. There were ten from Hadley, viz., Joseph Barnard 
and his wife Sarah, and his sister Sarah, William Rooker, Thomas 
Crofts, Jonathan Wells, Joseph Grannis, Nehemiah Dickinson, 



92 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

wife of Mark Warner; and the wife of Thomas Wells, Jr. who 
was fined lo shillings. Nine were admonished and ordered to 
pay the clerk's fees. Several of the 68 presented were wives, 
daughters or sons of men of good estate. Two unmarried 
daughters of Elder John Strong of Northampton were of this 
number. 

In January, 1677, Mrs. Hannah Westcarr, "for wearing silk 
in a flaunting garb, to the great offence of several sober persons 
in Hadley" was admonished to reform. Her husband died the 
year before and left her an estate of 431 pounds. At the same 
court, a daughter of Joseph Baldwin, Jr., the wives of Joseph 
Gaylord and Thomas Selding, Ruth Warner and Mercy Hubbard, 
for wearing silk contrary to law, and two of them for wearing it 
"in a flaunting manner, and excess of apparel to the offence of 
sober people," were admonished and ordered to pay the clerk's 
fees and the witnesses. Andrew Warner, the father of Ruth, was 
worth 356;^. If Mercy Hubbard was a daughter of John H., her 
father died worth 1063;^. Estates seem not to have been much 
regarded. 

In March, 1678, 8 females of Northampton, Springfield, &c. 
were complained of for wearing silk contrary to law, in this day 
of calamity and trouble. Two were fined 10 shillings, some paid 
clerk's fees, and some were referred to another court. 

The boldest of these females was Hannah Lyman, 16 years of 
age, daughter of Richard Lyman, of Northampton, deceased. 
She was presented September, 1676, "for wearing silk in a flaunt- 
ing manner in an offensive way and garb, not only before, but 
when she stood presented, not only in ordinary but in extraor- 
dinary times." She was fined los., Jan. 1677. 

The March Courts in those days were held at the house of 
U- Henry Woodward in Northampton, who kept an ordinary, near 
where Samuel F. Lyman now resides. Most of these women and 
men from five towns, came to this house, and appeared before 
the judges in the court-room. They, and the spectators attracted 
by the novelty of the scene, must have filled the house. Those on 
the bench when the females appeared in court, March, 1673, were 
John Pynchon and Elizur Holyoke of Springfield, William 
Clarke of Northampton, and Henry Clarke of Hadley. 

In September, 1682, the selectmen of the five towns were all 
presented to the court, for not assessing according to law, their 
inhabitants that wore silk and were excessive in their apparel. 
The court endeavored to stir up the selectmen to assess those 
wearing unsuitable and excessive apparel, but it was too late; 



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the women had already gained the victory, and no longer feared 
fines or taxes for wearing silks. — Many good men lamented the 
extravagance of the age, and the love of finery, among the women. 

Expenses of Hampshire Courts. — Their sessions continued 
one, two or three days. The commissioners or judges, jurors 
and a constable, or marshal, making i6 to i8 persons, dined to- 
gether, or dined at the same price, every court day, at the ordinary 
where the court sat, and those from other towns had supper, 
lodging, and breakfast. Some wine and considerable beer were 
drank. The judges and jurymen of these upper towns, in order 
to attend court one day at Springfield, had to be absent two nights. 
They lived well, the ordinary keeper charging much more than 
the common price for their meals. Their food, drink and horse- 
keeping, which were paid for by the county, seem to have been 
the principal compensation that they received. John Pynchon 
kept an account of the court expenses at the ordinaries, but 
neither he nor the recorder of the courts noticed the pay of the 
judges and jurors, and what they received is unknown. Many 
of the entries of actions and of the fines, and sometimes a part of 
the county rate, seem to have been required to pay the ordinary 
keepers for court expenses, which amounted to from 4 to g£ at 
each court. The record twice mentions that most of the county 
rate was needed to pay the county reward for killing wolves. 
The keepers of ordinaries received nothing directly for the room 
used by the court and fire. Litigation was not cheap in Massa- 
chusetts. Every person that sued another in a county court was 
required to pay 10 shillings for the entry of his action. 

Hampshire Transportation down and up the river. — All the 
produce that went to Boston was carried down the river, and all 
the merchandise from that place, except some light articles, was 
brought up the river. At Springfield, they had small boats, 
carrying perhaps two, three or four tons, which, in the accounts 
of William Pynchon and John Pynchon, were named canoes. 
Each boat was managed by two men down and up the river and 
falls, (now called Enfield Falls.) Grain was carried to Hartford 
in these boats, sometimes at 4d. or 5d. per bushel, but a more 
common price was 6 pence. Barrels of flour and pork were 
carried at is. gd. to 2s. each, and hhds. of beaver at 2s. 6d. each. 
Goods were brought up at 12 shillings per ton, hhds. at 3s. 
(probably of 63 gallons,) and salt at 6d. to 8d. per bushel. 

For some years, Northampton and Hadley carted their grain 
to Windsor, through Westfield, but as early as 1667 and 1668, 
Samuel Porter and John Smith of Hadley, had a boat on the 



94 HISTORY OF HADLKY 

river and boated some for Pynchon. After a road was laid near 
the Connecticut in 1673, if not before, Hadley had a landing- 
place on the river below Willimanset Falls, and Northampton 
and Hatfield had one on the west side. Grain was carted from 
Hadley to the landing at 4 pence per bushel, or ten shillings for 
a cart-load of 30 bushels. The freight from this landing to 
Springfield was two pence per bushel. The freight of grain from 
Hadley to Hartford was usually one shilling per bushel, but 
sometimes one or two pence less. In Pynchon's books, the price 
of a bushel of grain received at Northampton or Hadley, was 
always 6 pence less than when received at Springfield, and one 
shilling less than at Hartford. Grain was conveyed from Hart- 
ford, Stratford, &c. to Boston for 6 pence per bushel. Barrelsof pork 
and flour, both large, were carried from Hadley to Hartford for 
3s. 6d. to 4s. per barrel, and from Hartford to Boston at about 3s. 

It is supposed that the first settlers of Hadley and Hatfield 
came up on the Northampton "cartway to Windsor," having 
their own horses, oxen and carts to convey the women and chil- 
dren and some of the men, and the household goods and farming 
implements. The Springfield boats sometimes brought up the 
furniture of families removing. 

Sleds in Hampshire. — The first settlers of New England knew 
nothing about sleds and sleighs, nor did they use them for some 
years. Heavy sleds were used long before sleighs. In Hamp- 
shire, wood was sometimes sledded before 1670, but in general, 
it was carted long after that date. For many years, logs were 
conveyed to saw-pits and saw-mills on wheels, and almost every 
thing was carted. In 1683, Hatfield voted that all men and 
teams should turn out on the 5th and 6th of November, and cut 
and cart Mr. Chauncey's wood. Here were 60 cords of green 
wood to be carted three weeks before winter. Logs were carted 
to John Pynchon's saw-mill for some years after 1667, but in 
1674 he bought a sled and many logs were sledded. Sleds did 
not convey produce to Hartford from this valley, or from Spring- 
field, till the latter part of the century, and perhaps not till after 
1700. Oxen seem not to have been shod in Hampshire in the 
17th century. The people did not keep open sled roads in the 
winter, even for 15 or 20 miles. There were no sleigh-rides in 
these towns till after 1730 or 1740. 

Prices of Grain in Hampshire in the 17TH Century. 

The prices of grain in Hadley, for the payment of their minister, 
school-masters, town rates and private debts, for near 40 years, 



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were as follows: — winter wheat, 3s. 6d., summer wheat, 3s., peas, 
2s. 6d., Indian corn, 2s. Rye was raised after 1680, and the price 
was 2s. 6d. Barley was sometimes 3s. and malt, 3s. 6d., meslin, 
3s. and oats, is. 6d. The prices were nearly the same in North- 
ampton and Hatfield. Winter wheat was sometimes 3s. 6d. 
The money prices of grain, when noticed, which was not often, 
were one-fourth less, and sometimes still lower. — The nominal 
prices advanced in Hadley a year or two before 1700. Winter 
wheat was 4s., summer wheat, 3s. 6d., peas, 3s. and rye, 3s. 
Indian corn was 2s. as before. One-third was deducted from 
these prices to bring them to what were called money prices, 
which were for winter wheat, 2s. 8d., summer wheat, 2s. 4d., 
peas and rye, 2s. and corn, is. 4d. The value of thecoins referred 
to as money, did not vary much from 6s. 8d. for an ounce of silver, 
or 6 shillings for a piece of eight, or Spanish dollar. 

Flour in Hadley and Northampton was sold at from ii to 12 
shillings for 1 1 2 pounds. It was about one shilling per cwt. higher 
at Springfield and near 2 shillings at Hartford. Most of the 
barrels held from 260 to 280 pounds, and some above 300 pounds. 
The price of barrels was from 2s. to 2s. 6d. A bushel of spring 
wheat yielded about 34 pounds of good flour. 

John Pynchon's prices at Springfield, which he called "town 
prices," for about 40 years, were for winter wheat, 4s., summer 
wheat, 3s. 6d., peas, 2s. 6d. to 3s., rye, 3s., Indian corn, 2s. 6d. 
His prices were commonly about 6 pence a bushel higher than 
those at Northampton and Hadley. He sometimes sent to Boston 
more than 2000 bushels of wheat and peas in a year. Indian 
corn was not sent to Boston. A large portion of the wheat raised 
in Hampshire and Connecticut was spring wheat, usually called 
summer wheat in the 17th century. 

In Connecticut, the prices of grain received for country rates, 
as fixed by the General Court for near half a century, were for 
winter wheat, 4s. 6d., summer wheat, 4s., peas and rye, 3s., 
Indian corn, 2s. 6d. There were a few variations. W^inter 
wheat was not named till 1677. These were the common prices at 
Hartford, and had much influence on the prices up the river, 
especially of wheat. After 1680, one-third of the tax was to be 
abated, if paid in money, and for three years, one-half was to be 
abated, if paid in money. This was reducing grain to very low 
prices in money. 

Massachusetts received grain for country rates at higher prices. 
For more than 40 years, with a few exceptions, wheat, without 
any distinction of winter and summer, was 5s.; barley, malt, peas 



96 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

and rye, 4s.; Indian corn, 3s. After 1672, one-quarter or one- 
third of the tax was to be abated if paid in money, and for two 
years, one-half was to be abated for money. 

Grain and other articles at colony prices were called "country 
pay" or "provision pay" or simply "pay;" in Hampshire, pro- 
duce at town prices was sometimes called "provision pay" or 

Hampshire Contributions for Harvard College. — A contribu- 
tion was made throughout the colony, commencing in 1672, for 
a new college building. About ;^I989 were received from towns 
and individuals, in a few years. " A fair and stately brick edifice " 
was erected. The contributions in produce from the Hampshire 
towns, after taking out the expense of transportation, were as 
follows : 

Hadley, 

Northampton, 

Springfield, . 

Hatfield, 

Westfield, 

Northampton contributed ;^29.i7.io in flax, summer wheat, and 
flour, but the freight, shrinkage, casks, &c. reduced it almost 
one-third. 



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CHAPTER XI 

Lands in New England before it was settled by the English^Indian Burnings — Bushes — 
Burnings by the English — Wood and Timber — Fire-wood — Building Timber — Rift 
Timber — Clapboards — Saw-logs — Pasturing domestic animals in the woods. 

New England was far from being an unbroken wilderness 
when first settled by the English. In the vicinity of the Indian 
settlements, there were not only plats of cleared land, upon which 
the squaws raised Indian corn, beans and squashes, but many 
openings where the earth was covered with grass, and extensive 
tracts of woodland, where the trees were so scattered that green 
herbage, and even strawberries, flourished among them. The 
early writers compared these thin forests to the English parks. 
Mr. Graves, wrote from Salem, in 1629, that the country was 
"very beautiful in open lands mixed with goodly woods, and 
again open plains, in some places 500 acres, some more some less, 
not much troublesome to clear for the plough." "The grass and 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 97 

weeds grow up to a man's face; in the lowlands and by fresh rivers 
abundance of grass, and large meadows without any tree or shrub." 

The burning of the grass and leaves by the Indians is noticed 
by Morton, in 1632. He says the savages burn the country that 
it may not be overgrown with underwood. The burning makes 
the country passable by destroying the brush-wood. It scorches 
the older trees and hinders their growth. "The trees grow here 
and there as in our parks, and make the country very beautiful." 
Wood, in 1634, says, "in many places, divers acres are clear, so 
that one may ride a hunting in most places of the land. There is 
no underwood, save in swamps and low grounds; for it being the 
custom of the Indians to burn the woods in November, when the 
grass is withered and leaves dried, it consumes all the underwood 
and rubbish." He says there is good fodder in the woods where 
the trees are thin; and in the spring, the grass grows rapidly on 
the burnt lands. Vanderdonck, a Dutch writer, in his "Des- 
cription of the New Netherlands," now New York, about 1653, 
describes the burning of the woods. "The Indians have a yearly 
custom, which some of our Christians have adopted, of burning 
the woods, plains and meadows, in the fall of the year, when the 
leaves have fallen and the grass and vegetables are dry. This 
'bush-burning,' as it is called, is done to render hunting easier, 
and to make the grass grow. The raging fire presents a grand 
and sublime appearance. Green trees in the woodlands do not 
suffer much." 

These accounts, relating to other parts of the country, will help 
us to form some general idea of the lands, forests, and natural 
scenery in the vicinity of the Connecticut, when first possessed 
by the English. No early writer has given a description of this 
part of Massachusetts, nor indeed of any portion of the country 
on the borders of this river, but we may safely conclude that there 
were Indian corn-fields, green meadows, grassy uplands in scat- 
tered, open woods, and dense forests on wet lands, in this Nor- 
wottuck valley. There was wild, and perhaps gloomy scenery, 
but there must have been much that was pleasant and beautiful. 

The first planters of New England were entirely unaccustomed 
to the business of clearing woodlands, and they selected places 
where they could immediately begin to cultivate the earth. They 
found the best lands generally divested of timber. The inter- 
vales or rich alluvial lands, upon the Connecticut and its tributary 
streams, were more free from trees than the adjoining uplands. 
The first settlers of Northampton, Hadley and Hatfield, found 
plenty of land ready for the plow, and began to raise Indian corn 



98 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

and other grain, and to mow grass, as soon as they had fixed 
themselves in these places. Nor did their homelots upon higher 
ground require much clearing. The upland woods on each 
side of the river, above and below these towns, were passable for 
men on horseback, and with little preparation, for carts. In 
Philip's war, and in later years, companies of horsemen, and 
larger bodies of foot soldiers seem to have penetrated the woods 
without difficulty in every direction. 

Growth of Bushes. — After the Indians ceased to burn over a 
tract of land, bushes and brambles commonly began to grow 
abundantly upon it. When some of the people of Northampton 
petitioned for a plantation at Squakeag (Northfield) in 1671, 
they stated that the Indians had deserted the place, and that for 
want of inhabitants to burn the meadows and woods, the under- 
wood had increased, "which will be very prejudicial to those that 
shall come to inhabit, and the longer, the worse." The inhabit- 
ants upon Connecticut River were greatly annoyed by the bushes 
that sprung up so plentifully in their homelots, highways and 
elsewhere. There was so little travel within and between the 
towns with wheels and two animals abreast, that the bushes 
choked up the ways and it was difficult to keep an open path. In 
Connecticut, a law obliged every man to work one day in the year 
in clearing bushes from the highways. Hadley adopted a sim- 
ilar by-law in 1693. 

Burning over the lands by the English. — The woods were for 
a long time the pasture grounds for all kinds of domestic animals. 
The inhabitants fired them annually, as the Indians had done 
before. They did not set fires near their habitations and fenced 
fields, but in the more distant parts of the township. Massa- 
chusetts enacted a law forbidding any person to set the common 
woodlands on fire, except between March loth and April 30th. 

According to tradition, there were some splendid burnings in 
the woods on the hills and mountains, around this valley, espe- 
cially in the night. The people of Hadley not only burnt over 
their own lands, but extended their fires to the hills of Pelham 
and Belchertown, in order to increase their pasturage. Brook- 
field burnt over the lands in Ware, and they were called "Brook- 
field pastures." Northampton and Hatfield spread their fires 
westerly over the hills of Westhampton, Williamsburgh, &c. 
These burnings continued in many places down to 1750, and 
later. A law of Massachusetts in 1743, made to restrain such 
fires, says the burning of the woods greatly impoverishes the soil, 
prevents the growth of the wood, and destroys much fence. Tra- 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 99 

ditional accounts say that the woods were so free from underbrush 
and the trees so thinly scattered, that a deer could be seen 40 rods 
on the wooded hills. The burnings were as favorable to the 
white deer-hunters as they were of old to the Indian hunters. 

Wood and Timber. — The annual burnings by the Indians, and 
afterwards by the whites, destroyed small trees and hindered 
the growth of large ones, and valuable timber was not so plenty 
as some have imagined. Some of the towns on the river had fears 
about a scarcity of timber in early days. Springfield voted in 
1647, that no timber, boards, planks, shingle-timber, nor pipe 
staves should be carried out of the town, from the east side of the 
river. Hatfield voted, in 167 1, that no man should sell clapboards, 
shingles or rails, out of the town, and coopering stuff was not to 
be sold out of the town until wrought into casks. In May, 1706, 
this prohibition was so far relaxed as to permit John Field, jr. to 
transport shingles "to supply those whose houses were burnt 
down in Hadley."* Northampton, in 1699, "considering the 
great difficulty we are in to get fire-wood," ordered that no staddles 
should be cut, that were less than 9 inches in diameter. Hadley, 
in 1713, ordered that no oak staddles under 12 inches in diameter 
should be cut, on penalty of five shillings. These town votes all 
relate to common lands. They clearly evince that timber was 
not very abundant. 

Fire-wood. — Much of the fuel consumed in Hadley, during the 
17th, and a great part of the i8th century, was oak and walnut. 
From some regulations in 1733 and 1737, it appears that oak, 
walnut, maple and elm were then chiefly used. Pine, chestnut 
and other soft woods, were not extensively employed as fuel until 
a much more recent period. From the supplies of wood given to 
clergymen, some idea may be gained, of the great quantities of 
wood consumed in the spacious fire-places of former days. Hat- 
field at first gave Mr. Chauncey 50 cords of wood annually, and 
afterwards 60 cords. South Hadley voted from 50 to 70 loads 
of wood yearly, for Mr. Woodbridge. Hadley gave Mr. Hopkins 
50 cords, many years. The third precinct in Hadley, now Am- 
herst, gave Mr. Parsons, their first minister, 80 loads of wood 
some years, and 90 loads in 1749. Mr. Edwards of Northampton, 
after 1740, consumed from 75 to 80 loads of wood in a year. 
Wethersfield gave Mr. Woodbridge, (settled in 1680,) 80 loads of 
wood — probably over 50 cords. Some persons who had not a 

♦This is the only record that remains of the burning of houses in Hadley, in the early 
part of 1706. 



100 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Study to warm consumed as much wood as the ministers, or about 
50 cords. When Hadley had only 100 families, about 1765, the 
consumption of wood was not much less than 3000 cords annually. 

Building Timber, &c. — The first settlers of New England 
knew the value of oak, but did not at first understand the impor- 
tance of pine. In many places, they not only used oak timber 
for the frames of buildings, but oak clapboards and oak shingles, 
and some used oak boards to wainscot rooms. Posts, pails and 
rails were of oak. Where pine was plenty, pine boards were 
sawed perhaps as early as oak boards, and pine shingles and 
clapboards gradually took the place of those of oak. How early 
the people of Hadley began to use chestnut for posts and rails, is not 
known. They may have split out chestnut rails for some of their 
early meadow and homelot fences, but there is no evidence of this. 

The Norwottuck valley was to a considerable extent an ever- 
green region. Pines predominated in many places in Hadley, 
but were mingled with oaks and other trees. 

Rift Timber. — This kind of timber could be rived, cleaved or 
split. One of the first votes of the early settlers of Hadley related 
to it. "Dec. 17, 1660, voted that if any men fell any rift timber, 
and do not rive it out into bolts, pales, rails, clapboards, or 
shingles, within six weeks, any inhabitant may fetch it away for 
his own use; and that if any man fell any pine timber, and cart 
it not away in three months, any man may make use of it." This 
vote makes a distinction between" rift timber" and "pine timber." 
The former was apparently oak. The articles into which it was 
rived require some explanation. 

Bolts denoted pieces of wood cleft out, in order to be split again 
into shingles, laths, &c. Pales were stakes, posts, and any 
cloven pieces of timber placed upright for a fence. The picket 
fences of door-yards are a light kind of paling. Rails were used 
for post and rail fences. Our fathers had to learn how to split 
rails from logs after they came to this country. Zigzag or Vir- 
ginia fences were unknown. Shingles of oak and pine in New 
England in early days, were from 14 inches to 3 feet in length. 
John Pynchon, when he built his brick house in 1660, put on 
shingles 18 inches long, and an inch thick at the thick end; but 
for several other buildings, he used shingles 3 feet long. He had 
cedar shingles for a building in 1677. He gave for shingles 18 
inches long, 20 shillings per thousand, and for the 3 feet shingles, 
from 35 to 40 shillings. 

Clapboards. — Coffin's History of Newbury gives a satisfactory 
derivation of this word. "Clapboards, he says, v/ere originally 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 101 

cloven and not sawn, and were thence called clove-boards, and 
in process of time, cloboards, claboards, clapboards." It is 
quite certain that clapboards were cloven in the manner of shingles 
in New England, more than a century. In England, an act of 
Parliament under Elizabeth, 1592-3, names the timber of which 
beer and fish casks were made, "cloven-borde" and "clapborde." 
English writers represent that clapboards in that country were 
used by the cooper for casks, and not by the joiner on buildings. 

The use of short, narrow, cloven boards, over-lapping each 
other, to cover the outside of buildings, seems to have been a con- 
trivance of the early settlers of New England, before they had 
saw-mills, and sawn boards were scarce and dear. It may be 
that they had been previously so used in some parts of Europe. 
In this country, they were at first split from oak, and afterwards 
from pine, and made smooth by "hewing,"* or shaving. The 
wages of "rivers of clapboards" and the price of clapboards, were 
regulated by law in some places. Their length for a time was 
various — 3, 4, 5 or 6 feet. In the i8th century, the laws of Mass- 
achusetts ordered that pine clapboards exposed for sale, should 
be 4 feet 6 inches long, 5 inches broad and f of an inch thick on 
the back, and be straight and "well shaved." The last law 
ordering such clapboards was passed in the year 1783. Such 
short, split, shaved clapboards may still be seen on some old 
houses, built before the Revolution, in Northampton, Hadley and 
other places. 

Saw-logs. — John Pynchon built saw-mills in Springfield, Suf- 
field and Enfield. After his first saw-mill in Springfield was 
built in 1667, he hired men to cut logs ready for the saw at 8 
pence each; and others were engaged to cart them to the mill 
with their own teams, at is. 8d. each. They were to be between 
12 and 25 feet in length and from 17 to 24 inches in diameter, 
at the small end. Most of them were pine. White oak logs 
cost much more. In 1684, he gave for pine logs at the mill at the 
rate of is. 3d. for every hundred feet of boards v.hich they made. 
In 1690, Clark and Parsons of Northampton, gave for pine logs 
at the rate of is. 6d. for every hundred feet of boards sawed from 
them. 

Price of Boards. — Those sawed by hand at Springfield had 
risen to 7 shillings per 100 feet, before Pynchon built his mill in 
1667. After that his price was 4s. 6d. per 100 feet. The price of 
Clark and Parsons, of Northampton, for many years after 1682, 

*The operation of smoothing clapboards and shingles was called "hewing" for many 
years. Afterwards, they were said to be "shaved." 



102 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

was 4s. per lOO feet. Their charge for sawing boards for others 
was 2s. 6d. per lOO feet. Hadley prices did not probably vary 
much from those of Northampton. These prices of logs and 
boards were all in "provision pay." 

Laths for plastering are rarely named in the writings of the 
17th century. The houses of farmers had very little plastering. 
The wealthy plastered their rooms. 

Pasturing domestic animals in the woods. — The first pastures 
in this and other British colonies were the woods, which had 
previously been the hunting grounds of the Indians. The in- 
habitants of the Norwottuck valley had a very wide range for 
their cattle, more than half a century. The great pasture of 
Hadley extended to the north indefinitely, until Sunderland was 
begun in 1714; and the eastern limit was Brookfield, or the 
"Brookfield pastures" in Ware, until Amherst was commenced, 
about 1728. The nearest inhabitants to the south, were in the 
vicinity of Chickopee River, in Springfield, previous to the settle- 
ment of South Hadley, about 1725. Horses, horned cattle, sheep 
and hogs were pastured upon these plains, hills and mountain 
sides. Goats apparently were not kept in Hadley, though some 
towns in the colony had many. Cows were under a keeper, and 
sheep after they were numerous enough for a shepherd. Young 
horses, hogs, and young cattle commonly roved without restraint, 
but the latter sometimes had a keeper. 

A cow-keeper or herdsman was employed in Hadley every year, 
but is seldom mentioned in the record, and information respect- 
ing this manner of pasturage must be sought in other towns. In 
Hatfield, in 1680 and 1681, a man agreed to keep the town herd 
from early in May to Sept. 29, for 12 shillings per week, payable 
in grain. He was to drive out the herd every morning by the 
time the sun was an hour high, take them to good feed and bring 
them home seasonably at night. In many places, the wages of a 
cowherd were 12 shillings per week; in some towns a little higher. 

A shepherd was not needed in Hadley and Hatfield for many 
years. Those who had a few sheep, kept them on their homelots 
and about the village, until the number was so much increased 
that the owners could afford to pay a shepherd. After shepherds 
were employed, the sheep in both towns were folded at night, 
and the manure was paid for by those on whose lands were the 
pens or folds. In Hatfield, the sheep were folded in hurdles 
or movable pens, which were carried from one place to another. 
The wages of a shepherd were ordinarily 12 shillings per week. 
Hatfield had 273 sheep in 1691 and 291 in 1699. The Hadley 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 103 

flock increased slowly. By a law of the colony, a dog that bit 
or killed sheep was to be hanged.* 

In Hatfield, the cow-keeper and shepherd enjoyed the privi- 
leges of most of the Sabbaths. In 1672, every man that had 
three cattle on the commons, was to take his turn in keeping the 
herd on Sabbath-days. In 1693, the shepherd was to keep the 
sheep every loth Sabbath, and the proprietors were to guard them 
9 Sabbaths in 10. In most of the towns, the owners of the herds 
and flocks took care of them, on many of the Sabbaths, that the 
keepers might attend public worship. 

It is presumed that horses and oxen, whose services were fre- 
quently called for, fed at the barns, on the homelots and in the 
broad streets. Oxen were at times under the care of the cowherd. 

As soon as the crops in the intervals were gathered, cows and 
some other animals were pastured in the meadows until snow 
fell. Hadley and Hatfield usually opened one meadow Sept. 
29th or about the first of October, and the others within a fort- 
night. Indian corn was gathered early. 

Young cattle and horses ranged the woods in every direction. 
In Hadley, they ascended Mount Holyoke to the steep rocks, 
and crossed the mountain in those gaps called cracks. In lyoQj 
the town gave John Taylor 20 acres of land, to maintain a fence 
across the crack of the mountain, meaning a gap, now about half 
a mile north-east of the mountain house. Cattle from the south 
side sometimes came through this opening into Hockanum and 
Fort Meadow. The common fields and private lots required 
strong barriers to protect them against restless, rambling animals. 

Young cattle and horses often remained in the woods until 
winter, and some became wild and unruly, especially horses, and 
wandered to other towns. Many days were spent in the winter 
and in other seasons in looking up horses and cattle in the woods. 
This mode of pasturing, though not without inconveniences, was 
the best that the new settlers in this and other colonies could adopt. 

Swine were not often killed by wolves or bears; according to 
tradition, they defended themselves and their young vigorously 
when attacked. 

*The hanging of mischievous dogs sometimes gave a name to the place where the exe- 
cution was performed. I have noticed the name, "Hang-dog swamp," both in Massachu- 
setts and Connecticut. The dog was taken to the woods, a leaning staddle was bent down 
and a cord was fastened to the top and to the dog's neck; the elastic staddle then sprung 
back, with the dog dangling in the air. In former days, cats and dogs were sometimes 
hanged at the heavy end of a well-swipe. 



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CHAPTER XII 

Good land of little value to Indians— Purchases by Penn and Pynchon — Purchases of the 
Indians in Norwottuck Valley — Remarks on the Indian Deeds — How Hatfield was 
purchased — How much Hadley paid for land— The name Norwottuck. 

The Indians upon Connecticut River were very desirous that 
the Enghsh should settle among them. They willingly and gladly 
sold their lands; no urging was necessary. They understood 
what was meant by a sale of land. When the Norwottuck Indians 
sold the lands at Northampton in 1653, and at Hadley in 1658, 
they knew perfectly well what use the English made of the lands 
they had purchased in other places long before, and what they 
claimed under an Indian deed. The Indians never pretended 
that they were ignorant of what was intended by a sale of land, 
and no quarrels arose on that ground. 

The price obtained by the Indians for land, however small, was 
all they demanded, and in the opinion of intelligent men, all the 
land was worth. "Whoever is conversant with the hardships, 
toils and privations attending a new settlement in the wilderness, 
and will take the trouble to compute what is expended and laid 
out on and about a settlement to make land produce any thing; 
how much its value depends on neighboring settlements, on roads, 
fences and the various improvements of civilized life; will inevitaby 
come to the conclusion that wild land in a wilderness, remote 
from neighbors, cannot be of much value."* Gov. Hutchinson 
observed that land in New England, at the time of its settlement, 
was of no value. f 

Very erroneous opinions are entertained in regard to the value, 
to the Indians, of the land which they sold to the English. They 
manifestly were not conscious of giving up much that was useful 
or important to themselves. The Indian men were fond of fight- 
ing, hunting and fishing, and disdained other pursuits. All 
agricultural labor and all kinds of drudgery were thrown upon 
the women, who, with hoes of shells, wood or iron, cultivated 
small pieces of land. It may be doubted whether all the Indian 
corn-fields in this valley, from Holyoke and Tom on the south, 
to Toby and Sugar Loaf on the north, contained more than sev- 
enty acres. Agriculture was a minor object with the Indians. 

♦Bliss's Sketches of the History of Springfield, 1828. 
•j-As quoted by Trumbull. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 105 

These fine intervals, which so much dehght the civiHzed man, 
had few attractions for the Indians. 

In Connecticut, the Indians in most of their deeds, retained 
the right to hunt, fowl and fish within the lands disposed of. So 
the Norwottuck Indians, in their deeds of land in Hadley and 
Hatfield, reserved to themselves the liberty of hunting and fowl- 
ing on the lands they sold, and of fishing in the streams; and in 
two of the deeds, they had liberty to set their wigwams and take 
fire-wood on the commons.* They had the same use of most of 
the land and water after the English came, that they had before. 
The women lost their corn-patches in the meadows. The men 
continued to hunt, fowl and fish, and the women to raise corn.f 

It was not rich land that principally induced the Indians to 
establish themselves in this valley or elsewhere. The most 
numerous tribes of New England Indians were not upon the best 
lands. The Pequots, the most powerful tribe in Connecticut, 
resided in one of the most sterile sections of the colony. The 
sandy, barren island of Nantucket, had as many Indians 200 years 
ago (if correctly estimated in 1659) ^^ ^^^ fertile lands upon the 
Connecticut in the whole course of the river. The Indians had 
no permanent settlements above Northfield, and they voluntarily 
deserted that place. 

Some European writers have been strangely ignorant of the 
fact, that most of the early settlers of New England occupied 
their lands by actual bargain with the Indians. These writers 
have represented that William Penn was the first to purchase a 
conveyance from the Indians, and have bestowed much praise 
upon him for doing what had been done a hundred times in New 
England, before Penn came to America.:}; 

Penn is said to have completed his bargain or treaty with the 
Indian chiefs under an elm tree near Philadelphia, and the trans- 
action has been rendered famous by the historian and the painter. 
Yet it would be difficult, perhaps, to tell why the purchase of 
Indian lands in Pennsylvania by Wm. Penn, is more worthy of 
renown, than the purchase of Indian lands in Northampton or 
Hadley by John Pynchon, 20 years before. Both bought as 
cheaply as they could. 

*Pres. Dwight says, in his Travels in New England, "the Indians were always consid- 
ered as having a right to dwell and to hunt within the lands which they had sold." Such 
a right seems to have been practically enjoyed, though not expressly reserved in all the deeds. 

•|-When the women took land of the English for half the crop, they may have obtained 
from well plowed land more corn than the same amount of labor produced when the land 
and all the crop were theirs. 

iGrahame, in his History of the United States, Vol. II, p. 346, has corrected the error 
of these writers. 



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INDIAN DEEDS OF LANDS AT NORWOTTUCK. 
Deed of Northampton. 
This purchase was made by John Pynchon, Sept. 24, 1653, ^^ Springfield, (perhaps 
under an elm tree) of six Indians, two of whom appear as owners of land on the east side 
of the river, viz., Chickwallop ahas Wawhillowa, and Awonusk, wife of Wulluther. The 
tract of land purchased was at Nanotuck or Nonotuck, and extended from the brook below 
Munhan, called Sankwonk (now below Asahel Lyman's) up by the Quinetticott to the 
brook or gutter below Capawonk called Masquomp, (now called Half-way brook,) and 
out into the woods westerly nine miles. The consideration was 100 fathoms of wampum, 
10 coats and some small gifts; and the English were to plough up for the Indians, on the 
east side of the river, sixteen acres of land, in the summer of 1654. 

Capawonk Meadow in Hatfield. 

Northampton bought this of a chief, named Lampaunchus, or Umpanchala, July 20, 
1657, for 50 shillings. This meadow was then called Pewonganuck or Capawonk. In 
October, 1658, Northampton proposed to sell it to the "Hartford men,"on four conditions, 
(on page 11,) which were not complied with. Oh the nth of March, 1659, Joseph Fitch, 
John Webb and Joseph Parsons, in behalf of Northampton, agreed with William West- 
wood, Samuel Smith and Andrew Warner, acting for the purchasers of the new planta- 
tion on the east side of the river, to sell Capawonk Meadow, for 30 pounds sterling, in 
wheat and peas, delivered at Hartford at the current price, before June i, 1659. The 30 
pounds were paid at or near the time. The deed from Northampton agents to the agents 
of Hadley, was given Jan. 22, 1663. The bounds of Capawonk in the deed, were, the 
riverett running into the Great River easterly, the Great River south and east; and the 
bank of upland, north and west. 

The agreement of March 11, 1659, is the first instrument recorded in the first Book 
of Deeds at Springfield. Elizur Holyoke recorded it Dec. 2, 1660. 

Deed of Hadley. 

This deed embraces the land from the mouth of Fort River, and Mount Holyoke, on 
the south, to the mouth of Mohawk brook, and the southern part of Mount Toby on the 
north, extending easterly nine miles into the woods. 

"Here followeth a copy of a deed or writing -whereby the Indians of Nolwotogg, upon 
the river Quienecticott, made sale of certain lands unto Maj. John Pynchon, of Spring- 
field, together with the copy of the said Maj. John Pynchon his assignment of the said 
deed to the use and behoof of the inhabitants of Hadley, and his acknowledgment thereoft 

Be it known to all men by these presents that Chickwollop alias Wahillowa, Umpan- 
chella alias Womscom, and Quonquont alias Wompshaw, the sachems of Nolwotogg, and 
the sole and proper owners of all the land on the east side of Quonicticot river, from the 
hills called Petowamachu, and from the mouth of the brook or river called Towunuck- 
sett, and so all along by the great river upward or northward to the brook called Nepas- 
sooenegg, and from the hither part or south end of the great hills called Kunckquachu, 
(being guessed at near about nine miles in length) by the river Quenecticott — We the 
aforenamed Chickwallop alias Waahillow, Umpanchala alias Womscom, and Quonquont 
alias Wompshaw, of Nolwotogg, on the one party, do give, grant, bargain and sell unto 
John Pynchon, of Springfield, on the other party, to him, his assigns and successors for- 
ever, all the grounds, woods, ponds, waters, meadows, trees, stones, &c. lying on the east 
side of Quenicticot River, within the compass aforesaid, from the mouth of the little Riv- 
erett called Towenucksett, and the hills Petowomuchu northward up the great river of 
Quenecticot, to the Brook Nepowssooenegg, and from the south end of the hills Quaqua- 
chu, being near about nine miles in length, from the south part to the north part, and all 
within the compass from Quenecticot River eastward nine miles out into the woods, all 
the aforesaid tract of ground called Towunucksett, Sunmukquommuck, Suchaw, Noycoy, 
Gassek, Pomptuckset, Mattabaget, Wunnaquickset, Kunckkiunk-qualluck, Neposeo- 
neag, and to the south end of the great hill called Kunckquachu, and for nine or ten miles 
eastward from the great river out into the woods eastward — We the said Chickwallop, 
Umpanchella, and Quonquont, do for and in consideration of two hundred fathom of 
wampom, and twenty fathom and one large coat of eight fathom, which Chickwallop sets 



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Table Stones in the Meadow C 



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HISTORY OF HADLEY 107 

oflF, of trusts, besides several small gifts, and for other good causes and considerations do 
sell, give, grant, and have given, granted, bargained and sold to John Pynchon, of Spring- 
field, and to his assigns and successors all and singular the aforenamed land, or by what- 
ever other name it is or may be called, quietly to possess, have and enjoy the aforesaid 
tract of ground free from all molestations or incumbrances of Indians, and that forever, 
only the Indians aforenamed, and in particular Quonquont, doth reserve and keep one 
corn field about twelve, sixteen, or twenty acres of ground, a little above Mattabaget, by 
the brook called Wunnaquickset, lying on the south side of the said brook, and compassed 
in by a swamp from that brook to the great river, and also they reserve liberty to hunt deer, 
fowl, &c. and to take fish, beaver, or otter, &c. but otherwise all the aforesaid premises 
the said John Pynchon, his assigns and successors and their heirs shall forever enjoy abso- 
lutely and ciearly, free from all incumbrances of any Indians or their corn fields forever, 
except as before excepted. And in witness hereof, we the said Indians do subscribe our 
marks this present twenty-fifth day of December, 1658. It is only the corn field on this 
or south side of the brook called Wunnuckeckset, and the little bit of ground by it within 
the swamp and betwixt the swamp and the great river which the Indians do reserve, and 
are to enjoy. But the little corn field on the other side or further side or north side of 
Wunnaquickset, and all the other corn fields within the compass of ground aforenamed, 
the Indians are to leave and yield up, as witness their hands. 

The mark — of Umpanchla alias Womscom. 
The mark — of Quonquont alias Wompshaw. 
The mark — of Chickwalopp alias Wowahillowa. 

Witnesses to this purchase and that the Indians do fully sell all the lands aforementioned 
to Mr. Pynchon, and that the marks were subscribed by the Indians themselves. 

Joseph Parsons, 

Edwd. Elmore, 

Joseph Fitch, 

Samuel Wright, 

Arthur Williams, 

The mark R. T. of Rowland Thomas, who was privy to the whole discourse and con- 
clusion of the purchase, and Joseph Parsons was present and acquainted with the whole 
agreement; the other witnesses came in to testify to the subscribing, and that the Indians 
owned all as it was read to them. 

The Indians desired they might set their wigwams at some times within the tract of 
ground they sold without offence, and that the English would be kind and neighborly to 
them in not prohibiting them fire-wood out of the woods, &c. which was promised them." 

Assigned by John Pynchon to "the present Inhabitants of Hadley," Oct. 28, 1663 — 
in which he says he acted in the purchase as an agent entrusted by them. 

The corn-field of 12, 16 or 20 acres, reserved in the foregoing deed, was sold to Hadley 
in a few years. It seems to have been a part of the upper School Meadow. 

Deed of Hadley west of the River, or Hatfield. 

The land included in this deed, is bounded by Hatfield Mill River on the south, and the 
upper side of the Great or North Meadow on the north, extending westerly nine miles. 

"Here foUoweth a copy of a deed of sale whereby Umpanchala, an Indian Sachem 
formerly of Nolwotogg, did sell and alienate his right and interest in certain parcels of 
land on the west side of Quenecticot River, unto Maj. John Pynchon, of Springfield, for 
and in behalf of the inhabitants of Hadley, as also his, the said Maj. John Pynchon's 
assignment of the same to the said inhabitants, and acknowledgment of it likewise: 

Be it known unto all men by these presents that Umpanchala, alias Womscom, a sachem 
of Nolwotogg, on the one party, being a Chief and proper owner of the land on the west 
side of Quinecticot River, from Cappowoungomuck to the upper side of Mincomonk, (viz. 
to Quonquont 's ground) do give, grant, bargain and sell to John Pynchon of Springfield, 
on the other party, to him, his assigns and successors forever, all the grounds, woods, ponds, 
waters, trees, stones, meadows, uplands, &c. lying and being at Nolwotogg, on the west 



108 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

side of Quenecticut River, from the meadow on the south called Capawonk, formerly 
sold by Umpanchala to the inhabitants of Northampton, upon the great River of Quenecti- 
cut, northward to the upper side of Mincomunck, that is to say, the Brook or Riverett 
called Cappowong alias Mattaoolanick, which parts Cappowonganick and Wequetayyag, 
and the meadow and upland called Wequetayyag, and so northward to Yowanckhomuck 
and Natocouse, and the brook called Wunckcompss which comes out of the pond, and over 
the said Brook Nattacows or Wonckcompss still northward, viz. all the ground and meadow 
called Mincommuck to a marked Walnut tree, at the great River side, and so ofF from the 
River to a great White Oak marked, and thence to run out into the woods westward from 
the great River nine miles, and so down southward till it come to Coppowoung Riverett, 
which is to Northampton bounds, the aforesaid tract of ground called Wequetayyag, Yow- 
unckhommuck, Wonckcomss, Nattacows, Mincomuck, and from Quenecticott River 
to run westward nine miles into the woods both at the southward bounds up along the 
riverett Cappawoung, as well as the northward bounds of it; the said Umpanchala alias 
Womscom on the one party, for and in consideration of the sum of three hundred fathom 
of wompum in hand paid, besides several other small gifts, and for other good causes and 
considerations, do sell, give, grant, and have sold, given and granted, to John Pynchon, 
of Springfield, aforesaid, on the other party, and to his assigns and successors forever, and 
to their heirs, all and singular the aforesaid land, or by whatever other names it is or may 
be called, quietly to possess, have and enjoy the aforesaid tract of ground, free from all 
molestation or incumbrance of any Indians, and that forever; only the said Umpanchala 
doth reserve the Chickons alias Cottingyakies, which is to say, their planting ground, 
together with liberty to hunt deer or other wild creatures, to take fish, and to set wigwams 
on the commons, and take wood and trees for use; but otherwise all the premises and the 
whole tract of land before mentioned, with all the appurtenances and privileges thereof, 
the said John Pynchon, his assigns and successors and their heirs shall forever enjoy, ab- 
solutely and clearly, free from all molestation by any Indians; and further Umpanchala 
doth engage and covenant, and it is the intent of these presents that all the Indian corn- 
fields or old planted ground above Wequetayyag shall come to the English after his death, 
and then the Indians to have and enjoy only the old planted ground in Wequetayyag and 
down to the Brook Cappowongseate alias Mattoolanick. In witness hereof the said Um- 
panchala hath set to his hand and mark this tenth day of July, 1660. 

The mark — of Umpanchala. 

The mark — of Etowomq, brother to Umpanchala, own- 
ing and approving of the sale of the land, and is a 
witness to it. 
Subscribed in presence of 
John Russell, Jr. 
Andrew Bacon, 
Richard Church, 
Richard Montaeue, 
The mark— of Woassomehuc, alias Skejack, an Indian witness." 

The above said was here entered Dec. 25, 1678, 

Per me, Saml. Partrigg, Recorder. 

Oct. 28, 1663. John Pynchon assigned the above to the inhabitants of Hadley, because 
"it was purchased in the behalf of several persons who had obtained a grant from the Gen- 
eral Court of Massachusetts for a plantation, then intending to plant and settle themselves 
on the land," said Pynchon acting "only as being intrusted by the said persons now inhab- 
itants of Hadley." 

On the 17th of Jan. 1662, Umpanchala, with the consent of Etoomp, deeded to four men, 
for the town of Hadley, the planting ground in and above Wequetayag, reserved in the 
first deed, excepting five acres, which Hadley was to break up and fence for the Indians. 
The five acres, which were in Indian Hollow in Hatfield, were sold a few years after. The 
Indian planting ground, in the deed of 1660, is called "Chickons alias Cottingyakies." 
In the deed of 1662, it is named "Chickons Cottones Akers." Umpanchala was in debt 
to John Pynchon, who allowed him £ix, los. for this land, and received his pay of Hadley. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 109 

Deed of Hockanum and part of South Hadley and Granby. 

This deed takes in the territory fi-om the mouth of Fort River, and Mount Holyoke on 
the north, to Stony brook, in South Hadley, on the south, extending easterly lo miles, or 
to three ponds. 

"Here followeth a copy of a deed of the purchase of certain tract or tracts of land by 
the Worshipful Maj. Pynchon of the Indians, and his assignment of the same to the inhab- 
itants of Hadley, and their successors, with his acknowledgment of the same. 

Be it known to all men by these presents, that Wequagon (formerly called Wulluthearne) 
and his wife Awonusk, and Squomp their son, being the sole and proper owners of the land 
at Nolwotogg, on the east side of Quenicticott River, from the brook Towonunkset and 
hill Petawamachu down southward towards Springfield bounds. We the said Wequagon, 
Awonunks and Squomp (for ourselves and heirs) on the one party, do give, grant, bargain 
and sell unto John Pynchon of Springfield, on the other party, to him, his heirs, assigns 
and successors forever, all the grounds, woods, trees, ponds, waters, stones, meadows, 
and uplands, &c. lying and being at Nolwotogg, on the east side of Quinecticott River 
from the hill called Petawamuchu, and the brook or little riverett called Towunuckset, 
which formerly Umpanchala and Wowwhillowa sold to the English, when they sold them 
Sunnuckquommuck and bounded it by the mouth of the brook Towunuckset and the hill 
Petowomachu. Now from the said hill and brook down Quinecticott River southward to 
a brook or riverett called Chusick, where the cart way goes over it, but at the mouth it is 
called Cowase, and all within the compass from the great river Quenicticott eastward into 
the woods about ten miles, viz. to the three ponds called Paquonckquamog, Scontocks, 
Paskisukquopoh. The aforesaid tract of land called Petowamuchu, Suchow, the great 
neck or meadow which the English call Hoccanum, together with the uplands adjoin- 
ing, and the brook or riverett called Cowachuck alias Quaquoonuntuck, at the mouth 
of it, and so south to the riverett Chusuck alias Cowase, at the mouth of it— and 
eastward to the three ponds before named. — We the said Weequagon, Awonusk and 
Squomp, do clearly and absolutely grant and sell to John Pynchon, of Springfield, 
aforesaid, and to his successors forever — And by these presents, for and in consideration 
of 150 fathom of wampom with ten coats, and more two yards of cloth over in the large- 
ness of their breeches, and several other small gifts, considerable all of them, and all in 
hand paid (the receipt whereof we do by these presents acknowledge) and for other good 
causes and considerations us thereunto moving, do grant and sell, and have sold, given, 
and granted to John Pynchon of Springfield, aforesaid, and to his assigns and successors, 
and their heirs forever, all and singular the aforenamed land from the north bounds Towu- 
nuckset to the south bounds Chusick alias Cowase, and from the west bounds the great 
river to the three ponds eastward called Paquonckequamog, Scontocks and Paskesicquopoh, 
or by whatever other names it is or may be called, quietly to possess, have and enjoy the 
aforesaid tract of ground, free from all molestation and incumbrance of any Indians, and 
that forever — only the said Weequogon and Awonuske his wife do reserve and exempt 
from this sale a parcel of land in the neck or Suchaw, called by the English Hoccanum, 
which parcel of land they say is upwards of fifty or sixty acres, being already mortgaged 
to Joseph Parsons of Northampton, and bounded out to him by stakes and marks in the 
presence of two Englishmen of Northampton, the which parcel of land being made over to 
Joseph Parsons they exempt from this sale but not otherwise, all the premises and the whole 
tract of land before mentioned, with all the profits, privileges and advantages and com- 
modities thereof, the said John Pynchon, his assigns and successors and their heirs shall 
forever enjoy, absolutely, clearly and free from all molestation by Indians against. We 
the said Wequogan, Awonunske and Squomp will defend and will unto the said Pynchon 
warrant the premises against all lawful claims whatsoever by any other except as before 
exempted— only the intent of these presents is not to exclude the Indians from hunting deer, 
beaver, or other wild creatures on the tract of land aforesold, which liberty they yet reserve 
to themselves — and also to take fish and sometimes to set their wigwams on the commons, 
and to take wood and trees off on the commons for their use. In witness whereof the afore- 
said Indians have hereunto set their hands and marks this 8th day of August, 1662. 

The mark — of Wequogon. 
The mark — of Awonunsk. 
The mark — of Squomp, 



110 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Signed, subscribed and delivered in the presence of us, 

Pelatiah Glover, 

The mark — of Richard Sikes, 

John Lamb, 

James Taylor." 
John Pynchon's assignment to inhabitants of Hadley, Feb. 6, 1671. 

Indian chiefs were inclined to get into debt, and Wequagon (or Weackwagen) and his 
wife and son Squomp owed Joseph Parsons of Northampton, 80 beaver skins, for coats, 
wampum and goods; and on the 28th of May, 1662, they mortgaged to him a parcel of land 

in the meadow and upland by it, commonly called Hockanum, but by the Indians Peta , 

as security for the debt, and if the debt was not paid before the first of September, Parsons 
was to have the land. James Wright and Judah Wright of Northampton, were witnesses 
to the mortgage. This land, which was excepted from the sale in the preceding deed, was 
sold by Joseph Parsons to the inhabitants of Hadley, for a considerable sum which was 
paid, but through negligence, his quit-claim deed was not given until March 29, 1683. 
The land was then estimated at 60 or 70 acres. 

Deed of the North part of Hatfield and Whately, 

This tract of land was purchased by Hatfield, Oct. 19, 1672. It was bounded on the 
south by the land bought of Umpanchala, July 10, 1660, and on the north by Weekioan- 
nuck or Sugar Loaf brook, where the Pacomtuck path crossed it, the north line running 
thence east to the great river and west 6 miles into the woods. Part of the land abutted on 
the farms of Major Denison and Mr. Bradstreet eastward, and extended 6 miles west of 
them, and part abutted on the great river. This had been the land of Quanquan, (same 
as Quonquont) a sachem, and was sold by his widow Sarah Quanquan, his son Pocuno- 
house, Mattabauge, a squaw, Majesset, daughter of Quanquan, and Momecouse, for 50 
fathoms of wampumpeag. 

Deeds of Swampfield or Sunderland. 

On the loth of April, 1674, John Pynchon, acting in behalf of Robert Boltwood, Joseph 
Kellogg, John Hubbard, and Thomas Dickinson, of Hadley, and their associates, bought 
of several Indians, all the land from Nepesoaneag brook, (now Mohawk brook) next to 
Hadley bounds, up to the brook called Papacontuckquash, over against the mouth of Pa- 
comptuck (Deerfield) river, and six miles easterly from the Connecticut into the woods. 
Two deeds were given, one by Mishalisk, an old woman, the mother of Wuttawchincksin, 
deceased, who owed Pynchon; and one by Metawompe alias Nattawwassawett, for himself 
and in behalf of Wadanummin, Squiskeag and Sunkamachue, for 80 fathoms of wampum 
and some small things. The lands were in Sunderland, Montague and Leverett. The 
Indians belonged to the Norwottucks. Pynchon paid for the lands and the Hadley pur- 
chasers paid him and his son £26. 

Remarks on the Indian Deeds. 

The principal chiefs of the Norwottucks, north of Mount Tom 
and Mount Holyoke, were Chickwallop, Umpanchala and Quon- 
quont. They claimed to be the owners of most of the land on 
both sides of the river, Chickwallop of the southern, Umpanchala 
of the middle, and Quonquont of the northern part of the territory. 
Besides these, there were petty chiefs and owners of land at North- 
ampton, and at Sunderland. Awonusk seems to have been the 
daughter and heir of some deceased Norwottuck chief. Her 
husband, Wequogon, called also Wulluther, united with her in 
the deed of the land below Fort River, but he was a Springfield 
Indian and not a Norwottuck. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 111 

It appears from the names of witnesses, that the deed of Had- 
ley was executed at Northampton; that of Hatfield at Hadley, and 
that of Hockanum and South Hadley at Springfield. It will be 
perceived that the orthography of Indian names is often changed 
in the same deed. This may have been partly the result of care- 
lessness, and some words may have been designedly varied. It 
was very difficult to express some of the Indian sounds by letters. 

The Indian names of some places may be ascertained from 
these deeds. They will be noticed elsewhere. Hockanum was 
an Indian name at East Hartford, but the Meadow near Mount 
Holyoke was so named by the English and not by the Indians. 
The English often gave the same Indian name to a stream and 
to the land adjoining it. The Indians may have done the same, 
or they may have varied the determination of the name, to dis- 
tinguish land from water. 

Indian signatures. — Indians, in signing deeds, commonly did 
something more than make a mark; most of them made a picture 
or representation of some object. In the old records at Spring- 
field, many of these Indian hieroglyphics may be seen, as a 
beaver, a snake, a snow-shoe, a bow, a hand, &c. Wequogon 
and Squomp both drew a rude picture of a hand, including the 
wrist, thumb and four fingers. Umpanchala made a bow and 
string. Chickwallop made a circular figure with a neck to it, 
intended for — I know not what. Awonusk manifested a different 
taste from the male chiefs; her sign looks like a strip of net-work, 
and was intended perhaps to represent a piece of wampum. 
Quonquont only made zigzag marks, like two or three of the letter 
W put together, and Umpanchala sometimes did the same. 

How Umpanchala received his pay for the lands in 
Hatfield. 

John Pynchon's account book has all the wampum and other 
articles, that he sold to Umpanchala, to pay him ']^£, or 300 
fathoms of wampum, for his land in Hatfield, including his fine 
of two fathoms for being drunk. Accounts with Indians were 
kept in fathoms and hands of wampum. Pynchon, in this account, 
estimated 10 hands equal to a fathom, making his hands more 
than 7 inches, instead of the usual hand of 4 inches. Wampum 
was an article of traffic, and also the money of the Indians, — the 
standard by which they measured the value of all other things. 
Pynchon valued the cheaper or white wampum, in 1660, at five 
shillings a fathom. A fathom of wampum was a string of beads 



112 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

made of shells, six feet in length. Pynchon wrote "fadam" for 
fathom. 

The following is copied from Pynchon's book, the items being 
a little compressed. The shag cotton of that day was made of 
wool. 

"Umpanchala, the Indian Sachem and owner of the land at Norwotog, hath taken up 
of me towards pay for his land, which he promises to sell: — 

Fadams. hands. £ s. d. 

1659. 



1660. 



Sept. 23. 2 yards Bilboe rug, 


7 





I 


15 





Red Shag Cotton and Trading Cloth, 


2 


4 





12 





A shirt, 2f. A coat, 5f. 


7 





I 


15 





I pair breeches. 


I 


5 





7 


6 


Feb. 13. Wampum now and in Sept. 


^7 


I 


6 


15 


6 


A coat, 5f. A gun, 6f. 5h. 


II 


S 


2 


17 


6 


April 12 / Shag cotton and shag. 


2 


4 





12 





to 1 6. \ 2 blue coats and i coat. 


15 





3 


IS 





A coat and a pair breeches. 


6 





I 


10 





Wampum, 


20 


I 


5 





6 



25 



April 16. A shirt and shag cotton, 






3 








15 





Wampum, 






7 





I 


IS 





" 25 to 27. Wampum, 






13 


8 


3 


9 





Red shag, 2f. jh. Coat, 


sf- 




7 


7 


I 


18 


6 


May 9 to / Wampum, 






3^ 


I 


8 





6 


June 7. \ 3 Coats, I5f. Waistcoat, 


, 2f. 


4h. 


17 


4 


4 


7 





June 19. Wampum, 






10 


4 


2 


12 





I coat, 5f. Shag cotton. 


3f- 


6h. 


8 


6 


2 


3 






^S 



June 20 / Blue shag cotton, 
to July 10 \ 2 coats, shag and wampum. 
Wampum, 

Had of Joseph Parsons, 
Coat and wampum at Parsons's, 
Payment to Mr. Goodwin, 
Red shag cotton and knife, 
July30to / Wampum and 2 coats, 
Aug. 23. \ "For your being drunk," 
Sept.6toi4 Wampum, 
A kettle. 



s 





2 


10 


3 


10 


2 


10 





14 





7 


S 


10 





10 


2 


'S 


I 


5 



iS 



In all 300 fadams at 5s. which make £75. So much I engaged to him for his land at 
Nalwotogg; and I have paid him all to his own content, in the particulars abovesaid. 
This account is set off with Hadley town, it being paid for the purchase of their land. 
September, 1660." 

Umpanchala expended all he received for the first sale of Hat- 
field in one year; and in three months more, from Sept. to Dec. 
1660, he bought of Pynchon goods to the amount of ;^I2, ids. 
and to pay this, sold the land to Hadley which he had reserved 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 113 

in the first deed. He had pledged this to Pynchon. Such want 
of foresight and calculation was characteristic of the Indians. 
A few chiefs seem to have sold all the lands and to have used the 



What Hadley paid for Lands. 

Pynchon charged the people of Hadley for the Hatfield lands 
only the amount that he paid to Umpanchala, ']^£, and ;;^i2.io. 
Compensation for his services must have been derived from a 
large profit on the goods and wampum sold. His account against 
Hadley follows: — 

THE TOWN OF HADLEY, Dr. 

£ s. 

1658. Dec. 25. To the purchase of the land on the east side of the river, 62 10 

1660. July 10. To the purchase of the land on the west side of the river, 75 o 

To law books, 1 10 

1660. Dec. To colors, stafl, tassels and top, 5 ° 

To second purchase on the west side, 12 10 

1662. Aug. 8. To the purchase of the neck which they call Hockanum, 50 o 

£206 10 

Pynchon received his pay of individuals, and not of the town, 
from 1661 to 1668. The account was balanced Nov. 12, 1669. 
He has credit for most if not all the settlers. The remark of 
Hadley men, on page 20, that they had purchased lands of the 
Indians at higher rates than other plantations in New England, 
seems to have been true. In addition, they paid to Mr. Brad- 
street 200;^ in money, and to Joseph Parsons not less than ^20. 
Their lands cost them 1400 dollars or more. 

This large sum was paid when wheat in Hadley was only 3s. 
and 3s. 3d. per bushel; and in money not above 2s. 6d. Who- 
ever takes into consideration all the circumstances, will come to 
the conclusion that the people of Hadley paid for the land which 
they cultivated, a much higher price than those now pay who buy 
good land of the U. S. government at $1.25 per acre. The people 
in the towns on the river had war with the Indians about half the 
time, for 50 years after 1674. 

Pynchon paid from his shop, in wampum and merchandise, for 
almost all the lands near the river, that were purchased of the 
Indians, from Suflrteld and Enfield, to Deerfield and Northfield, 
and received his pay from the settlers and proprietors of the new 
towns, to whom he assigned the Indian deeds. Only a small 
part of the assignments of the three Hadley deeds are given on 
pages 107, 108 and no. 



114 history of hadley 

Indian name of Norwottuck Valley. 

In Eliot's Indian Bible, the word for "the midst" of any thing, 
is usually noeu or noau, (sometimes nashaue,) and tuk at the end of 
a word generally signifies a river or brook. In our English 
version, the words, "the city that is in the midst of the river," 
are found in Joshua 13, verses g and 16; and in Eliot, in both 
verses, "the midst of the river" is rendered by noautuk. This is 
the Indian name of our valley. The peninsulas and projecting 
points of land at Hadley, Hockanum, Northampton and Hatfield, 
were "in the midst of the river." This Indian word was varied 
in different dialects, and in the records of the English. Some 
tribes did not pronounce / and r, and these letters are not in Eliot's 
Bible, The Nipmucks pronounced /, and some Indians on Con- 
necticut River, below Massachusetts, had the sound of r. The 
following variations of the name of this valley, are taken from 
the records of Connecticut, Massachusetts, the United Colonies 
and Hampshire towns, and from the writings of the Pynchons. 

Nawattocke, 1637, Nowottok and Nawottock, 1646, Nau- 
wotak, 1648, Noatucke, 1654, Nanotuck, 1653, Nonotucke, 1653, 
1655, 1658, Norwotake, 1657, Norwootuck and Norwuttuck, 
1657, Northwottock, 1656, 1661, Norwottock, 1659, 1660, Nor- 
woottucke, 1659, Norwotuck, 1661. John Pynchon has in his 
accounts Nalwotogg, Nolwotogg and Norwotog, and in his deeds 
Nolwotogg. The latter spelling was probably according to the 
pronunciation of the Nipmucks, who lived here. Nonotuck was 
used when there was no town but Northampton. The Hadley 
settlers introduced from Hartford, Norwottuck, and that name was 
more used by the English than the others. 



CHAPTER XIII 

Indians near Connecticut River — The Norwottucks and their Forts — The Mohawks and 
their cruelty and cannibaHsm — The Mohawks in Hampshire county — -Talks at Albany 
— Presents to the Mohawks — Entertainment of Indians — Wampum, or the money of 
the Indians. 

From 1636, when Springfield was settled, until the Indian war 
of 1675, the Nipmucks or Nipnets inhabited the interior of 
Massachusetts, occupying many places in the present county of 
Worcester, and in the old county of Hampshire, and some dwelt 
in Connecticut, south of Worcester county. They were not 
subject to a common sachem, but had many petty chiefs, and 
some were partially under the dominion of tribes not Nipmucks. 
There were four small tribes or clans upon Connecticut River, 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 115 

or a few miles from it, viz., the Agawams at Springfield and 
West Springfield, the Waranokes at Westfield, the Nonotucks or 
Norwottucks at Northampton, Hadley and Hatfield, and the 
Pocomtucks at Deerfield. Those who established themselves at 
Northfield for a time, may have been Pocomtucks. It is not 
known that there were any permanent Indian settlements above 
Northfield, nor upon the Housatonnuc River within the limits of 
Massachusetts, in the 17th century. There is some reason to 
suppose that a part of the Indians at Waranoke came originally 
from Hudson's River, and returned to that river in Philip's war. 
The Quabaugs at Brookfield were in Hampshire county. Few 
if any Indians resided constantly in the territory now in Suffield and 
Enfield. 

The four tribes of western Nipmucks near Connecticut River 
and its branches, may be reckoned at ten or eleven hundred when 
most numerous. Their numbers were considerably reduced be- 
fore they left this part of the country, and did not perhaps exceed 
eight hundred in 1675, and they were some hundreds less 
when the war ended. The Norwottucks may have been the 
most numerous clan; the Pocomtucks were the most energetic 
and manly. 

The numbers of barbarous tribes and nations are almost 
always over-rated. There has been not a little exaggeration in 
regard to the Indian population of New England. Trumbull 
over-estimates the Connecticut Indians, and errs exceedingly in 
regard to those of Windsor. Misled by "manuscripts from 
Windsor," he supposes that about the year 1670, there were 2000 
Indian bowmen in that town, and 19 Indians to one Englishman! 
Such accounts require no refutation. In 1680, the government 
of Connecticut received some official inquiries from England, 
one of which related to the number of Indian warriors in the col- 
ony; to this they replied, "as for Indian neighbors, we compute 
them 500 fighting men." This computation seems to include 
only the Indians in or near townships settled by the English, but 
it exhibits the great decrease of the Indians. From other docu- 
ments, it might be inferred that the Indians in all the Connecticut 
River towns in the colony, with Farmington and Simsbury, did 
not exceed 1200 in 1680.* 



*The Indians in the river towns were not destroyed by war, but they diminished so 
fast, that at the end of every 40 years, they were only about one-half as many as at the 
beginning. At this rate, only one-eighth of the number in 1640 would remain in 1760. 

"The Indian disappears before the white man simply because he will not work." — 
Gallatin. 



116 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

The first naming of the Norwottucks in pubHc records was by 
the General Court of Connecticut in 1637. They were noticed 
in the records of the United Colonies in 1646, and Chickwallop 
was named for the first time. William Pynchon mentioned the 
Norwottucks and Chickwallop in 1648. For some years, the 
Norwottucks, Pocomtucks and others were at war with Uncas and 
the Mohegans. Uncas or his brother assailed these river Indians 
in 1656. In 1657, they and others made an incursion into Con- 
necticut against Uncas and his Indians. The Pocomtucks were 
conspicuous in this war with Uncas, and when the United Colo- 
nies sent messengers to them in 1659, requesting them to suspend 
hostilities, the sachems declined to make peace, and replied to 
the messengers with moderation, shrewdness and firmness. About 
1663, these river Indians with many others commenced a war with 
the Mohawks, and were defeated. Peace was made in 1671. 

The Norwottuck chiefs could sell lands, but had little authority 
over the Indians, and were of little importance. The historians 
and novelists will not be able to make heroes of any of the river 
sachems, from Saybrook to Northfield. The Indians in this 
valley at times had no acknowledged sachem, and in 1668, they 
agreed that Chickwallop should be their chief, three men having 
been appointed by the General Court, at the request of the Hamp- 
shire deputies, to treat with them. There was nothing in Chick- 
wallop to inspire the English or Indians with respect. He did 
not live many years after 1668. 

The Norwottucks committed no great offences. They some- 
times harbored evil-doers from other tribes. Some were inclined 
to petty thefts. When they could get strong drink, they became 
drunk, and brawls and tumults ensued, and they would insult 
and abuse the constable and others. When free from liquor, 
they were generally peaceful and respectful towards the whites, 
who intended to treat them justly and humanely.* 

The last chief men of the Noi^wottucks. — In 1672, Petomanch 
committed divers thefts in Northampton and Hadley and fled to 
Quabaug; he came back to the "Indians' fort in Northampton," 
and when an attempt was made to take him, Wuttawan helped 
him to escape. Some of the principal men of the tribe then 
came forward, and agreed to deliver up Petomanch or Wuttawan, 
or otherwise make satisfaction, as the court should order. Their 
names were Wahinunco, Wadnummin, Massoamat, Wawwar- 

*It is a hard and difficult matter, for those who are conscious and proud of their supe- 
riority, to treat inferiors with justice and humanity. Even good men are very deficient 
in this respect. The apostolic injunction to "honor all men," is not much regarded. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 117 

ranckshan, Sunckamachue, Wuchuwin, Mummuncott, Rollo, 
and blind James. The last two had names given by the Enghsh. 
Some of these nine Indians may be considered the last of the Nor- 
wottuck leaders, while they remained in their native land. Two 
of them sold land in Sunderland in 1674, viz., Wadnummin and 
Sunckamachue. In August, 1675, they and the tribe fled from 
their fort and became enemies. In the winter of 1675-6, these 
Indians were towards Albany, and were called Hadley Indians, 
and Sancumacha, (same as Sunckamachue,) was their sachem. 
In this war and after, they were denominated Hadley Indians, 
and Northampton and Hadley Indians; and in Connecticut, they 
were often called Norwottucks. 

The Indians' means of subsistence. — There is no intimation that 
the Indians in this valley and others in the vicinity lacked food, 
or that their supplies had been perceptibly diminished previous 
to their departure. The forests in every direction remained 
nearly as extensive as ever, and wild animals, fish and wild fruits 
were still abundant. The whites sometimes hunted and fowled, 
but they were too industrious to spend much time in such pur- 
suits. There was land enough for corn, but without fences it 
was useless, and the women took meadow land upon shares, which 
the English plowed. The squaws planted, hoed, picked and 
husked the corn, their lazy husbands disdaining such labor.* In 
Connecticut, the Indians divided the corn on the land, after it 
was husked, and had half of it. It may be inferred that the crop 
was divided in the same manner at Norwottuck. There is noth- 
ing to show that the subsistence of the Indians from the land was 
materially lessened. 

The first settlers of Northampton, Hadley and Hatfield lived 
in peace with the Indians until Philip's war in 1675. There was 
frequent intercourse between them, the Indians often coming 
into the villages for traffic and other purposes, and the salutation 
of netop, (my friend,) was often heard in the streets. Indian 
men, women, young men, maids and small children, in their 
scanty dresses, were every-day sights, and excited no curiosity. 
The men sold furs and venison, and the women made and sold 
baskets and mats and other things. Among these laborious 
Indian women, were some that were mild and kind-hearted. The 
western Nipmucks continued to be pagans. 

♦"Extremes meet." The ignorant savage and those who think themselves the most 
highly civilized, viz., many of those in fashionable high life, harmonize in many things. 
Both contemn and scorn useful labor, and consider those engaged in toilsome occupations 
as mean and despicable; both delight in gaming, chasing animals and carousing. 



118 HISTORY OF HADLEY 



NoRwoTTucK Forts. 



The Indians of the Norwottuck valley had several forts, erected 
to protect themselves against the attacks of their enemies. Van- 
derdonck, the Dutch writer, says the Indians build their castles in 
places difficult of access, on or near the crown of a hill; the wall is 
made of palisades set in the ground and within are their wigwams. 
The forts of the Norwottuck Indians seem to have been generally 
built upon the top of a bluff or high bank, projecting into a valley 
or interval, near a stream. In Northampton, there were at least 
three forts in such places; they were probably successive and not 
cotemporaneous. One was near the north-east end of Fort Hill, 
overlooking the meadow; one was on Fort Plain, now in East- 
hampton, above the high bank near the Manhan; and the third 
was on another Fort Plain, about halfway to Hatfield, on the top 
of the high, bank of the Connecticut, opposite the north-west 
corner of Hadley Great Meadow. In Hadley, Indian bones have 
been found on several projecting points or ridges. One place 
was near the north-west angle of Fort Meadow, on a corner of 
upland long since washed away. Another was on Spruce Hill, 
near the southern extremity, which projects into Port River 
valley, and is now covered with light sand. There was an im- 
portant fort on the western side of Lawrence's Plain, on the top 
of the high steep bank which is the eastern boundary of Fort 
Meadow Skirts and Fort River valley. The river and meadow 
were named from this fort. In 1684, Timothy Nash had a grant 
of two acres of land, "where the old fort stood" above the bank, 
adjoining his land in the Skirts below. These two acres and the 
site of the old fort can be easily identified. The old common 
fence from Connecticut River, on the north side of Fort Meadow, 
came up the steep bank, just north of the fort, continued easterly 
some distance, and then turned southerly towards Mount Holyoke, 
embracing the ground on which the fort stood. This ground had 
the almost perpendicular bank, rising 40 or 50 feet above Fort 
River, on the south and west sides, and the river flowed at the 
bottom of this bank on the west side. Lawrence's Plain, a high, 
pleasant tract of land, extended easterly. 

From this fort, or from openings near it, the Indians had fine 
views of meadows and uplands; and some of the new village at 
Northampton was visible. The fort was about 140 rods east of 
the Connecticut. I visited this place in 1846; the brow of the 
bank was covered with trees; grass, johnswort, thistles and a few 
small buttonwoods grew upon the site of the fort, and cows were 



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119 



quietly ruminating in the shade of the trees. All was silent and 
desolate, where in former days the Indians danced and powowed, 
and indulged in noisy merriment and boisterous revelry. 



Common Fence. 




Lawrence's 
Plain. 



High bank. 



This is an imperfect representation. 
The shape of the fort is conjectural. The 
outlines of the top of the bank are irregular. 
Those in the fort got water from the river 
below the bank. The cows now (1846) 
have a path down the bank a little south 
of the fort place. 



North of the village of North Hadley, on a ridge that separates 
the eastern and western School Meadows, was another residence 
of the Indians, supposed to have been that of Quonquont. More 
bones have been found here than in any other place in Hadley. 
The ridge becomes wider near the north end, where it approaches 
the Connecticut, and this broad part may contain an acre. This 
was probably the seat of the fort or village. The Connecticut 
flows along the base of the hill, on the north-east and north, and 
the hill is partially protected from its ravages by rocks and sand- 
stone. This is a pleasant place with a goodly prospect, and must 
have been so when the Indians occupied it. 

River. This plan with straight lines is very defective. 

The general course of the river is southerly, but 
for some distance against the upper and lower 
School Meadow, it is westerly. The triangle is 
River, the supposed site of Quonquont 's fort. The rocks 
are near the north-east corner of the triangle. The 
brook Wunnaquickset, of the Hadley deed, is 
Upper S. M. above this ridge, and crosses the Upper School 
Meadow. 

Some have admired the taste of the Indians as exhibited in the 
picturesque situations which they chose for forts and villages. 
There is not much foundation for this admiration. The tribes 
were pugnacious, and it was owing to their wars that they selected 
elevated places for villages, where they could more easily secure 
and defend themselves, and more readily discern the approach 
of an enemy. 

The last fortified residence of our Indians in the land of their 
fathers, was in the place before referred to, between Northamp- 
ton and Hatfield, on a high bank west of the Connecticut, not far 
from the mouth of Half-way brook, and so near the river, that 
men could speak with the Indians in the fort, from the Hadley 
side of the river. This high plain, formerly called Fort Plain, is 
now crossed by the railroad, many feet below the surface. There 




120 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

was no fort in Hadley for some years before 1675. The Indians 
did not all live in forts, and when they feared the Mohawks or 
other enemies, many sought refuge near the houses and in the 
out-buildings of the English, and their living among them was 
very troublesome. 

Hubbard says the fort from which the Indians fled in 1675 was 
within a mile of Hatfield, but it must have been about two miles 
from the main street in Hatfield. The records do not allude to 
any fort in Hatfield in 1675, or before, though Umpanchala doubt- 
less had a fort on the high bank of Capawonk or elsewhere on his 
land, when he sold it in 1660. 

The Mohawks or Maquas. 

The "Five Nations," so called, were the Mohawks, Oneidas, 
Onondagas, Cayugas and Senecas. The name Mohawks was 
often extended to all those confederate nations. They were 
brave, fierce and ferocious, and carried on an exterminating war- 
fare more than a century after 1600, making a perfect desert of 
the country for 500 miles, west and south, and destroying more 
Indians than have been destroyed by Europeans in war since the 
country was settled. They were the worst of conquerors, and 
seemed to conquer to gratify their thirst for blood.* — The Mo- 
hawk tribe lived about 40 miles west of Albany. 

They were extremely filthy, never washing face nor hands, and 
they cooked fish from the water, and the entrails of deer, without 
any cleansing.f 

Cannibalism of the Mohawks. — The early Dutch and New 
England writers affirmed truly that the Mohawks were cannibals 
or man-eaters. A writer! in 1644, says they tortured their cap- 
tives, and then roasted them before a slow fire and ate them. They 
were cannibals half a century later. In February, 1693, Col. 
Schuyler at the head of whites and Mohawks pursued a party of 
French and Indians and killed many Frenchmen, and the bodies 
of 27 were found. A letter from S. Van Cortland in New York, 
to Connecticut, dated March 2, 1693, says: — "Our Indians did 
quickly eat up the bodies of the 27 Frenchmen, after their natural 
barbarity, and have brought the scalps to Albany." Governor 
Fletcher of New York wrote to Connecticut, March 11, 1693: — 

♦Gallatin's "Synopsis of the Indian Tribes of North America." 

•j-From Megapolensis, a Dutch minister at Albany, 1644. 

All savages are filthy. The New England Indians were not cleanly. By an agreement 
made with sachems at Concord in 1646, the Indians were not "to pick lice as formerly 
and eat them." 

Ilbid. 



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"Our Indians found 27 bodies of the enemy, whom (after their 
crowns taken off,) they most barbarously roasted and ate."* 
CannibaHsm was not however the worst part of the Mohawk 
character.f 

War between the Mohawks and New England Indians.— 
About 1663, war was commenced between the Mohawks and the 
New England Indians, and in the summer of 1669, the latter 
united their forces, entered the Mohawk country and besieged 
the nearest Mohawk fort. In a few days they retreated, were 
attacked on their retreat, and more than 50 slain. They came 
home much ashamed, and retired under the shelter of the English. 
Sancumacha, a Norwottuck, is said to have been a captain in 
this expedition. During the war, the Mohawks, in small parties, 
made incursions into New England. Peace was made in 1671. 

The Mohawks in Hampshire county. — In the summer of 1667, 
a number of hogs and some cattle belonging to Hadley, North- 
ampton and Springfield, were killed in the woods. The inhabit- 
ants were satisfied that some of them were killed by the Mohawks, 
and they were suspicious of some Kennebec Indians who had been 
this way, and even of the Norwottucks. The Mohawks shot and 
scalped an Indian servant of Nathaniel Clark, of Northampton, 
Aug. 28, 1667. 

In October, 1667, the deputies of Hampshire complained to the 
General Court of the injuries done by the Mohawks and other 
Indians. A committee recommended that a letter be written to 
the Mohawks demanding satisfaction for the damages, &c. The 
General Court, Oct. 31, wrote a long letter to the chief sachem of 
the Mohawks, and a short one to the Kennebec sachem. The 
former follows from the records — not retaining the old orthog- 
raphy. 

To the chief Sachem of the Mohawks: 
The General Court of Massachusetts, upon complaint made to them by some of their 
people of Hadley and Northampton, that they have suffered much damage this last summer 
by the Mohawks, have thought meet to signify the same unto you and to let you know 
that about mid-summer last, some of our Englishmen saw some of your people, whom they 
had speech with, going with burdens from their fires and place of lodging, where several 
hog's feet, new and bloody, were left behind, viz., i6 feet of swine; Also others of ours 
have taken up shoes made of green hogskins, which were left at the places where the Mo- 
hawks made their stands, and from whence they were seen to go; and about the same time, 
we had several cattle shot and wounded, and some killed, and the flesh cut off from their 
bones and carried away; many Mohawks being then about our towns and seen by some 
English, we have cause to suspect that this also was done by some of them, (not to speak 
of the damage your people formerly, some years past, did in gathering, carrying away and 

♦Archives of Connecticut. 

•j-There were rare instances of cannibalism in New England. In 1637, Uncas and iiis 
men made a horrid repast upon the body of a Pequot at Saybrook. 



122 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

spoiling our corn.) Their killing of our swine as aforesaid being very evident, we have 
reason to move for speedy and full satisfaction, which our people expect, and we hope you 
will cause to he made them accordingly. We have further to let you know that an Indian 
youth who was servant to an Englishman at Northampton, was murthered about the end 
of August last, close by the town, and part of his hair flayed off his head,* on which day 
some Mohawks were seen nigh the very place where he was killed, and we have heard that 
not long after this time the Mohawks showed a lock of hair at Albany, which was short 
hair as this youth's was; so that we have probable grounds to think that some of your 
people are guilty of this murder, which yet we are apt to think may not only be unknown 
to you, but contrary to your order, and do presume you will not allow any such thing; 
and therefore do acquaint you therewith, desiring you would take some special course for 
redress of these insolencies and prevention of like evils for future, lest your people, if they 
go on in such ways, should occasion a breach of the peace betwixt you and us. We must 
also tell you that these actings are expressly against the promise of those of your nation, 
which we once had in our hands,-}- whom we secured from any violence by our Indians 
and sent them home with manifestation of love and friendship, and willingness for the con- 
tinuance thereof, who told us that your people would not meddle with any Indians that 
wore English clotlies, or that had their hair cut short. But this aforementioned action, 
as it gives us cause to suspect your people, so also to let you know we do not judge it con- 
venient for you to suffer your people in an hostile manner to approach nigh us or our Indians 
that are dwelling amongst our towns, which we desire you so to take notice of and consider 
as not to disturb our peace by any unlawful attempts of your men, but to cause them to 
shun and avoid all just offence and prejudice to us which may provoke our people against 
you. We never yet did any wrong to you or any of yours, neither will we take any from 
you, but shall right our people according to justice; yet are we desirous to continue all 
amicable correspondence with you, if the fault be not in yourselves by offering insolencies 
to our people, which we may not bear or suffer. Thus hoping of your readiness to make 
satisfaction for what is past, and care for your future continuance of friendship, your loving 
friends, 

The Governor and General Court of the Massachusetts. 

This letter had some effect. It was undoubtedly interpreted 
by men at Albany, and as the Mohawks desired to be on good 
terms with New England, they made some reparation. The 
records of the county court in March, 1669, mentioned that about 
20 pounds had been received from the "Magnaws." It was sent 
to Milford, but was then in the hands of Simon Lobdell of Spring- 
field, in leather. The court ordered that Springfield should have 
5;^ for those who had lost swine and cattle; Northampton, "]£, of 
which, half was for Nathaniel Clark's Indian servant killed; and 
Hadley, 8;^, for those who had been damaged. Hadley had lost 
more cattle and hogs than any other town. Lobdell was to pay 
in shoes at fair prices. 

In Philip's war, in 1676, Massachusetts and Connecticut tried 
to engage the Mohawks against the Indians of New England. 
Governor Andros of New York, in letters to Connecticut, pre- 
tended that the Mohawks had done "great execution on your 

♦Scalping was evidently something new to the English. 

•|-In September, 1665, five Mohawks or Maquas came into Cambridge well armed. 
They were arrested and imprisoned at Boston. The English had never seen any Mohawks 
before, and they attracted much attention. The Indians flocked into Boston, and wished 
to put them to death. The Court dismissed them with a letter to their sachems, and a 
convov of liorse to conduct them clear of our Indians. A copy of the letter is extant. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 123 

Indian enemies" and trusted Connecticut would be mindful of 
their service. Connecticut, in reply, Aug. 31st, 1676, professed 
to be in the dark about these services, and said they could not be 
mindful of them, until they knew what they had done. Gov. A. 
did not enlighten them. These Indians had performed no im- 
portant services. This was the first attempt to draw presents 
from New England for the Mohawks. 

In the spring of 1677, Massachusetts desired to make a friendly 
league with the Mohawks, and very unwisely sought their aid 
against the Indians in Maine. Obtaining the concurrence of 
Connecticut, John Pynchon of Springfield and James Richards 
of Hartford, were sent to Albany. They treated with the Indians, 
and gave them presents of wampumpeag, duffels, powder and 
shot. The Indians gave three belts of wampum, boasted of 
what they had done for New England, and gave assurance of 
their endeavors against the Indians at Kennebec. New England 
was deceived by the pretensions and promises of the Mohawks. 

The Indians did not regard their engagement, and instead of 
proceeding to Maine, they came down upon the peaceable, pray- 
ing Indians of Massachusetts, in September, 1677, and again in 
June, 1678, and killed some and made captives of others.* They 
brought two squaws through Hadley, and the people of that 
place tried to redeem them, but the Mohawks would not let them 
go. They returned evasive answers to those sent to Albany to 
demand the release of the captives. 

In November, 1680, John Pynchon was again sent to Albany. 
He charged the Mohawks with injuring our friendly Indians, and 
not delivering up those taken; with killing swine and cattle of the 
English, in the summer of 1680, robbing some houses, and march- 
ing through villages in a hostile posture. He said such things 
must be stopped. He presented his gift of duffels, shirts, blankets, 
wampum, rum, tobacco, &c., amounting to near 90 pounds or 
300 dollars.— The Mohawks said he had spoken many hard things, 
but they were sweetened by the present. They made an artful, 
dishonest reply, and declined to give up the Christian Indians. 

In October, 1683, the Mohawks sent a presentf of 20 beaver skins 
to Massachusetts; and the colony sent in return a much more valu- 
able present, in wampum, shirts, duffels, stockings, rum and tobacco. 

♦Belknap says the Mohawks did not attack the hostile Indians in New Hampshire, 
but the friendly ones; and the scheme of engaging them in our quarrel was a source of 
many calamities. 

■j-The expression, "an Indian gift" was a by-word in New England, denoting a present 
made by a person who expected five or ten times as much value in return. 



124 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

After the war between England and France and between their 
colonies in America, commenced in 1689, it was an object of 
great importance to please the Five Nations and keep them faith- 
ful to England and her colonies. As New York was a feeble 
colony, Massachusetts and Connecticut deemed it necessary to 
contribute largely for this purpose. 

In 1689, three Agents from Massachusetts and one from Con- 
necticut were sent to Albany. They left Westfield, Aug. 27, 
escorted by 10 troopers, and were gone more than four weeks. 
They gave large presents to the Maquas, small presents to the 
river Indians, gifts to the sachems privately, and feasted 100 of 
their people. All expenses were '^2']£. Great Britain and New 
York also gave presents to the Five Nations. Robert Livingston, 
who resided in or near Albany, in a letter dated July 2, 1691, 
"wished that we needed not to court such heathen as the Maquas 
for assistance, for they are a broken reed to depend upon." 

The Mohawks or Maquas were the allies of Great Britain, 
New England, and the other English colonies. Sensible that they 
were of some importance, they were sometimes insolent and in- 
jurious in houses, in these river towns, and farther east. The 
people generally submitted to these things; it would not do to 
quarrel with the Mohawks. 

Entertainment of Indians. — Parties of Indian chiefs often came 
to Boston whose principal object was to obtain presents, and to 
feast and carouse at the expense of Massachusetts. In 1723, 
Aug. 21, 63 New York Indians, chiefly Mohawks, came to Boston, 
"with sham proposals of alliance against the Eastern Indians, 
but their real object was only to receive presents."* They were 
treated with much respect, were received by the General Court and 
feasted at the castle. They were entertained in Boston four 
weeks, and furnished profusely with the best of food and liquors, 
and received rich presents to a large amount. The whole expense 
to the colony was above 1000 pounds. Luke Smith of Hadley 
had a bill for entertaining some of these Mohawks. They re- 
turned to Albany, and eventually denied what they had promised 
at Boston. 

Other Indians who had been enemies, as the French Mohawks 
in Canada who had been converted by the Jesuits,t and the Penob- 
scots and other eastern Indians, came to Boston in time of 
peace and made fair promises, and feasted at the colony's expense 

*Dr. Douglas says this. 

+One great object of their conversion was political influence. The converted Indians, so 
called, became friendly to the French and ready to fight against the English and other heretics. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 125 

and received presents, but joined the French as soon as war 
commenced. It was difficult to restrict any of these Indians; 
they must have what they desired. They had a great abundance 
of beef and other meats, rum, wine, cider, beer, pipes and tobacco, 
and indulged in drunken revels. In 1733, John Sale charged 
the colony 195 pounds for keeping 22 French Mohawks 19 days, 
including a feast at the castle. He charged for their breaking 
windows, tables, chairs, knives, mugs, cups and glasses, and for 
daubing the walls, tables and chairs. They had in 19 days, 48 
dozen pipes and 39 dozen of tobacco. In 1736, John Sale enter- 
tained nine Penobscot chiefs 24 days, and charged the colony 145 
pounds. In his bill, he says they ate between 50 and 60 pounds 
of the best of meat daily, (six pounds to a man,) and each had 
daily one pint and a half of wine and a shilling's worth of rum, 
and in all they had 120 gallons of cider and two gross of pipes 
with tobacco. They were taken down to the castle and treated. 
He had charges for their breaking furniture, and for "washing 
49 of their greasy shirts," and his charge for "cleansing and 
whitewashing two rooms after them" was 60 shillings. It was 
no easy matter to cleanse a room that had been occupied by these 
dirty bacchanals. 

There were similar scenes and transactions, in other colonies, 
when Indians assembled to make or renew treaties. 

"The European governments encouraged the natural propensities of the Indians. Both 
France and England courted a disgraceful alliance with savages, and both armed them 
against the defenceless inhabitants of the other party." — Gallatin. 

Wampum, or the Money of the Indians. 
Wampum, used by the Indians for money and ornament, was 
first brought to Plymouth in New England in 1627. In 1643, 
when Roger Williams wrote, wampum or wampumpeag or white 
money, and suckanhock, or black or blue money, were so plenty 
that the English, French and Dutch bought with them, furs and 
other things of the Indians, for 600 miles north and south from 
New England. This Indian money, which was in the shape of 
beads, was made of sea shells, by the Indians of Long Island, and 
afterwards by those of Block Island, and others. Six of the white 
beads, or three of the black ones, including blue and purple, 
passed for a penny, and a fathom or six feet of the white shell 
beads were worth five shillings. The black beads were of double 
the value of the white. The English used the words white wam- 
pum, and black wampum, but as wampum was the Indian word 
for white, these expressions sounded strangely to the Indians. 
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126 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

the black ones. When the price of the white beads was 6 for a 
penny, and 5s. for a string of 6 feet, the number of beads was 360 
in a fathom, and 5 in an inch. These prices continued nominally 
many years, but the supply exceeded the demand; the value be- 
came less and less, and white beads fell to 8, 12, and 16 for a 
penny, anS in 1675, some were sold for money at 24 for a penny. 
The price of the black beads fell answerably. Massachusetts 
ordered, in 1650, that wampumpeag should pass for debts to 
the value of 40 shillings, the white at 8 and the black at 4 for a 
penny, except for country rates. This law was repealed in 166 1, 
and wampum had no legal price. 

Silver coins were scarce, and the people found wampum very 
convenient, and much of it was used in the Hampshire towns, 
and in other parts of New England. It was frequently used to 
balance the accounts of traders, and it was often paid at the ferries 
and inns. Many men when they paid a tavern bill on a journey, 
did not take out a purse of coins, but strings of wampum and 
loose beads. Inn-keepers and ferrymen received much wampum, 
and they complained of losses, for large quantities could not be 
disposed of as they received it. 

William Pynchon, and afterwards his son John Pynchon, were 
extensively engaged in trade with the Indians and whites, and 
they dealt more largely in wampum than any others on Connecti- 
cut River, above or below Springfield. They purchased some 
bushels of loose shell beads at a time, whether by weight, or 
measure, is not known; and employed the women and children 
of Springfield to string them at their dwellings, at three halfpence 
per fathom of 6 feet. Near 20,000 fathoms were strung in Spring- 
field at this rate. One kind of wampum was called scosue. 
John Pynchon sold to those whom he had licensed to trade with 
the Indians, wampum to the amount of 20, 50, 100, and even 125;^ 
at a time, and he received great quantities in payment for goods. 
Wampum continued to depreciate, and in 1675, a fathom of 
white beads was worth only is. 3d. in money, and the English 
did not deal so much in them. 

The Pynchons' accounts with Indians were always kept in 
fathoms and hands, or in fathoms, hands and pence; never in 
shillings and pence. They made use of compound addition and 
subtraction that are not found in arithmetics. 

The Indians made of shell beads and threads, belts, girdles, 
scarfs, head-bands, bracelets, necklaces, pendants for the ears; 
and some made rich caps, aprons, &c. of these beads. A rich 
girdle required about 2300 beads. 



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CHAPTER XIV 

The Indian War of 1675 and 1676* — Erroneous notions about Philip — Importance of 
the Nipmucks — Destruction of Brookfield — Mr. Stoddard's account of the attempt 
to disarm the Norwottucks, and of their escape — Fight above Hatfield — Deerfield 
burnt — Men slain at Northfield — Capt. Beers and his party cut off at Northfield— 
Northfield deserted — Attack upon Hadley repelled by the aid of Gen. Goffe — Capt. 
Lathrop and his company slain at Bloody Brook — Deerfield abandoned — Burning of 
Springfield — Attack on Hatfield. 

This war is commonly denominated "Philip's War," from the 
English name of the sachem of the Wampanoags or Pokanokets, 
who commenced it. His chief seat was called Mount Hope by 
the English, and is now within the town of Bristol, R. L In this 
war, the people of Massachusetts, and of some of the adjoining 
colonies, first experienced the devastation and barbarity which 
distinguish Indian warfare. 

Our ancestors viewed Philip as the master spirit, who influenced 
the councils and conduct of other tribes, and contrived and directed 
most of the attacks, slaughters and desolations of the war. They 
represented him as a malignant demon, bent on the blackest deeds. 
Some of their descendants are inclined to view him as "a great 
warrior, a penetrating statesman, and a mighty prince." Neither 
the old nor the recent writers seem to have formed a just esti- 
mate of his character. Philip, in great qualities, did not surpass 
many other sachems in New England and other colonies. Indeed, 
some Nipmuck sagamores seem to have been as enterprising and 
eflScient actors in this bloody and desolating war, as Philip him.- 
self. The great foresight, profound schemes, and unbounded 
influence attributed to him are to a great extent imaginary. He 
was no more inhuman and cruel than other Indians. 

Philip was not able to combine against the English in 1675 
more than 850 or 900 fighting men,f nor so many at one time; 
these men, and the women and children connected with them, 
may have numbered 3500.I More than half were Nipmucks, 
some of whom were subject to Philip. He did not persuade a 
single tribe in Connecticut, Rhode Island, or New Hampshire, to 
unite with him, though Indians from those colonies may have 
aided him. The Indians in Plymouth Colony were more numer- 
ous than in Massachusetts, and many owed some kind of alle- 
giance to Philip, yet not many were willing to engage in his quarrel. 

*Most of the account of this war was prepared in 1847. 

"("The war in Maine which commenced in Sept. 1675, ^^^ ^ different origin. 

JThe Indians in New England exclusive of Maine, in 1675, ^^7 have been 21,000, 



128 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

The Indians in Massachusetts and New Hampshire in 1674 
did not exceed 4400. Gookin,* in 1674, estimated the Paw- 
tuckets in New Hampshire and Massachusetts at 250 men, and 
the Massachusetts nation at 300 men. Reckoning every fourth 
person, a man or warrior, the whole number of these two nations 
would be 2200. The Nipmucks or Nipnets may have been 
about 2200 more, and their fighting men, 550. BayHesf esti- 
mated the Nipmucks at 1000 and Felt| at 2400. Some of these 
were praying Indians who did not unite in the war. About one- 
third of the Nipmucks were in the vicinity of Connecticut River. 

Not many of the Pawtucket and Massachusetts nations joined 
in the war. The hostile Indians in 1675 were mostly Nipmucks. 
Philip's Wampanoags and others that aided him in Plymouth 
Colony may have been 250 fighting men. But after he left the 
Pocasset swamp, Aug. i, 1675, and fled towards the Nipmuck 
country, many of his men withdrew from him, and the squaw- 
sachem of Pocasset and her men drew off" to the Narragansetts. 
Gookin had been "certainly informed that he had little above 
fifty men left, but hundreds of old men, women, and children. "§ 

It may be supposed that some Indians from Plymouth Colony, 
and from tribes elsewhere, joined Philip after he came to Hamp- 
shire with 40 or 50 men, but his warriors exclusive of Nipmucks, 
were not numerous at any time, perhaps 200. His Wampanoags 
were not distinguished from other Indians and performed no 
greater deeds than others. It is a little remarkable that the his- 
tories, letters and other documents relating to this war, do not 
furnish any evidence that Philip, after he came among the Nip- 
mucks, was present in a single fight with the English. No partic- 
ular exploit or achievement performed by him is recorded. It 
is hardly to be doubted, however, that he was actively engaged in 
some of the furious attacks made upon the English near Con- 
necticut River. But the Nipmucks showed that they were cap- 
able of planning and executing daring enterprises without the 
assistance of Philip. They destroyed Brookfield, and made num- 
erous fierce assaults upon the garrison house. The river Nip- 
mucks burnt Springfield. The dreadful carnage and devastation 

*Gookin''s "Historical Collections," 1674 ^^d "Christian Indians," 1677. He was 
more pains-taking and accurate than some other writers. 

•{■Memoir of Plymouth Colony. 

{Statistical Collections, Vol. I., Part II. 

§George Memecho, a Christian Indian, who was taken by the Nipmucks, was present 
when PhUip and his party first came to the Nipmucks, on the fifth of August, a few miles 
from Brookfield, and he related that Philip then had about 40 men, besides women and 
children. The greater part of the men who were with him when he escaped from Pocasset, 
had left him. 



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at Lancaster, Feb. lo, 1676, were chiefly the work of the Nip- 
mucks, when Philip was far distant. 

The Narragansets favored the hostile Indians, and protected 
those that fled to the Narraganset country, but did not assault the 
English plantations until February and March, 1676, after the 
English had destroyed their fort and many of their people. 

When assaults were made by Indians, it was impossible to 
know how many there were, and loose conjectures always exag- 
gerated their numbers. There is no reason to believe that 500 
Indians were engaged in any fight or attack during this war, the 
Narraganset swamp fight excepted. 

The number of Indians which the English imagined they had 
killed in an engagement, was usually much over-rated. They 
did not find the dead bodies, and could judge only by guess. 
They lelied too much upon what captive Indians "owned" or 
"confessed." These Indians often told a story to please those in 
whose power they were, and their admissions are seldom worthy 
of credit. 

Philip cherished enmity against the English, because he sup- 
posed they had wronged him; yet the tradition in Rhode Island, 
sixty years after his death, was, that Philip himself was not for 
war, but was forced into it by the fury of his young men, against 
his own judgment and inclination.* "The commencement of 
the war was accidental. "f 

There are no intimations that the Nipmucks, who entered into 
the war so furiously, had ever complained of being wronged by 
the English. The Qiiabaugs, and perhaps other Nipmucks, had 
long been accounted subjects of the Wampanoags, and when 
Uncas attacked the Quabaugs in i66i,they were defended by a 
brother of Philip. They were intimately connected with the 
Wampanoags, and readily joined them in the war. The Nor- 
wottucks and others near Connecticut River, were closely related 
to the Quabaugs. 

This memorable war began near Mount Hope, on Thursday, 
June 24, 1675, when the Wampanoags slew nine of the inhabit- 
ants of Swansey. Soldiers were sent from Boston and Plymouth, 
and Philip and his people fled to Pocasset, now in Tiverton; and 
houses were burnt and people slain in some places in the vicin- 
ity. The English enclosed Philip and his Indians in Pocasset 
Neck, but early on the first of August, they found means to escape. 

*Century Sermon in 1738, by Mr. Callender, a Baptist minister at Newport. 
•{•Bancroft's History of the United States. 



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They were discovered at Rehoboth, and pursued towards the 
Nipmuck country, and fourteen slain. 

On the 14th of July, while Philip was near Pocasset, the Nip- 
mucks began their mischief, and killed four or five persons at 
Mendon. This was the first English blood shed in war, in 
Massachusetts. 

When the war began, Hampshire county contained the follow- 
ing towns and plantations: — Springfield, including West Spring- 
field and Longmeadow; W^estfield, Northampton, Hadley, Hat- 
field, Deerfield, Northfield, Brookfield and Suffield. The people 
at Sufiield soon left the place; and if there were any settlers at 
Swampfield (Sunderland,) they did not long remain. 

The second attempt of the Nipmucks was in the county of 
Hampshire. The council ordered Capt. Edward Hutchinson to 
take Capt. Thomas Wheeler and about twenty horsemen, and 
Ephraim Curtis for a guide, and go to the Nipmucks near Qua- 
baug, and treat with them. They reached Brookfield, with 
three Christian Indians, on Sunday, the first of August. The 
Indians, who were at Meminimisset,* supposed to be about ten 
miles distant, northerly, promised to meet Capt. H. the next 
morning, on a plain,f about three miles from the village. On 
the 2d of August, Capt. H. and his party and three of the principal 
men of Brookfield, rode to the plain and found no Indians. Capt. 
H. was persuaded by the Brookfield men to go farther, and when 
they had proceeded northerly four or five miles, and were in a 
narrow passage, having a bushy, rocky hill on the right, and a 
thick swamp on the left, a large body of Indians lying in ambush 
on both sides, suddenly fired upon them and killed eight and 
wounded five. The survivors were forced to go up the steep hill, 
and by the guidance of the Christian Indians, they escaped to 
the village. Having arrived before the Indians, they took pos- 



*Meminimisset, or Wennimisset, the new seat of the Quabaugs in 1675, is often named 
in the Histories of this war. Ephraim Curtis visited it twice in July, 1675, ^^^ noticed 
its situation. Here Philip first came to the Nipmucks on the 5th of August. Mrs. Row- 
landson was brought to th-" same place, a captive, in February, 1676, and here her wounded 
child died. It was part of a tract of land which is now in New Braintree, about eight miles 
from West Brookfield, and has Ware river on the north, the meadow or swamp in which 
Meminimisset brook flows on the west and south, and the same low, swampy land on most 
of the east side. The road from Hardwick to New Braintree crosses it. I visited this 
place in 1854. — The spot where the party of Capt. Hutchinson was ambushed, was south- 
ward from the Quabaug camp, and cannot be identified. It seems to have been on the 
east side of the valley. 

■[■This plain is said to be near the head or north part of Wickabaug pond in West Brook- 
field. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 131 

session of one of the largest and strongest houses,* and fortified 
themselves as well as they could in a short time. The inhabit- 
ants, fifteen or sixteen families, being informed of the disaster, 
all came in haste to the same house, bringing but little with them. 
The Indians soon flocked into the village and assailed the house 
with their bullets, and began to burn other buildings. During 
the two succeeding nights and days, they continued to besiege 
the house, and made various attempts to burn it, without success. 
One man was mortally wounded at the garret window, and 
another was killed without the building, and some others were 
wounded. The house contained twenty-six men capable of doing 
service, the wounded, and fifty women and children. The twenty- 
six men, vigilant and brave, extinguished the fires upon the 
building, and repelled the assaults of the Indians, until the even- 
ing of the third day, August 4th, when Major Simon Willard 
came to their relief with Capt. Parker and forty-six men and five 
friendly Indians. Before the next morning, the Indians left the 
place. The Indians were judged to be 300, and one afterwards 
taken, "confessed" that they had about 80 killed and wounded. f 

On the first night, Ephraim Curtis, to obtain help, crept out 
on his hands and knees, and reached Marlborough, on the morn- 
ing of August 4th. Some travelers towards Connecticut River, 
observing the burning at Quabauo;, returned to Marlboroujrh, 
the same morning, a little before Curtis arrived, and a post had 
been sent to Major Willard, who was near Lancaster. 

The eight persons killed by the Indians in ambush, were 
Sergeant John Ayres, Sergeant William Pritchard, and Corporal 
Richard Coy, all of Brookfield; Zechariah Phillips, Timothy 
Farley, Edward Coburn, Samuel Smedley and Shadrach Hapgood, 
of other towns. Captain Hutchinson, severely wounded at the 
same time, died at Marlborough, Aug. 19. Those killed at the 
house were Henry Young, and Samuel Pritchard, son of Wm. P. 
Besides these eleven, James Hovey and another were slain some- 
where in Brookfield the same day.| 

*They selected the house used for an inn, and the Hampshire records show that John 
Ayres kept the inn. It was on Foster's Hill, and the site is about 60 or 70 rods south-east 
of the dwelling-house of the late Judge Foster. The village was on this hill, and the road 
between Hadley and Springfield and Boston, passed over this hill, near 150 years after 
1675. 

■j-Capt. Wheeler's Narrative. — Perhaps there were 200 Indians. If the 26 men killed 
and wounded half of 80, they did well. 

J^'A list of men slain in the county of Hampshire" in 1675, prepared by Rev. John 
Russell of Hadley, and now in the State archives, says 13 men were slain at Quabaug, 
Sept. 2, but names only 11. 

In the printed accounts of the destruction of Brookfield, the Christian name of Sergt. 



132 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

The wounded left the house as soon as they were able to travel, 
and the inhabitants of the town removed to other places.* The 
buildings were all burnt except that of John Ayres, and another 
that was unfinished. The meeting-house was burnt, and also 
a grist-mill owned by John Pynchon. A garrison was kept in the 
place till sometime in October, and it was re-established early 
in March, 1676. 

The events at Brookfield produced much alarm in the colony 
and especially in Hampshire county. Major John Pynchon of 
Springfield, sent a messenger to the Governor and Council of 
Connecticut, August 5th, and Capt. Thomas Watts of Hartford 
and 40 dragoons came up to Springfield on the 6th, where 27 
dragoons under Lieut. Thomas Cooper and 10 Springfield Indians 
joined them, and all marched to Brookfield on the 7th. Captains 
Lothrop and Beers, sent up by the Council at Boston, arrived at 
Brookfield the same day. On the 8th, they proceeded northerly 
to the place called Meminimisset, but found no Indians. The 
Springfield company proceeded ten miles further but found no 
track of Indians, and they returned to Springfield on the loth. 
The others returned to Brookfield. A company of 30 river In- 
dians from towns about Hartford came up and ranged the woods 
with the others; and Joshua, son of Uncas, came up with 30 
Indians, Aug. 9th. Major John Talcott was sent up Aug. 12th, 
to consult with Major Pynchon and others in Hampshire. Capt. 
Mosely of Boston came up to Brookfield with his company, and 
left for Lancaster, Aug. 15. Major Willard continued at Brook- 
field some time. 

After the arrival of troops at Brookfield, the Nipmucks and 
Wampanoags seem to have fled northerly to Paquayag, now 
Athol, and other places in that neighborhood. The English could 
not trace Philip, after he came into the Nipmuck country, and 
knew not certainly where he was for some months. 

After Philip's escape from Pocasset, Plymouth Colony was 
nearly free from the ravages of Indians for six or seven months; 
and excepting those slain at Alendon, July 14, some at Lancaster, 
Aug. 22, and two others, the Indians killed none in Massachusetts, 
east of Brookfield, in 1675, "^'" ^"^'^l February, 1676. The hostile 
Indians were gathered together in the region about Connecticut 

Pritchard, is erroneously Joseph or John, and Corp. Coy's is by mistake John. The 
Hampshire records and Pynchon accounts prove that the former was WilHam and the 
latter Richard. 

*John Warner and his sons and some others came to Hadley. Mr. John Younglove, 
who had been preaching at Brookfield, came to Hadley, perhaps before 1675. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 133 

River, after the latter part of August, 1675, and their fury fell 
upon the Hampshire villages and the troops sent to their aid. 

The troops under Captains Lothrop, Beers, and Watts, and 
the Connecticut Indians, explored the country up Swift River, 
Connecticut River and elsewhere for some days, without meeting 
an enemy. Some of our Norwottuck Indians went forth with 
them. Major Pynchon wrote to Secretary AUyn of Connecti- 
cut, in the night of Aug. 22d, and stated that Capt. Watts had 
returned to Hadley, and the Bay forces to Quabaug; that nothing 
had been done, except the burning of about 50 wigwams found 
empty: that our Indians that went out were suspected of being 
treacherous; and that the enemy was supposed to be at Paquayag. 
Major Pynchon wished to have Capt. Watts remain longer, and 
make discovery of the enemy at Paquayag, but he and the Con- 
necticut Indians soon returned to Hartford; he left ten men at 
Deerfield. A guard of 20 men had been sent to Northfield. Cap- 
tains Lothrop and Beers came to Hadley about the 23d of August. 

Mr. Stoddard's Letter. 
Rev. Solomon Stoddard, of Northampton, wrote the following 
letter to the Rev. Increase Mather, dated Sept. 15, 1675, which is 
copied from Mather's "Brief History of the War with the Indians 
in New England," printed in 1676. Mr. Stoddard sent to Con- 
necticut, the "Reasons alleged for demanding the arms of the 
Indians of Northampton and Hadley," more extended than those 
in his letter to Mr. Mather, and extracts are made from the 
former. 

"Reverend and dear brother, 

I received yours, wherein among other things, you desire an account of the passages 
of our war with the Indians. I shall, in answer to your desire, relate the most remarkable 
passages. The people here having many causes of jealousy of the unfaithfulness of our 
Indians, presented the same before the committees of the militia, whereupon it was thought 
meet to desire of them the surrendry of their arms, and by persuasion obtained about nine 
and twenty. But about three days after, they being desirous to go forth with some forces 
from Hartford, both Indians and English, and some from the Bay, in pursuit of Philip, 
their arms were delivered to them again; but a while after their return, jealousies still in- 
creasing, there was a general desire in the people of these three towns, that they should be 
again disarmed, and such things as these were presented to the council here, as inducing 
thereunto: — [Reasons for disarming the Indians, i. The Indians were wont in former 
years, to apply for ground to plant on, in the winter and beginning of spring. This year 
they desired not ground to plant on till planting time. 2. Many went to Quabaug to 
our enemies. 3. Wappaye told Deac. Goodman of Hadley, before the war broke out, that 
there would be war between the Indians and English this summer. 4. Before tidings of 
the war in Plymouth colony had been received, our Indians, who in all times of danger and 
war, had been wont to seek shelter by crowding into our homelots, as near our houses as 
possible, and begging house-room for their stuff and themselves, now, on a sudden, plucked 
up their wigwams, and took away the goods they had laid up in our houses. 5. They shot 
bullets at our men five several times, in diverse places, — one at John Clary as he was passing 
by the fort in the road, between Northampton and Hatfield. 6. After men were killed at 



134 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Quabaug, they made eleven triumphing shouts, as their manner is when they have slain 
their enemies. 7. An Indian woman told the English that two of Philip's men were come 
to the fort. 8. A Frenchman going towards Quabaug, saw three Indians, who told him 
they were coming to Norwottuck to persuade the Indians to join in the war. 9. When 
our Indians went out with the army, all were dissatisfied with their behavior, and Joshua, 
son of Uncas, said our Indians made fools of the English. 10. The sachems of the Connect- 
icut Indians advised us to disarm them. 11. When they were with our army, near Poteti- 
paog, they said they must not fight against their mothers, brothers and cousins, (for Qua- 
baug Indians are related to them.) 12. Their carriage was surly and insolent. 13. A 
squaw counselled goodwife Wright to get into town with her children, and said she durst 
not tell her news, for the Indians would cut off her head. Wappawy confessed that he 
and several of our Indians had been with Philip.] Other things too many to enumerate 
were presented, and the council saw cause to demand their arms, August 24th. They 
made some objections but were fully answered. The sachem left the council, to try whether 
he could persuade the Indians, promising however to bring in his own, [arms.] In the 
afternoon, the council sent to the fort for their answer; they told the messenger that some 
Indians were abroad in the meadows, and they were not willing to deliver up their arms 
without their consent, but in the morning they should have their answer. The messenger 
was desired to go again to them in the evening, to confer with them, to try whether he could 
persuade them, and coming to the other side of the river, wished some of them to come over; 

they bid him come over to them, and bid him kiss • — — . Whereupon Captains Loth- 

rop and Beers,* with whom the thing was left, intended to take their arms by force, and 
at midnight sent over to our officers, to draw as nigh the fort as they could without being 
perceived, and they would do the like on Hatfield side, and so at break of day come upon 
them, but before they came, the Indians were fled, having killed an old sachem who 
was not willing to go with them. The captains resolved to follow them, and pursued a 
great pace after them, with about an hundred men, having sent back a part of ours for a 
guard of the town. They intended to parley with the Indians, but on a sudden the Indians 
let fly about forty guns at them and were soon answered by a volley from our men; about 
forty ran down into the swamp after them, poured in shot upon them, made them throw 
down much of their luggage, and after a while, our men, after the Indian manner, got 
behind trees and watched their opportunities to make shots at them. The fight contin- 
ued about three hours; we lost six men upon the ground, though one was shot in the back 
by our own men; a seventh died of his wound coming home, and two died the next night, 
nine in all, of nine several towns, every one of these towns lost a man.-j- Of the Indians, 
as we hear since by a squaw that was taken, and by three children that came to our town 
from them the day after, there were slain twenty-six.J An Indian and a squaw both own 
that our Indians received wompam from Philip in the spring. After this fight we heard 
no more of them till the first of September, when they shot down a garrison soldier of 

♦Captains Lothrop and Beers were in Hadley. The messenger had been sent on that 
side, and the river was between him and the fort. The captains sent over at midnight, 
''to our ofBcers," that is, the Northampton officers. Captains L. and B. crossed the river 
from Hadley into Hatfield and marched down towards the fort, while the Northampton 
men marched up to it. The fort was about half way between the two villages. 

fThe nine persons slain in this first fight near Connecticut River, were: — Azariah Dick- 
inson of Hadley, son of Nathaniel D.; Samuel Mason of Northampton, only son of Thomas 
M.; Richard Fellows of Hatfield, son of Richard F., deceased; James Levens, John 
Plummer,Mark Pitman, Joseph Person, Matthew Scales, William Cluff, from six eastern 
towns. 

jAs the Indians chose their own ground, and fought in their own way, it is hardly to 
be believed that they lost more men than the English. 

Menowniet, a half Narraganset and half Mohegan Indian, was in this engagement; 
he affirmed that no Indians were killed, in this fight. This testimony is not to be relied 
on, but is as worthy of credit as many things more favorable to the English, which the 
Indians "owned." 



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Pocomptuck * that was looking after his horse, and ran violently up into the town, many 
people having scarcely time enough to get into the garrisons. That day, they burnt most 
of their houses and barns, the garrisons not being strong enough to sally out upon them, 
but killed two of their men from the forts. The next day [Sept. 2d] they set upon several 
men that were gone out of the fort at Squakheag; they slew eight of our men, not above 
one of them being slain that we know of, but made no attempt upon the fort. The next 
day [Sept. 3,] this onset being unknown, Capt. Beers set forth [from Hadley,] with about 
thirty-six men and some carts to fetch off the garrison at Squakheag, and coming within 
three miles of the place, the next morning [Sept. 4th,] were set upon by a great number of 
Indians from the side of a swamp, where was a hot dispute for some time. They having 
lost their Captain and some others, resolved at last to fly, and going to take horse, lost sev- 
eral men more, I think about twelve; the most that escaped got to Hadley that evening; 
next morning another came in, and at night another that had been taken by the Indians, 
and loosed from his bonds by a Natick Indian; he tells that the Indians were all drunk 
that night, that they mourned much for the loss of a great captain, that the English had 
killed twenty-five of their men. Six days after, another soldier came in, who had been 
lost ever since the fight, and was almost famished, and so lost his understanding that he 
knew not what day the fight was on.-)- 

On the 5th of September, [Sunday] Major Treat set forth for Squakheag with above an 
hundred men; next day coming nigh Squakheag, his men were much daunted to see the 
headsof Capt. Beers' soldiers upon poles by the wayside. f After they were come to Squak- 
heag, some were fired upon by about fourteen Indians, Major Treat was struck upon the 
thigh, but not harmed. Coming to the fort, he concluded forthwith to bring off the 
garrison; so they came away the same night, [Sept. 6th] leaving the cattle there, and the 
dead bodies unburied, since which, seventeen of their cattle came a great part of the way 
themselves, and have since been fetched into Hadley.§ 

Upon the 1 2th of this month, [Sunday] the Indians made an assault upon twenty-two 
men of Pocomptuck, that were going from one garrison to the other to meeting, in the after- 
noon, made a great volley of shot at them, but killed not one man; they escaped to the 
garrison whither they were going, only one man, running to the other garrison, was taken 

*This was James Eggleston of Windsor, left at Deerfield by Capt. Watts. Menowniet 
was in this attack. He said the Indians were about 60, and that they killed one English- 
man. 

■{•A note in Mather says the men fought till their powder and shot were spent; and the 
Indians killed above twenty and only thirteen escaped. A cart with some ammunition 
fell into the hands of the enemy. According to Hubbard, Capt. Beers went up with sup- 
plies for the garrison; and they were set upon "very near to the town" out of the bushes, 
by a swamp side, and Capt. Beers and about 20 of his men were slain. 

The swampy ravine south of the village of Northfield, where the Indians were in am- 
bush, and Beers's Plain, across which the soldiers retreated, to their horses, are well known 
at this day. Men now living have found bones and bullets near where the fighting took 
place. 

Mr. Russell, in his list, reports only sixteen slain at Squakeag, Sept. 4, and gives the 
names of eleven, viz., Capt. Richard Beers, John Chenary, Ephraim Child, Benjamin 
Crackbone, Robert Pepper, George Lyruss, John Gatchell, James Miller, John Wilson, 
Joseph Dickinson [of Northfield], William Markham, Jr. [of Hadley, an only son; he was 
with a team.] Robert Pepper, erroneously numbered among the slain, was taken, and 
was with the Indians when Mrs. Rowlandson was a captive. Capt. Beers was from Water- 
town, and was in the Pequot war 38 years before. His widow died June 19, 1706, aged 92. 

jHubbard says one man, if not more, was found with a chain hooked into his under 
jaw, and so hung upon the bough of a tree. It was feared that he was hung up alive. 

§Cattle often fled from the Indians and sought the protection of the English. When 
Major Willard came near Brookfield, the cattle which had been frightened away by the 
yells and firing of the Indians, fell into his rear and followed him and his company into 
the village. In this and later Indian wars, the people were always alarmed, when the 
cattle ran furiously out of the woods to the village. 



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alive.* The Indians took up their rendezvous on an hillj- in the meadow, burnt two 
more houses, killed many horses, and carried away horse-loads of beef and pork to the 
hill. The next day, we persuaded some of our inhabitants to go volunteers, and sent to 
Hadley to do the like, who going up with some of Capt. Lothrop's soldiers, joined them- 
selves to the garrison at Pocomptuck, and on Tuesday [Sept. 14th,] very early went out 
to assault the Indians, but they were all fled. Last night Capt. Mosely and his men came 
into Hadley, and this night we expect more forces from Hartford. If the Lord give not 
sudden check to these Indians, it is to be feared that most of the Indians in the country 
will rise. 

I desire you would speak to the governor, that there may be some thorough care for a 
Reformation. I am sensible there are many difficulties therein; many sins are grown so in 
fashion, that it becomes a question whether they be sins or not. I desire you would espe- 
cially mention oppression, that intolerable pride in clothes and hair;J the toleration of so 
many taverns, especially in Boston, and suffering home-dwellers to lie tippling in them. 
Let me hear soon from you. The Lord bless you and your labors. Forget us not at the 
throne of grace." [A small part of the letter is omitted.] 

The Norwottucks and Pocomtucks. — The fight between the 
Norwottuck Indians and their pursuers happened "about ten 
miles above Hatfield, at a place called Sugar Loaf Hill," accord- 
ing to Hubbard; "at a swamp beyond Hatfield," accordingto Mr. 
Russell of Hadley. The place is now unknown. These Indians 
left their native valley, in the night succeeding August 24th, and 
never dwelt in it again. No doubt there were some among them, 
especially females like the one that informed goodwife Wright of 
her danger, who were favorable to the English, and left the fort 
with heavy hearts. The kindly greeting and the friendly " netop "§ 
between them and the English, were now at an end. 

Their number when they fled may have been between 200 and 
225, with 50 or 55 fighting men. They manifested more spirit 
and energy in the war than they had been supposed to possess, 
and this may be said of some other tribes. 

The Norwottucks united with the Pocomtucks not long after the 
fight of Aug. 25. Hubbard says the Deerfield Indians withdrew 
from the English and joined the hostile Indians, but no circum- 
stances are given relative to their defection. Both tribes may 
have united in the assault upon Deerfield, Sept. 1st. They were 
the only enemies on the west side of the Connecticut for some time. 

The tidings of the fight of August 25th reached Hartford the 
same day, and the next day, the Council sent up George Graves 
and twenty men, " to assist the plantations of Norwottog." 

*He was probably slain then or soon after. Mr. Russell has the name of Nathaniel 
Cornberry, slain at Deerfield. 

•j-This hill is now a conspicuous object in Deerfield meadow. It was a hiding and 
watching place for the Indians. 

jThis pride in hair, may allude to wigs which were coming into fashion. 

§This Indian word was handed down by our ancestors, and it was not uncommon , 
40 years ago, to hear two intimate friends called "great netops." 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 137 

On the 31st, Major Talcott was again sent up to consult with 
Major Pynchon. On the 3d of September, Major Treat came 
up with men from the counties of Fairfield, New Haven and Hart- 
ford. He marched to Northfield and brought down the garrison 
and inhabitants, and then returned to Hartford, Sept. 9, leaving 
some of his forces in garrison, in three or four towns. Capt. 
Appleton of Ipswich was here. 

After Major Treat left Northfield, Sept. 6, the Indians destroyed 
this small village. This was the second place in Hampshire 
county that was laid waste.* It had been settled only two or 
three years, but contained nearly as many families as Brookfield. 
Most of them were from Northampton. They had no minister 
nor meeting-house, but William Janes, a competent person, used 
to pray and exhort in pleasant weather, under a broad-spreading 
tree. 

The Nipmucks and Wampanoags, whom the English captains 
had long sought after in vain, first showed themselves upon Con- 
necticut River on the first day of September, and made an attack 
upon Hadley. As our river Indians were engaged the same day 
at Deerfield, these must have been the Indians who came from 
the east. And it can hardly be doubted that they killed the eight 
men at Northfield, Sept. 2d, attacked Capt. Beers, Sept. 4, and 
fired upon Major Treat, Sept. 6. They exulted in their successes, 
and after Northfield was deserted, lived upon the good things 
which the English had left. They seem not to have crossed the 
river and united with the river Indians, until about the middle of 
September. 

An attack upon Hadley repelled by the aid of Gen. Goffe, 

The interesting events that took place in Hadley, on Wednes- 
day, the first of September, 1675, have been but imperfectly dis- 
closed. It was necessary at the time, and long after, to throw a 
veil over the transactions of that day, which has been, and can be, 
only partially removed. In the house of the Rev. John Russell 
had long been concealed two men, who were worthy of respect 
and honor, viz.. Generals Edward Whalley and William Goffe. 
They had been conspicuous in the revolutions of England, and 
had been instrumental in bringing a guilty king, Charles I, to 
the block. They were of course odious to all who believed in 

*The eight men slain at Northfield, Sept. 2d, were: — Serg. Samuel Wright, Ebenezer 
Janes, Jonathan Janes, Ebenezer Parsons, Nathaniel Curtis, Benjamin Dunwich, Thomas 
Scott, John Peck. The first five were from Northampton, and all but Sergt. Wright were 
young men. 



138 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

the divine right of kings, and after the restoration of Charles II, 
were pursued and hunted by the minions of royalty. Mr. Rus- 
sell, who feared not to do what he thought to be right, received 
them into his house in 1664, where they remained hidden from 
the world, and even from the people of Hadley. A few persons 
were in the secret in that town and elsewhere. Had their place 
of residence been discovered by their enemies, they and Mr. 
Russell and others would have been exposed to destruction. 
Whalley was superannuated in 1675, but Goffe was still capable 
of service. 

The fight at Hadley, is thus concisely noticed by Mather.* On 
the first of September, "one of the churches in Boston was seeking 
the face of God by fasting and prayer before him. Also that very 
day, the church in Hadley was before the Lord in the same way, 
but were driven from the holy service they were attending, by a 
most sudden and violent alarm, which routed them the whole day 
after." This was all that Mather dared to publish in 1676; and 
Hubbard does not even allude to the fight. f Nothing more 
appeared in print until Governor Hutchinson published his His- 
tory of Massachusetts in 1760, in which the following notice of 
GofFe's heroic act appeared in a pote. 

"The town of Hadley was alarmed by the Indians in 1675, ''^ '^^ '^''''^^ °f public worship, 
and the people were in the utmost confusion. J Suddenly a grave, elderly person appeared 
in the midst of them. In his mien and dress he differed from the rest of the people. He 
not only encouraged them to defend themselves, but put himself at their head, rallied, 
instructed and led them on to encounter the enemy, who by this means were repulsed. 
As suddenly the deliverer of Hadley disappeared. The people were left in consternation, 
utterly unable to account for this strange phenomenon. It is not probable that they were 
ever able to explain it. If Goffe had been then discovered, it must have come to the knowl- 
edge of those persons, who declare by their letters that they never knew what became of 
him." 

This attack was on the first of September, according to Hutch- 
inson. He says this anecdote of Goffe was handed down through 
Governor Leverett's family. Gov. L. was at Hadley while the 
judges were there. § 

*He probably knew all the particulars. Mr. Stoddard may have communicated them 
to him. 

•[•Ho3rt, in his Antiquarian Researches, expresses an opinion that September first is 
an erroneous date, because Hubbard did not mention any attack upon Hadley, at that 
time. Hubbard had good reasons for his silence. Hoyt had not seen Mather's History. 

JCaptains Lothrop and Beers were then in Hampshire county, but may have been on 
the west side of the river. 

§Traditions are to be very cautiously received, but this seems to be entitled to credit. 
Gov. Hutchinson's father was born before Philip's war, and must have been well acquainted 
with the Leverett family. The widow of Gov. Leverett died in 1704, only seven years 
before Gov. H. was born. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 139 

President Stiles, in his History of three of the Judges of Charles 
I, published in 1794, thus relates the story of the angel that ap- 
peared at Hadley. 

"Though told with some variation in different parts of New England, the true story 
of the angel is this. That pious congregation were observing a fast at Hadley, on occasion 
of the war; and being at public worship in the meeting-house there, on a fast day, Sep- 
tember I, 1675, were suddenly surrounded and surprised by a body of Indians. It was 
the usage in the frontier towns, and even at New Haven, in those Indian wars, for a select 
number of the congregation to go armed to public worship. It was so at Hadley at this 
time. The people immediately took to their arms, but were thrown into great conster- 
nation and confusion. Had Hadley been taken, the discovery of the Judges had been in- 
evitable. Suddenly, and in the midst of the people there appeared a man of very venerable 
aspect, and different from the inhabitants in his apparel, who took the command, arranged, 
and ordered them in the best military manner, and under his direction they repelled and 
routed the Indians, and the town was saved. He immediately vanished, and the inhabit- 
ants could not account for the phenomenon, but by considering that person as an Angel 
sent of God upon that special occasion for their deliverance; and for some time after said 
and believed that they had been delivered and saved by an Angel. Nor did they know 
or conceive otherwise till fifteen or twenty years after, when it at length became known at 
Hadley that the two Judges had been secreted there; which probably they did not know 
till after Mr. Russell's death, in 1692. This story, however, of the Angel at Hadley, was 
before this universally diffused thro' New-England by means of the memorable Indian 
war of 1675. T'^^ mystery was unriddled after the revolution, [in England in 1688,] when 
it became not so very dangerous to have it known that the Judges had received an asylum 
here, and that Goffe was actually in Hadley at that time. The Angel was certainly Gen- 
eral Goffe, for Whalley was superannuated in 1675.*" 

Capt. Samuel Mosely came to Hadley with a company of about 
sixty Bay soldiers, on the 14th of September, and soon after went 
up to Deerfield. On the 15th or i6th, Major Treat arrived at 
Northampton with more Connecticut troops. Capt. John 
Mason, of Norwich, was ordered to lead a company of Mohegans 
and Pequots up to Norwottuck and other plantations. Capt. 
Lothrop's head-quarters were at Hadley. 

Capt. Lothrop and his company slain at Muddy Brook. 

A large quantity of grain at Deerfield had been thrashed and 
teams and drivers provided to convey the grain and other articles 
to Hadley. Capt. Lothrop and his company were to guard them, 
and they commenced their march on Saturday, Sept. i8th. The 
eastern Indians had crossed to the west side of the river and 
united with the others; and they had watched the movements of 
the English without being discovered. The succeeding account 
is from Mather. 

"September i8, Captain Lothrop, a godly and courageous commander, with abou 
seventy men, were sent to be as a guard to some that were coming from Deerfield with cart 
laden with goods and provisions, to be removed to Hadley for s ecurity. But as they wer 

*Pres. Stiles errs in supposing the meeting-house was surrounded by Indians. — Hutch- 
inson does not allude to the angel story. 



140 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

coming, the Indians lurked in the swamps and multitudes of them made a sudden and 
frightful assault.* They seized upon the carts and goods, (many of the soldiers having 
been so foolish and secure as to put their arms in the carts, and step aside to gather grapes, 
which proved dear and deadly grapes to them,) killed Capt. Lothrop and above three 
score of his men, stripped them of their clothes, and so left them to lie weltering in their 
own blood. Capt. Mosely, who was gone out [from Deerfield] to range the woods, hearing 
the guns, hastened to their help, but before he could come, the other captain and his men 
were slain, as hath been expressed. Nevertheless he gave the Indians battle; they were 
in such numbers as that he and his company were in extreme danger. In the nick of time. 
Major Treatj- with above an hundred men, and three score of Uncas his Indians, came in 
to succor those that were so beset with the enemy, whereupon the enemy presently retreated 
and night coming on, there was no pursuing of them. In this fight but few of Capt. Mose- 
ly 's men were slain.J How maijy Indians were killed is uncertain; it being their manner 
to draw away their dead men as fast as they are killed, if possibly they can do it. I am 
informed that some of the Indians have reported that they lost ninety-six men that day, 
and that they had above forty wounded, many of whom died afterwards.§ However, 
this was a black and fatal day, wherein there were eight persons made widows and six and 
twenty children made fatherless, all in one little plantation, and in one day;|| and above 
sixty persons buried in one dreadful grave." 

Hubbard ascribes this great defeat to a wrong notion of Capt. 
Lothrop, that it was best to fight Indians in their own way, by 
skulking behind trees.** Hoyt thinks they wanted circumspection 
on the previous march, and that destruction was unavoidable, 
after they fell into an ambuscade. Hubbard says Lothrop's 
company were "the very flower of the county of Essex, none of 
which were ashamed to speak with the enemy in the gate." 
Capt. Lothrop was from Beverly, and left a widow but no children. 

Major Treat and Capt. Mosely went to Deerfield that night, 
and returned to Muddy brook the next morning, and buried the 
dead. 

*The place of this assault was near Muddy brook, a small stream, which now crosses 
the highway in the village of South Deerfield. It was called Muddy brook before and after 
this disaster; and has since often been named Bloody brook. 

j-Major Treat marched for Squakeag that morning, probably from Northampton, and 
arrived near Muddy brook "in the nick of time." 

^According to Mr. Russell's list, he lost three men, viz., Peter Barron, John Oates 
and another. According to Hubbard, he had two men killed and eight or nine wounded. 

§One-eyed John, a Nipmuck sagamore, told James Quannapohit, that he lost only one 
man in the fight with Capt. Lothrop, and one with Capt. Beers; and that the other Indians 
lost but two men. These Indian stories cannot be confided in. The Indian report 
about the loss of 96 men deserves not the least credit. 

||This "little plantation" was Deerfield, and seven of the husbands and fathers that 
were slain, were Samuel Hinsdale, who left 6 children; John Allen, 2 or 3 chUdren; Joseph 
Gillet, 6 children; John Allen, 2 or 3 children; Joshua Carter, 2 or 3 children; Zebadiah 
Williams, 2 children; Philip Barsham, children. The eighth may have been Robert Hins- 
dale the father of the other Hinsdales, or John Hinsdale. 

**Hubbard remarks of Indian fighting: — "The Indians durst not look an Englishman 
in the face in an open field, nor ever yet were known to kill any man with their guns, unless 
when they could lie in wait for him in an ambush, or behind some shelter, takmg aim un- 
discovered." He might have concluded from this Indian mode of warfare, that the English 
would ordinarily kill very few Indians. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 141 

A postscript to a letter from the Council of Massachusetts to 
Richard Smith in the Narraganset country, dated Sept. 22, 1675, 
gives a short account of the first reports of this sad disaster : — 

"This morning, was received sad intelligence from Hadley; that upon Saturday last, 
Capt. Lothrop with about sixty men, being appointed to conduct from Deerfield to Hadley 
with carriages and cattle, they were surprised by abundance of Indians that lay in ambush- 
ment and received a dreadful blow; insomuch that above forty of Capt. Lothrop's men 
with himself were slain. Capt. Mosely being not far off, engaged with the Indians and 
fought several hours and lost eleven men;* others also were slain that belonged to the car- 
riages, [carts,] so that the next day they buried sixty-four men in all. The Indians were 
judged to be near five hundred." 

Accounts differ as to the number of English slain. The "List 
of men slain in the county of Hampshire" made out by Rev. 
Mr. Russell, of Hadley, says seventy-one men v^^ere slain at 
Muddy Brook bridge, the i8th of September. f This statement 
is more to be depended on than any other. It includes all the 
teamsters that were killed. 

It may be doubted whether the soldiers and teamsters under 
Capt. Lothrop w^ere more than eighty. About fifty-four of the 
soldiers, and seventeen of the teamsters, were slain. Above 
sixty were buried in one grave, — probably the sixty-four mentioned 
in the letter sent to Boston. Some of the teamsters may have 
been buried in the towns below. 

The number of Indians engaged, according to the first report 
sent to Boston, was "near five hundred." This is undoubtedly 
too high an estimate, but other accounts swelled the number to 
seven or eight hundred, and even to twelve hundred. If the 

*This number included his wounded men. 

•j-Mr. Russell gives the names of only fifty-nine. Of these, forty-two were soldiers, 
viz., Capt. Thomas Lothrop, Sergt. Thomas Smith, Samuel Stevens, John Hobbs, Daniel 
Button, John Harriman, Thomas Bayley, Ezekiel Sawier, Jacob Kilborne, Thomas Man- 
ning, Jacob Wainwright, Benjamin Roper, John Bennet, Thomas Mentor, Caleb Kimball, 
Thomas Hobs, Robert Homes, Edward Traske, Richard Lambert, Josiah Dodge, Peter 
Woodberry, Joseph Balch, Samuel Whitteridge, William Duy, Serg. Samuel Stevens, 
Samuel Crumpton, John Plum, Thomas Buckley, George Ropes, Joseph Kinge, Thomas 
Alexander, Francis Friende, Abel Osyer, John Littleale, Samuel Hudson, Adam Clarke, 
Ephraim Farah, Robert Wilson, Stephen Welman, Benjamin Farnell, Solomon Alley, 
John Merrit, 42. 

J^ames of Deerfield Teamsters and a few others. — Robert Hinsdale and his three sons, 
Samuel Hinsdale, Barnabas Hinsdale, and John Hinsdale; Joseph Gillet, John Allen, 
Joshua Carter, John Barnard, James Tufts, Jonathan Plympton, Philip Barsham, Thomas 
Wells, William Smead, (Jr.,) Zebadiah Williams, Eliakim Marshall, James Mudge, George 
Cole, 17. 

Eleven or twelve of these seventeen were Deerfield teamsters and perhaps more. John 
Barnard, a teamster, was a son of Francis Barnard of Hadley. Thomas Wells, Eliakim 
Marshall, James Mudge and George Cole are placed with the teamsters by Mr. Russell; 
but may not have belonged to Deerfield. 



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Indians were four hundred, they were six times as numerous as 
the soldiers. 

Several men that were with Capt. Lothrop escaped, seven or 
eight according to Hubbard. Some of their names appear on 
petitions to the General Court. A few belonged to Suffolk 
county. James Bennet from Boston, a resident in Northampton, 
was slain. 

In two or three days after Capt. Lothrop's defeat, the garrison 
and inhabitants of Deerfield abandoned the place, and a third 
village in Hampshire county was given up to desolation. Deer- 
field was a recent, but thriving village, containing more than 
twenty families, and having a minister, Mr. Samuel Mather, 
afterwards of Windsor. The surviving inhabitants retired to 
Hatfield and other places. In a petition to the General Court in 
1678, of the "remnant of Deerfield's poor inhabitants," scat- 
tered into several towns, they say truly, that "their houses are 
burnt, their estates wasted, and the ablest of their inhabitants 
killed, and their plantation become a wilderness, a dwelling 
place for owls," &c. 

The Commissioners of the New England Colonies met at 
Boston in September. They ordered that Massachusetts should 
complete their soldiers already in Hampshire to 300, and Connect- 
icut theirs to 200. These were not to be fixed in garrisons, but 
to be employed for a field army, to pursue the enemy, &c. 

About the first of October, Capt. Samuel Appleton and Capt. 
Joseph Sill had each a company at Hadley, and Capt. Samuel 
Mosely at Hatfield. On the 4th of October, Lieut. Phinehas 
Upham was sent up with 30 men, and Capt. Jonathan Poole, of 
Reading, was here a few days after. The Pequots, Mohegans, 
and some friendly Nipmucks called Wabaquassucks, returned to 
Hartford, Sept. 23d, but some Connecticut troops remained. 

Secretary Rawson wrote, Sept. 30: — "the slaughter in your 
parts has much dampened many spirits for the war. Some men 
escape away from the press, and others hide away after they are 
impressed." 

Major Pynchon wrote to the Council, from Hadley, Sept. 30, 
as follows: — 

"We are endeavoring to discover the enemy, and daily send out scouts, but little is effect- 
ed. Our English are somewhat awk and fearful in scouting and spying, though we do the 
best we can. We have no Indian friends here to help us. We find the Indians have their 
scouts out. Two days ago two Englishmen at Northampton, being gone out in the morning 
to cut wood, and but a little from the house, were both shot down dead, having two bullets 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 143 

apiece shot into each of their breasts. The Indians cut off their scalps, took their arras and 
were off in a trice.*" 

About the 26th of September, Major Pynchon's farm-house 
and barns, on the west side of the river, with all the grain and hay, 
were set on fire by a few Indians, and consumed. f — Major P. 
thought himself not fitted to be commander of all the troops sent 
into the county, and he requested to be discharged, before the 
middle of September, and the request was urgently repeated. 
On the 4th of October, the Council appointed Capt. Samuel 
Appleton, of Ipswich, commander in chief of the united forces, 
and he took the command on the 12th of October. 

On the 28th of August, the Council of Connecticut advised 
Maj. Pynchon not to disarm the Springfield Indians, but to take 
hostages of them. This advice appears to have been followed, 
and the hostages were kept at Hartford. The Indians continued 
to profess friendship for the English, but at length roused by the 
victories of the Indians up the river, rather than excited by the 
arts of Philip, they determined to aid in the work of destroying 
the English towns. Their principal fort on the east side of the 
river was at Longhill, towards Longmeadow. Their chief was 
commonly named Wequogon, an old sachem, who, with his wife 
Awonusk, sold Hockanum and a part of South Hadley to the 
people of Hadley in 1662. Hubbard says the sachem of the 
Springfield Indians was father of the Hadley sachem, | and on 
this account, he supposes the former was more easily persuaded 
to join with the Hadley Indians. 

Major Pynchon, who spent much of his time at Hadley, the 
head-quarters for this county, learning that a body of Indians 
had been in the vicinity of Hadley mill, called off all the soldiers 
stationed at Springfield, on the 4th of October, intending to have 
his forces go against the enemy that night or the next day. On 
the same day, Oct. 4th, Toto, a Windsor Indian, informed the 
people of Windsor or Hartford of a plot of the Indians, to burn 
Springfield and massacre the inhabitants the next day. An 
express was sent up to Springfield; and from that place a post 
was dispatched to Major Pynchon at Hadley, where he arrived 

*0n the 28th of September, Praisever Turner and his man, Uzackaby Shackspeer, 
were killed at Northampton. Some have imagined that the latter was a relative of Shak- 
speare. Maj. Pynchon calls him an Englishman, but the first name does not appear to 
be English. Praisever Turner's house and lot were within a few rods of the present resi- 
dence of the writer of this volume, on Elm street. 

■{•Major Pynchon hired 24 cattle kept at Lyme, Conn, the next winter. 

Jl have seen no evidence that Wequogon was the father of Sancumachu, the principal 
sachem of Hadley. Perhaps Sancumachu had married a daughter of Wequogon. 



144 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

some time in the night. He brought tidings that five hundred of 
PhiUp's and other Indians were in Springfield fort, ready to fall 
upon the town the next day. Another post was sent to Major 
Treat, who was at Westfield. Major Pynchon marched for 
Springfield the next morning, Tuesday, Oct. 5th, with Capt. 
Appleton and Capt. Sill and about 190 soldiers. The following 
extracts from letters, written near the time, will tell the sad story 
of the desolation at Springfield. 

Letter from Major John Pynchon to the Rev. John Russell of Hadley. — Extracts. 

"Springfield, Oct. 5, 1675. 
Reverend Sir, 

The Lord will have us lie in the dust before him. It is the Lord and blessed be his 
holy name. We came to a lamentable and woeful sight: the town in flames, not a house 
nor barn standing except old Goodman Branch's, till we came to my house, and then Mr. 
Glover's, John Hitchcock's, and Goodman Stewart's burnt down with barns, corn and 
all they had. A few standing about the meeting house, and then from Merrick downwards 
all burnt except two garrison houses at the lower end of the town; my grist mill and corn 
mill burnt down, with some other houses and barns I had let out to tenants. All Mr. 
Glover's library burnt with all his corn, so that he hath none to live on, as well as myself 
and many more. They tell me 32 houses and the barns belonging to them, are burnt and 
all the livelihood of the owners. The Lord shew mercy to us. Sir, I pray acquaint our 
Honored Governor with this dispensation of God. I know not how to write. The Lord 
in mercy speak to my heart and to all our hearts is the real desire of, 

Yours to serve, 

JOHN PYNCHON. 

"I pray send down by the post my doublet, coat, linen and papers, I left there." 
[Then follow 60 lines in characters or short hand.] 

Letter from Rev. John Russell of Hadley to the Governor and Council, not dated, 
but written at Hadley, Oct. 6, 1675. — Extracts. 

"Right Worshipful, 

The light of another day hath turned our yesterday's fears into certainties and bitter 
lamentation for the distresses and calamities of our brethren and friends at Springfield 
whose habitations have now become an heap. The enclosed from the Honored Major 
will give you such account of it as is with us to make. We have little more to add, only 
that the houses standing are about 13. Two men and one woman slain, viz. Lt. Cooper 
who was going towards the fort to treat with the Indians that the day before professed 
great friendship, being with 3 or 4 more just about a quarter of a mile out of town, was 
shot so as he fell off his horse, but got up again and rode to the end of the town, where 
he was shot again and died. The other man was Thomas Miller of Springfield. There 
appeared not according to their estimate above 100 Indians, of whom their own were the 
chief.* Their old sachem Wequogon (in whom as much confidence was put as in any of 
their Indians) was ring-leader in word and deed. Another of their principal men cried 
out to them and told them he was one that burnt Quabaug, and now would make them 
like to it. They were gone ere Major Pynchon came in with his forces which was about 
2 or 3 of the clock. They signified their sense of his approach by their whoops and watch- 
words and were presently gone. Maj. Treat was got down from Westfield, some hours 

*The information in these lines from Mr. Russell derived from Springfield people, 
proves beyond a doubt the falsity of the rumors about Philip's Indians being at Springfield. 
Wequogon and the Springfield Indians could form daring plots, and execute them. A few 
other Indians may have assisted them, but Wequogon was "ring-leader in word and deed." 
The three and five hundred Indians of the rumors are here, on good authority, reduced 
to a hundred or less. 



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sooner on the west side of the river, whose coming being perceived, 5 men went out of town, 
and although pursued by 20 Indians, carried over a boat which was filled with men, but 
the Indians standing on the river's bank shot at them and shot one through the neck (who 
is not like to recover.) They durst not adventure to pass the river, till Maj. Pynchon was 
come in and the Indians gone. Our army had prepared all things in readiness to go forth 
on Monday at night, (which was the occasion of calling forth those from Springfield) against 
a considerable party discovered 5 or 6 miles from Hadley. But the three alarms we met 
with and the tidings from Springfield wholly dissappointed it. 

Our town of Hadley is now like to drink next (if mercy prevent not) of this bitter cup; 
we are but about 50 families and now left solitary. We desire to repose our confidence in 
the eternal and living God who is the refuge of his people, and to stand ready to do and 
suffer his will in all things. To his grace I commend you. 

Your wor'ps humbly in all service, 

JOHN RUSSELL. 

Our wounded men are greatly distressed for want of medicines. Those by sea not yet 
come at us; those expected by Capt. Waite left at Roxbury." 

Letter from Major John Pynchon to Governor Leverett, — Extracts. 

Springfield, Oct. 8, 1675. 
"Honored sir, 

I desired Mr. Russell to give you an account of the sore stroke upon poor distressed 
Springfield, which I hope will excuse my late doing of it. On the 4th of October our 
soldiers which were at Springfield I had called all off, leaving none to secure the town be- 
cause the Commissioners' order was so strict. That night a post was sent to us that 500 
Indians were about Springfield intending to destroy it the ^th of October. With about 200 
of our soldiers I marched down to Springfield where we found all in flames, about 30 dwell- 
ing houses burnt down and 24 or 25 barns, my corn mill, saw mill and other buildings.* 
Generally men's hay and corn are burnt and many men whose houses stand had their goods 
burnt in other houses which they had carried them to. Lt. Cooper and two more slain 
and 4 persons wounded.f That the town did not utterly perish is cause of great thank- 
fulness. As soon as said forces appeared the Indians all drew off, so that we saw none 
of them. We sent out scouts that night and the next day but discovered none. Our 
endeavors here are to secure the houses and corn that are left. Our people are under great 
discouragement and talk of leaving the place. We need your orders and directions about 
it. How to have provisions, I mean bread, for want of a mill, is difficult. The soldiers 
here already complain on that account, although we have flesh enough. Many of the in- 
habitants have no houses, which fills and throngs up every room of those that have, together 
with the soldiers; indeed it is very uncomfortable living here. But I resolve to attend 
what God calls me to and to stick to it as long as I can. I hope God will make up in him- 
self what is wanting in the creature, to me, and to us all. 

To speak my thoughts — all these towns ought to be garrisoned, as I have formerly 
hinted. To go out after the Indians in the swamps and thickets is to hazard all our men, 
unless we know where they keep; which is altogether unknown to us. 

I remain your unworthy serv't, 

JOHN PYNCHON. 

We are in great hazard, if we do but stir out for wood, to be shot down by some skulking 
Indians. Mr. Glover had all his books burnt; not so much as a bible saved — a great loss, 
for he had some choice books and many." 

*Capt. Appleton states in a letter of Oct. 12, that about 33 houses and 25 barns were 
burnt, and about 15 houses left unburnt, in the town-plat. On the west side of the river, 
and in the outskirts on the east side, about 60 houses were standing, and much corn in and 
about them. 

■j-Those killed at Springfield, Oct. 5, were Lieut. Thomas Cooper, Thomas Miller, and 
Pentecost Matthews, wife of John Matthews. Those mortally wounded were Nathaniel 
Browne, and Edmund Pringridays. These died a few days after. 



146 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Connecticut sent up forty-three Indians from Farmington, 
Hartford and Wethersfield, Oct. 6, but they effected nothing. 
On the 8th, upon a report that there were hostile Indians* near 
Hartford, Major Treat and a part of his soldiers were recalled. 
He returned to Hampshire about ten days after. 

Capt. Appleton took the command of the forces, and came 
from Springfield to Hadley, Oct. I2th.f He intended to March 
up to Squakeag on the 15th, but reports that the Indians were 
above Hatfield, drew him and his troops to that side pf the river 
on the 15th, and again on the i6th. In a letter of the 17th, he 
says, "we have wearied ourselves with a tedious night and morn- 
ing's march, without making any discovery of the enemy." 

The Springfield Squaw. — Capt. Appleton, in a letter to Gov. 
Leverett, dated at Hadley, Oct. 16, relates that a letter from 
Major Pynchon informs him of an old Indian squaw, taken at 
Springfield, who tells that the Indians who came to Springfield 
were 270; and that the enemy in all are 600. They keep at 
Coasset,! a place supposed to be about 50 miles above Hadley. 

Capt. Mosely wrote a letter to the governor from Hatfield, 
the same day, Oct. 16, of which the following is the concluding 
part : — 

"We are told by an Indian that was taken at Springfield, that the Indians intend to set 
upon these three towns in one day, The body that waits to do this exploit is about 600 
Indians, as we are informed by the aforesaid Indian; and further we are informed that they 
are making a fort some 60 miles above this place, up in the woods. 

Pray sir, be pleased to present my humble service to your lady, and all the rest of your 
family. I make no question but the enemy will make an attempt within a short time upon 
these towns. Having nothing else worthy of your reading, I remain sir, 

Your most humble and ready servant, 

SAMUEL MOSELY." 

Capt. Mosely wrote on the margin of this letter: — "This afore- 
said Indian was ordered to be tourne in peeces by dogs, and shee 
was so dealt withall." 

*Soon after, there was a rumor that Philip with 400 men was to fall upon Norwich, 
Oct. 15, and soldiers were ordered to that place. Men were strangely deluded respecting 
Philip. 

■j-Capt. Appleton reckoned the distance from Springfield to Hadley, "near 30 miles." 
In judging of distances in the woods, the miles of most men were too many. 

Capt. Appleton, in his letter of Oct. 12, trusted that by the prayers of God's people, 
"our Israel may in his time, prevail against this cursed Amalek; against whom I believe 
the Lord will have war forever, until he have destroyed him." 

JCowas was the Indian name of a pine tree, and there were several pine regions, or 
Cowassets, near Connecticut River. The one here mentioned may have been in the pres- 
ent town of Vernon, Vermont, or a little above. 



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Here is a short record of a most cruel and barbarous deed — 
"ordered" too by the English, and done within the good old 
county of Hampshire, on the lovely border of the Connecticut, 
among civilized and Christian people. 

The squaw, whose story Capt. Appleton derived from Major 
Pynchon's letter, is unquestionably the same that is noticed by 
Capt. Mosely. When, where, and by whose order, this savage 
and brutal act was performed, we are left to conjecture. Her 
crime is not mentioned. 

War is always horrid; and deeds unusually atrocious done by 
one party, too often provoke the other to acts equally outrageous. 
The excessive cruelty and atrocity of the Indians, their burnings, 
massacres and tortures, exasperated the English and sometimes 
led Christian men to act like merciless barbarians.* 

On Tuesday, the 19th of October, the onset which had been 
apprehended, fell upon Hatfield. No letters relative to this 
attack have been preserved. The following account is from 
Hubbard. 

"The enemy growing very confident by the late successes, came with all their fury the 
19th of October upon Hatfield, hoping no less than to do the like mischief to them, they had 
newly done to Springfield: But according to the good providence of Almighty God, Major 
Treat was newly returned to North-Hampton, Captain Mosely and Captain Poole were 
then garrisoning the said Hatfield, and Capt. Appleton for the like end quartering at Hadley, 
when on a sudden 7 or 800 of the enemy came upon the town in all quarters, having first 
killed or taken two or three of the scouts belonging to the town, and seven more belonging 
to Capt. Mosely's company: But they were so well entertained on all hands where they 
attempted to break in upon the town, that they found it too hot for them. Major Appleton 
with great courage defending one end of the town, and Capt. Mosely as stoutly 
maintaining the middle, and Capt. Poole the other end; that they were by the resolution 
of the English instantly beaten off, without doing much harm. Capt. Appleton's Serjeant 
was mortally wounded just by his side, another bullet passing through his own hair, by 
that whisper telling him that death was very near, but did him no other harm. Night 
coming on, it could not be discerned what loss the enemy sustained, divers were seen to 
fall, some run through a small river, others cast their guns into the water, it being their 
manner to venture as much to recover the dead bodies of their friends, as to defend them 
when alive. 

At last after the burning of some few barns, with some other buildings, the enemy hasted 
away as fast as they came on, leaving the English to bless God who had so mercifully de- 
livered them from the fury of their merciless foes." 

The Letters from a Merchant of Boston to his friend in London, 
give more particulars of the loss of the scouts. The Indians made 
great fires north of Hatfield, to attract the English, and then 
came and lay in the bushes by the wayside, about two miles 

*A man in Windsor, in a letter to Boston, Oct. ai, 1675, expressed an opinion, that "if 
an Indian worthy of death, were baited by our fiercest dogs, it would be a terror!" He 
may have supposed that the dogs would thus be excited to hunt and attack Indians. He 
made no allusion to any such baiting in Hampshire county. 



148 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

from the village. About noon, ten horsemen were sent out to 
scout, and as they were passing the Indians in ambush, nine 
were shot down and one escaped to Hatfield.* The Indians 
came in, and attempted to burn the village, about four o'clock. 

The great body of the Indians withdrew from this part of the 
country after their defeat at Hatfield, Oct. 19. A few straggling 
Indians remained and did some mischief. They burnt four or 
five houses and two or three barns in Northampton, in the out- 
skirts of the town, the latter part of October; and soon after, on 
the 29th of the same month, they killed Joseph Baker, his son 
Joseph, and Thomas Salmon who were at work in a meadow. f 
The Indians intended to burn Northampton mill, but it was too 
well guarded. On the 27th of October, the Indians killed three 
Springfield men, in Westfield, viz., John Dumbleton, Jr., who 
went to the Westfield mill, and William Brooks, Jr. and John 
Brooks, who went to Westfield to look for iron ore; they also 
burnt two houses and one barn in Westfield. 

On the 30th of October at night, messengers from Hatfield 
informed Capt. Appleton that many tracks of Indians had been 
discovered, and that their cattle came running violently into 
town. He went over, and on the first of November, "went about 
10 or 12 miles into the woods, searching the chestnut mountains, 
where the enemy was thought to be, but found him not." On 
the 4th of November, Capt. Appleton and Major Treat ranged 
the woods towards Deerfield, but discovered no Indians. The 
next day, they searched the woods about Northampton, and 
found no enemy. The Indians had almost taken a man and boy 
in Northampton meadow. 

Captain Appleton, finding that some people had deserted these 
towns, and that others talked of jeaving them, issued his procla- 

*It was supposed for some months, that the nine missing scouts were all slain, but two 
of them were taken towards Albany, and were redeemed by some gentlemen at Albany, 
and arrived at New York, Feb. 25, 1676. They related that nine scouts [they had forgotten 
one] were sent out from Hatfield and that in passing a swamp, the Indians who lay hid, 
killed five, and took three, and one escaped. The Indians afterwards killed one of the 
three, having cut a hole below his stomach and pulled out his bowels. One of the two 
belonged to Boston. — [Letter from New York in the Connecticut Archives.] 

Mr. Russell's list contains the names of ten persons slain at Hatfield on the 19th of 
October, viz., Freegrace Norton, Capt. Appleton's sergeant, who was mortally wounded 
in the fight and died at the house of Lieut. Samuel Smith in Hadley soon after; and nine 
scouts, viz., Thomas Meekins, Jr. of Hatfield, Nathaniel Collins, servant of Thomas Meek- 
ins; Richard Stone, Samuel Clarke, John Pocock, Thomas Warner, Abram Quiddington, 
William Olverton, John Petts. The two taken and not slain are included. 

•j-John Roberts, a wounded soldier, died in Northampton, soon after the Bakers and 
Salmon were killed, and Mr. Russell places him with them. 



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ation from his head-quarters at Hadley, Nov. 12, 1675, to the 
inhabitants of Springfield, Westfield, Northampton, Hadley and 
Hatfield, ordering "that no person shall remove from or desert 
any of these towns, so long as forces are continued here for their 
defence, without liberty under the hand of the commander in 
chief; nor shall any go out of the towns without a pass under the 
hand of the commander in chief." 

Major Treat and the Connecticut troops went homeward Nov. 
19, and Capt. Appleton departed four or five days after. Many 
of the soldiers from both colonies were dragoons with long arms, 
and their horses were kept in the Hampshire towns. Capt. 
Appleton left a small garrison in each of the five Hampshire 
towns, viz., 39 men at Springfield, to be commanded by Maj. 
Pynchon; 29 at Westfield, under Capt. Aaron Cooke; 26 at 
Northampton, under Lieut. William Clarke; 30 at Hadley, under 
Capt. Jonathan Poole; and 36 at Hatfield, under Lieut. William 
Allis. He appointed a Council of War for the security of these 
three towns, consisting of the commission oflacers of Northamp- 
ton, Hadley and Hatfield, Lieut. David Wilton of Northampton, 
Deac. Peter Tilton of Hadley, and Serg. Isaac Graves of Hatfield; 
Capt. Jonathan Poole to be president of the said Council. 

Capt. Appleton was a brave and active officer, but he was 
beset with difficulties. 

Almost all the force of the enemy was directed against this 
county from Sept. i to Oct. 19. The villages were all open to 
attacks, no palisade having been erected around any of them. 
The buildings called garrison houses were but slightly fortified. 
The soldiers were unused to war, and their trainings and Euro- 
pean military exercises were of little avail in Indian warfare. It is 
not marvellous that the Indians did so much damage. The 
number of men slain in Hampshire county in 1675, according to 
Mr. Russell's report, was 145. Of these, about 43 or 44 were 
inhabitants of the county, and above 100 were from other towns 
in the colony. Men from most of the towns in Massacuhsetts, 
moistened the soil of Hampshire with their blood. More Eng- 
lish than Indians were killed in 1675. Only one English female 
was slain in Hampshire, and no child, in that year. The 145* 
men were slain at the following times and places: — 

♦Coffin's History of Newbury has all the names that Mr. Russell gives. Some of them 
differ a little from those on the preceding pages. 



150 HISTORY OF HADLEY 



At Brookfield, 




August 2, 


13 


At Northampton, Sept. 


28, 


2 


Above Hatfield, 




" 25» 


9 


At Springfield, Oct. 


5. 


4 


At Deerfield, 




Sept. I and after, 


2 


At Hatfield, 


i9» 


10 


At Northfield, 




2, 


8 


At Westfield, 


27, 


3 


Near Northfield, 




4. 


16 


At Northampton, " 


29, 


4 


At Muddy Brook, 




" i8, 


71 








And of Capt. Mosely's 


Co. 


" i8, 


3 






H5 



Mr. Russell's list includes three that -were captives, and not slain, but does not include 
the woman slain at Springfield. 

At the end of Mr. Russell's return of the slain, he added the following verses from the 
2d chapter of Joel: — 

"Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the people? 
sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children and those that suck the 
breasts. Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, 
and let them say, spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thy heritage to reproach, that the 
heathen should rule over them. Wherefore should they say among the people, where is 
their God ? Then will the Lord be jealous for his land and pity his people." 

Not a little of the destruction upon Connecticut River was the 
work of the Deerfield, Hadley and Northampton, and Springfield 
Indians. These tribes may have had near 150 fighting men, and 
perhaps some of the Waranokes, or Westfield Indians, were with 
them. The manuscript accounts and printed histories of this 
war, are silent respecting the conduct and fate of the Waranoke 
Indians. It is not known that Westfield was injured by them. 
That village, though apparently much exposed to attack, was not 
assailed by any considerable body of Indians. The damage 
which they received was from small parties. It may be con- 
jectured that some of the Waranokes joined the Springfield 
Indians, and it is believed that a number of them removed, after 
the commencement of the war, to the vicinity of Hudson's River. 

The Indian warriors in and about Hampshire county, were not 
more than six hundred at any time, and most of them were Nip- 
mucks. The war was commenced by Philip's young men, but 
in this county it was not Philip's war; it was the Nipmuck war. 

The people of Hampshire generally passed a quiet but rather 
gloomy winter. The thoughts of the past and the apprehensions 
for the future, gave them heavy hearts. They however escaped 
the sufferings and afflictions of other parts of New England, 
occasioned by the Narraganset war, undertaken in the midst of 
winter. In December and most of January, the cold was severe 
and the snow deep. In January, the snow was "mid-thigh deep," 
north of Brookfield.* There seems to have been no direct com- 
munication between the Hampshire towns and Boston during 
the winter. The deep snow, the destruction of Brookfield, and 

*James Quannapohit's Relation. — There was a great thaw the latter part of January. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 151 

especially the fear of Indians, stopped all traveling in that direc- 
tion. Sergeant John Ayres no longer remained to greet the weary 
traveler at his rustic but comfortable ordinary, on the hill in 
Brookfield. Hartford had intercourse with Boston through the 
Narraganset country, where the troops were. 

Though some families had removed, most of the dwelling- 
houses were crowded in all those villages. Many houses had 
been destroyed besides those at Springfield. Every town had to 
entertain soldiers, and the upper villages had families from Deer- 
field, Northfield and Brookfield. The people of Hampshire 
were able to supply all with food. 



CHAPTER XV 

Indian war of 1675 and 1676 — chiefly 1676 — Fortifications — Indians in the winter — War 
with the Narragansets — Destruction of Lancaster — Mrs. Rowlandson taken — Troops 
march to Miller's River and thence to Hadley — Northampton assaulted — Ambuscade 
near Longmeadow — Three men slain at Hockanum — Scheme to bring the five Hamp- 
shire towns into one — The Falls fight, above Deerfield — Attack on Hatfield — Major 
Talcott arrives from Norwich and Quabaug — Hadley assaulted — Expedition of Major 
Talcott and Capt. Henchman up the river — Indians flee to the Housatonnuc and are 
defeated by Major Talcott — War supposed to be at an end — Persons killed and cap- 
tured at Hatfield and Deerfield in 1677 — Recovery of the captives. 

Fortifications. — In the latter part of autumn and in the en- 
suing winter, the people of Hampshire constructed about their 
plantations, a palisade or palisado. It consisted of rows of pales, 
stakes or posts about ten feet in length, having two feet in the 
ground and eight feet above the ground.* These posts were 
made by splitting sticks of timber into two or more pieces, and 
hewing off the edges of the cleft-pieces so that no part should be 
less than two or three inches in thickness. These were set close 
together in the earth, and were probably fastened to a piece of 
wood near the top. Many of the rails of fences were used for 

*Such were the directions of the town of Hadley when the east side fortification was 
rebuilt, in 1679. Possibly the palisades of 1676 were not of the same height. Hubbard 
says the cleft wood of the palisades was about eight feet long; meaning, I suppose, the 
part above the surface of the earth. There was something called a breast -work in Hadley 
in 1676 and 1677, and men were to maintain the said breast-work "five feet and a half in 
height, with the pales or out-works thereto." Flankers are mentioned in 1678. 



152 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

palisades. These fortifications which would have been a very 
inadequate defense against an attack by Europeans, were a 
sufficient barrier against the assaults of the Indians. Hubbard 
says, "although they did in the spring break through the palisades 
at Northampton, yet as soon as they began to be repulsed, they 
saw themselves like wolves in a pound, that they could not fly 
away at their pleasure, so as they never adventured to break 
through afterward upon any of the towns so secured." 

The first vote of Hadley as a town, relating to the fortification, 
was on the nth of February, 1676. It was not then completed. 
It was a palisade fence crossing the homelots, in the rear of the 
buildings, on both sides of the street and crossing the street some 
rods from each end. The two sides of the palisade were each 
almost a mile in length and the two ends near forty rods each. 
There were strong gates at the ends, and at the highways on the 
sides. There was little danger of an attack on the western or 
meadow side of the street, and the fortification on that side was 
not so strongly made as the other. Men might not make outlets 
for themselves or cattle through the palisade. Each man, in 
order to get upon his own homelot, was under the necessity of 
going round through a gate, and then crossing other lots until he 
came to his own, or passing round still farther, to the rear of his 
lot. — Four or five houses at the north end, on the street running 
north-easterly, were not included in the fortification; and also 
apparently the house belonging to John Russell, senior, at the 
south end on the east side. 

The town was divided into three or four "squadrons," in refer- 
ence to the military watch and other matters. Each squadron 
had one or two commanders. There was also a fortification 
committee. 

Feb. 1 1, 1676. The town voted that the passage to Fort Mead- 
ow and that to the corn-mill should be cleared of all brush and 
bushes, that passing to each place might be as secure as possible. 
All were to work according to their heads and estates. They 
also voted that every houselot should be cleared of all brush and 
bushes which might harbor an enemy, by the 19th instant. 

A large body of the Indians wintered near Ware River, north 
of Brookfield; others on the west side of the Connecticut, above 
Northfield, and some, including Philip, in the vicinity of Hoosac 
River, north-east of Albany. A few may have retired to the Nar- 
raganset country. 

Philip and Sancumachu and some of their Indians, were north- 
erly of Albany in December. Gov. Andros wrote from New 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 153 

York to Connecticut, Jan. 6, 1676, that Philip and 4 or 500 north 
Indians* were come within 40 or 50 miles of Albany, northerly. 
The Council of Connecticut desired Gov. Andros to stir up the 
Mohawks against these Indians; and to restrain the Dutch, who 
sold arms and ammunition to the enemy.f Gov. Andros made an 
uncourteous reply, Jan. 20, suggesting that they wished to involve 
him in a war with this "bloody crew." 

James Quannapohit,| a Christian Natick Indian, who was sent 
forth as a spy, with another named Job, arrived at Wenimesset 
or Menimesset, north of Brookfield, January 4, 1676, where he 
found, as he judged, about 300 Nipmuck fighting-men, and twice 
as many women and children. He was there informed that 
Philip was within a half day's journey of Albany; that the Spring- 
field, Hadley and Northampton Indians had their winter quarters, 
some at Squakeag, and some with Sancumachu towards Albany, 
this side of Philip. 

Philip and the other Indians left their winter quarters near the 
end of February, and returned to Connecticut River. Mrs. 
Rowlandson, on the 9th of March, 1676, crossed the river some 
miles above Northfield, and found on the west side§ "a numerous 
crew of pagans," and Philip among them. 

War with the Narragansets in Rhode Island. — The commission- 
ers of the United Colonies, on the 2d of November, 1675, deter- 
mined to carry on a war against the Narragansets, and agreed 
that a thousand men should be raised, viz., in Massachusetts, 
527, Plymouth, 158, and Connecticut, 315. This was the pro- 
portion of each colony in all this war. 

On Sunday, the 19th of December, when the weather was cold 
and the snow deep, the brave men from the three colonies took 
the formidable fort of the Narragansets, and burnt hundreds of 
their wigwams. But it was a dearly bought victory; 80 of the 
English were slain or died of their wounds, and 138 more were 
wounded. ^The Indians fought stoutly, and lost some hundreds 
of men, women and children. The confession of Indians, as to 
their loss, was as usual, a fruitful source of exaggeration. — An- 
other thousand men were ordered, and a large part of them left 

♦North Indians were Nipmucks — not half as numerous as represented. It was reported 
that Philip's own Indians were about one hundred. 

•j-The Dutch traders at Albany sold ammunition to the Hudson's River Indians, who 
purchased it for the New England Indians, and the latter in this way, obtained a supply. 

jHis Relation in the Connecticut Archives, is twice as long as that published in the 
Mass. Hist. Collections. 

§This place appears to be the Coasset, before noticed. 



154 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Wickford on the 28th of January, and pursued the Narragansets 
north-westerly into the Nipmuck country, and killed and took 
about seventy.* — A sudden thawf carried off the snow before 
this pursuit, and the Indians procured ground-nuts for food. 

Gookin, in 1674, estimated the fighting-men of the Narragan- 
sets at one thousand. Ninigret, one of their chiefs, and his men, 
withdrew from the rest, and did not engage in the war. The 
fighting-men of the hostile Narragansets, at the close of the winter, 
may have been 400 or 500. The English had in the spring of 
1676, more open enemies than at any time in 1675, — perhaps 
1000 men, or more. 

The Nipmucks at Wenimesset informed James Quannapohit 
that they should fall upon Lancaster, Medfield, Groton, Marl- 
borough and Sudbury, and fixed upon the day to attack Lancaster. 
James left them Jan. 20, and on the 24th, his Relation was written 
at Boston. Yet his information was not sufficiently heeded, and 
these places were all attacked and almost destroyed by the Indians. 
These assaults were made when Philip was far distant, except 
the last. 

On the loth of February, the Nipmucks from Wenimesset, 
aided by some Narragansets lately come to them, assaulted Lan- 
caster, killed or captured about 42 persons, and burnt most of 
the buildings. The place was abandoned by the English in a few 
weeks. Mrs. Rowlandson,| the wife of the minister, and her 
children, were among the captives. The number of Indians in 
this expedition, according to Job, one of the Indian spies, who 
left Wenimesset after they set out for Lancaster, was about 400. § 

On the 8th of February, the Commissioners of the United Col- 
onies ordered 600 dragoons, or troopers with long firearms, to 
be raised; to rendezvous at Quabaug. || The dragoons of Mass- 
achusetts, under Major Thomas Savage of Boston, with six 
Christian Indians, and those of Connecticut under Major Treat, 
united at Quabaug, about the 2d or 3d of March; they marched to 
Wenimesset, but the Indians had information of the expedition 

*Trumbull did not know that Connecticut had in this pursuit 200 or 300 men under 
Major Treat. 

•[Mather represents a January thaw as a very strange event in those days. 

jShe pubhshed an account of her captivity and sufferings, after her return, which has 
been read by thousands of every succeeding generation. 

§Gookin, confiding in Job's estimate, says "about four hundred." Yet this number 
has been strangely increased to 1500 in later times. It has also been represented that 
Philip and his Indians were among them. A perusal of Mrs. Rowlandson's book should 
have corrected this error. 

llPlymouth soldiers were needed at home. None came from that colony into Hamp- 
shire county during the war. 



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and had left the place. The dragoons pursued those that had 
gone towards Paquayag, and came to Miller's River at Paquayag, 
on the 6th of March, after the Indians had all passed over on 
rafts, and were advancing towards Squakeag. The English did 
not cross the river,* but turned and came to Hadley, where they 
arrived about the 8th of March. 

Major Savage had four companies in Hampshire, under Cap- 
tains Mosely, Whipple, Gillam and Turner. Captain William 
Turnerf came from Marlborough, Feb. 29th, with 89 foot soldiers. 
He left II men at Quabaug,]; March 4th, and came to Hadley 
with 78 men, before Major Savage arrived. He was stationed 
at Northampton. 

The expedition of the Massachusetts and Connecticut troops 
to Wenimesset and Paquayag, drove a body of Indians to Squakeag 
(Northfield,) where they came March 7th, and Mrs. Rowlandson 
with them. They went up the river some miles and crossed to 
the west side, March 9th, where were Philip§ and many Indians. 
Says Mrs. Rowlandson: — "Now the Indians gathered their forces 
to go against Northampton. Over night, one went about yelling 
and hooting to give notice of the design. Whereupon they went 
to boiling ground-nuts, and parching corn as many as had it, for 
their provision, and in the morning, away they went." They 
assailed Northampton, March 14th, were repulsed and returned 
without much booty. They evidently did not know that there 
were two or three companies of soldiers in the town. 

Extracts from letters written two days after this attack, by Major Savage and Mr. 
Russell. 

Hadley, March i6, 1675-6. 

Yours of the nth inst. I received. I have improved our time since we came hither in 
sending forth scouts, but as yet can make no certain discovery of any of the enemy's place 
of abode. On the 9th inst. they made an assault on some at Westfield and wounded a 
man; on the 14th instant about break of the day, the enemy fiercely assaulted Northampton 
in three places at once, and forced within their line or palisadoes, and burnt 5 houses and 5 
barns, and killed 4 men and one woman, || and wounded 6 men more; but being beaten off, 
marched towards Hatfield, and were seen in several places about the town in considerable 
companies. I presently sent another Company to strengthen that town. This morning 

♦Mrs. Rowlandson says, "God did not give them courage ojr activity to go over after 
us." She was not well qualified to judge respecting their movements. 

•{■"Capt. Turner, by trade a tailor, for his valor has left behind him an honorable mem- 
ory." — [Letters from a Boston Merchant.] He was a Baptist as was his lieutenant, Ed- 
ward Drinker, and both had suffered persecution. 

JA garrison was thus re-established at Brookfield. They found or prepared a building 
for a garrison house. Provisions for these soldiers were sent from Marlborough on horses. 
One man managed two horses, and troopers guarded the men and horses. Carts were 
sent to Lancaster, but not to Brookfield. 

§Philip treated Mrs. Rowlandson civilly, and asked her to smoke and dine. 

||Those killed were Robert Bartlett, Thomas Holton and Mary Earle of Northampton; 
and James Mackrannel and Increase Whelstone, soldiers. 



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about 2 o'clock we were alarmed again from Northampton which was occasioned by some 
Indians being seen on two sides of the town. The towns both of Springfield and Westfield 
are in very great fear of the enemy as well as those here. I humbly propose to your honors, 
whether this way of following the enemy up and down in the woods will best reach your 
end at this season of the year, in which they have no certain fixed station, but can take 
advantages against us, and avoid us when they please. As near as we can gather, their 
aim is at these towns on the river, to destroy them, that so they may plant and fish with 
less molestation. I have not further to add, but to desire the good Lord to be your all in 
all and to subscribe m.yself. 

Your honors' humble servant, 

THOMAS SAVAGE. 

[Directed to Hon. John Leverett, Governor, with the Council.] 

Hadley, March i6, 1675-6. 
Right Worshipful, 

Although the Lord hath granted us an interval of quietness this winter, yet since the 
coming on of the spring, the war here is renewed. On the 14th inst. the enemy to the num- 
ber of 2000* as judged, made a most sudden and violent irruption upon Northampton, 
broke their works in 3 places, and had in reason taken the whole town, had not Providence 
graciously so ordered it, that Maj. Treat was come in with his men the evening before, 
yet they burnt five houses, and five barns, one within the fortification, slew five persons and 
wounded five. There are said be found slain about a dozen of the enemy.-j- Above Deer- 
field a few miles is the great place of their fishing which must be expected to afford them 
their provisions for the year. We must look to feel their utmost rage. My desire is, we 
may be willing to do or suffer, to live or die, remain in or be driven out from our habita- 
tions, as the Lord our God would have us. Capt. Poole who hath been left here for the 
government of the soldiers, doth earnestly entreat for liberty to repair to his own very 
much sufiFering family, at least for a while. With prayers to the God of all blessing to 
guide and strengthen and carry you through this day of temptation, I am, 

Sr yr worp's most obliged serv't, 

JOHN RUSSELL. 

[The preceding is only a small part of a long letter to Gov. Leverett.] 

In the latter part of February and in IVIarch, small parties of 
Indians did mischief in Connecticut, and in the lower part of 
Hampshire county. They wounded William Hills of East Hart- 
ford, and killed Henry Denslow of Windsor, Edward Elmer of 
East Windsor, and John Kirby, Jr. of Middletown.| On the 
night of the 26th of March, they burnt most of the buildings in 
Simsbury, the people having left them. On the evening of 
IVIarch 30, they burnt the house of Goodman Cole in Wallingford. 

On Sunday, the 26th of March, some of the people of Long- 
meadow, men and women with children, ventured to ride to 
Springfield to attend public worship, in company with several 
colony troopers. There were 16 or 18 men in all, but some had 

*2000 Indian warriors! strange delusion! There may have been 3 or 400. 

•j-The letters from a Boston Merchant intimate that they carried off their dead. Men- 
owniet said the Indians had one killed and four wounded. 

jBancroft's remark, that "not a drop of blood was shed on the happy soil of Connecticut" 
has a few exceptions, and but a few. Besides those slain near Connecticut River, Joseph 
Rockwell and John Reynolds, Jr. of Norwich, were slain January 28, 1676, and a boy 
that had been with them could not be found. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 157 

women behind them, and some had children in their arms, and 
when they were near Pecowsick brook, 7 or 8 Indians in the bushes 
fired upon the hindmost and killed a man and a maid, wounded 
others, and took two women with their babes, and retired into a 
swamp.* Those forward rode some distance towards Springfield, 
set down the women and maids, and then returned, but could 
not find the two women and children. A letter from Major 
Savage, dated at Hadley, March 28, 1676, gives the following 
account of this affair: — 

On the 26th inst. at night, we had advice from Springfield that 8 Indians assaulted i6 
or 1 8 men besides women and children as they were going to meeting from a place they 
call Longmeadow, and killed a man and a maid, wounded z men, and carried away captive, 
2 women and 2 children. In the night, I sent out 1 6 horse in pursuit of them, who met 
with some that were sent from Springfield, and overtook the Indians with the captives, 
who as soon as they saw the English, killed the 2 children and sorely wounded the women 
in the heads with their hatchets, and so ran away into a swamp where they could not follow 
them. The scouts brought back both the women and the children. One of the women 
remains still senseless by reason of her wounds and the other is very sensible and rational. 

The Indians told the women great stories — that there were 
3000 Indians at Deerfield, that two Dutchmen had brought four 
bushels of powder, &c. The conduct of the men in this onset 
was much censured. The Council considered it, "as a matter 
of great shame, humbling to us." Hubbard thought the matter 
had been misrepresented. One of the women recovered. 

About the same time, Pelatiah Morgan was killed on the west 
side of the river, at Springfield. "On the last snowy day" of 
the winter, probably in March, Moses Cook and a garrison soldier 
named Clement Bates, were killed in Westfield. Moses Cook 
was the only inhabitant of Westfield killed during the war. A 
house and two barns were burnt in Westfield in the winter by a 
few Indians. 

Men killed at Hockanum. — About the first of April, some in- 
habitants of Hadley went to Hockanum, to do some work, having 
a guard of soldiers with them. A party of Indians, lying in wait, 
killed Deac. Richard Goodman and two of the soldiers, and took 
Thomas Reed, another soldier.f Mrs. Rowlandson, who was 
then above Northfield, on the east side of the river, says : — "About 

*Six are said to have been slain or mortally wounded. John Keep, his wife Sarah, 
and his infant son Jabez, are three of them. The names of the others are not in the Spring- 
field record. 

j-Hubbard says Deac. Goodman went a little beyond the soldiers, to view his fence, 
and two soldiers ventured upon the top of a high hill near by, and were shot down before 
they could return to the others. Men in those days, climbed Holyoke, to take a view of 
the country. 



158 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

this time, the Indians came yelping from Hadley, having there 
killed three Englishmen, and brought one captive, Thomas 
Reed. They all gathered about the poor man, asking him many 
questions." 

In the spring of 1676, many Indians congregated in the vicin- 
ity of Mount Wachuset, north-w^est of Lancaster, where the 
access to them was said to be difficult, and the obstacles in the 
way of assailants formidable. For these or other reasons, the 
English never attacked their Wachuset holds. On the first of 
April, the Council at Boston directed Major Savage to leave men 
under Capt. Turner to assist the Hampshire towns, and to return 
homewards with the rest. He left Hadley* on the 6th or 7th of 
April, with four companies under Captains Mosely, Whipple, 
and Gillam, and Lieut. Drinker. The Council at Boston had 
desired him, March 20, to visit the Wachuset quarter on his return, 
but when the troops reached Brookfield, a council was held, and 
a majority decided not to attack the Nipmucks about Wachuset. 

Major Savage left with Capt. Turner, 151 men, who were at 
the following places on the 7th of April, viz., at Hadley, 51, North- 
ampton, 46, Hatfield, 45, and 9 had been sent to Springfield. 
There were other soldiers at Springfield and Westfield. Many 
of the men left by Capt. Appleton, in the preceding November 
were still in the Hampshire towns. The Connecticut forces 
returned home two weeks or more before Maj. Savage departed. 
The troops were not sufficient to garrison the towns and go against 
the Indians up the river, and the latter were not molested until the 
19th of May. When the fishing season arrived, they came down 
and established themselves about the falls, above Deerfield; and 
they planted corn at Squakeag, and even at Deerfield, without 
being disturbed. Philip left Connecticut River at or above 
Squakeag, not far from the loth or 12th of April, and arrived at 
Wachuset about the 17th of April. He was in the same company 
with Mrs. Rowlandson, some of the way. He never again came 
to Connecticut River. The river Indians, and some Nipmucks 
and Narragansets remained. 

The Nipmucks and others about Wachuset, issuing thence, 
assaulted many places which were not assailed the preceding 
year. A large number of the Narragansets, who had been pur- 

*Mr. Samuel Nowel, the minister of the army, wrote to Major Gookin from Hadley, 
that a Hadley man, with whom the six Christian Indian guides quartered, allowed them 
pork and peas enough, but made them pay for their bread. Mr. Nowel interfered, and 
bread was allowed. This Hadley man is notTnamed. These Christian Indians, though 
true and faithful, were insulted and abused in some places. All Indians were suspected 
and hated by many. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 159 

sued into the Nipmuck country, turned back, and the colonies 
of Plymouth and Rhode Island felt their fury. The extension 
of the war in February and March, far beyond its limits in 1675, 
the destruction of one town after another, and the difficulty of 
making any successful inroad upon the Indians, made the duties 
of the government and of the council of war extremely arduous 
and embarrassing, and some stout hearts were appalled, for a 
time. 

Plan of deserting three Hampshire towns. — The Council 
formed an injudicious scheme for the protection and security of 
the people in Hampshire. In a letter to Major Savage, March 
20, they urged the necessity of bringing the people of the five 
towns into two places. "The lesser towns, they say, must gather 
to the greater ones."* "Some that know those places best, do 
apprehend that Springfield and Hadley are the fittest places for 
fortifying and planting." "To remain in such a scattered state 
is to expose lives and estates to the merciless cruelty of the enemy." 
They wrote to Major Pynchon the same day, assuring him there 
was no other way but for all Springfield and Westfield to come 
together; "it is impossible to hold both towns." "The like advice 
we have given to the other towns, to come in all to Hadley, and 
fortify it well, and then by united strength, it may be kept, but 
otherwise all will be lost." 

The people of Northampton determined to remain in their 
own town, and boldly meet the dangers which menaced them. 
In a letter to the Council, March 28, they say 

"We dare not entertain any thought of deserting this plantation. The Lord has won- 
derfully appeared of late for our preservation, and we fear it would be displeasing unto 
him, if we should give up into the hands of our enemies, that which the Lord so eminently 
delivered out of their hands. If we should desert a town of such considerable strength, 
it may so animate the enemy, and discourage other plantations, as may prove no small 
prejudice unto the country. Besides there seems to us a great necessity for holding this 
place, for the relief of those forces that may be improved in following the enemy. There 
can be no prosecuting of the war in these parts to advantage, unless this and the two neigh- 
boring towns be maintained." 

They suggest that Springfield is not the most convenient place 
for others to repair to. "The bulk of the town is burnt, most of 
their land lies remote; they are incapable we fear either to main- 
tain themselves or others." If the Council will allow North- 
ampton 50 soldiers, besides those they had, the town will feed 
them and pay their wages. This paper is in the hand-writing of 
Mr. Stoddard, and is signed by Solomon Stoddard, John 

♦They were not apprised that this direction would carry Hadley over to Northampton. 



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Strong, William Clarke, David Wilton, John Lyman and John 
King. 

The people of Westfield were decidedly and resolutely against 
a removal to Springfield, and manifested a disposition to go to 
Connecticut, if they must remove. They believed that Westfield 
was more secure from the Indians than Springfield, and much 
better for husbandry. A few extracts follow from a letter to the 
Council, dated April 3d, written by Rev. Edward Taylor, and 
signed by Isaac Phelps, David Ashley and Josiah Dewey. 

"Springfield on the east side has but few habitations left. Those on the west side are 
scattered about a mile up and down, some of which are hid with brambles. Most of its 
tillage ground is a great distance from the town, and not clear from brush; the danger of 
field employments is double to what ours is. Springfield hath been sorely under the blast- 
ing hand of God; it hath but in a lower degree than ordinary answered the labor of the 
husbandman. — To remove from habitations to none, from fortifications to none, from a 
compact place to a scattered one, from a place of less danger in the field to one of more, 
from a place under the ordinary blessing upon our labors to one usually blasted, seems 
to us such a strange thing that we find not a man amongst us inclining thereto." 

Mr. Russell, for himself and others, corresponded with the 
Council of Connecticut respecting the war, and in regard to 
drawing the three upper towns into one. The Council, April 
27, gave to him many reasons why the Hampshire towns should 
not be deserted; and they wrote the same day to the Governor and 
Council of Massachusetts, giving similar reasons. They con- 
sidered the towns up the river as "the principal granary" of 
Massachusetts.* 

On the 28th of March, the Connecticut Council wrote a letter 
to the Indian sachems up the river, desiring an exchange of cap- 
tives, and informing them that if they wished to treat, a mess- 
enger might come and return safely. A messenger came from 
the sachems with a writing about the first of May, and the Coun- 
cil sent back a writing, offering to give money for English cap- 
tives and proposing a meeting at Hadley within 8 days, to treat 
of peace. No reply was received from the sachems. f 

Extracts of a letter from Capt. William Turner to the Council of Mass., dated Hadley, 
April 25, 1676: 

"The soldiers here are in great distress for want of clothing, both linen and woolen. 
Some has been brought from Quabaug, but not an eighth of what we want. I beseech 
your honors that my wife may have my wages due, to supply the wants of my family. I 
should be glad if some better person might be found for this employment, for my weakness 
of body and often infirmities will hardly suffer me to do my duty as I ought; and it would 

*After AprU, I find nothing written about bringing the towns together — Hatfield was 
doubtless opposed, but no record remains. 

•{■These chiefs were Sucquance, a Narraganset sachem; Wequaquat, a Springfield sachem; 
Sungumachoe, [Sancumachu,] the Hadley and Northampton sachem; and Wanchequit. 
They were at Suckquackheag [Squakeag.] 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 161 

grieve me to neglect any thing that might be for the good of the country in this day of their 
distress.* I have sent Hsts of my soldiers at Boston and at Marlborough, and those left 
in these three towns on the 7th inst.-j- Hoping your honors will send a speedy supply for 
the soldiers, and order something for my family, I shall beg the Lord to be your counsellor 
and guide, and remain your honors' to the utmost of my power. 

WILL. TURNER. 

There is come into Hadley a young man taken from Springfield at the beginning of last 
month, who informs that the enemy is drawing up all their forces towards these towns, 
and their head-quarters are at Deerfield."J 

On the 27th of April, Capt. Samuel Holyoke and a few men 
from Springfield, shot at four Indians near the river. Two died 
in the river as they supposed, and one was taken, who died of his 
wounds. He said the Indians had looo fighting-men up the 
river, and three forts this side of Squakeag. 

A letter dated Hadley, April 29, 1676, to the Governor and 
Council of Mass. written by Rev. John Russell, and signed by 
him, Capt. William Turner and some others of Hadley, North- 
ampton and Hatfield, (probably committees of militia) noticed 
the rising spirit of the people. 

"It is strange to see how much spirit, (more than formerly,) appears in our men to be 
out against the enemy. A great part of the inhabitants here, would our committees of 
militia but permit, would be going forth. They are daily moving for it, and would fain 
have liberty to be going forth this night. The enemy is now come so near us that we count 
we might go forth in the evening and come upon them in the darkness of the same night." 
[The going forth was three weeks later.] 

Extracts of a Letter from Rev. John Russell, to the Secretary and Council of Connecticut. 

Hadley, May 15, 1676. 
Honored Sir, 

Yours of May 5th I received on the 14th. The general visitation by sickness§ which 
you wrote of hath passed unto us also, most of our people being sorely exercised therewith: 
yet hath the Lord hitherto graciously spared lives; and likewise granted abatement of the 
violence of the disease unto most within three or four days after the first paroxysm. On 
Saturday last in the evening came in some of our messengers from Boston, signifying the 
Lord's mercy to us in granting a quiet Election in this troublous time. On the Election 

*Here was a true patriot. Some of the rulers of the country which he served so faith- 
fully, had persecuted and imprisoned him. His wife, Mary Turner, in a petition to the 
Council, for some of his pay, says her husband voluntarily and freely offered himself, and 
was then in the service of the country, with his son and servants. The Council granted 
to her £/}, April 24. William Turner, Jr. was a soldier at Hadley. 

■j-These lists of soldiers sent down by Capt. Turner, are now in the Archives of Mass- 
achusetts. 

jThis young man was John Gilbert, aged 18, son of Thomas Gilbert of Springfield, 
deceased. Mrs. Rowlandson found him above Northfield, sick and turned out into the 
cold. She befriended him and got him to a fire. He escaped from the Indians. 

§Mather says that in April and May, "sore and (doubtless) malignant colds prevailed 
every where." He could not hear of a family in New England that wholly escaped the 
distemper. Many died. 



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day, May 3d, Mr. Hoar brought in Mrs. Rowlandson to Boston.* Mr. Hoar brought 
with him a letter subscribed by Philip, the old queen and sundry Sachems, containing a 
desire of peace, or rather an overture for a cessation, if they might quietly plant at 
Mendon, Groton, Quabaug, &c. on which the court called in the Elders to advise.'j' By 
ship from England our information is that the sufferings of Non-Conformists are increased 
and the aspect of times more threatening than of late years. There hath been an engage- 
ment in the Strait between the French fleet and 40 Dutch ships. The French though 
much exceeding in number were yet much worsted and broken; many ships taken, 6000 
men slain. Peace, so much talked of between the French king and the Emperor with the 
confederates comes to nothing.^ 

This morning about sunrise came into Hatfield one Thomas Reede§ a soldier who was 
taken captive when Deacon Goodman was slain. He relates that they are now planting 
at Deerfield and have been so these three or four days or more — saith further that they 
dwell at the falls on both sides of the river — are a considerable number, yet most of them 
old men and women. He cannot judge that there are on both sides of the river above 60 
or 70 fighting-men. They are secure and scornful, boasting of great things they have done 
and will do. There is Thomas Fames his daughter and child hardly used; one or two 
belonging to Medfield and I think two children belonging to Lancaster. The night before 
last they came down to Hatfield upper meadow, and have driven away many horses and 
cattle, to the number of four score and upwards as they judge. Many of these this man 
saw in Deerfield meadow, and found the bars put up to keep them in. This being the state 
of things, we think the Lord calls us to make some trial what may be done against them 
suddenly, without further delay; and therefore the concurring resolution of men here seems 
to be to go out against them to-morrow at night so as to be with them, the Lord assist- 
ing, before break of day. We need guidance and help from heaven. We humbly beg 
your prayers, advice, and help if it may be. And therewith committing you to the guidance 
and blessing of the most High, Remain 

Your worship's in all humble service, 

JOHN RUSSELL. 

Altho' this man speaks of their number as he judgeth yet they may be many more, for 
we perceive their number varies, and they are going and coming, so that there is no trust 
to his guess. 

Superscription. WILLIAM TURNER. 

"These for the worshipful John Allyn, Esq. JOHN LYMAN. 

Secretary, to be communicated to the Council ISAAC GRAVES, 
at Connecticut." 

The Falls Fight. 

After information was obtained from Thomas Reed, who es- 
caped from the Indians about the middle of May, the men of 
Hampshire and the soldiers abiding with them, determined to 

*Mrs. Rowlandson and the party of Indians with whom she lived, left a "Thicket" 
above Northfield, not far from the 9th or loth of April, and reached Wachuset about the 
17th of April. Mr. Hoar came to ransom her April 30, and she left the Indians May 2. 
Philip seems not to have been a great distance from her when she was in the Thicket; and 
he was in the same company with her when she came in sight of Wachuset. 

■j-Their advice is in Mr. Russell's letter, but is not copied here. 

|News from Europe was disseminated through the country verbally, and by letters, 
before newspapers were printed. In this case it was ssnt from Boston t9 Hadley, and 
from Hadley to Hartford. 

§It is manifest from Reed's account, that the Indians were not very numerous about 
the falls. He appears not to refer to those who were at some distance above and below 
the falls. The Indian story about 1000 fighting-men deserves not a moment's attention. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 163 

assail the Indians at the falls* above Deerfield, with what strength 
they could raise among themselves. This expedition was a vol- 
untary effort of the people and troops residing in these towns. 
About 150 or 160 mounted men from Springfield, Westfield, 
Northampton, Hadley and Hatfield, assembled at Hatfield, May 
18, under Capt. William Turner as commander and Capt. Samuel 
Holyoke of Springfield, and Ensign John Lyman of Northampton. 
Hadley had tw^o sergeants, John Dickinson and Joseph Kellogg. 
Rev. Hope Atherton of Hatfield accompanied the troops. Ben- 
jamin Wait and Experience Hinsdale were guides. Perhaps 
about half were inhabitants of these towns; the others were soldiers 
from eastern towns, stationed in Hampshire. They commenced 
their march from Hatfield to the falls, about twenty miles, in the 
evening of Thursday, the i8thf of May. They crossed Deer- 
field and Green Rivers, and halted a little west of Fall River, 
about half a mile from the Indian camp at the head of the falls, 
and left their horses, under a small guard. They then crossed 
Fall River, climbed up an abrupt hill, and came upon the back of 
the camp, about day-break. 

"They found the Indians all asleep, without having any scouts abroad, so that our sol- 
diers came and put their guns into their wigwams, before the Indians were aware of them, 
and did make a great and notable slaughter among them." "Some got out of the wigwams 
and fought, and killed one of the English; others did enter the river to swim over from the 
English, but many were shot dead in the waters, others wounded were therein drowned, 
many got into canoes to paddle away, but the paddlers being shot, the canoes overset with 
all therein; and the stream being violent and swift near the falls, most that fell overboard 
were carried upon the falls." "Others of them creeping for shelter under the banks of the 
great river, were espied by our men and killed with their swords. Captain Holyoke kill- 
ing five, young and old, with his own hands."J 

The expedition had a calamitous issue. There were Indians 
on the opposite bank of the river, and at Smead's Island, below 
the falls. These crossed the river, and assailed the troops on 
the left and in the rear, after they had mounted their horses and 
begun their march. Capt. Holyoke covered the rear manfully, 
but "an English captive lad, who was found in the wigwams, 
spake as if Philip was coming with a thousand Indians, which 

*These falls, now called Turner's Falls, are about three miles above Greenfield village, 
and are between Gill and Montague. Before a dam was built at the falls, this was one of 
the most favorable fishing stations on the Connecticut. Hoyt, in his Antiquarian 
Researches, describes the falls, and gives a detailed account of the fight at the falls and on 
the return. 

■j-It has generally been represented that they marched on the evening of the 17th of 
May, and fought on the morning of the 1 8th. These dates are erroneous. The town 
records of Northampton and Hatfield both show that the persons from those towns who 
fell, were slain on the 19th of May. The narratives of Rev. Hope Atherton and Jonathan 
Wells indicate that the fighting was on the 19th. 

{Extracts from Mather, a Merchant of Boston, and Hubbard. 



164 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

false report being famed among the soldiers, a panic terror fell 
upon many of them, and they hasted homewards in a confused 
rout."* They separated into several parties, and some of these 
were cut off. Captain Turner had skill and courage, but he was 
enfeebled by sickness, and had not bodily strength to act with 
his accustomed energy. He was shot as he passed through Green 
River, and his body was afterwards found a small distance from 
the river; he had been shot through the thigh and back. Capt. 
Holyoke conducted the retreat of a part of the troops to Hatfield, 
being followed by the Indians to the south end of Deerfield 
Meadow. Thirty-eight of the English were slain,f and all but 
one after they left the falls. A number were wounded. In June, 
scouts found places where they supposed the Indians tortured 
and burnt some of the captured men. 

A few of the men wandered about two or three days. The 
fighting was on Friday. Jonathan Wells, of Hadley, was wounded, 
and after much sufi^ering and several narrow escapes, reached 
Hatfield on Sunday. Rev. Hope Atherton, of Hatfield, after 
roving here and there, and, as he says, "subsisting the space of 
three days and part of another, without ordinary food," came 

*The complaint of Martha Harrison, which was substantiated by testimony before the 
Commissioners of Hadley, June 22, 1676, exhibits some incidents of this disorderly flight. 
Martha Harrison of Hadley, widow, makes complaint against John Belcher of Brain- 
tree, a soldier in Capt. Turner's company, for being the culpable occasion of the death of 
her husband, Isaac Harrison, a wounded man, riding upon his own horse, who fell from 
his horse, being faint, and this John Belcher, who was behind him, rode from him with 
Harrison's horse, though he entreated him not to leave him, but for God's sake to let him 
ride with him. 

Stephen Belden of Hatfield, testified that he, riding behind Jonathan Wells, saw Isaac 
Harrison on the ground rising up, and heard him call to the man on his horse, 3 or 4 rods 
before, to take him up, saying he could ride now; the man rode away, and both Jonathan 
Wells and I called him to go back, and he would not. This was when we were returning 
from the fight at the falls. 

There is no record of Belcher's being punished. — Many had lost their horses. — Mather 
says the soldiers were more numerous than the Indians that pursued them. 

•j-Of those slain, about one-third belonged to the Hampshire towns. The eastern soldiers 
lost more than their proportion. The names of the eastern soldiers that were slain, have 
not been preserved, except those stationed in Northampton, which were recorded there, 
viz., Peter Gerrin, Thomas Roberts, John Langberry, Samuel Ransford, William Howard, 
John Foster, John Whitridge, Jacob Burton, Joseph Fowler, George Bugle (or Buckly,) 
Thomas Lyon and John Walker. James Bennet, an inhabitant of Northampton, and 
John Miller, perhaps an inhabitant, were also slain. Fourteen who went from Northamp- 
ton were slain, besides Capt. Turner whose death is recorded with the others, though he 
resided much of the time in Hadley. [The notice of James Bennet's death, on page 142, 
is an error.] 

Three Hatfield men were killed, viz., Samuel Gillet, John Church, and William Allis, Jr- 

Westfield, though not named as participating in this expedition, had in it two citizens 
and seven garrison soldiers. Of the latter, three were slain, and others wounded. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 165 

into Hadley, on the east side of the river, about noon on 
Monday.* 

Those in the falls-fight belonging to Hadley were Sergt. Joseph 
Kellogg, Sergt. John Dickinson, Samuel Boltwood, Noah Cole- 
man, Nehemiah Dickinson, Isaac Harrison, John Ingram, John 
Smith, Joseph Selden, Joseph Warriner, Thomas Wells, Jr., 
Jonathan Wells, David Hoyt, Samuel Crovv^, Peter Montague, 
and Eliezer Hawks; and Nathaniel SutlifFe from Deerfield. John 
Preston was one of Capt. Turner's soldiers, who went from Had- 
ley; he settled in that town. — Isaac Harrison and Nathaniel 
SutlifFe were slain, and perhaps John Dickinson and Samuel 
Crow.f 

Mr. Russell, so often the scribe for militia officers and others 
in these three towns, wrote to Hartford as soon as the success 
and defeat were known, and desired assistance. The Council of 
War at Hartford on the 20th, ordered 80 men to be sent up to 
Northampton, under Capt. Benjamin Newberry, on Monday, 
May 22d. 

Mr. Russell and some of the militia officers of Northampton 
and Hadley, wrote again to Hartford, May 22d. 

Hadley, May 22, 1676. 
Worshipful Sir, 

Yours from the honored Council we received expressing your kind and tender care and 
love for us, with your preparation of succor and help for us with respect to such exigents 
as may prove distressing. 

Some more of our soldiers have dropped in since our last; one on Saturday, one on Sat- 
urday night, two yesterday and one this morning; and about noon Mr. Atherton came into 
Hadley. So that now the number of those wanting is eight or nine and thirty. Some 
were wandering on the west mountains on Saturday, who were not wounded. Whether 
Providence may yet guide them in or no, we know not; we are not quite without hope of 
some of them. 

As to the number of the enemy slain; many of the soldiers say they guessed them to 
be about four score that lay upon the ground. But sergeant Bardill [Bardwell] saith he 
had time and took it to run them over by tale going from wigwam to wigwam to do it, and 

*Mr. Atherton, in his relation of his sufferings and deliverances, does not tell how he 
crossed the river and got to Hadley. Approaching a party of Indians the second day, he 
says, "I tendered myself a captive. They accepted not the tender. When I spake, they 
answered not. When I moved toward them, they moved away from me." This singular 
conduct of the Indians has been attributed to their superstitious fear of an English minister, 
whom they considered a superior being. Some persons in those days, imagined that Mr. 
Atherton had been partially deranged, and had deceived himself. He did not admit this. 

j-The five towns had in the expedition, exclusive of eastern soldiers, about 75 men, and 
68 of these left posterity that had 68 shares of land in Falltown, in 1736, viz., Springfield, 
21, Northampton, 19, Hadley, 15, Hatfield, 9, Westfield, 2, and 2 had lived in Deerfield. 
A number of the soldiers settled in these towns. Four of the Hampshire men were living 
in 1736, 60 years after they fought under Turner and Holyoke, viz., Nathaniel Alexander 
of Northampton, Samuel Belden of Hatfield, Jonathan Wells of Deerfield, and James Mun 
of Colchester, Conn. Four of the eastern soldiers were also living. 



166 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

also what was between the bank and the water, and found them above an hundred. He 
hath sometimes said six score but stands to it that there were above lOO, 17 being in a wig- 
wam or two a little higher up than the rest. 

Likewise Wm. Drew, a soldier that seems to be of good behavior and credit, seeing two 
or three soldiers standing in a secure place below the bank, more quiet than he thought 
was meet for the time, he asked them why they stood there — saith they answered that they 
had seen many go down the falls and they would endeavor to tell how many. Hereupon 
he observed with them until he told fifty, and they said to him that those made up six score 
and ten. Some of them also were slain in their pursuit of ours where so many of ours fell. 
Hence we cannot but judge that there were above 200 of them slain. 

Our Scouts being out this night have discovered that the enemy abide still in the places 
where they were on both sides of the river and in the Islands, and fires in the same place 
where our men had burnt the wigwams.* So that they judge either that Philip is come to 
them, or some considerable company from Squakeag, Poquiog and other places. Here- 
upon it seems most probable, if not concludable that their purpose is to abide here, at 
least for some space of time, as having the advantage of a place best suited to shift for 
their safety, being on both sides the river, on the Islands, and their fort close by Deerfield 
River, and amidst the desolate places fit for them to skulk in and escape by. Whence we 
would humbly propose it to your consideration, whether Providence doth not offer and 
call to the accepting this opportunity and improving of it speedily before it slip, and whether 
we may not look that the taking of them here, with a smaller help of English and Indians, 
may not be likely to be a greater advantage than greater numbers when they are removed 
hence ? They have planted as is judged 300 acres-]- of choice ground at Deerfield; their 
fish is there not yet fit to carry away and their place such as they can shift almost away 
from our approach. So that we count them likely to abide awhile. 

We are by reason of our fences being all plucked upj exceedingly disadvantaged for 
keeping horses, so that we shall be necessitated either to put them in some meadow two 
or three miles off our towns, or keep them very meanly, or send them home while the riders 
stay. 

Might we receive a few lines from yourself respecting the premises, it would be matter 
of direction for us. We have not further to add but hearty thanks for your care of and 
love to us, together with prayers to God of blessing for his presence with and blessing upon 
you in all your weighty proceeds. We remain. 

Your worship's in all humble service. 
Superscription. JOHN RUSSELL. 

"These for the Worshipful John Allyn, Esq. SAMUEL SMITH. 

Secretary, at his house in Hartford, to be com- DAVID WILTON, 

municated to the Hon'd Council there." AARON COOK. 

Loss of the Indians in the Falls-fight. — The reports that the 
Indians slain and drowned were about 230, or above 200, were 
evidently derived from the counts or guesses of Bardwell§ and 
Drew, and of those referred to by Drew. It can hardly be credited 
that men could have found time during or after the fight, to count 
the dead or drowning Indians. It is not unreasonable, however, 
to suppose that from 130 to 180 Indians, old and young, perished 
at the falls that morning. The extravagant confessions of some 
Indian prisoners swelled the number to 300, and even to 400. 
Other Indians, whose testimony Mather noticed, affirmed that 

*The wigwams above the falls were burnt by the English. They contained many bodies 
of the slain. 

+Probably not one-fourth of 300 acres. 

jThey used the fences that were about the homelots in these towns, to make palisades. 

§Robert Bardwell was one of Capt. Turner's soldiers, who had been in the Narragan- 
set fight. He settled in Hatfield, and was a reputable man. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 167 

many who went down the falls, got safe on shore, and that they 
lost not above 60 men. Menowniet testified at Hartford that 40 
Norwottucks (meaning river Indians) and Quabaugs, and 10 
Narragansets, were slain at the falls. These 50 or 60 Indians 
include only fighting-men. 

If the veil be raised, which partially covers some of the horrors 
of that morning, it will be seen that those wigwams above the falls 
contained men, women and children; that the slaughter was indis- 
criminate, and that many of those carried down the falls were not 
warriors. A great part of those that perished were river Indians, 
who, twelve months before, resided near the Hampshire villages. 

The defeat of the Indians at the falls was one from which they 
never recovered. If they lost only 60 fighting-men, they lost 
more then fell in any action during the war, except in the Narra- 
ganset conflict. 

Capt. Newberry came up to Northampton with about 80 men, 
on the 22d of May. He left three at Westfield, seven of their 
men having been slain or wounded, in the late expedition. In a 
letter of the 24th, from him and John Maudsley, they proposed 
to go up the river, if the council approved. And they further 
propounded, "whether it may not be advantageous to send up 
Samuel Cross and those dogs* he hath, if you see cause to have 
any thing done." 

Attack on Hatfield. — On the 30th of May, the Indians appeared 
at Hatfield, when the men were out in the fields. Their first 
object was obviously to plunder and destroy property without the 
palisades, and one party placed themselves in the meadow near the 
ferry to Hadley, to hinder men from coming over; and later in 
the day, another party lay in ambush by the road to Northamp- 
ton. The crossing of the river from Hadley, and passing through 
the meadow to Hatfield village, was a bold adventure of the Eng- 
lish. The number of Indians may have been 250. — Mr. Russell 
wrote to Hartford the same day, but his letter is lost. An account 
from Mather, and a hasty letter from Capt. Newberry to Secre- 
tary Allyn, follow. 

"The enemy fired about twelve houses and barns without the fortification, killed many 
of their cattle, drove away almost all their sheep, and spread themselves in the meadow 

♦Dogs have been used in many countries to hunt mankind, and sometimes to tear them 
in pieces. The northern parishes of England were required to keep blood-hounds to hunt 
freebooters, in the time of Charles II. Men who run away from slavery in the United 
States, are still hunted with dogs; and some years since, it was proposed by a distinguished 
officer, to purchase blood-hounds to aid the United States troops in the war against the 
Indians in Florida. Massachusetts tried dogs against Indians, in the last century, but there is 
no record that they ever killed or captured an Indian. They are inefficient against armed men. 



168 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

between Hatfield and Hadley, Whereupon twenty-five active and resolute men went from 
Hadley to relieve their distressed brethren. The Indians shot at them ere they could get 
out of the boat, and wounded one of them. Ours nevertheless charged on the enemy, 
and shot down five or six at the first volley near the river. Then they made haste towards 
the town, fighting with a great number of the enemy, many falling before them. And 
though encompassed with a numerous swarm of Indians, who lay in ambush behind al- 
most every tree and place of advantage, yet the English lost not one man, till within about 
an hundred rods of the town, when five of ours were slain; among whom was a precious 
young man whose name was Smith, that place having lost many, in losing that one man. 
It speaketh sadly to the rising generation when such are taken away. After this the enemy 
fled, having lost five and twenty in this fight." 

Northampton, May the 30th, 1676. 
Right worshipful, 

Sir, by post from Hatfield, we received intelligence even now, that the Indians have 
done much spoil; many houses burnt without the fortification. Several men from Hadley 
went over for their relief, of which there are five killed and three wounded. Two of our 
men killed, Johanna Smith and Richard Hall; John Stow wounded in the foot, and Roger 
Orvis is also wounded in the foot. John Smith of Hadley killed and two of their garrison 
soldiers.* There were about 150 Indians that fought them up the meadow, all like to 
be killed or taken but that men issued out from the town for their relief; none slain till 
almost come up to the town. Many more Indians then were at the town doing spoil at 
the same time that our men were fought with. They drew off and ambushed the way 
betwixt Northampton and Hatfield to lay wait for our forces, but fearing it beforehand, 
they [our forces] went not that way but drew over to Hadley — could not get to Hatfield 
by reason they lay so thick about the landing-place.-j- — Many cattle and horses slain and 
taken away. That is the substance of what intelligence we have to impart. The Lord 
sanctify his hand to us for our good, and be present with you in all your weighty concerns 
under hand. Intelligence from Boston you have already. Not else but cordial respects to 
yourself and all relations with you. I take leave, remaining . 

Your humble Serv't, 

BENJAMIN NEWBERRY. 

The Connecticut forces under Major Talcott. — In May, 1676, 
Massachusetts and Connecticut designed an expedition into 
Hampshire county. Their forces were to scour the country, and 
to visit Squakeag, the supposed head-quarters of the Indians. 
Major John Talcott at the head of 250 EngHsh on horses and 200 
Indians on foot from Connecticut, left Norwich on the first or 
second of June, and arrived at Hadley on the 8th. He crossed 
the river to Northampton the same day with part of his forces, 
that being usually the head-quarters of the Connecticut troops. 
They took from Norwich 4000 pounds of bread, 1300 pounds of 



*John Smith of Hadley, so highly praised by Mather, was in the falls-fight a few days 
before. He was a son of Lieut. Samuel Smith, and an ancestor of the Hatfield Smiths. 
The late Oliver Smith of Hatfield, the most wealthy man in Hampshire, was one of his 
descendants. 

Johanna Smith was from Farmington and Richard Hall from Middletown. The names 
of the two colony soldiers killed are unknown. None of the Hatfield people were slain. 

■[•Some of his men did get to Hatfield, or two would not have been slain, and two 
wounded. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 169 

pork, 26 gallons of liquors, and other things.* Capt. Daniel 
Henchman and the Massachusetts troops were delayed, and did 
not arrive at Hadley until the 14th. 

Major Talcott intended to attack the stronghold of the Indians 
near Mount Wachuset, but he received a letter from the Council, 
written May 31st, advising him "not to march to Watchossuck," 
[Wachuset.] This place was deemed formidable by the Council 
of Connecticut. Capt. Henchman was to take Wachuset in his 
way, but he came up in haste, and Wachuset was not assailed. 

The eighth of June, 1676, was a day of much excitement in the 
river towns. An army of 450 men from Connecticut was a novel 
and animating spectacle. The inhabitants of Hadley gazed with 
eagerness upon the 250 mounted men, with their red silk banners, 
and especially upon the 200 Indians, as they marched up the 
street. The men on horses were almost all from the towns upon 
Long Island Sound, under Captains Sellick, Mansfield, and 
Denison. Most of the Hartford county troops were at North- 
ampton under Capt. Newberry. The Indians were Pequots, 
Mohegans, Nianticks, Indians from Hartford county, and some 
from Fairfield. They formed a motley assemblage; their dress 
and arms were various, and their decorations diversified and fan- 
tastic. A collection of 200 friendly Indian warriors, was a sight 
which the inhabitants of these towns never saw before. 

Extracts of ai letter from Major John Talcott, to Dep. Gov. Treat and the Council 
at Hartford. 

Northampton, June 8, 1676, 
at 10 of the clock at night. 
Hon'd Gent'm, 

In pursuance of your orders, past from Norwich to Wabaquasset, at which place 'suppose 
was about 40 acres of corn, and a fort, but none of the enemy to be found; from thence made 
Chanagongum-j' in the NinapJ country, on the 5th of June, and took 51 of the enemy, 
of which 19 slain and one shot and made an escape; and on the 6th instant made towards 
Quabaug and gained it on the 7th day about 12 oYlock; took 2 of the enemy, who were 
laden with as much fish as they could carry, and each of them a gun, their horns full of 
powder, which were taken; we sent 27 women and children to Norwich under conduct of 
some of those we call honest Indians, and the other are come to Hadley with the army. 
By the last that was slain we receive intelligence that there is 500 fighting-men at Pacomtuck. 
This eighth instant we made Hadley with about 200 Indians and 250 English, but the Bay 
forces are not come. I past away from Quabaug a letter to the chief commander of the 
Bay forces, intended for conjunction with us in these parts, and upon advice with those 
of my council of war, judge that it is not prudent to divide our forces and engage the enemy 
on both sides of the river, being too weak, rationally expecting that they will endeavor to 

*Trumbull and others are mistaken in supposing that this was the "hungry march.'" 
That march was in August. 

"j"The name of a pond and Indian village in Dudley, called Chabanakongkomun by 
Gookin. 

{The Nipmuck country was also called Nipnet, Ninep, Ninap, &c. 



170 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

make over to one side and so overpower us, it may be to our ruin and your loss, and judge 
it a bootless undertaking to drive but one side, knowing they will fly (if beaten) over to 
the other side and scornfully reproach us. I have quartered our soldiers and are waiting 
for your further orders. Mr. Fitch, Mr. Bulldey,* Capt. Newberry, Capt. Denison with 
all other of our officers and soldiers are in health, desiring their service to be presented to 
your worships, and do acknowledge the great goodness of God in saving and preserving 
us in the midst of all our difficulties. Gent'm, if you cause any bread to be made for this 
wilderness work, it had need be well dried; great part of our bread is full of blue mold, and 
yet kept dry from wet, and we shall need a barrel of powder at this time and 300 lbs. of 
bullets for carrying on the war here as we judge. We shall endeavor to procure bread here 
for our soldiers not knowing how bread can be conveyed up. Shall not trouble you further. 
Am Hon. Gent. 

Your humble serv't, 

JOHN TALLCOTT. 

Please to send up those sent down for powder and bullets, with all possible speed. Re- 
member flint stones. 

Major Talcott wrote another letter from Northampton, June 
nth. Had sent posts to Capt. Henchman, to hasten the Bay 
forces, and expected their arrival on the 14th at night. "Our 
delays in these parts do so exhaust their provision, that it is feared 
they cannot suit us with bread sufficient for the field." He sent 
down 40 or 45 horses under Lieut. Leffingwell, to bring what 
bread they could from Deac. Moore, a baker in Windsor. 

Attack on Hadley. — On Monday, June 12th, the Indians ap- 
peared at Hadley, ignorant that 450 men had recently arrived in 
these towns. Major Talcott was on the west side of the river, and 
Capt. Swain, who had been sent up to take the place of Capt. 
Turner, had the command in Hadley. The object of the Indians 
seems to have been to plunder and destroy, without the fortifi- 
cation, as at Hatfield. It may be conjectured that a part of them 
designed to cut off those that went down to work in Fort and 
Hockanum meadows in the morning. There may have been 250 
Indians engaged in this enterprise. They were our river Indians 
and other Nipmucks, with some Narragansets. This was their 
last effort in the county of Hampshire in 1676. The power of 
the Indians was fast declining. The following account is from 
Mather. 

"June 1 2, the enemy assaulted Hadley. In the morning, sun an hour high, three soldiers 
going out of the town without their arms, were dissuaded therefrom by a sergeant who stood 
at the gate, but they alledging that they intended not to go far, were suffered to pass; with- 
in a while, the sergeant apprehended that he heard some men running, and looking over 
the fortification, he saw twenty Indians pursuing those three men, who were so terrified 
that they could not cry out; two of them were at last killed, and the other so mortally wound- 
ed that he lived not above two or three days; wherefore the sergeant gave the alarm. God 
in great mercy to these western plantations, had so ordered by his providence, that Connecti- 
cut army was come thither, before this onset from the enemy. Besides English, there were 

*Rev. James Fitch of Norwich was the minister, and Rev. Gershom Bulkley, of Weth- 
ersfield, the surgeon of the expedition. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 171 

near upon two hundred Indians in Hadley, who came to fight with and for the English, 
against the common enemy, who was quickly driven off at the south end of the town. Whilst 
our men were pursuing of them here, on a sudden a great swarm of Indians issued out of 
the bushes and made their main assault at the north end of the town; they fired a barn 
which was without the fortification, and went into a house, where the inhabitants discharged 
a great gun* upon them, whereupon about fifty Indians were seen running out of the house 
in great haste, being terribly frighted with the report and slaughter made amongst them 
by the great gun. Ours followed the enemy, (whom they judged to be about five hundred, 
and by Indian report since, it seems they were seven hundred-j-) near upon two miles, and 
would fain have pursued them further, but they had no order so to do. But few of ours 
lost their lives in this skirmish, nor is it yet known how many the enemy lost in this fight. 
The English could find but three dead Indians, yet some of them who have been taken 
captive, confess that they had thirty men killed this day. And since we have been informed 
by Indians, that while the Indian men were thus fighting against Hadley, the Mohawks 
came upon their head-quarters, and smote their women and children, with a great slaughter, 
and then returned with much plunder."!j; 

Expedition up the river. — Capt. Henchman arrived at Hadley 
w^ith the Massachusetts troops, and a company of Christian 
Indians, on the 14th of June. On Friday, the i6th, the forces 
moved up the river, Capt. Henchman on the east side, and Major 
Talcott on the west side. There was a severe thunder shower 
that day, but they reached the falls, where they found no Indians. 
There was a north-east rain-storm all the next day, and the night 
succeeding, which damaged their arms, ammunition and provis- 
ions, and they returned to the towns on Sunday, the i8th. They 
sent up scouts, on the east side of the river, as high as Squakeag, 
who could not discover the enemy. The soldiers ranging on the 
west side, above Deerfield, found the body of Capt. Turner, and 
conjectured that they found places where some of the English 
had been tortured to death by burning. 

On the 28th of June, about 30 men went up towards the falls, 
and espied no Indians. They burnt a hundred wigwams upon 
an island, ruined an Indian fort, spoiled an abundance of fish 
which they found in Indian barns under ground, and destroyed 
30 canoes. Some of the Indians had gone eastward, and others 
might have gone up the river to their Coasset. They were dis- 
tressed and scattered. 

Major Talcott and the Connecticut forces returned to that col- 
ony, June 20th, and a fortnight after, they were killing and cap- 
turing Indians in the colony of Rhode Island. 

*It is not known when and where Hadley obtained this "great gun," which was only 
a small cannon. Lt. Walter Filer of Windsor, in a letter written in October, 1675, re- 
marks that "if the great gun at Springfield had been but mounted into Mr. Glover's cham- 
ber, it would have put the 100 Indians to rout at the top of the hill," &c. This Springfield 
cannon is not noticed by others. 

•j-In this as in other instances, the wild conjectures of the English, were less extravagant 
than the reports of the Indians. There were not at that time seven hundred hostile Indian 
warriors in Massachusetts. 

jTlie reports of the Mohawks attacking our Indians, were false. 



172 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Capt. Henchman left Hadley the latter part of June, and he 
killed or took 84 Indians in coming up and returning. 

Before Major Talcott and Capt. Henchman left Hampshire, 
there were near 900 soldiers in the county, viz., about 530 from 
Connecticut, including Indians; and between 350 and 400 from 
the eastern towns in Massachusetts. Only the garrison soldiers 
under Capt. Swain remained. 

Wheat Harvest in Hadley. — The people were apprehensive 
that the Indians might return during the wheat harvest, and on 
the nth of July, Mr. Russell, in behalf of the people, wrote to 
Secretary Allyn at Hartford, and requested a guard of thirty 
men, while they gathered the harvest from their out-fields. Mr. 
Allyn replied on the 14th, that they could not send men to Hadley, 
as their army was to march on the 17th, and their harvest had 
just come. He thought the Indians were brought low, and would 
be lower every day. 

On the 1 8th of July, the people of Hadley adopted the following 
regulations in regard to their harvest. 

"Ordered, that during the time of cutting and inning of corn* and grass, in Hockanum and 
Fort Meadow, there shall not be less than the whole number of garrison soldiers, and two 
out of each squadron, or eight inhabitants, left to secure the town as a garrison every day; 
the ordering of the garrison aforesaid to be under the inspection of the captain of the garrison 
soldiers and Lieut. Smith. Ordered that not less than forty nor more than fifty men, pre- 
sume to go to labor in Hockanum or Fort Meadow as to harvest-work; and this number 
they shall dispose of in the best manner for their security and safety; and on those days 
when such a part are working, either in Hockanum or Fort Meadow, no person shall then 
be working in the Great Meadow, but the rest are to abide in the town as a security under 
penalty of three shillings. Tomorrow, July 19th, shall be the day for going to Hockanum, 
the 20th into the Great Meadow, the 21st into Hockanum, and so the week following." 

The meadows north of Hadley village, on account of their ex- 
posure to the enemy, were not cultivated in 1676; and the North 
Meadow in Hatfield seems not to have been used in tillage. 

Flight of Indians to Hudson's River. — In July, the Indians were 
in a disunited and depressed state. They suffered from famine 
and disease, and were hunted from place to place. Some were 
taken and others gave themselves up; most of these were women 
and children. Some fled to distant places. About the 19th of 
July, a party passed through Westfield, in their flight to Hudson's 
River. They seized some horses and cattle, and plucked up 
corn-stalks to suck for refreshment. 

Another party crossed the Connecticut between Hadley and 
Springfield on Friday, the nth of August, and passed near West- 
field the next day. Major Talcott pursued them. Major Pyn- 

*The corn was wheat. After making an allowance for the difference in style, it will 
be found that the wheat harvest at Hadley began near the end of July, and at Hartford, a 
few days sooner, in 1676. 



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chon gives an account of these things in a letter to the governor 
of Massachusetts. Extracts foUow^. 

Springfield, Aug. 15, 1676. 

The body of the Indians is drawn off towards Albany, where they are harbored under the 
government of Andros. We shall be in danger of being continually disturbed, if he harbors 
the enemy. Last Saturday, August 12th, near 200 Indians were discovered within three 
or four miles of Westfield. The people and soldiers then went out and made several shots 
on them and took a horse from them, but finding them so many, they sent word to me. I 
presently gave order for thirty to march thither, but they came too late; and then also Major 
Talcott's army came in (who has, they say, cut down all the Indian corn about Quabaug, 
&c.) They pursued them on Sabbath about noon, a day after the Indians were gone, and 
provisions not being ready at Westfield, they hastened somewhat short of provisions, and I 
doubt they will not overtake them till they come to Aussotinnoag.* 

While I am writing, news comes that Major Talcott's army are most of them returned ; 
only himself and 60 men and as many Indians have gone on. Finding his want of victuals, 
Maj. Talcott sent back most of his men, taking all their victuals, and discharging himself 
of his horses. An old Indian, whom he took, told him the Indians intended to rest at Ous- 
sotinoag, and that they had between 50 and 60 fighting-men, and 100 women, besides chil- 
dren. He hopes to get up with them and do some execution, which the Lord in mercy 
grant. We find by our scouts that this parcel of Indians went over the great river on rafts 
at the foot of the great falls, between us and Hadley, and their track comes from the Nip- 
muck country. The scouts found where they lay, within seven miles of our town, having 
about 25 fires. 

My respects to your good lady and all the magistrates. 

JOHN PYNCHON. 

According to Hubbard, Major Talcott overtook the Indians at 
Ausotunnoog River, and fought with them, kiUing and taking 45, 
of whom 25 were fighting-men, with the loss of only one, a Mohe- 
gan Indian. The Council of Connecticut, in a letter to Gov. 
Andros, dated Aug. 19, say theirs slew 40 and took 15 cap- 
tives. This engagement was on Tuesday morning, Aug. 15th, 
and is supposed to have taken place in or near the present town- 
ship of Sheffield. Major Talcott was not stationed at Westfield, 
as intimated by Trumbull, but had recently come from the east.f 

Major Pynchon advised Capt. Swain to send out soldiers and 
cut down the corn at Squakeag, and the work was done before 
the 15th of August,— and no Indians seen. He had also sent 30 

*The name of the Housatonnuc was so spelled by John Pynchon. It was written by 
some Housetunack, and Ousatunick, in 1676. 

•j-The third expedition of Major Talcott and his army is not mentioned by historians, 
except a slight notice by Capt. Church. They marched from New London, after the 20th 
of July, and crossed the Narraganset country into the colony of Plymouth. On the 31st of 
July, Massachusetts ordered bread, bacon, cheese, spirits, wine and tobacco, to be sent to 
Taunton, for Major Talcott's forces. As Major Talcott was returning, he was apprised of 
the fleeing of the Indians and pursued them. Old Col. Wadsworth of Durham informed 
Pres. Stiles that this was the hungry march; he had a manuscript history of it. The proc- 
lamation of Connecticut of Aug. 19th, appointing Aug. 30th as a day of Thanksgiving, 
noticed "the goodness of God to us in the great preservation he hath mercifully granted our 
men, in their last, long, and tedious march through the wilderness," &c. This was the 
" long and hungry march," — from near Taunton River to the Housatonnuc. 



174 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

men to Paquayag upon Miller's River, to cut down the corn there. 
On the 22d, the soldiers finished cutting down the corn at Deer- 
field; they saw six Indians near Deerfield River. Capt. Swain 
had orders to march homewards, and intended to go on the last 
day of August, but a part of the men remained a few days longer.* 
The soldiers had been in service many months; some were left 
by Capt. Appleton in November, 1675, and others came up with 
Capt. Turner in March, 1676. Some had formed attachments 
here, and became permanent residents. 

Philip was slain on the 12th of August, 1676, at Mount Hope, 
by an Indian of his own nation. The hostile Indians had fled, 
or submitted, and the war appeared to be terminated, except in 
Maine. The people of Hampshire were afraid that those fugi- 
tives who had been received by the Hudson's River Indians, 
would make inroads upon their towns; and requests were made to 
Gov. Andros to deliver up some of the chiefs. He, not improp- 
erly, refused to do this. In April, 1677, the names of the prin- 
cipal men, supposed to be in New York, were sent to Gov. Andros, 
viz., Wequogan, Awassamaug, Pumanequin, Negonump, Ape- 
quanas alias John Sagamore, and Cochapesen. The first and 
the last were Springfield Indians. Gov. Andros said some of the 
Indians had "fled to Canada, some to the Senecas, and most 
other nations have got some." Our Norwottuck chief Sancum- 
achu, was not named. 

King Philip. — He was the terror of New England for fourteen 
months. Schemes were attributed to him which he did not con- 
trive, and deeds which he did not perform; and he was charged 
with the atrocities and cruelties of others. He was not in the 
attacks upon the Hampshire villages in 1676; he was not con- 
cerned in the slaughters and desolations at Lancaster, Medfield, 
Plymouth, Groton, Warwick, Marlborough, Rehoboth, Provi- 
dence, Chelmsford, and other places which might be named. But 
Philip was a savage and doubtless rejoiced in the havoc and blood- 
shed made by the fierce and furious Nipmucks and Narragan- 
sets.f Philip had but few followers and obeyers. He is said to 
have quarrelled with the Nipmucks at Wachuset. 

The Mohawks. — In 1676, various delusive reports were circu- 
lated in New England, relating to what the Mohawks had done or 

*On the 1 8th of August, the Connecticut captains were ordered to march to their respec- 
tive counties and disband their companies. The war was considered at an end. 

■[■The story published in some histories, that when Philip was near Albany, he killed 
some scattered Mohawks, and reported that the English had done it, in order to breed a 
quarrel between the English and Mohawks, does not deserve the least credit. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 175 

would do, against the hostile Indians, and they are found in the 
letters and histories of that day. Some of these came from New 
York and Albany, and from Gov. Andros himself, and some were 
derived from the "confessions" of Indian captives. No reliance 
can be placed on these reports and hearsays. There is no evi- 
dence that the Mohawks came into New England and killed any 
hostile Indians. The Council of Connecticut wrote to Gov. 
Andros, Aug. 31, that they were in the dark, as to the Mohawks 
pursuing and destroying our Indians; they knew not what ser- 
vices the Mohawks had done. (See page 123.) Possibly they 
had cut off a few stragglers. 

Hatfield attacked in 1677. 

On the 19th of September, 1677, a year after the war was appar- 
ently closed, some Indians made an unexpected and destructive 
inroad upon Hatfield. About eleven o'clock in the forenoon, 
when a greater part of the men were dispersed in the meadows, 
and others were employed upon the frame of a house without the 
palisades, a party of Indians suddenly assaulted the latter, and 
shot down three men, and proceeding to other buildings, killed 
nine more persons, wounded four others, took seventeen captives, 
and burnt seven buildings. This was a more calamitous assault 
than had been made upon any town in Hampshire during the 
two preceding years. All the persons killed, wounded and taken 
were women and children except five. All these women and 
children lived in the northern part of the village, and probably 
without the palisade.* 

The Indians proceeded with their captives to Deerfield the 
same day, where a few people were preparing to rebuild their 
houses; of these they killed one and captured four.f They 
resumed their march up the Connecticut with twenty-one cap- 
tives, the next morning, and they stopped on the east side of the 
river, about thirty miles above Northfield,t where they built a 
long wigwam, and remained about three weeks. 

They were pursued as far as Northfield, but not overtaken. 
To aid in the pursuit, Connecticut sent up Capt. Thomas Watts 
with 50 men. Had they come upon the Indians, the prisoners 
would have been in danger of the tomahawk. 

*Gookin says the buildings burnt stood without the line. 

•j-One of these Deerfield captives was Quintin Stockwell, and in 1684, Rev. Increase 
Mather published a Narrative of his Captivity, from his own words. 

jThis distance is Stockwell's guess. Their stopping-place may have been 15 or lo miles 
above Northfield. 



176 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

During the three weeks' stay of the Indians above Northfield, 
some of them proceeded to Wachuset, and brought back with 
them about eighty women and children. Benoni Stebbins, who 
was taken at Deerfield, going with them towards Wachuset, 
escaped, and returned to his friends. Others of these Indians 
came down and there was a parley* between them and the Eng- 
lish, and it was agreed to meet again on the Sabbath, Oct. 14th, 
to make a treaty for the redemption of the captives. Hadley, 
Hatfield and Northampton sent down to Hartford for assistance 
in case of an attack, and for a suitable person to advise. The 
General Court of Connecticut, on the nth, sent up Major Treat 
with 40 men to give assistance if needed. The endeavors of 
these towns and of Connecticut, to ransom the prisoners, were 
frustrated, and the Indians did not attend the meeting on the 
14th. 

Benoni Stebbins reported that the Indians who had been at 
Hatfield were about twenty-seven, including four women, and 
that they were of the old enemy, formerly neighbors, who had 
fled to Canada. Stockwell calls a part of them Wachuset Indians. 

The Hadley mill which had been preserved by a small garrison 
in 1675 and 1676, was burnt by Indians in October, 1677. The 
Hadley record does not note the day. 

Sometime in October, the captors and the captives again moved 
up the river. They crossed the country to Lake Champlain, and 
after some delays, arrived in Canada in winter weather. These 
sufferers from Hatfield and Deerfield, were the first that were 
ever forced to leave their homes in New England, and travel 
through the dreary wilderness, to Canada. Hundreds were after- 
wards compelled to do the same. 

The persons killed, taken and wounded, at Hatfield, Sept. 19, 1677, were as follows: — 

Killed. — Sergt. Isaac Graves and his brother, John Graves; John Atchisson; John 
Cooper of Springfield, aged 18; Elizabeth, wife of Philip Russell and her son Stephen, aged 
3 years; Hannah, wife of John Coleman, and her babe Bethiah; Sarah, wife of Samuel 
Kellogg, and her babe Joseph; Mary, wife of Samuel Belding; Elizabeth Wells, aged two 
years, daughter of John Wells; in all, 12. 

Taken. — Sarah Coleman, aged four years, and another child of John Coleman; Martha, 
wife of Benjamin Wait, and her 3 daughters, Mary, aged 6, Martha, 4, and Sarah, 2; 
Mary, wife of Samuel Foote, and a young son, and daughter Mary, aged 3; Hannah, wife 
of Stephen Jennings, and two of his children by a previous wife; Obadiah Dickinson and 
one child; Samuel, son of Samuel Kellogg, aged 8; Abigail, daughter of John Allis, aged 6; 
Abigail, daughter of William Bartholomew, who lived at Deerfield before the war; in all, 17. 

Wounded. — A child of John Coleman; wife and daughter of John Wells; wife of Oba- 
diah Dickinson. 

♦Hubbard reports that the Indians attempted to take Hadley mUl, and missing their end, 
pretended a kind of parley. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 177 

Buildings burnt. — John Coleman's barn; John AlHs's barn; Obadiah Dickinson's house; 
Benjamin Wait's house and barn; Samuel Kellogg's house and barn. 

At Deerfield. — John Root was taken and then killed; and Sergt. John Plympton, senior, 
Quintin Stockwell, Benoni Stebbins, and Samuel, son of Philip Russell, aged 8 or 9, were 
taken. 

At both places, there were 13 killed and 21 taken. After the escape of Benoni Stebbins, 
the captives were 20. Of these, three were slain in Canada, viz., Sergt. Plympton, Samuel 
Russell, and Mary, daughter of Samuel Foote. Seventeen returned to their friends, with 
an addition of two babes born in Canada. 

The Canada babes.— The two babes born in Canada were females; one was a daughter 
of Benjamin Wait, born January 22, 1678; the other a daughter of Stephen Jennings, born 
March 14, 1678. To commemorate the captivity in Canada, Wait's child was named Can- 
ada, and Jennings' child. Captivity, and these names they ever retained. Canada Wait 
married Joseph Smith, son of the John Smith of Hadley, who was slain in Hatfield meadow, 
May 30, 1676; she was the grandmother of the late Oliver Smith and his five brothers. 
Stephen Jennings removed to Brookfield, and his daughter, Captivity, married Abijah 
Bartlett of that town. 

Benjamin Wait and Stephen Jennings, men of energy and 
perseverance, undertook to redeem their wives and children, and 
the other captives. They obtained a commission from the gov- 
ernment of Massachusetts, and set out from Hatfield on the 24th 
of October, and went by way of Westfield to Albany. The ruling 
men frowned upon their enterprise, and after they had proceeded 
to Schenectady, brought them back by force to Albany, and sent 
them down to New York to Gov. Andros, under pretence of 
some new order from him. Capt. Brockhurst interceded for 
them, and they were sent back with a pass, and arrived at Albany, 
Nov. 19. Here they again met with discouragements, and were 
obliged to hire a Mohawk Indian to conduct them to Lake George. 
This savage was more humane and friendly than the governing 
men in the colony. The lake being open, he fitted up for them a 
canoe, about Dec. 16, and drew for them a draught of the lakes 
they were to pass.* They went down Lake George, and carried 
their canoe two miles upon their backs, to Lake Champlain, 
where they were hindered by ice and head-winds many days, and 
reached Chamblee on the 6th of January, 1678. At Sorell and 
the vicinity, they found the captives. They went down to Que- 
bec, where they were civilly entertained by the French governor, 
who granted them a guard of eleven persons towards Albany. 
They left Quebec on the 19th of April, and Sorell on the 2d of 
May, having redeemed all the captives. The French had been 
kind to them. They arrived at Albany, on Wednesday, the 22d 
of May. 



*They were ignorant of the country, being the first New England men that ever passed 
down Lakes George and Champlain to Canada. 



178 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

From Albany, a messenger was sent to Hatfield with the follow- 
ing letters, written by two plain men. They are natural and 
unstudied, and coming from the heart, must have reached the 
hearts of others, especially Wait's. 

Albany, May 22, 1678. 
Loving wife, 

Having now opportunity to remember my kind love to thee and our child, and the rest 
of our friends, though we met with great afflictions and trouble since I see thee last, yet here 
is now opportunity of joy and thanksgiving to God, that we are now pretty well, and in a 
hopeful way to see the faces of one another, before we take our final farewell of this 
present world. Likewise God hath raised up friends amongst our enemies, and there is 
but three of us dead of all those that were taken away — Sergeant Plympton, Samuel 
Russel, Samuel Foot's daughter. So I conclude being in haste, and rest your most 
affectionate husband, till death makes a separation. 

QUINTIN STOCKWELL. 

Albany, May 23, 1678. 
To my loving friends and kindred at Hatfield, 

These few lines are to let you understand that we are arrived at Albany now with the 
captives, and we now stand in need of assistance, for my charges is very great and heavy; 
and therefore any that have any love to our condition, let it move them to come and help 
us in this strait. Three of the captives are murdered, — old Goodman Plympton, Samuel 
Foot's daughter, Samuel Russell. All the rest are alive and well and now at Albany, namely, 
Obadiah Dickinson and his child, Mary Foot and her child, Hannah Jennings and 3 chil- 
dren, Abigail Allis, Abigail Bartholomew, Goodman Coleman's children. Samuel Kellogg, 
my wife and 4 children, and Quintin Stockwell. I pray you hasten the matter, for it requireth 
great haste. Stay not for the Sabbath, nor shoeing of horses. We shall endeavor to meet 
you at Canterhook [Kinderhook;] it may be at Housatonock. We must come very softly 
because of our wives and children. I pray you, hasten them, stay not night nor day, for 
the matter requireth haste, Bring provisions with you for us. 

Your loving kinsman, 

BENJAMIN WAITE. 

At Albany, written from mine own hand. As I have been affected to yours all that were 
fatherless, be affected to me now, and hasten the matter and stay not, and ease me of my 
charges. You shall not need to be afraid of any enemies. 

They remained in Albany five days, and on Monday, May 27, 
walked twenty-two miles to Kinderhook, where they met men and 
horses from Hatfield. They rode through the woods to Westfield, 
and soon all reached Hatfield in safety. The captives had been 
absent eight months, and Wait and Jennings, seven months. 
The day of their arrival was one of the most joyful days that 
Hatfield ever knew. The ransom of the captives cost above 
two hundred pounds, which was gathered by contribution among 
the English. 

Copies of the letters of Stockwell and Wait were carried to 
Medfield, on the 29th of May, and Rev. John Wilson, of that 
place, immediately sent them to the governor and council at 
Boston, who had previously appointed the 6th of June, as a day 
of fasting and humiliation. After receiving these letters, they 
issued an additional notice to the public. May 30th: — 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 179 

"Knowing that the labor, hazard and charge of said Benjamin Wait and his associate 
have been great, we recommend their case with the captives for relief, to the pious charity 
of the elders, ministers and congregations of the several towns; that on the fast day, they 
manifest their charity by contributing to the relief of said persons. And the ministers are 
desired to stir up the people thereunto. For quickening this work, we do hereby remit a 
copy of Benjamin Wait's letter,* to be read publicldy either before or upon that day; and 
what is freely given, is to be remitted to Mr. Anthony Stoddard, Mr. John Joylifl and Mr. 
John Richards, or either of them, who are appointed to deliver and distribute the same for 
the ends aforesaid." Signed by Edward Rawson, Secretary. 



CHAPTER XVI 

Fears on account of the attack upon Hatfield — Hadley fortifications — Number of persons 
slain in Hampshire — Buildings burnt— Benevolence — Cost of the war — Head-quarters 
at Mr. Russell's — War taxes in Hampshire — Colony expenses in Hampshire — Soldiers' 
wages — Flint locks and match locks — Praying Indians — Noises in the air — Garrison at 
Quabaug — Posts — Hadley Mill, the parley, &c. — Surgeon — Ferry-men and others — 
Scenes in Hadley. 

The sudden and unlocked for onset upon Hatfield excited 
much apprehension. It was feared that other parties of Indians 
would fall upon the frontier towns. A few soldiers were stationed 
at Hatfield for a year after Sept. 1677, ^^^ some at Hadley for 
six months in 1678. The fortifications about the Hampshire 
towns were repaired or rebuilt, and kept in order several years, 
and men went to their labors and to public worship, with their 
arms in their hands. In Oct. 1677, the General Court ordered 
that the Hampshire towns should endeavor to new model the 
situation of their houses, so as to be more compact, and men 
from the five towns were appointed a committee, to regulate the 
same. They were not able to effect much, except at Westfield. 

Hadley Fortifications, &c. — In Feb. 1677, the town voted to 
fortify the meeting-house; the selectmen were to call out men 
and teams for the work. They also voted that every male inhab- 
itant above 16 years of age, should bring arms and ammunition 
to meeting on Lord's days and at Lectures, or forfeit a shilling for 
every neglect. 

The meeting-house appears to have been surrounded with a 
palisade. One object of this was to provide a place of refuge, to 
which the women and children could flee, and which the men 
could defend. Men carried arms to meeting because it was im- 

*When Benjamin Wait wrote this letter to the people of Hatfield, he little thought that 
it would be read in all the pulpits of Massachusetts. 



180 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

portant that they should be near their arms, in case of an attack 
upon any part of the village. They undoubtedly carried arms 
to the meeting-house in 1675 and 1676. 

Hadley repaired the east fortifications in 1677. In Jan. 1678, 
the town voted not to include the five houses at the north end, 
but would give to the owners land to build upon within the pali- 
sade. On the lOth of December, 1678, they voted to build a new 
fortification on the east side; the stuff to be ten feet in length and 
three inches thick, set two feet into the ground; and if rails were 
used, they were to be substantial. The west fortification was to 
be repaired. Every man was to make his proportion of the pali- 
sade according to the town list of estates. Men made their pro- 
portion on their own land, where it could be done. In April, 
1684, the town voted to keep up the fortification on the east side. 
The east palisade extended from Nathaniel Dickinson's lot on 
the south, to William Partrigg's lot on the north, and included 
the buildings on those lots. (See page 24.) The length was not 
far from a mile. The only gate on that side was one in the middle 
highway. Each squadron built a watch-house in 1678 or 1679. 

Persons slain at different places in Hampshire county, in 1676 and 1677, including 3 
killed in Canada. 

1676. 
March. In the expedition of Majors Sav- 
age and Treat, towards Millers' River, 
At Westfield, "on the last snowy day," 
March 14. At Northampton, 
March 26 and 27. Below Springfield, 
In West Springfield, 
April 1st or 2d. In Hadley, near Mount 

Holyoke, 
May 19. In and after the Falls fight, 3 
May 30. At Hatfield, 
June 12. At Hadley, 

— More than 80 of these belonged to the 
64 county. 

Buildings burnt. — The number of dwelling-houses burnt in 
Hampshire was not less than one hundred and ten, but many of 
them were small, cheap buildings. The number of barns burnt was 
less. The houses consumed in the three towns destroyed. Brook- 
field, Northfield and Deerfield, may be estimated at 45; Spring- 
field, 33, Westfield, 3, Northampton, 10, Hatfield, 16,* Hadley, 
none, Suffield, some, and Swampfield,t a few. Of the five 

*Hatfield said in a petition, April, 1678, that they had lost from one-third to one-half of 
their dwelling-houses, the greater part of their kine, sheep and horses, and many barns. 

•j-The deputies of the General Court, in May, i68o, say that, "of ten towns in Hampshire, 
five are wholly dissipated." They include Swampfield or Sunderland in the ten towns. 
There must have been a few buildings there in 1675, before the war. 



I 


1677. 
Sept. 19. At Hatfield, 
" " At Deerfield, 


12 
I 


2 


In Canada, 


3 


5 
6 




16 


I 

3 
18 


Slain in three years. 
In 1675, 
In 1676, 
In 1677, 


145 
64 
16 


5 
3 


Total, 


225 



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towns remaining, Hatfield, in proportion to her population, 
suffered the greatest loss of life and property. The loss of prop- 
erty by Springfield village, separate from the town, was greater. 
Hadley lost the least property, and Westfield the fewest lives. It 
is not known that Hadley had a single dwelling-house burnt. 

Boston and other places in Massachusetts often made generous 
contributions for suffering families, and for the redemption of 
captives. The people of the river towns were kind towards the 
sufferers among them. Connecticut contributed liberally for the 
relief of other colonies in 1676 and 1677. The contribution of 
Windsor in 1676 was equal to 170 bushels of Indian corn. Con- 
necticut relieved some in Hampshire. — There was much com- 
passion and benevolence in New England. 

Cost of the War. — The disbursements in this war, according to 
the records of the commissioners at Hartford, in Sept. 1678, were 
as follows: — 

Massachusetts, .... ;^46,292 
Connecticut, .... 23,173 

Plymouth, .... ^^,74-3 



;^8l,208 



Massachusetts had expended 6 or 7000 pounds on the war in 
Maine. Exclusive of this, each colony had disbursed not far 
from its share. Connecticut refused to aid in defending Maine, 
as it did not belong to Massachusetts when the confederation was 
formed. Plymouth paid lOOO;^ for the eastern war. The ex- 
penses of war were to be borne by the colonies in this proportion : — 
Massachusetts, 100, Connecticut, 60, Plymouth, 30. The prop- 
erty destroyed by the Indians, and many expenses of towns, are 
not embraced in the 81,000 pounds. Bancroft's statement that 
"the disbursements and losses equalled half a million of dollars," 
seems not excessive, f 

Head-quarters in Hadley. — During the war, the head-quarters 
were at the house of Rev. John Russell, and he entertained the 

•j-Trumbull has a statement that about 600 inhabitants of New England were slain in 
this war, 12 or 13 towns entirely destroyed, and about 600 buildings burnt. In a note, he 
expresses an opinion that the loss was much greater. Secretary Rawson of Mass. wrote, 
Jan. 4, 1677 — "By sending to our several towns, we find 660 families, consisting of 2265 
persons, in distress, and yet want returns from 13 towns." 

Connecticut lost and suffered much less than other parts of New England. She had no 
enemies within her borders, except a few stragglers from other colonies. Her own Indians 
were helpers and not foes. She performed her duty honorably as one of the New England 
confederacy. 



182 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

principal officers.* Two requests or petitions for pay, in Sep- 
tember and October, 1677, were signed by his friends, and one of 
them by his wife Rebecca Russell, but not by him. The whole 
sum charged was then ;^78.i3.8. They say that the "chief 
gentlemen improved in the affairs of the war were entertained 
there, which called for provisions answerable, and was of the best 
to be had."f He had "to draw divers barrels of beer, and much 
wine, and fruit suitable to the company; and had no more credit 
for such company by the week or meal than other men for ordinary 
entertainment." "The great cumber, trouble and burden upon 
his wife," are noticed. — The account was paid. 

War Taxes in Hampshire. — A country rate was one penny on 
every pound of estate in the lists, and is. 8d. on each poll. In 
1675, there were 10 country rates ordered; in 1676, 16 rates; in 
1677, 9 rates, making 35 country rates laid in three years. A 
few of them were for ordinary expenses. A single country rate 
on the five Hampshire towns, in October, 1675, was as follows: — 
Springfield, ;^26.5.5, Northampton, ;^22.2.io, Hadley, ;^i8.io.9, 
Westfield, ;^ii.i6.o, Hatfield, ;^8.i2.o. Each rate was the same 
in 1676, and apparently nearly the same in 1667, but there were 
some abatements for losses in war. The Hadley country rates 
in three years were 35 times ;^i8.io.9, or about 648 pounds, in 
country pay. The taxes were equally heavy in all parts of the 
colony. 

Colony expenses in Hampshire. — The Hampshire towns, espec- 
ially the upper ones, fed so many troops and horses, and furnished 
so many other things for the army, that they had very heavy 
charges against the colony, and their taxes were paid in this way. 
Hatfield was allowed ;^788 until May ist, 1676, Northampton, 
6g'j£, and Hadley much more than either; and there were large 
disbursements by these towns for the colony after May i, 1676, 
amounting to about 8oO;^ in Hadley and Hatfield. In October, 
1680, the sum still due to Hadley was ^^900, to Hatfield, ;^400, 

*The two judges, Whalley and Goffe, were undoubtedly at Peter Tilton's and Lieut. 
Samuel Smith's during the war. They could not have been concealed at Mr, Russell's. 

•j-Men in ofBce, civil and military, lived well in those days. And the laboring classes and 
soldiers had a good supply of substantial food. The following "estimate of what will serve 
500 soldiers one month" was made Feb. 15, 1676, by the Committee of War. 

15000 biscuit, 20 barrels pork, 30 barrels beef, 1000 pounds of bacon and 1000 pounds of 
cheese (or 10 cwts.) 50 bushels Indian corn parched and beaten into nocake [Indian, noke- 
hick;] 300 small bags for each man to carry nocake; stockings and shoes, 200 pairs of each; 
shirts and drawers, 100 of each; 50 waistcoats, 100 wallets, 6 barrels powder, 1200 pounds, 
(or 12 cwts.) of shot, [bullets,] 2000 flints, 300 bushels of oats and 100 bushels barley, for 
horses. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 183 

and to Northampton and the other towns, about ;^6oo. The 
colony paid the ;^I900 before 1684. 

Pay of garrisons. — Northampton, Hadley, and Hatfield paid 
their own garrison soldiers in the winter of 1675-6, and until May, 
without the aid of the colony. 

The wages of soldiers in this war were six shillings per week in 
Massachusetts, and food. They received clothing when they 
remained in service some weeks, or months. The six shillings 
was in "country pay." The diet or board of soldiers was about 
5s. per week; less in some places. 

Match locks and flint locks were both in use when thewarbegan, 
but the latter superseded the former, and few match locks were 
used in 1676. Match locks and muskets with rests were not fitted 
for Indian warfare. The Indians did not use match locks, and 
had not perhaps at any time. They were excellent marksmen. 

Friendly Indians. — Connecticut managed Indians more wisely 
than Massachusetts. They were generally pagans, but she 
treated them kindly, and Dep. Gov. Leete wrote in April, 1676, 
that no Indians belonging to Connecticut had become hostile. 
In Massachusetts, a great prejudice arose among the people 
against all Christian Indians because a few had proved false, and 
their enmity knew no bounds. Honest and faithful praying 
Indians were falsely accused, insulted, robbed, imprisoned, some 
shot at and wounded and others murdered. There was a savage 
antipathy against all Indians. But whenever the Christian In- 
dians were employed in the service, they were brave and faithful, 
and the hatred of the people gradually abated, and after April, 
1676, the Christian Indian soldiers were constantly employed, 
and performed signal services. 

Noises in the Air. — Mather says — "It is certain that before this 
war broke out, viz. on Sept. 10, 1674, in Northampton, Hadley 
and other towns thereabouts, was heard the report of a great piece 
of ordnance with a shaking of the earth, and a considerable echo, 
when there was no ordnance really discharged at or near any of 
those towns." 

Such noises in the air have occurred not unfrequently in diff- 
erent countries. There is nothing portentous in them. 

Garrison at Quabaug. — This was kept up through the spring, 
and perhaps through the summer of 1676. Quarters were built 
for soldiers, who were furnished with provisions and ammunition, 
carried from Marlborough on the backs of horses. Sometimes 
15 men conducted 30 horses, and were escorted by 20 troopers. 
In the early part of May, it was expected that Hadley and other 



184 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

towns on the river would supply the garrison with provisions, to 
be conveyed on horses as before, but for some reason the plan 
failed at that time. 

Posts traveled between Connecticut River and Boston during 
the war, except in the winter, and were not harmed. Nathaniel 
Warner of Hadley, who came from Brookfield, was a post to 
Boston many times in 1675 and 1676. 

Hadley Mill. — It is remarkable that this lonely mill, about 
three miles north of the village, was not destroyed by the Indians 
in 1675 or 1676. The garrison kept there seems to have been very 
small — sometimes only 2, 3 or 4 men. The accounts of the attack on 
the mill, and the parley in 1677, do not agree. Stockwell's Narra- 
tive differs from other statements.* "The burning of the corn-mill 
by the enemy" is noticed in the Hadley records, not elsewhere. 

Doct. William Locke came to Hadley with Capt. Lothrop, and 
was there more than a year, as a physician and surgeon. He 
wrote to Mr. Rawson for medicines for wounded men. May 30, 
1676 — 5 kinds of emplastrum, 2 or 3 kinds of oil, and many other 
things, and added, "old linen as much as you can get." 

The Hadley ferry-men were busy during the war. Soldiers 
were frequently crossing the river, sometimes by hundreds. Jo- 
seph Kellogg, at the lower ferry, received of the colony in 1677, 
40 pounds for the ferriage of soldiers, and for a team lost in the 
service. Samuel Partrigg, who had the direction of the upper 
ferry, received 20 pounds, Oct. 1677, for ferrying soldiers. 

Samuel Porter took care of most of the wounded soldiers at 
Hadley, and laid out much for their provision and comfort. So 
says the record of the General Court, September, 1676. There 
was due to him for what he had expended on the country's account 
about 200;^. 

Richard Montague baked for the soldiers, and Timothy Nash 
repaired their arms. 

Hadley was not a dull place in the war. The houses were often 
filled to overflowing, companies of soldiers were arriving and 
departing, armed men appeared daily in the broad street, and the 
red flag waved in the breeze. There were various scenes and 
occurrences in those cluttered dwellings, both serious and ludi- 
crous. Nothing disreputable is recorded. 

I have intended to confine this history of the war, chiefly to the 
county of Hampshire. 

*Can it be that the women and children that came from Wachuset (page 176) are the 
same that Gookin says were carried away with Wannalancet, from near Chelmsford, by a 
party that came from Canada with those that assailed Hatfield ? 




Birthplace of Bishop Hinting ton 







Birthplace of Genehal Joseph Hooker 



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185 



CHAPTER XVII 



Bounds of Hadley and Additions — Grant of 1673 — Grant of 1683 — Land at the Falls — 
Grant of 1727 — Survey of 1739 — Controversy with Hatfield, 1707 — 1733 — New House- 
lots — Addition to old Houselots — New Street and Lots — Grants of land — Skirts of 
Forty Acres and Hockanum — Fort River Pastures — Hadley Swamps. 

The General Court determined in October, 1663, that the 
bounds of Hadley, on the east side of the river, should be five 
miles from their meeting-house place, up the river, five miles down 
the river, and four miles east from the most eastern part of the 
river. The people of Hadley asked for an enlargement of their 
township, at the October session, 1672. They recurred to their 
old difficulties, — their small divisions of land, the high price paid 
the Indians, the 200;^ paid to Mr. Bradstreet, and the loss of one- 
third of their productive land and many of their company to make 
Hatfield. They continued: — 

"The common feeding place* of our working cattle, whereby we carry on our husbandry, 
is without our town-bounds, and our want of hay ground is such as necessitates us to seek 
out some remote, boggy meadow, either to take hay from or carry our cattle to, that we may 
keep them alive; our interval land by reason of the high situation of it being seldom flooded, 
and so not continuing to yield grass as in the plantations lower down the river, and as here 
formerly." 

They asked for an addition to make their plantation equal to 8 
miles square. They said the greater part of their wood-land was 
"barren pine plain, capable of very little improvement." — Rev. 
John Russell wrote the petition, and 38 persons signed it, viz.. 



John Russell 
Peter Tilton 
John Russell, Sr. 
Aaron Cook 
Richard Goodman 
John Crow 
John Dickinson 
Philip Smith 
John Hubbard 
Joseph Baldwin 
Thomas Coleman 
Daniel Hovey 
Francis Barnard 



Thomas Welles 
Timothy Nash 
Samuel Gardner 
Samuel Church 
Samuel Moody 
Chileab Smith 
Joseph Baldwin (Jr.) 
Edward Church 
Richard Montague 
Samuel Gardner, Jr. 
William Gaylor 
Joseph Warriner 
Mark Warner 



Isaac Harrison 
William Markham 
Thos. Dickinson 
John Smith 
Samuel Partrigg 
Samuel Porter 
Andrew Warner 
Caleb Watson 
William Lewis 
Nathaniel Dickinson 
Edward Scott 
Henry Clarke 



In General Court, May 7, 1673: — ''In answer to the petition of the inhabitants of Hadley, 
for the settlement of the bounds thereof, it is ordered, that their bounds shall run from their 
meeting-house five miles up the river, five miles down the river, and six miles from their 
meeting-house eastward." 



♦Their common feeding place was probably in the present town of Amherst, and mucii 
of it east of the four miles. 



186 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

In May, 1683, the selectmen of Hadley, in the name of the town, 
petitioned for an addition to their southern bounds, of three miles 
in width, running four miles east from the river. They repre- 
sented that their young people were straitened for want of enlarge- 
ment, and removed to remote places; and "the inhabitants are 
shut up on the east and north by a desolate, barren desert," refer- 
ring to the pine lands. 

In General Court, May i6, 1683: — "In answer to the petition of the inhabitants of Had- 
ley, the Court judgeth meet to grant, as an addition of land, to the township of Hadley, four 
miles square, provided that Major Pynchon may have his five hundred acres, part of a 
former grant to him, and formerly taken up within that tract; to be laid out in such form as 
the selectmen of Hadley and he shall agree, and that said land be of the township of Hadley." 

This grant was useless to Hadley while the French and Indian 
wars continued. It was not surveyed until October, 17 15, when 
John Chandler, Jr. of Woodstock, was employed to lay out these 
16 square miles or 10,240 acres. The north line began on the 
river, below the mouth of Stony Brook and ran eastward, on the 
old boundary line, 1500 rods; the east line was 1060 rods; the 
south line was the boundary of Springfield, 1420 rods; and the 
western limit was the river. This appears to have been the first 
measurement of land in Hadley, by the aid of the surveyor's com- 
pass. Hadley then extended from Springfield to Sunderland, 
above thirteen miles. 

At the same time, Mr. Chandler surveyed Major Pynchon's 500 
acres at the south-west corner of the addition. The north line 
was 460 rods in length, the east line 240 rods, the south line, on 
Springfield border, 180 rods,* and the western boundary was the 
river, running south-easterly, and the great falls. In 1726, Wil- 
liam Pynchon of Springfield, sold to John Taylor of Hadley, two- 
thirds of the five hundred acres, for twenty shillings an acre, in the 
currency of that day, equal to about one dollar and thirty or forty 
cents. It is probablethat Taylor purchased the other third. The 
500 acres embraced the site of the present village at South Hadley 
Canal,f and the water privileges at the falls on the east side of the 
river. For upwards of fifty years, after 1726, the land was occu- 
pied by the Taylors and others for agricultural purposes; and the 
water of the river carried a saw-mill. In the fishing season, 
many people resorted to the place, and there was noise and bustle, 
but during most of the year, few dwellings in the township were 
more retired and sequestered than those in this nook. There 

*I traced portions of the three lines without difficulty in 1848. A part of the north 
line was uncertain. 

•j-This was written in 1848. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 187 

were no freight boats, no shops nor inns; and few sounds were 
heard by the river's side but the roaring of the falls and the scream- 
ing of the loon. 

In November, 1727, twenty-one persons, who resided south of 
Mount Holyoke, in Hadley, and intended to form a precinct there, 
sent a petition to the General Court, asking for the land between 
the addition laid out in 1715, and the equivalant lands, after- 
wards Belchertown. This tract, called four miles long and two 
wide, or eight square miles, was granted. This addition is now 
the south-eastern part of Granby. The township of Hadley after 
this grant, contained about eighty square miles. 

In April, 1739, Oliver Partridge of Hatfield, was employed to 
survey the township of Hadley, according to the grant of 1673. 
He first ascertained the point or place that was exactly six miles 
due east of the old meeting-house, and from that point measured 
north five miles and south five miles; and from each extremity of 
this line of ten miles, he run a line directly west to Connecticut 
River. These three lines, with the river, were the bounds of 
Hadley according to the grant of 1673. His south line was 7 
miles and 94 rods, east line 10 miles, and north line 4 miles and 
142 rods. A line running east from the Connecticut, at the mouth 
of Mohawk brook, long considered the dividing line between 
Hadley and Sunderland, Mr. Partridge found to be 55 rods too 
far south at the east end, and 50 rods at the west end, and that 
Sunderland possessed 457 acres of land that belonged to Hadley. 
Sunderland petitioned against the removal of the old line. In 
December, 1740, the General Court accepted of Mr. Partridge's 
plan, with the exception of the north line, which, they decided, 
should remain where it had been, and Hadley was to have 457 
acres elsewhere, near Sunderland. This equivalent was taken up 
adjoining the Connecticut above the "fishing bar" at Deerfield 
Falls, and was called the "Hadley Farm above Sunderland." 
It was sold by Hadley in 1749.* 

Another contest between Hadley and Hatfield. — Hadley had 
another controversy with Hatfield, which continued a quarter of 

*When the boundaries of Hadley and the otherold townships in Hampshire were definitely 
established, the direction of the lines was taken by the magnetic needle, without regard to 
the true meridian. This was done when the deviation of the needle fromfthe true north 
point, was 8 degrees or more, to the westward. This variation is readily perceived by ex- 
amining upon a map the east and north lines of the former townships of Springfield and 
Hadley, and the north lines of other townships upon the river. The lines of Mr. Chandler 
and Mr. Partridge were according to the compass, without any allowance for the variation 
of the needle, which'in 1739 was about 8 degrees to the west. It is less now (1848) and the 
direction of the lines is consequently not the same by the compass as in 1739. 



188 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

a century, or from 1707 to 1733. Several Hadley men had re- 
moved to Hatfield, and others had sold their lands on the west side 
to Hatfield men, and in 30 or 40 years many lots of land in the 
Ponsets, which had belonged to persons in Hadley, were possessed 
by residents in Hatfield; yet they were a part of Hadley, and taxed 
for the benefit of that town. The people of Hatfield disliked this 
state of things, and sought for a change. In December, 1707, 
Hatfield voted to search records and consult able lawyers. In 
May, 1709, they petitioned the General Court that the river might 
be the boundary between the two towns, and the land on the west 
side pay taxes to Hatfield. The people of Hadley, in August, 
instructed their representative, Daniel Marsh, "to defend Hadley 
against so unjust a petition." The General Court heard the parties 
Nov. 4, 1709, and "ordered that the petition be dismissed, and 
that it be recommended to the selectmen and inhabitants of Had- 
ley, to accommodate their neighbors of Hatfield, on consideration 
of the many advantages Hadley has over and above Hatfield." 
Hadley was not disposed to comply. Several letters passed be- 
tween the towns in January and February, 1710, and they dis- 
puted respecting the advantages which Hadley was said to have 
over Hatfield in the division of 1669. Hatfield aflfirmed that 
their meadow land was not so good as that of Hadley; that their 
great meadow was inferior to any meadow possessed by Hadley; 
and that their uplands were poor and mountainous, and inferior 
to those of Hadley; the latter having some valuable tracts of up- 
land both north and south of Mount Holyoke. As to the agree- 
ment of 1669, Hatfield said that 40 years made a difference in 
circumstances, and this difference required corresponding changes. 
Hadley, on the other hand, averred that Hatfield had privileges 
in some respects better than those of Hadley; and they thought 
the agreement of 1669 "ought to be binding on the consciences of 
all good people." 

In May, 17 10, Hatfield again requested the General Court to 
make the river the boundary between the towns; this petition was 
renewed in 1712 and in 1715. Committees were appointed in 
1715, 1716 and 1718, but nothing decisive took place. Hadley 
strenuously opposed all the eflports of Hatfield. A petition was 
sent by Hatfield in 1730, and after a delay of three years, a com- 
mittee, on the 2d of November, 1733, reported that Connecticut 
River should be the bound between Hadley and Hatfield, and 
their report was accepted by all branches the same day. 

Additional Homelots. — The 47 homelots originally laid out, 
were the only ones granted for some years. Three lots granted 



i 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 189 

in 1670, were not taken up. In March, 1669, the town gave to 
Joseph Warriner, a houselot 7 rods by 12, "in the middle of the 
street," near the north end, and he built a house and barn, and 
lived upon this lot, until about 1690, when he sold to Eleazar 
Warner for 28 pounds, and removed to Enfield. 

Between the river and the four small houselots at the north end 
of the east tier, the land was used as a street, perhaps 20 or 30 
rods in width or more. In 1672, the town began to grant this 
for houselots and other uses, leaving a highway south of the lots. 
The following grants next to the river were made: — 

1st, or most western lot, to John Preston, i acre, in 1679, 

zd, or next lot east, to Joseph Barnard, 2 " 1673, 

3d, ... to Dr. John Westcarr, 2 " 1673, 

4th, ... to Isaac Harrison, 2 " 1672, 

5th, ... to William Gaylord, 2 " 1672, 

6th, ... to Peter Montague, 2 " 1673, 

7th, ... to Henry White, 3 " 1680, 

8th, ... to Isaac Warner, some acres, in 1681, 

extending up the river towards Coleman's brook, west of the highway 

to Forty Acres. 

One or two houses were built upon these river lots before the 
Indian war, and there were five houses upon this north highway 
which were not included in the palisade. All these small lots, 
on both sides of the highway, were washed away by the river 
more than loo years since. 

While attacks from the Indians were feared, some small house- 
lots were granted in or near the street in 1677, 1678 and 1679, viz., 
to John Preston next to Samuel Gardner's houselot; to John 
Ingram from the town homelot, which came back to the town in 
1696; to Edward Scott, on the south side of the south highway 
into the meadow; to Quintin Stockwell, within the fortification, 
which he did not occupy. 

Mark Warner, in 1680, had a grant forty rods long and three 
rods wide, from the middle highway, next to Mr. Russell's house- 
lot, to build on. He removed to Northampton, but he claimed 
this land, and the town did not allow his claim. Their dispute 
was not at an end in 1712. 

In March, 1679, the town voted to build a house for Thomas 
Webster (or buy an old one,) and set it in the middle highway into 
the meadow, on a piece of common land adjoining the pound, 
and not far from the house William Webster lived in. Thomas 
Webster had been driven from Northfield and lost his property. 
William Webster was also poor. Two sons of Gov. Webster 
lived some years in this highway, near the east end, in small houses 
built by the town. The pound was near them. One of the 



190 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

buildings long remained for a poor family to live in, and was 
called the town-house. 

Hadley fortunately passed through the war and the ensuing 
years of danger, without disfiguring and obstructing her spacious 
street, by permanent inclosures and buildings. 

Addition to the old Houselots. — The plain upon which Hadley 
village was built, was, like most other terraces or levels in the 
vicinity of Connecticut River, lowest on the side farthest from the 
river. On the east side of this plain, next to the bank of the higher 
plain where the middle street is, there was low, swampy land, 
which was not included in the homelots. In January, 1674, the 
town permitted the homelots of John Russell, Jr., of the Town, 
Thomas Wells, John Hubbard, Samuel Porter and John Dickin- 
son, to be extended "from the rear as now fenced up, to the bank 
eastward." In 1675, ^^^ ^^ ^^^ of those living on the lower part 
of the street were allowed to extend their homelots "to the bank 
on the east side of the swamp," or as it was sometimes expressed, 
"to the hill over the low valley." In Feb. 1675, the town sold to 
Doct. John Westcarr, for 10 pounds, the low land, south of the 
middle highway, in the rear of five homelots, viz., those of John 
Barnard, Andrew Bacon, Nathaniel Stanley, Thomas Stanley 
and John White. It was called 6 acres and 96 rods, apparently 
16 rods by 66. All the east homelots were extended to the bank 
or hill except the five. 

A new Street and new Homelots. — In 25 years after the plant- 
ing of Hadley, buildings had not been erected on more than four 
or five homelots, in addition to the first forty-seven. The number 
of familes had not much increased; they were near 50 in 1662, and 
in 1685, they did not exceed 60. Some of the first settlers died 
without children, several returned to Connecticut, and a number 
of young men settled at Hartford, Hatfield, and other places. 
There was, however, a considerable increase of young persons. 

The tract of land east of the old homelots was denominated the 
Pine Plain; the trees had been cut off, and it was covered with 
brush. In 1679, the town voted to clear it of brush, that it might 
be fit for feeding. In 1682, it was again ordered that the pine 
plain should be cleared. 

On the 1 2th of February, 1684, the town voted that a tier of 
lots should be laid out upon the pine plain, "excepting or seques- 
tering 20 rods in breadth for a highway at the rear of the old home- 
lots; to run from the north end of the town to Fort Meadow, and 
eastward of said way the lots aforesaid to be laid out, to begin at 
Joseph Smith's lot at the north end, and run as far as there is 



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191 



common land to the Fort Meadow, leaving highways into the 
woods." A committee of five was appointed to lay out the lots. 
They were lots of eight acres, or i6 by 80 rods. 

In 1687, most of the lots were granted to individuals, on con- 
dition that they built upon them within three years. Another 
Indian war commenced the next year, and no man would build 
without the fortification. In 1690, the grants were renewed and 
again in 1692. In 1699, after the return of peace, 26 lots between 
the north highway and the Bay road, were recorded. Some lots 
were granted east of these, and provision was made for a high- 
way 16 rods wide, 120 rods east of the other. There were other 
lots of eight acres between the Bay road and Fort Meadow. 

Record of the lots on the Pine Plain, April 5, 1699, beginning at the north highway, and 
proceeding southward. Sixteen lots were north, and ten south, of the highway which was 
a continuation of the middle highway into the woods. 



Highway 10 rods wide. 

17 Daniel Marsh, 80 by 16, 

18 Experience Porter, " 

19 Thomas Selden, " 

20 John Taylor, " 

Highway 32 rods in front, and 5 in rear. 

21 John Smith, 80 by 16, 

22 Nathaniel White, 

23 Thomas Hovey, " 

24 Capt. Aaron Cook, " 

25 John Kellogg, " 

26 NehemiahDickinson,"' 
Road to Brookfield and the Bay. 



1 Luke Smith, 8 acres, irregular, 

2 Samuel Smith, 80 rods by 16, 

3 Samuel Porter, 

4 George Stillraan, " " 

5 Joseph Smith, " 

6 William Rooker, " *' 

7 Samuel Partrigg, " " 

8 Peter Montague, " " 

9 Ebenezer Smith, " " 

10 Nathaniel Warner, " " 

Highway 8 rods wide. 

11 Not granted 1699. Given to John 

Montague, Jr. 1713. 80 by 13^. 

12 Samuel Ingram, 80 by 10, 

13 Samuel Boltwood, 80 by 16, 

14 Widow Hannah Porter, 80 by 16, 
15, 16 Timothy Nash's heirs, 

2 lots, 80 by 32. 

A few frames were put up on this new street, but another 
Indian and French war commenced in 1703, and continued about 
ten years, and the street was not inhabited. At the end of half 
a century from the first settlement of Hadley, the inhabitants 
were confined to the old forty-seven homelots, and five or six 
small lots subsequently added. Some of the lots had two houses 
on them, and several houses had two families. About 17 13, 
men began to build houses on the new street, and in 1720, fifteen 
families resided in them. 

Grants of Land. — In 1673, a piece of high interval upon the 
Connecticut, having Mill River on the south, and School Meadow 
fence on the north, was in part given to three men, and in part 
reserved for the use of the town. In 1699, the town's part was 
given to four persons. The number of acres in this parcel of 



192 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

land may have been forty or fifty. There was a saw-mill near 
the south-east corner in 1696. 

In 1672, the town sequestered for their own use a piece of land 
called 8 acres, at the north end of the upper School Meadow. It 
was used by Rev. Mr. Hopkins, and perhaps by preceding min- 
isters. The town sold it to Deac. Jason Stockbridge for 500 dol- 
lars about 30 or 40 years since. It was then swampy and bushy, 
but is now (1848) a productive meadow, containing about 15 acres. 

In 1673, the meadow land north of the preceding lot, and a 
strip of high interval, extending to Sunderland line, west of the 
pine plain, were granted to four men, except one acre and a half 
near the mouth of Mohawk brook, which the proprietors of 
Swampfield were allowed to fence in, February, 1675, to get good 
ground for their fence. 

Skirts of Forty Acres. — In March, 1675, the town gave to the 
proprietors of Forty Acre Meadow, liberty to remove their fence 
eastward, and run it round the boggy meadow, and under the 
mountain side, &c. — The addition enclosed within this fence, 
was denominated the Skirts of Forty Acres. The Skirts were 
fully fenced in 1669.* The fence began at Connecticut River 
south of Coleman's brook, thence ran near the bank, round the 
boggy meadow, upon the hill or plain to the stone bridge; thence 
on east side of some lots, and upon the hills to the saw-mill dam; 
and from the saw-mill house on the north side of Mill River, to 
the School Meadow fence, enclosing the interval north of Mill 
River. The fence from the Connecticut round to the saw-mill 
dam, and thence to the School Meadow fence was 935 rods, (esti- 
mating the river-bank fence and two gates equal to 30 rods.) 
This was proportioned among 38 proprietors. The fence was 
proportioned and rebuilt for the last time in 1748, and was then 
739 rods to Mill River, and 172 rods from the School grist-mill 
to the School Meadow fence. On the 2d of August, 1753, the 
proprietors voted that Forty Acres be no more fed as a common 
field, and notice was given that the General Field was dissolved. 
This field, which bore the name of Forty Acres, contained 382 
acres. The Skirts had about twice as many acres as the Meadow. 

The old ditch which belonged to the Forty Acre fence, may 
still be traced in many places, on the plain, on banks, and hill 
sides. In 1748, there were 166 rods of stone wall in this fence. 
Very few rods of stone wall can now be found in Hadley. The 
fence, after it included the Skirts, twice crossed the main road, 

♦The committee that desired the town to appoint men to proportion the fence, desired 
also "the presence of God to abide with you." 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 193 

and all travelers through that part of Hadley, had to open and 
shut two gates. 

The farm of Charles Phelps, Esq., so much admired by Pres- 
ident Dwight,* and so well described by him, included a large 
portion of Forty Acre Meadow and Skirts. It is still possessed 
by his son Charles P. Phelps, Esq. and son in law, Rev. Dan 
Huntington, (1848.) 

Hockanum Meadow had its Skirts, of about 140 acres. They 
included the land between the river and meadows on the west, 
and the mountain path, or old Springfield road, on the side of 
Mount Holyoke, on the east. 

Fort Meadow Skirts embraced the swamps and low lands east 
and south-east of the meadow, and separated from it by Fort 
River. They were estimated at no acres. 

Fort River Pastures or Swamp. — In January, 1682, the town 
gave to the proprietors of Fort Meadow the low land "up the 
river from Fort Meadow fence to Lieut. Kellogg's 40 acres and 
above his 40 acres, to make them equal to Forty Acre proprietors 
with their Skirts." The Skirts of Fort Meadow were not suffi- 
cient for this purpose. "The outlets where cattle go over Fort 
River to feed " were not included]in the grant, and they were to give 
allotments to two or three persons who were not proprietors. Jo- 
seph Kellogg's 40 acres were a former grant, near the south end of 
Spruce Hill, and the old road to Brookfield was through this lot. 

This tract of land was laid out to 22 persons in the year 1699. 
Three highways were left; — one 4 rods wide in the lower part, 
one 14 rods wide including the road to Brookfield, which was 
then some rods above where it now is, and one three rods wide 
across Joseph Kellogg's lot, "from hill to hill, where the former 
county road went." The lower lots extended across the river and 
the river valley from the hill on one side to the hill on the other, 
but eleven lots east of Spruce Hill, had for their northern bound- 
ary, the "Nashaway path," an old path formerly traveled when 
the way to Boston was through Nashua (Lancaster.) The whole 
width of all the lots was 720 rods, or 2 miles and 80 rods, and the 
number of acres, 251. These pastures extended eastward almost 
to the present road and bridge near Dickinson's tannery. 

Spruce Swamp is the long swamp, west of the bank called 
Spruce Hill. Lots were not permanently granted here till 1699. 
Four men had nearly the whole, viz., Samuel Boltwood had the 
northern part; next south of him was John Smith, orphan; 3d, 
John Montague; and 4th, Peter Montague, 2d. The latter pur- 

♦Travels in New England, Vol. I., page 357. 



194 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

chased of the town in 1714, all the southern part of Spruce Swamp 
down to the Log-bridge, near the present road to Amherst, for 
20 pounds. Much of this swamp is now valuable land. 

Old Swamp was some distance east of Spruce Swamp and was 
not extensive. Lands were granted there in 1680 and after. It 
was some years before they were fenced. 

Partrigg's Swamp and Nut Meadow were east of Mount Warner. 
In 1680, John Warner, from Brookfield, had a grant of 20 acres 
in Partrigg's Swamp, and his son, Mark Warner, 12 acres. 
Henry White had 20 acres in Nut Meadow. The Warners' lots 
returned to the town because they were not improved within 
seven years. White retained his. 

The swamps named Partrigg's, Hubbard's, New, Taylor's, 
and some others, were not appropriated until the Inner Commons 
were laid out. The lots previously granted in some of them, 
came back to the town.* 

The Great Swamp was in the northern part of Hadley, stretch- 
ing into Sunderland. It still remains an extensive swamp. In 
1 714, five lots, recorded as eight acres each, were granted on the 
eastern side of this swamp, beginning where the brook from the 
swamp unites with Mill River, and extending northward about 
half a mile. A sixth lot seems to have been added. These lots, 
or portions of them, were cleared and fenced, and used for mow- 
ing, and some of them are still mowed. In the spring of 1846, 
some of the lowest, wettest lots, presented a fine, green appearance, 
but the grass was mostly sedge. They are in Amherst, westward 
of the meeting-house in the north parish. The rest of the Great 
Swamp was a part of the Inner Commons. 

When Hadley had been settled forty years, there were very 
few fenced fields, except the intervals and homelots. For many 
years after 1700, the woods continued to be the main pastures. 
There were a few inclosures in the swamps and skirts. Next to 
intervals, the swamps were most sought after, one hundred and 
fifty years ago. These produced tall, coarse grass, which was need- 
ed for hay. Hadley often complained of a deficiency of hay-ground. 

Individuals were sometimes allowed to occupy the highways 
into the meadow, between homelots, as pastures, on condition 
of making a gate and fence at one end for the town. They made 
another gate and fence at the other end for themselves, and those 
who passed through these ways, opened and shut two gates. 

John Nash, in 1699, was allowed the use of the Middle Lane 

*Some of the lands called swamps in former days, were only moist ground, and are now 
sufficiently__dry. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 195 

for ten years, if he maintained a gate and fence at the west end of 
the lane. He also kept a gate not far from the east end, near the 
pound. He had the use of the same a second ten years. The 
pound was a few rods west of the end of the lane. 



CHAPTER XVIII 

Coined Money — Taxation in 17th century — Hampshire country rates — War rates and 
"charges in Hampshire — Money rates — How rates were paid— Grain for taxes — Hadley 
rates, 1682 and 1687 — Changes in Hadley. 

The people of New England kept their accounts, and made 
their computations in pounds, shillings, pence and farthings, 
more than 150 years. Their pound at first was the pound sterling 
of England. The English pound of twenty shillings originally 
contained a pound of silver, Troy-weight, but from 1601 to the 
present century, a pound, or twelve Troy ounces, of standard 
silver, have been coined into 62 shillings in England. When our 
fathers came from England, the silver coins in circulation were 
crowns, half crowns, shillings, and pieces of six pence, four pence, 
three pence, two pence, one penny, and half a penny. There had 
been silver farthings. A crown was five shillings, or one-fourth 
of a pound, and weighed 464^ grains. A shilling weighed 92^*^ 
grains, or one-fifth as much as a crown. 

Massachusetts began to coin money in 1652, and their mint was 
in operation, at times, more than 30 years. Pieces of a shilling, 
six pence, three pence, and two pence were coined. There was 
a pine tree on one side of the coins, and they are sometimes called 
pine-tree money. The shillings contained three pennyweights, 
or 72 grains, of standard silver, and the lesser pieces weighed 
proportionably. They were current throughout New England 
for a century, and passed readily in some other colonies. As the 
Boston shillings weighed only 72 grains, while the English shil- 
lings weighed 92^0 grains, twenty shillings or a pound of the 
former were equal to only fifteen shillings and six pence of the 
latter; or 100 Boston pounds were equal to 77^^ sterling pounds. 
The Boston money was 22J per cent, lighter than the English 
money, but of the same purity. 

This coinage introduced a new currency into Massachusetts 
which differed but little from the New England currency of the 
1 8th century. The new currency was more completely established 
in 1672, when the value of pieces-of-eight, (Spanish dollars,) of 
full weight, was fixed at six shillings, though worth only four shil- 
lings and six pence in England. There was a departure from 
the English currency in 1642, when rix-dollars and pieces-of- 



196 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

eight were made current at five shillings, or six pence more than 
their sterling value. The new coins of 1652 made a much greater 
change, and the people of Massachusetts generally ceased to 
reckon and compute in sterling money.* Connecticut raised the 
value of pieces-of-eight to six shillings in 1683. 

Dollars. — Those mentioned by Shakespeare and his cotempo- 
raries were German or Dutch coins. The Spanish coins of about 
the same value were seldom named dollars until near the middle 
of the 1 8th century. In Great Britain and her colonies, they were 
called pieces-of-eight,f because they contained eight rials, or 
reals. Rial is a Spanish name for the coin worth nine pence or 
twelve and a half cents. The quarter of a piece-of-eight (now 25 
cents,) was sometimes called a double rial, or two rials. There 
were half rials, similar to the pieces worth six and a quarter cents. 

Our fathers made their shillings lighter than the English, for 
the purpose of keeping them at home, and they forbid their ex- 
portation. The laws which govern trade had more influence than 
the acts of legislators, and large quantites of the new coins were sent 
to England to pay for goods. The balance of trade was always 
against the colonies, and their silver and gold were exported. | 

Pine-tree coins in Hadley. — Some men in Hadley collected and 
laid up pine-tree money. John Pynchon records in his account 
book, that on the 7th of November, 1678, he borrowed New 
England money in Hadley, and agreed to pay in New England 
money, in three years, as follows: — 

Of Lieut. Samuel Smith, . . . ;^50.o.o 

" Lieut. Philip Smith, , . . 25.0.0 

" Mr. Peter Tilton, . . 12.0.0 

Capt. Aaron Cooke, Jr. . . 10. 0.0 

97.0.0 
Hesays hesentthemoneyto Antigua, "topromotethedesign ofplan- 

*Sterling currency practically ceased some years before 1652, or soon after the General 
Court began to fix the prices of grain in 1640. William Pynchon's accounts in Springfield 
from 1645 *° 1650, were not kept in sterling; the prices at Hartford in those years were not 
in sterling. 

The error of some, that New England currency did not supersede that of old England 
until long after 1652, is corrected by Felt in his account of Massachusetts Currency, — a book 
full of valuable information. 

■{•From their Spanish name. 

jThe inventories of some wealthy merchants in Boston show that they were able to 
collect considerable sums, and that a large part was pine-tree money. Henry Webb, who 
died in 1660, had in English money, £148.6.2; Spanish money, £328.11.9; New England 
money, £860.6.2. Henry Shrimpton, who died in 1666, had in English money, £121.3.6; 
in Spanish pieces-of-eight, £99.8.3; New England money, £483.6.5. Antipas Boyse, who 
died in 1669, had in English money, £1.4.0; in pieces-of-eight and halves, quarters, &c., 
£49.5.0; in New England money, £230.0.0. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 197 

tation and sugar work there." A speculation in the West Indies. 

In 1704, by a proclamation of queen Anne, regulating the 
value of foreign coins in the English colonies, pieces-of-eight of 
a certain weight, rix-doUars and French crowns, which were 
valued at four shillings and six pence in England, were to pass in 
the colonies for six shillings each, and halves, quarters and less 
pieces in proportion. Coins at these rates were long called "proc- 
lamation money." By this order, a shilling in the colonies was 
virtually made equivalent to nine pence in England; and a pound 
of twenty shillings, to fifteen shillings sterling. This differed but 
little from the value of Massachusetts shillings in 1652, and of 
pieces-of-eight in 1672. The proclamation was not much re- 
garded in the colonies; paper money deranged everything. But 
whenever there was a specie currency in New England, the piece- 
of-eight, or Spanish dollar was valued at six shillings, and it was 
sometimes referred to as a standard. Commonly silver at six 
shillings and eight pence per ounce, seemed to be the standard. 
Yet an ounce of such silver as that of the dollars coined before 
1772, was worth 6s. lofd.; was valued at 7s. in 1705. 

Copper Coins. — The English formerly had an aversion to cop- 
per coins, and used silver farthings and halfpence. Under Eliza- 
beth and long after, tradesmen and others cast lead tokens for 
change. Some copper farthings and half pence were coined under 
James I., Charles I. and Charles II., and many were issued under 
William III., and they became abundant under the Georges. 
But few reached New England previous to 1700, and they did 
not become plenty until 1749, when money was sent over to repay 
Massachusetts for the expenses of the Louisburg expedition, 
including 100 casks of coined farthings and halfpence, mostly the 
latter. Massachusetts, in 1750, ordered that they should pass 
at the rate of three farthings for a penny, and they were of the 
same value in an act of 1784. An English half penny was equal 
to two-thirds of a New England penny. As the English name, 
halfpennies, did not express their true value, it was given up, and 
they were called coppers. Merchants' books previous to the revo- 
lution showthat coppers were current at two-thirds of a penny each. 
The county court sometimes fixed the fare at ferries in coppers, in- 
stead of pence. The prices of many small things were in coppers.* 

*The old coppers, which had for some years been reduced to the value of half a penny, 
were no longer to pass as money after a certain day, in the spring of 1805. Congress had so 
ordered. It was an exciting time among the boys in some places, when the day approached, 
for many had treasured up a large number of coppers. They were disposed of to peddlers 
and traders. There was a brisk trade in Barlow pen-knives, raisins, fish-hooks, and knick- 
knacks. It was supposed that the "bungtown coppers," as they were called in this vicinity, 
had forever ceased to circulate, but some of them still remain. 



198 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Taxation* in the 17th century. — Agricultural products, peltry, 
and other commodities, including the Indian shell-beads, called 
wampum, were the medium of trade in the British colonies for a 
long time. Money was seldom seen, except in and about com- 
mercial places. From 1640 to 1700, the farmers of Massachu- 
setts generally made their purchases, and paid their debts and 
taxes with the produce of their farms, and not with the precious 
metals. Common laborers, artificers, soldiers, representatives, 
school-masters, ministersf and magistrates were commonly paid 
for their services in something that was not money. There were 
exceptions in Boston, and some other towns near the coast, 
especially in the latter part of the 17th century. In the remote 
county of Hampshire, gold and silver were more scarce than in 
other parts of the colony. Very small as well as large sums were 
paid in produce. Church-members were under the necessity of 
paying the sacramental charges in wheat. | 

The produce currency continued until 1702, though partially 
interrupted by the colony bills, first issued in 1690 and 1691. The 
no-money currency was followed by the paper money currency, 
which continued about half a century. 

Taxes were formerly denominated Rates, and some kinds are 
still so called in England. In Massachusetts, there was the 
Country Rate, similar to the Province and State Tax of later 
times; the County Rate, to defray county charges; the Town Rate 
levied to discharge town debts; and the Minister's Rate, which 
was made and collected by itself. There were minor rates, in 
towns, as the herdsman's rate, the shepherd's rate, &c. 

A single country rate was ordinarily an assessment of one shil- 
ling and eight pence on males over 16 years of age, and of one 
penny per pound on real and personal estate. Each town was 
to make yearly a list of all male persons over 16, and a true esti- 
mate of all real and personal estate. Artificers and others who 
had higher wages than common laborers, were to be rated accord- 
ingly. This system of taxation, in many respects, resembled that 
of the present day. The polls paid a larger share of the tax than 
they now do. 

The expense of the government of Massachusetts, for 25 years 
previous to Philip's war in 1675, averaged between 1800 and 2000 

*Felt's "Statistics," Vol. I., give a History of Taxation in Massachusetts. 

•{•In 1657, all the ministers in old Suffolk county, except those of Boston, were paid in 
grain, other produce and labor, viz., the ministers of Roxbury, Dorchester, Braintree, Hing- 
ham, Weymouth, Dedliam and Medfield. 

jThe Northampton church voted in 1666 that each member should contribute towards 
the charge of the sacrament, three half pecks of wheat for a year. 



ampshire rates. 


1669-70. 


Springfield, 


;Cl8.I9.2 


Northampton, 


23. I.I 


Hadley, 


25. 0.8 


Westfield, 




Hatfield, 




Broolcfield, 





HISTORY OF HADLEY 199 

pounds a year, according to treasurers' accounts which remain. 
The greater part was paid in grain and other commodities, at 
provision pay prices. The expense of the Indian war was equal 
to that of 25 years of peace. From 1681 to 1685, the yearly ex- 
penditure was between 3000 and 4000 pounds, partly occasioned 
by the war. A small duty or impost on wines, strong waters and 
some other imported articles aided in defraying the public expenses. 

Early country rates in Hampshire. — In 1657, Springfield was rated in a single country 
rate, _£i2.i5.7, and Northampton, £9.9.9; in 1658, Springfield, £12.2.3, ^""^ Northampton, 
£12.2.3. ^^ those years, one country rate and one-fourth were levied. The freight of the 
grain, paid by the colony, amounted to near one-third of the rates. 

Hadley first appeared in the country rate in 1662. The single rate of that town was 
£21.14.0, Northampton, £21.15.0, Springfield, £16.14.0. One-fourth was added to these 
sums for a quarter rate. It cost the colony £4.16.9 to convey the grain of the Hadley rate 
to Boston. In 1663, Hadley agreed with the treasurer, to deliver the wheat for the rate in 
Hartford, at 5s. 6d. per bushel. 

1674. 1675 and 1676. 

£26.13.2 £26.5. S 

23. 8.6 22.2.10 

18. 2.5 18. 10.9 

12. II .7 II .16.0 

10. 17.2 8.12.0 

5. 0.6 

These towns paid so much on a single rate in these years. Hadley in 1670, before Hat- 
field was set off, was rated higher than Northampton, Springfield, Concord, and Hingham; 
and almost as high as Roxbury and Dedham. 

War Rates and Charges in Hampshire. — See page 182. — 10 
country rates were laid in 1675, 16 in 1676, 9 in 1677, 3 in 1678, 
5^ in 1679, and 4 in 1680, or 47J rates in 6 years. These rates 
were levied on nearly all the towns in the colony. 3I of them 
were money rates, to be paid in silver. About 36 rates were 
rendered necessary by the war. The Hadley country rates in 6 
years were not less than 870 pounds. 

The charges of the people of Hampshire against the colony, 
for supplies and services in the war, allowed by the government, 
are believed to have exceeded 5000 pounds, in country pay. The 
charges of Hadley exceeded 2000 pounds. The sum of 1900 
pounds due to the county in Oct. 1680, is not rightly proportioned 
on page 182. The sum due to Hadley was about iioo pounds, 
Hatfield, 450, Northampton, 200, Westfield, 140, Springfield, 
less than 10. 

The disbursements for the war, by the three colonies, on page 
181, were estimated as money. 

Money Rates. — The government of Massachusetts borrowed 
money to carry on the war, and purchased Maine for 1250 pounds 
in money.* Agents in England must have money, and there were 

*However cheap this may seem, it was a dear bargain to Massachusetts. 



200 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Other calls. Some rates, payable in silver, were ordered in 1677 
and in succeeding years. These money rates did not trouble the 
Hampshire towns which the colony owed, but when the silver was 
actually demanded of any town, there was a great outcry. Spring- 
field, in May, 1685, sent a petition against the payment of rates in 
money. They said it was impossible to procure money, and 
desired the General Court to consider their remoteness from the 
Bay, and give them liberty to pay their country rates in corn, as 
formerly, "and no more require money of your moneyless peti- 
tioners." Suffield sent a doleful petition at the same time: — "We 
are forced to cry out, have pity on us, have mercy on us, forgive 
our last year's money rates. Oh, do not distress us, do not dis- 
tract your poor petitioners. Do not, for charity's sake, enjoin us 
to pay one penny more in money. Let it be enough for us to pay 
in corn, when we can raise it." The Court gave to these two 
towns liberty to pay money rates in corn at two-thirds of the coun- 
try pay prices. The deputies of Northampton and Hadley, 
Joseph Hawley and Samuel Partrigg, immediately requested the 
same liberty for all the other towns "in the remote county of Hamp- 
shire." The deputies granted it, but the magistrates refused, at 
that time. — In December, 1694, Hatfield chose two men, to join 
those from other towns in the county, at Springfield, and petition 
against money rates, "money not being to be had here." 

How Rates were paid in Hampshire, in the 17TH century. 

The County Rate was paid in grain, like that of the colony, and 
at the same price. 

The Minister's Rate, payable in grain at town prices, was 
given to the constable to collect. He had the accounts of those 
who had during the year, paid the minister wholly or partly in 
grain, meat, labor, or in any other way. He went to the inhab- 
itants, and received the balance of the rate in grain, and carried 
it to the minister. There was no delay; the collection was com- 
pleted in a short time, and the grain was deposited in the chamber 
of the minister. Chambers were the granaries in those days. 
The minister sent some of the grain to Boston to pay for books 
and goods. The old custom among ministers, of subsisting at 
each other's houses in their journeyings, was necessary as well as 
convenient. They had plenty of eatables, and could easily enter- 
tain a brother minister and his wife and others, but many of 
them had not money to pay inn-keepers. 

Town Rates were levied to pay the deputies' expenses, a part 
of the school-master's wages, for building bridges, killing wolves, 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 



201 



ringing the bell, and many other services done for the town. No 
money was paid, and there was no town treasurer, and nothing 
for one to do. 

In Hadley, when a town rate was made, there was another 
paper with the names of all whom the town owed, and the sum 
due to each. The selectmen or constable made an adjustment 
with each person. If a man's credit was considerably more than 
his tax, his own rate was taken out, and those of some others 
with whom he had agreed, and the balance was paid to him in 
grain. Those who had little or no credit, paid their rates in 
grain, and by making turns with others whom the town owed. 
Thus the town rate was paid and the town debts discharged with- 
out much delay. 

It may be well to give some examples of the manner of paying 
town debts without money. 



In 1 68 1, Hadley owed Lieut. Philip 

Smith £9.17.10. He received his pay as 

follows: — 

His own rate, 

Part of Goodman Nash's rate, 

Nathaniel Smith's rate. 

Part of John Dickinson's rate, 

Joseph Baldwin, Jr.'s rate, 

Part of Capt. Cook's rate, 

Samuel Northam's rate. 

Part of Samuel Barnard's rate, 

Part of Wm. Webster's rate, 

i6| bushels peas at 2S. 6d. 

3^ " sum. wheat at 3s. 

winter wheat at 3s. 3d. I.I2. 6 
Indian corn at 2s. 1.17. o 



I. II. 


3 


10. 


9 


2. 


I 


I . 


8 


7- 


3 


6. 





4- 


2 


S- 


I 


2. 





2. I . 


10 


10. 


6 



In 1684, the town owed Lieut. Samuel 
Smith £6.9.9, '"^'^ P^''^ him: — 

In his rate, £1 •I3- 8 

Nehemiah Dickinson's rate, 1.7 .4 

William Rooker's rate, 7 .11 

In corn (grain), 3. o .5^ 

By John Smith, 4J 

6. 9. 9 



i8i 

More peas. 



5.10 



9.17.11 

In 1 68 1 the town owed Samuel Boltwood 
£3.16.3. He was paid in the same manner. 
By his own rate. 
His father Boltwood's rate. 
Part of rate on Lewis's land, 
Joseph Baldwin, sr's rate. 
Part of Joseph Hovey's rate, 
Part of Eliezer Hawk's rate. 
Part of Thomas Dickinson's rate, 
Paid Samuel Partrigg for S. B. 
Recording for S. B. 
11^ bushels Indian corn at 2s. 



In 1700, the town owed Widow 
Church 30 shillings and paid her:- 



Mary 



£0.12. 


10 




s. 


d. 


0. 2. 


7 


By her own rate. 


5 


5^ 


4- 


8 


Part of Samuel Smith's rate. 


5 


4^ 


5- 


II 


Moses Cook's rate, 


2 


ih 


5- 


8 


Samuel Church's rate, 


5 





3- 


3 


Stephen Taylor's rate, 


I 


8 


3- 





Josiah Church's rate. 


2 


4 


15- 





Part of Jos Church's rate. 


I 


II 


0. 


4 


Part of Samuel Partrigg's rate. 


5 


7 


I- 3- 













3.16. 3 

The rates and debts in Hatfield were settled in the same way by 
grain and by exchanging debts against the town for rates against in- 
dividuals. Things were not very different in some parts of the colony. 



202 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

The town debts of Hadley continued to be balanced by grain 
until 1707, or later. In 1709, they were adjusted with money, 
that is, province bills. The people of Hampshire had had some 
pine-tree shillings, Spanish rials and pieces-of-eight, wampum, 
and perhaps a few colony bills, but their principal currency, since 
the settlement of these towns, had been the valuable but cum- 
brous products of their lands. That the paper money was a 
great relief to them after 1702, may be readily conceived. Yet 
after some years, the value of the bills was greatly lessened by 
excessive issues, and much mischief was produced. 

The industrious and frugal people of Massachusetts were mod- 
erately prosperous, both under the No-Money System, and the 
Too-much-money System, when not oppressed with the burdens 
and calamities of war. 

Grain* for taxes in the 17th century. — See page 94. — The 
prices fixed by Massachusetts and Connecticut for grain, when 
received for country rates, were much higher than the prices paid 
for grain in money. In most of the last twenty-three years of 
the century, in Massachusetts, and of the last twenty, in Con- 
necticut, one-third of the tax of every person that paid in money, 
was to be abated. The country prices of grain reduced one-third, 
were accounted money prices, or "pay as money," but were not 
real cash prices; they were in Massachusetts, as follows: — wheat, 
3s. 4d., barley, malt, peas and rye, 2s. 8d., Indian corn, 2s.; and in 
Connecticut,wheat,2s.8d. to 3s., peas and rye 2s., Indian corn, I s.8d. 

The town prices for grain inNorthampton, Hadley and Hatfield, 
for the payment of the town and minister's rates, were quite as 
low as the Massachusetts prices reduced one-third. And the 
money prices for grain in these towns were about twenty-five per 
cent, lower. There were so few money transactions in Hamp- 
shire that the real value of grain in silver can hardly be ascertained. 
Wheat at 2s. 6d., peas and rye, at 2s. and Indian corn, at is. 4d., 
were sometimes called money prices in Hadley. 

Madam Knight of Boston, who was in Connecticut in 1704, 
noticed three kinds of pay and corresponding prices: — 1st, pay, 
which was grain, pork, &c. at prices set by the General Court; 2d, 
pay as money, which was pay aforesaid, one-third cheaper than 
the prices set by the assembly; 3d, money, as pieces-of-eight, 
rials, Boston or Bay shillings, and Indian beads. The knife of 
a trader was 12 pence in pay, 8 pence in pay as money, and 6 
pence in money. 

♦Corn was the word used by our fathers for English grain, including peas, as it still is 
in England. The word grain, is not found in the Hadley records before 1692. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 



203 



HADLEY RATE, for building Fort River Bridge in 1681. Tlie rate was made in 
January, 1681-2. The 79 names of persons taxed are those of the heads of families, a few 
unmarried men, and some non-resident land-holders. The number of families did not 
exceed 60. The tax on a poll was 2s. 3d. The six highest taxes were those of Samuel 
Porter, Philip Smith, Samuel Partrigg, Aaron Cooke, Chileab Smith, and Peter Montague. 
The 23 lots on the east side of the street, omitting the small ones at the north end, and the 
20 lots on the west side, as originally granted, (see page 24,) are here numbered, from the 
top, on the east side, and from the bottom, on the west side, and most of the occupants in 
1 68 1 can be found. Many changes had taken place, and a number of the lots were occupied 
by tenants. 

West side of street. 

1 Lt. Joseph Kellogg, 
" Joseph Kellogg, Jr. 

2 Thomas Hale, 
WOIiam Markham, 
William Rooker, 

3 School Lot, (N. Ward's.) 

4 Samuel Moody, 

5 Jonathan Marsh, 
Daniel Marsh, 
Thomas Croft, 

6 Wm. Goodwin's lot. 

7 John Taylor, 

8 Timothy Nash, 
John Goodman, 

9 John Marsh, sr. 

10 Andrew Warner, 
Jacob Warner, 

1 1 Stephen Terry's lot. 
John Kellogg, 

12 Henry Clarke's land, 

Middle highway. 
Wm. Webster, 
Thomas Webster. 

13 Joseph Selding, 
Thomas Selding, 

14 Samuel Church, 
Martin Kellogg, 

15 Eliezer Hawks, 
Gershom Hawks, 

16 Joseph Barnard, 
Francis Barnard, 
Goodwife Barnard, 
Nathaniel Smith, 

17 Samuel Boltwood, 
Isaac Warner, 

18 Joseph Baldwin, sr. 
" Widpw of J. Baldwin, Jr. 

19 Chileab Smith, 

20 John Ingram, 
John Gardner, 
John Preston, 

Non-residents. 

John Cowles, 

Philip Russell, 

Thomas Loomis, 
On the record, the sum total of the 79 rates is £41.14.8. Not quite correct. 
I added those names and lots that have no tax against them. 



North lots. 


s. 


d. 


Robert Boltwood, 


2 


9 


Simon Beaman, 


3 


10 


Henry White, 


8 


2 


John Hayley, 


2 


II 


Joseph Warriner, 


3 


7 


East side of street. 






I Samuel Partrigg, 


29 


6 


2 Peter Montague, 


25 


3 


John Smith, 





8 


3 John Warner, 


8 


3 


4 Lt. Philip Smith, 


31 


5 


5 John Montague, 


14 


II 


Joseph Smith, 


3 


8 


6 John Dickinson, 


II 


I 


7 Samuel Porter, 


38 


6 


8 Samuel Northam, 


4 


2 


Samuel fielding, sr. 


14 





9 John Hubbard, 


6 


5 


10 Town lot. 






II Mr. John Russell. 






Middle highway. 






12 Samuel Barnard, 


8 


I 


13 Joseph Hovey, 


16 


g 


14 David Hoite, 


4 


II 


15 Samuel Lane, 


5 





Timothy Wales, 


4 


2 


16 Nathaniel White, 


18 


4 


17 Mr. Peter Tilton, 


17 


5 


18 Mark Warner, 


5 


I 


Nathaniel Warner, 


^ 


6 


Lewis land. 


16 


4 


19 Widow Goodman, 


21 


I 


20 Capt, Aaron Cooke, 


29 


4 


Andrew Leavens, 


2 




21 Thomas Hovey, 


6 


II 


Thomas Elgarr, 


2 


6 


22 Nehemiah Dickinson, 


'9 


3 


John Roberts, 


2 


6 


23 Samuel Smith, 


17 


10 


Edward Scott, 


2 


9 


Non-residents. 






Thomas Dickinson, 


II 


3 


Nathaniel Dickinson, 


I 


7 


Edward Church, 


12 


7 


Daniel Warner, 


2 


3 



9 

6 


9 

10 


15 


4 


4 


I 


7 


2 


7 


3 


5 


10 


12 

7 


3 
6 


2 


3 


13 


10 


9 
6 

7 
26 


2 

4 
8 

2 


8 


2 



204 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 



HADLEY RATE, for the town debts of 1686, maae in the early part of 1687. The 
number taxed was 82. The families had not increased in five years, and did not exceed 60. 
The tax on polls was 2s. id. The homelots are numbered as in 168 1-2. In placing the 
names on the old town rates, they began with those that lived at the north end, came down 
on the east side of the street, and went up on the west side. The names were arranged as 
the people lived, or by house-row. 

s. d. 



18 



2 


7 


10 


9 


9 


9 


7 





20 


4 


16 


2 


26 


II 



24 



West side of the street. 

1 Lieut. Jos. Kellogg, 
" Edward Kellogg, 
" Martin Kellogg, 

2 Thomas Hale, 
William Markham, 

3 School lot. 
John Kellogg, 

4 Samuel Moody, 

5 Jonathan Marsh, 
Daniel Marsh, 

6 Wm. Goodwin's lot. 

7 John Taylor, 

8 Timothy Nash, 

9 John Marsh, 

10 Widow of And. Warner, 
*' Jacob Warner, 

11 Widow of R. Goodman, 

12 Henry Clark's lot. 
Middle Highway. 

13 Joseph Selding, 
Thomas Selding, 

14 Widow of Sam'l Church, 

15 Gershom Hawks, 

16 Francis Barnard, 

17 Samuel Boltwood, 
Nathaniel Smith, 
Wm. Rooker, 
Joseph Hovey, 

18 Joseph Baldwin, (3d,) 
" Widow Baldwin, 

19 Chileab Smith, 
Sam. Smith, his son, 

20 John Ingram, 
Samuel Gardner, 
Nathaniel Warner, 
John Preston, 
Joseph Warriner, 

Non-residents. 
Eliezer Hawks, 
Thos. Dickinson, 
Mr. Jonathan Russell, 
John Hawks, 
Daniel Warner, 
Edward Church, 
John Cowles, 
Nathaniel Dickinson, 
Samuel Belding, sr. 
The aggregate of this tax is recorded as £41.8.2. Not quite exact. 
The rate for the debts of 1686, is the last that can be found for a great number of years. 
This and some preceding rates were recorded by Samuel Partrigg. His plain, legible hand 
ceases at Hadley in 1687. He removed to Hatfield. His son Samuel resided in Hadley, 



North lots. 


s. 


d. 


Joseph Smith, 
Simon Beaman, 


4 

I 


4 

I 


Isaac Warner, 


12 


5 


John Hayley, 


6 


9 


East side of the street. 






1 Samuel Partrigg, 

2 Peter Montague, 
John Smith's heirs, 


27 

27 

4 


3 

6 


3 John Smith, 


12 


5 


Samuel Smith, son of Ph. 


II 


9 


4 Widow of Ph. Smith, 


18 


3 


" Philip Smith, 


5 


7 


Mr. George Stileman, 
5 Widow of R. Montague, 
John Montague, 
Thomas Croft, 


3 
4 
8 
8 




9 

7 
8 


6 John Dickinson, 

7 Sarmiel Porter, sr. 


II 

27 


10 

7 


8 Hezekiah Porter, 


7 


10 


9 Daniel Hubbard, 


16 


10 


10 Town lot. 






1 1 Mr. John Russell, 


IS 


5 


Middle Highway. 
12 Samuel Barnard, 


8 


7 


13 Bacon's lot. 






14 John Smith, son of Philip, 


7 


I 


15 Samuel Porter, Jr. 


13 


6 


16 Nathaniel White, 


16 


7 


Nathaniel Goodwin, 


2 


I 


Joseph Chamberlain, 


2 


I 


17 Mr. Peter Tilton, 


14 


I 


John Lawrence, 
18 Lewis land. 


4 
4 


2 



19 John Goodman, 


14 


8 


20 Capt. Aaron Cooke, 
Andrew Leavens, 


27 
2 


II 
I 


21 Thomas Hovey, 

22 Nehemiah Dickinson, 


8 

27 


8 
4 


23 Samuel Smith, sr. 


14 


10 


" Mrs. Dorothy Russell, 

Young men. 

Thomas Coleman, 


I 
2 


6 

I 


Thomas Elgarr, 
Simon Smith, 


2 

2 


I 
I 


Eleazar Warner, 


2 


8 



9 


3 


8 


4 


14 


6 


7 


3 


13 


9 


12 


5 


2 


II 


15 


II 


4 


6 


7 


I 


3 


6 


32 


5 


4 


9 



•3 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 205 

Changes in Hadley. — Notices follow of some of the changes in the owners and occupiers 
of homelots in Hadley, from 1663 to 1687. The names of the proprietors in 1663 are on 
page 24. The names of owners and dwellers in 1681 and 1687, are in the lists of persons 
taxed, on pages 203 and 204. Many homelots remained in the same family till after 1687; 
these La general are not noticed. 

The north dwellers. 

Robert Boltwood was at the mill in 1681, but was not taxed for the mill. John Clary 
was at the mill in 1684. Joseph Smith, cooper, began to have the care of the mill, Nov. 
1687. 

Isaac Harrison built a house on his lot next to the river. His widow married Henry 
White, who lived in the same house some years, but removed to Deerfield. Joseph Smith 
bought the house and lot, 1685, for 33 pounds. 

William Gaylord, in 1672, bought for 20 pounds, the western lot of the four, adjoining 
Partrigg's houselot on the north, with a house. It was a triangular lot, first granted to 
AdamNichoUs, and contained three acres. Two acres, on page 24, is a mistake. Gaylord's 
widow married John Haley. This houselot belonged to the Gaylords for a long time. 

John Taylor had the lot next east, (and not John Ingram, as on page 24.) He sold the 
lot and house to Doct. John Westcarr, and bought John Webster's homestead. Doct. 
Westcarr's widow married Simon Beaman; they removed to Deerfield, and George Stile- 
man, or Stillman, bought the lot and house in 1687. 

John Ingram had the lot east of Taylor's, and retained it, but he bought a part of Sam- 
uel Gardner's place, and lived there. 

William Pixley had the lot east of Ingram's. He removed to Northampton, and the lot 
long remained without a resident. 

Joseph Warriner had a lot in the street, near the north end. 

East side of the street. 

Peter Montague married the widow of Noah Coleman, and lived on the Coleman house- 
lot. 

John Warner from Brooklield, lived some years on Lt. Samuel Smith's lot. In 1687, 
John Smith, orphan, son of John Smith who was slain in 1676, and Samuel Smith, son of 
Philip, owned the lot, and lived on it. 

Joseph Smith lived on John Dickinson's lot from 1681 to 1685, and Thomas Croft, in 
1687. This second John Dickinson removed to Wethersfield. 

The widow of Thomas Wells married Samuel Belding of Hatfield, and he was taxed for 
her estate. Samuel Northam bought half the houselot. He removed to Deerfield, and 
Samuel Porter bought this half and Hezekiah Porter lived on it, 1687. Widow Porter 
bought the other half of the Wells lot. 

John Hubbard removed to Hatfield, and his son Daniel lived on his place in Hadley. 

The town houselot was vacant, 1681 and 1687. 

Mr. Russell was taxed in 1687. 

Samuel Barnard had of his father, Francis B., the lot that had been John Barnard's. 

The Bacon lot and the two Stanley lots were long occupied by tenants. John Smith, 
son of PhUip, owned Nathaniel Stanley's lot in 1686. Samuel Porter owned Thomas Stan- 
ley's lot, and his son Samuel lived on it in 1686. Some years later, Lieut. Nehemiah Dick- 
inson purchased Andrew Bacon's lot. The tenants, Joseph Hovey, David Hoyt, Samuel 
Lane and Timothy Wales removed. Hoyt went to Deerfield and Lane to Sufl5eld. Per- 
haps Hovey was an owner for a time. 

Mark and Nathaniel Warner, sons of John W., appear to have lived some years in the 
house of William Lewis, he having removed to Farmington. Mark settled in Northamp- 
ton. Daniel Marsh seems to have purchased the Lewis lot. 

Thomas Hovey purchased Thomas Dickinson's houselot in 1679. Dickinson removed 
to Wethersfield. 

Samuel Smith, son of Rev. Henry Smith of Wethersfield, lived on the lot of his mother, 
the widow of John Russell, sr. 

West side of the street. 

Thomas Hale had a part of Markham's houselot, having married one of Markham's 
daughters. He removed to Enfield. — William Rooker lived on Markham's lot and else- 
where. 



206 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Nathaniel Ward's house was occupied by the Hopkins School, and sometimes had a 
family in it. John Kellogg seems to have lived in this house some time. 

John Crow removed to Hartford. Jonathan and Daniel Marsh purchased his lot. 
Some years after, Daniel lived on the lot of his father, John Marsh. 

William Goodwin removed to Farmington. John Crow had his houselot, and his son 
Samuel Crow lived on it; Samuel's two children, Samuel and Mary, had the lot. 

John Taylor bought John Webster's houselot. 

The widow of Richard Goodman owned the lot that had belonged to her father, Stephen 
Terry. 

Henry Clarke's lot was purchased by Rev. John Russell. Was sold by Rev. Jonathan 
Russell to Aaron Cooke. 

William and Thomas Webster lived in small houses in the middle highway. 

Edward Church removed to Hatfield. Sold his houselot to Joseph and Thomas Selding, 
or Selden, sons of Thomas Selding of Hartford, deceased. 

Eleazar Hawks removed to Deerfield. Gershom died in a few year": Nathaniel Kellogg 
bought the Hawks lot. 

Joseph Barnard, who had lived with his father, Francis B., removed to Deerfield. 
"Goodwife Barnard" had been wife of John Dickinson and owned some of his estate. 

Isaac Warner lived on a corner of Boltwood's lot many years. Was taxed at the north 
end in 1687. He removed up the river. 

John Ingram owned a part of Samuel Gardner's lot. 

John Preston had a small lot and house adjoining Gardner. 

Most of the non-residents that were taxed, resided in Hatfield. 

These heads of families remained in Hadley a few years, and removed before 1687, viz., 
James Beebee, Edward Grannis, Mr. John Younglove, John Catlin and John Clary, Jr. 
John Lawrence resided in Hadley some years, and removed after 1687. A single man 
named Thomas Aacy lived in Hadley some years. 



CHAPTER XIX 

Generals Whalley and GofFe — Hutchinson's Account — President Stiles's History — The 
Russell house and the Judges' chamber. 

The appearance of Gen. GofFe at Hadley, Sept. i, 1675, when 
the Indians attacked the place, is noticed on pages 137-139, with 
some remarks of President Stiles. His supposition, that the 
people in the meeting-house were "suddenly surrounded and 
surprised by a body of Indians," must be unfounded. The 
Indians, with a defenceless village a mile in length before them, 
would not have surrounded a building which contained thirty or 
forty armed men. The attack was undoubtedly upon the out- 
skirts of the town, probably at the north end. The approach of 
the Indians may have been observed by Goffe from his chamber, 
which had a window towards the east. There is no reason to 
believe that there was a very large body of Indians, but the people, 
being entirely unaccustomed to war, needed GofFe to arrange and 
order them. The Indians appear to have fled, after a short skir- 
mish. 




The R II s s e I, l C ii i i ' ii a n ij 1 1 i - i k l 
The latter occupies the site of the home of Rev. Joliu Russell, in which the regicides were sheltered 




Old Academy B i' i l d i n <■ , Built in i 8 i 7 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 207 

Edward Whalley was brought up to merchandize. When the 
contest began between king Charles and the padiament, he, in 
middle life, took up arms in defence of the liberty of the subject, 
and distinguished himself in many sieges and battles. He was 
a cousin of Oliver Cromwell. Noble says, "from a merchant's 
counter, to rise to so many and so high offices in the state, and to 
conduct himself with propriety in them, sufficiently evinces that 
he had good abilities, nor is his honesty questioned by any." 

William Goffe was a son of Rev. Stephen Goffe, a puritan 
divine, rector of Stanmore in Sussex. He left the counter when 
a young man, repaired to the parliament army, and his merit 
raised him to be a colonel of foot, and afterwards a general, and 
a member of parliament. His wife who was Whalley's daughter, 
he left in England, and he kept up a constant correspondence 
v/ith her while in exile in New England. His last letter to her is 
dated at Hadley in 1679. 

Both Whalley and Goffe were of the sixty-seven judges who 
passed sentence upon king Charles I. and of the fifty-nine who 
signed his death warrant, Jan. 29, 1649. When the restoration 
of Charles H. was determined, they found it necessary to escape 
from England. 

Governor Hutchinson was in possession of Goffe's diary and his 
papers and letters, which had long been in the library of the Math- 
ers in Boston. Hutchinson was a tory, and his house was rifled 
by a mob in 1765, and the Journal of Goffe and other papers relat- 
ing to the judges are supposed to have been destroyed. From 
them he had published in 1764, a short Account of Whalley and 
Goffe, in his first volume of the History of Massachusetts. Some 
extracts are subjoined: — 

"In the ship which arrived at Boston from London, the 27th of July, 1660, there came 
passengers, Colonel Whalley and Colonel Goffe, two of the late King's Judges. Colonel 
Goffe brought testimonials from Mr. John Row and Mr. Seth Wood, two ministers of a 
church in Westminster. Colonel Whalley had been a member of Mr. Thomas Goodwin's 
church. Goffe kept a journal or diary, from the day he left Westminster, May 4, until the 
year 1667; which together with several other papers belonging to him, I have in my pos- 
session. Almost the whole is in characters, or short hand, not difficult to decypher. The 
story of these persons has never yet been published to the world. They did not attempt to 
conceal their persons or characters when they arrived at Boston, but immediately went to 
the Governor, Mr. Endicot, who received them very courteously. They were visited by the 
principal persons of the town; and among others, they take notice of Colonel Crown's com- 
ing to see them. He was a noted Royalist. Although they did not disguise themselves, 
yet they chose to reside at Cambridge, a village about four miles distant from the town, 
where they went the first day they arrived. They went publicly to meetings on the Lord's 
day, and to occasional lectures, fasts, and thanksgivings, and were admitted to the sacra- 
ment, and attended private meetings for devotion, visited many of the principal towns, and 
were frequently at Boston; and once when insulted there, the person who insulted them was 
bound to his good behavior. They appeared grave, serious and devout; and the rank they 



208 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

had sustained commanded respect. Whalley had been one of Cromwell's Lieutenant- 
Generals, and Goffe a Major-General. The reports, by way of Barbadoes, were that all 
the Judges would be pardoned but seven. When it appeared that they were not excepted, 
some of the principal persons in the Government were alarmed; pity and compassion pre- 
vailed with others. They had assurances from some that belonged to the General Court, 
that they would stand by them, but were advised by others to think of removing. The 22d 
of February, 1661, the Governor summoned a Court of Assistants, to consult about securing 
them, but the Court did not agree to it. Finding it unsafe to remain any longer, they left 
Cambridge the 26th following, and arrived at New Haven the 7th of March, 1661. One 
Captain Breedan, who had seen them at Boston, gave information thereof upon his arrival 
in England. A few days after their removal, a hue and cry, as they term it in their diary, 
was brought by the way of Barbadoes; and thereupon a warrant to secure them issued, the 
8th of March from the Governor and Assistants, which was sent to Springfield and other 
towns in the western part of the colony; but they were beyond the reach of it." 

The Governor adds in a long marginal note, "They were well treated at New-Haven by 
the ministers, and some of the magistrates, and for some days seemed to apprehend them- 
selves out of danger. But the news of the King's proclamation being brought to New-Haven, 
they were obliged to abscond. The 27th of March they removed to Milford, and appeared 
there in the day time, and made themselves known; but at night returned privately to New- 
Haven, and lay concealed in Mr. Davenport the minister's house, until the 30th of April. 
About this time news came to Boston, that ten of the Judges were executed, and the Gov- 
ernor received a royal mandate, dated March 5, 1660-61, to cause Whalley and Goffe to be 
secured. This greatly alarmed the country, and there is no doubt that the court were now 
in earnest in their endeavors to apprehend them: and to avoid all suspicion, they gave com- 
mission and instruction to two young merchants from England. Thomas Kellond and Thomas 
Kirk, zealous royalists, to go through the colonies, as far as Manhados [New York] in search 
of them. They had friends who informed them what was doing, and they removed from Mr. 
Davenport's to the house of William Jones, where they lay hid until the nth of May, and 
then removed to a mill, and from thence, on the 13th into the woods, where they met Jones 
and two of his companions, Sperry and Burril, who first conducted them to a place called 
Hatchet-Harbour, where they lay two nights, until a cave or hole in the side of a hUl was 
prepared to conceal them. This hill they called Providence-Hill : and there they continued 
from the 15th of May to the nth of June, sometimes in the cave, and in very tempestuous 
weather, in a house near to it. During this time the messengers went through New-Haven 
to the Dutch settlement, from whence they returned to Boston by water. They made dil- 
igent search, and had full proof that the regicides had been seen at Mr. Davenport's, and 
offered great rewards to English and Indians who should give information, that they might 
be taken; but by the fidelity of their three friends they remained undiscovered. Mr. Dav- 
enport was threatened with being called to an account, for concealing and comforting trait- 
ors, and might well be alarmed. They had engaged to surrender, rather than the country 
or any particular persons should suffer upon their account: and upon intimation of Mr. 
Davenport's danger, they generously resolved to go to New-Haven, and deliver themselves 
up to the authority there. They let the Deputy-Governor, Mr. Leete know where they 
were; but he took no measures to secure them; and the next day some persons came to them 
to advise them not to surrender. Having publicly shewn themselves at New-Haven, they 
had cleared Mr. Davenport from the suspicion of still concealing them, and the 24th 
of June went into the woods again to their cave. They continued there, sometimes ventur- 
ing to a house near the cave, until the 19th of August — when the search for them being 
pretty well over they ventured to the house of one Tomkins, near Milford meeting-house, 
where they remained two years, without so much as going into the orchard. After that, 
they took a little more liberty, and made themselves known to several persons in whom they 
could confide, and each of them frequently prayed, and also exercised, as they termed it, 
or preached at private meetings in their chamber. In 1664, the commissioners from King 
Charles arrived at Boston — Upon the news of it, they retired to their cave, where they 
tarried eight or ten days. Soon after, some Indians in their hunting, discovered the cave 
with the bed; and the report being spread abroad, it was not safe to remain near it. On 
the 13th of October, 1664, they set out for Hadley, near an hundred miles distant, travelling 
only by night; where Mr. Russel, the minister of the place, had previously agreed to receive 
them. Here they remained concealed fifteen or sixteen years, very few persons in the col- 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 209 

ony being privy to it. The last account of Goffe, is from a letter, dated Ehenezer, the name 
they gave their several places of abode, April 2, 1679. Whalley had been dead some time 
before. The tradition at Hadley is, that two persons unknown, were buried in the minis- 
ter's cellar. The minister was no sufferer by his boarders. They received more or less 
remittances every year, for many years together, from their wives in England. Those few 
persons who knew where they were, made them frequent presents. Richard Saltonstall, 
Esq. who was in the secret, when he left the country and went to England in 1672, made 
them a present of fifty pounds at his departure; and they take notice of donations from 
several other friends. They were in constant terror, though they had reason to hope after 
some years, that the enquiry for them was over. They read with pleasure the news of their 
being killed, with other judges, in Switzerland. Their diary for six or seven years, contains 
every little occurrence in the town, church, and particular families in the neighborhood. 
They had indeed, for five years of their lives, been among the principal actors of the great 
affairs of the nation. They had very constant and exact intelligence of every thing which 
passed in England, and were unwilling to give up all hopes of deliverance. Their greatest 
expectations were from the fulfilment of the prophecies. They had no doubt, that the 
execution of the Judges was the slaying of the witnesses. They were much disappointed, 
when the year 1666 had passed without any remarkable event, but flattered themselves that 
the Christian aera might be erroneous. Their lives were miserable and constant burdens. 
They complain of being banished from all human society. A letter from Goffe 's wife, who 
was Whalley's daughter, I think worth preserving. After the second year, Goffe writes by 
the name of Walter Goldsmith, and she of Frances Goldsmith; and the correspondence is 
carried on, as between a mother and son. There is too much religion in their letters for the 
taste of the present day: but the distresses of two persons, under these peculiar circumstances, 
who appear to have lived very happily together, are very strongly described. 

Whilst they were at Hadley, February 10, 1664-5, John Dixwell, another of the Judges, 
came to them; but from whence, or in what part of America he first landed, is not known. 
He continued some years at Hadley, and then removed to New-Haven. He married at 
New-Haven, and left several children. After his death, his son came to Boston, and lived 
in good repute; was a ruling elder of one of the churches there, and died in 1725. Colonel 
Dixwell was buried in New-Haven. 

It cannot be denied, that many of the principal persons in the colony greatly esteemed 
these persons for their professions of piety, and their grave deportment, who did not approve 
of their political conduct. After they v/ere declared traitors, they certainly would have been 
sent to England, if they could have been taken. It was generally thought that they had left 
the country; and even the consequence of their escape was dreaded, lest when they were 
taken, those who had harbored them should suffer for it. Randolph, who was sent to search, 
could obtain no more knowledge of them, than that they had been in the country, and re- 
spect had been shewn them by some of the Magistrates. I am loth to omit an anecdote 
handed down through Governor Leverett's family. I find Goffe takes notice in his journal 
of Leverett's being at Hadley.— [This anecdote is on page 138.] 



Rev. Ezra Stiles, president of Yale College, published "A 
History of three of the Judges of King Charles I.," Whalley, GofFe 
and Dixwell, in 1794, and dedicated it "to all the patrons of real, 
perfect and unpolluted liberty." He collected a great abundance 
of traditionary information from the towns about New Haven, 
and from Hadley. — He found that the Providence Hill of Whalley 
and Goffe was West Rock, about two and a half miles north- 
west of New Haven; and that their cave was not in the side of the 
hill, but in a pile of rocks on the top of West Rock. 

The judges were not out of danger while secreted at Hadley, 
as public inquiry was made after them by men sent from England. 



210 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

They led so recluse and concealed a life at Hadley, that there are 
few anecdotes concerning them while there. They were well 
supplied with means of subsistence, partly from England and 
partly from friends here. Peter Tilton was often at Boston and 
donations could be safely made through him, and the judges 
sometimes resided at his house. Goffe thus wrote to his wife 
respecting her superannuated father, Whalley, in August, 1674: — 

''He is scarce capable of any rational discourse, his understanding, memory and speech 
do so much fail him, and he seems not to take much notice of any thing that is either said 
or done, but patiently bears all things and never complains of any thing. The common 
question is to know how he doth, and his answer for the most part is, very well, I praise God. 
He has not been able of a long time to dress, undress or feed himself, without help; it is a 
great mercy to him that he has a friend who takes pleasure in being helpful to him." 

Whalley died in Hadley not far from 1676, and GefFe's last 
letter is dated April 2, 1679, ^^^ ^^ ^^^Y have died as early as 
1680. It is certain that Whalley died in Hadley, and there is 
very little doubt that Goffe died there also. The tradition, con- 
cerning which President Stiles enlarges, that Whalley or Goffe, 
or both, were buried at New Haven, seems to be fabulous. Pres. 
S. believed that both died in Hadley, and that Whalley was buried 
at Russell's and Goffe at Tilton's. The surmise of some, that 
their bodies were removed from Hadley to New Haven, is cer- 
tainly false, in regard to Whalley, and it is believed to be equally 
unfounded as to Goffe. The necessity of secrecy would have 
prevented the removal, as it must have been done by oxen and 
cart. The bones of Whalley had not been found when Pres. 
Stiles wrote his History in 1793. 

The following letter from Rev. Samuel Hopkins of Hadley, to 
President Stiles, contains various traditions, some of which must 
be rejected. The time of Peter Tilton's death, which Mr. Hop- 
kins could not find, was July 11, 1696. 

Hadley, March 26, 1793. 
"Reverend Sir, 

Since I received yours of the nth ult. I have taken pains to enquire of the oldest people 
among us, what they heard said, by the eldest persons in town since their remembrance, 
respecting Whalley and Goffe, their residence in this town. The tradition among all of 
them is, that both of them were secreted in the town; that the inhabitants at that time knew 
very little of them, or where they were concealed, except those in whose houses they were. 
And the tradition among them in general is, that one of them died in this town (those who 
remember which, say Whalley) — that the other, Goffe, after the death of Whalley, left the 
town, and that it was not known where he went. With respect to the one who died in this 
town, the tradition in general is, that he was buried in Mr. Tillton's cellar. 

Most of whom I have enquired for tradition say, that while they were here the Indians 
made an assault upon the town: that on this occasion a person unknown appeared, anima- 
ting^and leading on the inhabitants against the enemy, and exciting them by his activity and 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 211 

ardour; that when the Indians were repulsed, the stranger disappeared — was gone — none 
ever knew where, or who he was. The above is the general tradition among us. 

I shall now notice some things which were in the tradition, as given by some, differing 
from the above, or adding somewhat to it. 

According to the tradition given by some, Whalley and Gofle were not concealed the 
whole of the time at Mr. Russell's and Mr. Tillton's, but part of the time at one Smith's.* 
This I find in the family of the Smiths. 

An old man among us says, he remembers to have heard the old people say, there was a 
fruitless search (by order of the government, as I understand it) of all the houses in Hadley; 
but that they (to use his words) searched as if they searched not. That after Whalley 's death, 
Goffe went off, first to Hartford, afterwards to New-Haven, where he was suspected and in 
danger of being known, by his extraordinary dexterity with the sword; shown (as he tells 
the story) on a particular occasion. And in apprehension of danger, he went off from New- 
Haven. Here tradition, according to him, ends with respect to Goffe. 

Another, still older says, that he heard both his father and his grandfather say, that Whalley 
and Goffe were both secreted at Mr. Russell's at first; who for their security, in case of 
search, made a retreat for them between his chambers, and behind his chimney. That one 
of them died at Mr. Tillton's and was buried behind his barn. That after his death Goffe 
went off into tlie Narragansett; was there set upon, and in danger of being taken; went from 
thence to the southward; was heard of as far as Pennsylvania, or Virginia, and nothing heard 
further of him. 

The tradition among some, connected with the family of the Marshes, is, that Whalley 
and Goffe both died in Hadley. 

Not many years after my settlement in Hadley, (1754) one, who was then quite an old 
man, told me, among other things, that the tradition of the one that died in town was, that 
he was buried in Mr. Tillton's garden, or in his cellar. With respect to the place of his burial, 
I am of opinion, that it was kept secret, and was unknown. It seems to have been a matter 
of conjecture among the inhabitants; — in Tillton's cellar, — in his garden — or behind his 
barn — as they imagined most probable. Of his being buried under a fence between two 
lots, I do not find any thing; — nor of his being afterwards removed. I have searched for his 
monument, and do not as yet by any means find the time of Tillton's death. Should I here- 
after, I will inform you. 

SAMUEL HOPKINS." 

Extracts from Stiles's History of the Judges. 

I was at Hadley, May 21, 1792. The reverend Mr. Hopkins carried me to Mr. Russell's 
house, still standing. It is a double house, two stories and a kitchen. Although repaired 
with additions, yet the chamber of the Judges remains obviously in its original state unmuti- 
lated, as when these exiled worthies inhabited it. Adjoining to it behind, or at the north 
end of the large chimney, was a closet, in the floor of which I saw still remaining the trap 
door, through which they let themselves down into an under closet, and so thence descended 
into the cellar for concealment, in case of search or surprise. I examined all those places 
with attention, and with heart-felt sympathetic veneration for the memories of those long 
immured sufferers, thus shut up and secluded from the world for the tedious space of four- 
teen or sixteen years, in this voluntary Bastile. They must have been known to the family 
and domestics; and must have been frequently exposed to accidental discoveries, with all 
their care and circumspection to live in stillness. That the whole should have been effec- 
tually concealed in the breasts of the knowing ones, is a scene of secrecy truly astonishing! 

On my return from Hadley, passing through Wethersfield, on the 25th of May, I visited 
Mrs. Porter, a sensible and judicious woman, aged 77. She was a daughter of Mr. Ebenezer 
Marsh, and born at Hadley, 171 5, next door to Mr. Tillton's, one of the temporary and in- 
terchanged residences of the Judges. This house was in her day occupied by deacon Joseph 
Eastman. She had the general siory of the Judges, but said she knew nothing with cer- 
tainty concerning them, but only that it was said they sometimes lived at Mr. Russell's, and 

*Lieut. Samuel Smith is meant. 



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sometimes where deacon Eastman lived. That one was buried in Mr. Russell's cellar, and 
another in Mr. Tillton's lot. As she said she had nothing certain, I pressed her for fab- 
ulous anecdotes. She said she was ashamed to tell young people's whims and notions. 
But in the course of conversation she said, that when she was a girl, it was the constant 
belief among the neighbors, that an old man, for some reason or other, had been buried 
in the fence between deacon Eastman's and her father's. She said the women and girls 
from their house and deacon Eastman's used to meet at the dividing fence, and while 
chatting and talking together for amusement, one and another at times would say, with a 
sort of skittish fear and laughing, "who knows but what we are now standing on the old 
man's grave ?" She and other girls used to be skittish and fearful, even in walking the street, 
when they came against the place of that supposed grave; though it was never known 
whereabouts in that line of fence it lay. She supposed the whole was only young folks' 
foolish notions; for some were much concerned lest the old man's ghost should appear at 
or about that grave. But this lady was very reluctant at narrating these circumstances 
and stories, to which she gave no heed herself. 

In repeatedly visiting Hadley for many years past, and in conversation with persons 
born and brought up in Hadley, but settled elsewhere, I have often perceived a concurrent 
tradition that both died there, and were buried somewhere in Hadley unknown, though 
generally agreeing that one was buried at Russell's. 

Mr. Russell's Dwelling House. 

Stiles's History contains a representation of the outlines of the 
house, and of the Judges' Chamber. The following is an im- 
perfect copy, made without the aid of an engraver. 



H 
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The Judges' 
Chamber, 1665. 



Middle Highway. 



One part of the house was built as early as 1660, and the town 
aided Mr. Russell to build an addition in 1662. It appears from 
the inventory of Mr. Russell's estate in 1693, that the north, or 
kitchen part of the house, had a kitchen, lodging room, buttery 
and closet, with chambers over them; also a study; and that the 
south part had two lower rooms, named hall and parlor, with hall 



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and parlor chambers over them; and a great and Httle cellar* and 
garrets, are mentioned. Furniture and other articles were ap- 
praised in all these rooms. 

The town purchased of Rev. Samuel Russell of Branford, in 
1694, the house and the old homelot of 8 acres, and 4 acres added 
to the east end of this lot and the town lot, to extend them to the 
bank, making 12 acres, for 120 pounds, or about 400 dollars in 
money. The town gave the buildings and ten acres to their second 
minister, Mr. Isaac Chauncey, in 1696. His son, Josiah Chauncey, 
sold the same homestead in 1749, to Samuel Gaylord, who resided 
upon it, as did his son, Samuel Gaylord; and his grandson, 
Chester Gaylord, still owns the western half of the lot, and lives 
upon it. 

Chester Gaylord was born in 1782, and is now (April, 1858) in 
his 76th year. The following information is derived from him: — 
Before he was born, his father took down the north or kitchen 
part of the Russell house, and rebuilt it in nearly the same place, 
two stories high in the front westward, and one in the rear,f and 
the old cellar remained. The south building, in his younger 
years, remained apparently in its original state. He judges that 
it was 42 or 44 feet in length and about 20 feet in width. There 
was no cellar under it. The south side was the front. It had 
two large rooms below, with an old fashioned chimney and a 
front entry and stairs between them. Above were two spacious 
chambers, and overhead appeared the joists and garret-floor, 
whitewashed; and Mr. G. thinks the walls were boarded and not 
plastered, but is not certain. North of the chimney, was an en- 
closed place with two doors, used as a passage between the cham- 
bers and for other purposes. The floor boards of this passage 
or closet were laid from the chimney to the north side, and the 
ends went under the boards that enclosed the apartment. One 
board, at least, was not fastened down, and it could be slipped 
two or three inches to the north or south, and one end could then 
be raised up.j! Mr. G., when a boy, had many times raised this 
board and let himself down into the space below, and restored the 
board to its place above him. He was then in a dark hole, which 
had no opening into any of the lower rooms; if there was once a 
passage into the kitchen cellar, it had been closed. There is a 

*The great and little cellar were only one cellar, divided by a partition, and it was not 
large. 

"{"President Stiles understood that the house had been "repaired with additions." 
jThe trap door which Pres. Stiles saw in May, 1792, could have been nothing else but 
this board. It was not such a trap door as is pictured in his plan of the house. 



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tradition that tiie judges were once concealed in this dark place 
behind the chimney, when searchers went through the passage 
above. They could easily lift the board, and hide themselves 
in this under closet. 

The south part of the Russell house was pulled down when Mr. 
Gaylord was about 13 years old, or in 1795, and the present house 
was built, which is 44 by 40 feet, and extends above 20 feet farther 
south than the old one. The kitchen part was all north of this, 
and Mr. Gaylord's father and his family lived in it, while he was 
building the new house. As the stones of the old cellar wall were 
needed for the new cellar, the building was supported by props in 
part, and the wall removed. In taking down the middle part of 
the front wall, next to the main street, the workmen discovered, 
about 4 feet below the top of the ground, a place where the earth 
was loose, and a little search disclosed flat stones, a man's bones, 
and bits of wood. Almost all the bones were in pieces, but one 
thigh bone was whole, and there were two sound teeth. Doct. 
S. H. Rogers, who then resided in Hadley, examined the thigh 
bone, and said it was the thigh bone of a man of large size. This 
and the other bones were laid on a shelf, and in a short time they 
all crumbled into small pieces, and were not preserved. John 
Hopkins took the teeth, and he gave away one or both. No other 
grave was found behind the cellar wall. Mr. G. supposes the 
flat stones, from their position, were laid on the top of the coffin. 

These bones must have been those of Gen. Whalley, who was 
buried near 120 years before. Perhaps he died before Mr. 
Russell began to entertain the officers in the Indian war in 1675. 
If so, only Goffe removed to Mr. Tilton's. 

On the i8th of May, 1680, Sir Edmund Andros wrote from 
New York, to the Governor and Assistants of Connecticut, that 
he had been informed that Col. Goff'e was kept and concealed by 
Capt. Joseph Bull and his sons at Hartford, under the name of 
Mr. Cooke. Warrants were issued to the constables of Hartford, 
directing them to search diligently the buildings of Joseph Bull 
and sons, and other places. They did not find Col. Gofi^e nor 
any suspected stranger. Secretary Allyn wrote to Gov. Andros, 
June II, 1680, desiring the names of the informers, and said the 
people of Hartford were much abused by these false reports. 

President Stiles was an ardent republican, and believed that criminal kings should be 
tried and punished, as well as other men. He said in conclusion: — 

"The enlightened, upright and intrepid judges of Charles I. will hereafter go down to 
posterity with increasing renown, among the Jepthas, the Baraks, the Gideons, and the 
Washingtons, and others raised up by providence for great and momentous occasions: whose 
memories, with those of all the other successful and unsuccessful, but intrepid and patriotic 



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defenders of real liberty, will be selected in history, and contemplated with equal, impartial 
and merited justice: and whose names, and achievements, and sufferings will be trans- 
mitted with honor, renown, and glory, through all the ages of liberty and of man." 

Mr. Tilton's letter to his wife. — The following letter, published by Hutchinson, though 
not relating to the judges, may be inserted with propriety in the History of Hadley. It is 
occupied chiefly with foreign affairs, and furnishes another example of the manner in which 
European news was spread in this country, before newspapers were printed here. 

Boston, i8 3 mo. [May i8,] 1672. 
"Dear Wife, 

This opportunity gives occasion of these lines; we have had a quiet and peaceable election, 
no alteration or addition. O what a price doth Divine Patience yet betrust us with, when 
he is drawing out the sword and arraying himself with the garments of vengeance as to 
other kingdoms, and when it is more than probable many garments are tumbling in blood. 
As to the news from England, all men, both wise and others of more ordinary capacities, 
look on the effect or produce thereof will be as black a day in the world, as the world hath 
known. The late actions in England in commissioning their fleet to seize and fall on the 
Hollanders, of which I wrote you in my last, breaking their league, joining with the French, 
assisting them with soldiers out of England, and with their principal harbors to receive a 
numerous army, and shutting up the exchequer, whereby many are outed of their estates 
contrary to all law, are things that both in England and here, by men of all sorts, are looked 
upon as strange, horrid, and ominous. There is another ship expected, one Jonas Clarke, 
if not stopped by the embargo or otherwise, in which one Dr. Hoare, a minister, is expected. 
Remember me to mine and thine, with my love to all with you. I cannot forget you before 
the Father of Spirits night and day. The good wUl of Him that dwelt in the bush be with 
you, cause his face to shine upon you all, and give you peace. So prayeth still. 

Yours unfeignedly to love, 

PETER TILLTON." 

Mr. TUton's letter has a postcript, chiefly relating to a fast appointed by the General 
Court for themselves, to be on the "fourth day," (Wednesday) of the next week. Mr. 
TUton wrote to his family: — "My dear ones, forget not him who hath you all on his heart, 
and whose desire it is to leave himself and his all, with that merciful high-priest who hath 
the keys of life and death. Farewell. Farewell." 



CHAPTER XX 

The MUitia and their postures and arms — Hadley militia — Hampshire Troop — Change in 
fire-arms— New Militia Law — New Military book — Bayonets — Colors — Calling the 
roll — Watches — Alarms. 

Militia companies in Massachusetts and Connecticut were 
organized and armed in nearly the same manner as soldiers in 
England. "TheCompleat Body of the Art Military," by Lieut. 
Col. Richard Elton, was published before 1649, and a Supple- 
ment by another was published with it in London, 1668. Many 
persons in New England had Elton's book. Major John Pynchon 
had one; and Capt. Aaron Cooke of Northampton had one, 
which he gave in his will, to his son, Capt. Aaron Cooke of Had- 
ley. The manner in which our fathers performed the manual 
exercise, with the matchlock musket and rest, may be learned 
from what Elton calls "The Postures of the Musket," in the 
edition of 1668. 



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The Postures of the Musket, 



Stand to your arms. 

Take up your bandoleers. 

Put on your bandoleers. 

Take up your match. 

Place your match. 

Take up your rest. 

Put the string of your rest about your left 

wrist. 
Take up your musket. 
Rest your musket. 
Poise your musket. 
Shoulder your musket. 
Unshoulder your musket and poise. 
Join your rest to the outside of your musket. 
Open your pan. 
Clear your pan. 
Prime your pan. 
Shut your pan. 
Cast off your loose corns. 
Blow off your loose corns and bring about 

your musket to the left side. 
Trail your rest. 

Balance your musket in your left hand. 
Find out your charge. 
Open your charge. 
Charge with powder. 
Draw forth your scouring stick. 
Turn and shorten him to an inch. 
Charge with bullet. 

Put your scouring stick into your musket. 
Ram home your charge. 
Withdraw your scouring stick. 

He gives, also, funeral, saluting and other postures; and the 
postures of lighter muskets, which were used without rests, but 
were fired with a match. 

"The Postures of the Pike" are given; some of them are handle, 
raise, charge, order, advance, shoulder, port, comport, check, 
trail, and lay down, your pikes. The pikes in England were 16 
feet in length; in Connecticut, 14 feet. 

His musket signified a hand-gun with a matchlock. The cock 
was that part of the lock which held the burning match that was 
applied to the powder in the pan. Muskets were generally large 
and heavy, and required a forked staff or rest to support them 
when presented to a fire. The rests had a crotch or crescent at 
the top, and a sharp iron at the bottom to fasten them in the 
ground. The musketeer had a rest in his hand, or hung to it by 
a string, in nearly all his exercises. 

Bandoleers. — Musketeers carried their powder in little wooden, 
tin, or copper, cylindrical boxes, each containing one charge; 
twelve of these boxes were fixed to a belt two inches wide worn 



Turn and shorten him to a handful. 

Return your scouring stick. 

Bring forward your musket and rest. 

Poise your musket and recover your rest. 

Join your rest to the outside of your musket. 

Draw forth your match. 

Blow your coal. 

Cock your match. 

Fit your match. 

Guard your pan. 

Blow the ashes from your coal. 

Open your pan. 

Present upon your rest. 

Give fire breast-high. 

Dismount your musket, joining the rest to 
the outside of your musket. 

Uncock and return your match. 

Clear your pan. 

Shut your pan. 

Poise your musket. 

Rest your musket. 

Take your musket off the rest and set the 
butt end to the ground. 

Lay down your musket. 

Lay down your match. 

Take your rest into your right hand, clear- 
ing the string from your left wrist. 

Lay down your rest. 

Take off your bandoleers. 

Lay down your bandoleers. 

Here endeth the postures of the musket. 



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over the left shoulder, and the boxes and belt were called bando- 
leers. Usually the primer containing the priming powder, the 
bullet-bag and priming-wire were fastened to the leather belt. 
These and the little long boxes hung upon the belt, and made 
much rattling. This belt with its dangling appendages, had 
some resemblance to a string of sleigh-bells. The match-cord 
was tied to the bandoleer-belt. 

A Foot Company Paraded. 

The following representation is from Elton, but his company was larger, m. signifies 
a musketeer, p. a pikeman, and D. a drummer. The sergeants stood at the corners. 

Captain. 



Sergeant. 














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4th Sergeant. 


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In the Directions for training a Company of Horsemen, in the Supplement to Elton, are 

the following seventeen commands. The book details the motions made in performing 
each command. 

1. Horse, i. e., mount your horse. 10. Lade your pistol. 

2. Uncap your pistol case. 11. Draw your rammer. 

3. Draw your pistol. 12. Lade with bullet and ram home. 

4. Order your pistol. 13. Return your rammer. 

5. Span your pistol. 14. Pull down the cock. 

6. Prime your pistol. 1 5. Recover your pistol. 

7. Shut your pan. 16. Present and give fire. 

8. Cast about your pistol. 17. Return your pistol. 

9. Gage your flasque. 

Twenty commands are given for handling the carbine with a snaphance or firelock, when 
used by horsemen. 

The militia laws of Massachusetts enacted previous to 1660, 
ordered that two thirds of each foot company should be musket- 
eers; and that each musketeer should have a musket, with a prim- 
ing-wire, worm, scourer, and mold for bullets, a sword, rest, 
bandoleers, one pound of powder, twenty bullets and two fathoms 
(twelve feet) of match. About one third of the company might 
be pikemen, and each was to have a pike, corslet, head-piece, 
sword and snapsack. In 1666, each pikeman might have either 
a corslet, buff coat or quilted coat. It required 64 men for a full 
company. Such a company had a captain, lieutenant, ensign, 
clerk, sergeants, corporals, and drummers. Sergeants carried a 
halbert. Towns were to keep powder, musket-bullets and match. 

A troop of horsemen was not to exceed 70 soldiers. Each 
trooper was to have a good horse, saddle, bridle, holsters, pistols 
or carbine, and sword. A troop had a captain, lieutenant, 
cornet, quarter-master, clerk, trumpeter, and corporals. Each 



218 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

trooper was obliged to keep a good horse at all times, and was 
allowed by the colony five shillings a year. 

All males above i6 years of age were to attend military exer- 
cises and service, except those exempt by law. The Court of 
Assistants and County Courts had power to discharge men for 
just cause; and in Hampshire, men who could not train by reason 
of age, weakness, or lameness, applied to the Court and were 
freed from training. 

Companies were to be exercised six days every year. There 
was to be a regimental training once in three years. John Dunton, 
who came to Boston to sell books in 1686, says it was the custom 
to have a prayer at the beginning and ending of a training. Where 
he trained, the captain made the prayers. 

In Hampshire, towns not having a full company of 64 men, 
had no captain; the soldiers were commanded by a lieutenant, 
ensign, or sergeant. It was not until 1657 that the Springfield 
company had three commissioned officers; John Pynchon was 
captain, Elizur Holyoke, lieutenant, Thomas Cooper, ensign. 
Northampton had a small train-band in 1658; and in 1661 the 
soldiers chose William Clark, lieutenant, and David Wilton, 
ensign. In 1663, they chose Aaron Cooke, senior, for captain, 
who had held the same office in Windsor. He removed to West- 
field and remained there about ten years, and when he returned, 
was again captain of the company. The first captain of Hadley 
was Aaron Cooke, junior, in 1678; of Westfield, John Maudsley 
in 1686; of Hatfield, John AUis, under Andros in 1687 or 1688; 
and Samuel Partrigg succeeded him in 1689. At Deerfield, 
Jonathan Wells was appointed captain in 1692-93, partly in ref- 
erence to the garrison. John Lyman was appointed ensign at 
Northfield in 1686. 

Hadley militia. — On the nth of May, 1661, the town "voted 
that there shall be a training on the i6th inst. Voted that the 
town will buy Mr. Pynchon's colors that he wrote to the town 
about; and desire brother Lewis to buy a good drum for the town." 
On the i6th of December, 1661, Richard Goodman and William 
AUis were chosen "to view all the arms in the town, and see if 
they are according to law." The train-band of Hadley chose 
Samuel Smith, lieutenant, John Russell, senior, clerk, and Richard 
Goodman, sergeant, and they were approved by the county 
court in March, 1663. The band also chose Aaron Cooke, Jr. 
ensign-bearer, and John Dickinson and Joseph Kellogg, sergeants, 
and they were approved by the court in September, 1663. In 
March, 1664, the town voted to pay Zechariah Field twenty 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 219 

shillings for the drum they had of him; and in April, they voted 
to buy a new drum. Samuel Smith was lieutenant, and Aaron 
Cooke, Jr. ensign, about fifteen years, including the trying time 
of Philip's war. In May, 1678, Lt. Smith requested to be freed 
from military trust, being, as he said, "near eighty years of age." 
He was discharged, and Aaron Cooke, Jr. was appointed captain, 
Philip Smith, lieutenant, and Joseph Kellogg, sr. ensign. Philip 
Smith was chosen lieutenant of the troop the same year. The 
officers of the Hadley company previous to 1700 were as follows : — 

Captains. Lieutenants. Ensigns. 

1663. Samuel Smith. 1663. Aaron Cooke, Jr. 

1678. Aaron Cooke, Jr. 1678. Piiilip Smith. 1678. Joseph Kellogg. 

1679. Joseph Kellogg. 1679- Timothy Nash. 

About 1692. Timothy Nash. About 1692. Chileab Smith. 

Aaron Cooke performed the duties of captain until 17 13, when he 
was 72 years of age. Accordingto the inscription on his grave-stone, 
he was a captain 35 years. His father, Aaron Cooke, of Northamp- 
ton, acted as captain until his death in 1690, at the age of 80. 

The Hampshire Troop or Company of Horsemen. — In March, 
1663, divers persons of the soldiery met at Northampton and 
"there listed themselves into a Troope," and chose officers, viz., 
Capt. John Pynchon of Springfield, for captain; Ens. David 
Wilton of Northampton, lieutenant; Lieut. William Allis of Hadley, 
l/cornet; and Henry Woodward of Northampton, and George Col- 
ton of Springfield, quarter-masters. These officers were approved 
by the county court. There were ten troopers from Hadley, viz., 
Mr. Henry Clark, William Lewis, Thomas Coleman, Nathaniel 
Dickinson, sr., Thomas Dickinson, Philip Smith, Andrew War- 
ner, Samuel Billing, John Coleman, William Allis. The last 
three lived on the west side of the river. In 1669, Springfield had 
21 troopers, Northampton, 18, Hadley, 14. In 1674, Springfield 
had 19, Northampton, 13, Hadley, 7, Hatfield, 6, Westfield, 5. 
The dress and equipments of the troopers were more costly 
and showy than those of the foot soldiers, and they may have 
deemed their service more honorable. The expensive "trooping 
scarf" of Capt. Pynchon was embellished with gold lace, and 
silver glittered on his sword and belt and on other parts of his 
arms and dress. The other officers wore silk scarfs or sashes. 
When this company met in one of our villages for exercise, it was 
a day of excitement for the young, who heard the shrill trumpet, 
and admired the proud banner, and prancing steeds, and the gay 
appearance and quick motions of the men. The officers of the 
Hampshire troop of cavalry, previous to 1700, as far as they can 
be found, were the following: — 



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Captains. Cornets. 

1663. John Pynchon of Springfield. 1663. William Allis of Hadley, (Hatfield) 

1672. Joseph Whiting of Westfield. 
Lieutenants. 1678. Joseph Parsons of Northampton. 

1663. David Wilton of Northampton. 1685. Thomas Dewey of Westfield. 

1672. William Allis of Hatfield. Nehemiah Dickinson of Hadley. 

1678. Philip Smith of Hadley. Quarter-Masters. 

John Taylor of Northampton. ,, j Henry Woodward of Northampton. 

■^'\ George Colton of Springfield. 
1683. Samuel Partrigg of Hadley. 

Regimental Officers. — The regiments of Massachusetts had 
only one officer, denominated major, or sergeant-major. In May, 
1671, Capt. John Pynchon was appointed Sergeant-Major of the 
Hampshire regiment. He was the first regimental officer of the 
county. About 1687, Gov. Andros made him a colonel, and 
Capt. Aaron Cooke of Northampton, a major. After the fall of 
Andros, they retained only the offices they had before. Under 
the new charter, Massachusetts established the offices of colonel 
and lieut. colonel. Connecticut had no colonel and lieut. colonel 
until they were appointed by Gov. Andros about 1678. 

Indian guns. — The Indians, before and during Philip's war, 
did not use matchlock muskets, but lighter guns with flint locks 
or snaphances. They were not troubled with burning match 
and cumbrous rests. In these things they acted wisely. 

Change of Fire-arms in the 17th century. — The early legis- 
lators of Massachusetts, following the example of England, 
ordered the matchlock and rest, and the pike for foot soldiers. 
Yet flintlocks and guns without rests were among the people. 
The pistols and carbines of the troopers, and some fowling pieces 
and other guns, were fired with flints without rests. Some sol- 
diers in New Haven, Plymouth and other places had firelocks and 
flints, though matchlocks and match were much more common 
among soldiers. It is believed that firelocks, often called snap- 
hances, were gradually displacing matchlocks, before the Indian 
war began. John Pynchon sold flints after 1666, and he sold 
match also. In September, 1673, Massachusetts General Court 
desired Mr. Hezekiah Usher to purchase in England, "five 
hundred new snaphances or firelock muskets."* After Philip's 
war began, men soon perceived that matchlocks and pikes, how- 
ever efficient in European warfare, were of little avail against 
nimble, skulking Indians, who did not face their enemies in the 
open field, and flintlocks were used whenever they could be 
obtained. Many expeditions against the Indians were made on 

*292 were obtained, which cost here, in Boston money, 19 shillings each. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 221 

horseback, by men who carried carbines or longer arms, and 
much scouting was done on horses, and these horsemen were not 
cumbered with match and rests. In November, 1675, Connect- 
icut ordered a "stock of flints" to be sent to New London for the 
expedition against the Narragansets. In November, 1675, Mass- 
achusetts ordered that every town should provide and keep six 
flints for every listed soldier in the town. In the preceding October, 
Massachusetts ordered that all troopers should furnish themselves 
with carbines, and all pikemen with fire-arms. Before 1676, a 
revolution was effected, and pikes and matchlocks were generally 
laid aside. Pistols were accounted useless against Indians. In 
February, 1676, the Massachusetts committee of war estimated 
that two thousand flints were necessary for an expedition of 500 
men — no match. 

A great change had practically taken place, yet the law for 
matchlocks and pikes continued unrepealed. A few matchlocks 
were used in 1676, but there is no allusion to pikes. Boston had 
some pikemen in 1686. New England generally discarded match- 
locks, rests and pikes many years before they were laid aside in 
old England. 

New Militia Law. — In the new law of Massachusetts, in 1693, 
matchlocks, match, rests and pikes were entirely disregarded. 
Foot soldiers were to have a firelock-musket with a barrel 3J feet 
in length at least or other good fire-arms; a snapsack, a collar with 
12 bandoleers or a cartouch box, one pound of powder, 20 bullets, 
12 flints, a sword or cutlass, a worm and priming wire. Towns 
were to keep flints. 

Troopers were to have a horse worth five pounds and not less 
than 14 hands high, with a saddle, bit, bridle, holsters, pectoral 
and crupper; a carbine with a barrel not less than 2^ feet in length, 
and a belt and swivel; a case of pistols, a sword or cutlass, a flask 
or cartouch box, a pound of powder, three pounds of bullets, 
twenty flints, boots and spurs. They had no allowance from the 
colony. 

Males from 16 to 60 years of age were to train, except those 
usually exempted. Negroes and Indians were among the ex- 
empts. There were four training days in a year, and a regimental 
muster once in three years. When soldiers were levied, a man 
impressed must go, or pay five pounds. A few years after, he must 
pay 10 pounds, or be imprisoned 6 months. 

"The Complete Soldier," a book of 96 pages, giving instruction 
in military exercises, was printed in Boston in 1 701, and a second 
edition with additions, of 124 pages, appeared in 1706. It was 



222 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

collected from Elton, BarifF and others, by Nicholas Boone of 
Boston, It was undoubtedly the first military book published 
in the British colonies. It directs the soldiers to appear "with 
their hair or periwigs tied up in bags, and their hats briskly 
cocked." This must have been an English direction. 

Bayonets. — The French had daggers which they screwed into 
the muzzle of their guns, but as the guns could not be fired with 
such bayonets on, they contrived to fasten the daggers or bayonets 
on the outside of the muzzle by a socket. — The Massachusetts 
General Court voted about "bagonets," in 1700, and in 171 1 
they ordered the Boston regiment to have "goose-necked bayonets" 
with a socket, instead of swords or cutlasses. The order did not 
extend to the other regiments. Bayonets were of little use against 
Indians, and few were seen in Hampshire until the French wars 
which ended in 1748 and 1763. 

Cartridges, or paper cases with powder, were carried by some 
dragoons in a carduce box in Philip's war. Cartouch boxes as 
well as bandoleers, for foot soldiers, are in the law of 1693. The 
cartouch, cartridge or carduce box often appears in Hampshire 
after 1700, especially among the troopers. The powder horn 
continued to be used by many of the infantry. 

The Fife.— The "ear-piercing fife,"' noted by Shakespeare, 
was discontinued in the English army after his time, and was not 
restored until 1747, having been neglected more than a century 
in England and America. 

Colors or Flags. — Militia companies procured rich and expen- 
sive colors in the 17th century. In 1660, John Pynchon sold to 
Ens. Wilton of Northampton for the militia company, colors, staff, 
tassel and top for 5 pounds. The next year, he sold to Hadley, 
for the use of the soldiers, colors, staff, tassel and top for 5 pounds. 
These flags were long and of costly silk. In the state house at 
Hartford, a few years since, was a part of a flag, of substantial 
red silk, with the date, 1640, upon it. Those of Northampton 
and Hadley may have been red. Sumptuous flags seem to have 
continued down to the Revolution, Timothy Pickering, in 1775, 
censured the enormous waste of silk used for colors, and said 
"three or four square yards of silk are taken to make one color." 
When the wind blew, the ensign had much trouble, and had to 
gather the flag in folds in his hands, Pickering would reduce it 
to about a yard in length. — The pine tree was a favorite symbol 
with Massachusetts; and Felt says the battle of Bunker Hill was 
fought under colors having a pine tree on them; and the state flag 
for vessels in 1776, was white with a green pine tree. 



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The flag was an ensign, and the bearer was an ensign-bearer, 
usually called ensign, and sometimes ancient. In Shakspeare, 
Pistol was FalstafF's ancient. In the early records of Connecti- 
cut, Ensign Stoughton of Windsor, was called Ancient Stoughton. 

Calling the Roll. — The manner of doing this has not changed 
much in 250 years. Justice Shallow called some of Falstaff's 
soldiers — Thomas Wart! Here, sir. Francis Feeble! Here, 
sir. In Beaumont and Fletcher, a sergeant called the roll — Wil- 
liam Hammerton, pewterer! Here. George Greengoose, poul- 
terer! Here. In Shakspeare, when Peter Quince called the 
names of the players, the answer was — Here, Peter Quince. 

Watches. — The early laws ordered watches in time of peace, in 
every town, from the first of May to the end of September. They 
were usually under the care of the constables. There was some 
distrust of the Indians. The watchmen began to examine night- 
walkers after ten o'clock. — Military watches were required in the 
several towns in time of war, and when danger was apprehended, 
under the charge of the military officers. Every town was ordered 
to provide a watch-house, and candles and wood. Sometimes 
warding, or day watching was required. Watches were kept up 
in these river towns much of the time for a century. The people 
in those days bore without murmuring, these and other burdens, 
which their descendants would deem intolerable. 

Alarms in the night were made by firing three guns, followed 
by the beating of drums, and there were other ways of alarming 
the people. A hundred years later, in the Revolutionary war, 
the inhabitants of these towns were several times aroused from 
sleep, by the firing of three guns. The beating of drums suc- 
ceeded. 

Prices of military articles in Pynchon's account books, 1652 to 1680. — New drums, 35 
to 40 shillings, drum heads, 3s., bandoleers, 3s. to 3s. 9d., snapsacks, 2s., belts, many kinds, 
IS. 2d. to 9s., pike heads, 3s., worm, 6d., scourer, 6d.; match, much at 2d. a fathom, some 
4d. and 6d. a fathom; a horn powder flask, 5s., a powder horn, 8d.; guns, various prices, 
generally between 20 and 30s., a few above 30s., a fowling piece, 25s., gunlocks, 6s. 8d. to 
8s. 4d.; common sword or cutlass, 12s. to 15s., better ones, 20s. Flint is always in the 
singular in these accounts, as flint, 6d., 8d., &c. 

The equipment of troopers in Hampshire was expensive. A pair of pistols and holsters 
cost 37 shillings, saddle and furniture, 37s., boots, 20s., carbine, 25 to 30s., sword, cutlass 
or rapier, 20s. Some had a silk scarf, and a trooping coat. John Pynchon's "trooping 
scarf with gold lace" was valued at 70 shillings after his decease. 

In Hampshire, only a small part of the soldiers were pikemen at any time, and none 
carried pikes after the Indian war. In other parts of New England, the proportion of pike- 
men seems to have been much less than in England. The early laws did not require that 
one-third of the soldiers should be pikemen. 

The captains and lieutenants of foot companies had a sword, a half pike or leading staff, 
&c. 



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CHAPTER XXI 

Witchcraft in Europe— In New England — In Hampshire county — Mary and Hugh Par- 
sons of Springfield — Mary Parsons of Northampton — Death of John Stebbins of North- 
ampton — Case of Mary Webster of Hadley — the witch mania of 1692 — Various notices 
relating to Witchcraft. 

It was formerly the belief of all Christendom, that some persons 
called witches, were possessed of supernatural power, by an 
agreement with the devil, whereby they could procure advan- 
tages to themselves, and inflict evils on their enemies; and witch- 
craft was a capital crime by the laws of the diff"erent nations of 
Europe. The famous bull of pope Innocent VIII., in 1484, 
denouncing witchcraft, gave fury to the delusion. It is estimated 
that in about two hundred years, upwards of a hundred thousand 
were put to death for witchcraft in Europe;* and some calculate 
that not less than a hundred thousand suff'ered in Germany alone. f 
At the time of the Reformation, Protestants were not only burnt 
as heretics, but many were put to death under the pretence that 
they were sorcerers. 

The witch mania raged extensively in both Catholic and Protes- 
tant countries. The reformers were as firm believers in witch- 
craft as the catholics. The madness prevailed in Italy, France, 
Germany, Switzerland, &c. before it manifested itself in Great 
Britain. From the date of the statute of queen Elizabeth against 
witchcraft in 1562, the persecution of witches commenced in 
England, but did not reach its height until the 17th century. 
Bishop Jewell, in his sermons before the queen, used to conclude 
them by a fervent prayer, that she might be preserved from witches. 
He informed her that witches and sorcerers had marvelously in- 
creased within a few years. In 1593, the income of forty pounds, 
derived from the confiscated property of three persons executed 
for witchcraft, was appropriated for an annual lecture upon the 
enormity of witchcraft, to be preached by a doctor or bachelor of 
divinity, of Queen's college, Cambridge; and this annual sermon 
was continued 125 years or more. King James I. was a constant 
enemy of witches, and a chief encourager of those who perse- 
cuted them, first in Scotland and next in England. He wrote a 
famous treatise on demons and witches, and after the act of par- 
liament against witchcraft in 1603, persecution burst forth furi- 
ously in England, and in eighty years the number of those put to 
death, has been estimated at about thirty thousand ;4; and some 
thousands in Scotland. 

♦Blackwood's Magazine. j-Encyclopaedia Americana, ijilbid. — These estimates are 
as I find them, but they seem to me too high. 



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In Europe, kings and nobles, popes and bishops, judges and 
lawyers, learned ministers of various denominations and other 
men of erudition, were fully persuaded of the existence of modern 
witches, who had entered into a compact with Satan. — Among 
those accused of witchcraft were many unprincipled persons, who 
had endeavored to^effect their wicked ends by the devil's aid, and 
if they were not witches, it was not for want of the will. These 
included some noble ladies and others in high life. Some under- 
took to teach the magic arts, and not a few thus instructed, really 
believed they had made a covenant with the devil. Others 
feigned witchcraft, and boasted of their power, in order to extort 
favors from the superstitious. Yet a great majority of the suffer- 
ers were innocent. 

* The first planters of New England believed that their Bibles 
affirmed the existence of witches, and it may be easily conceived 
that they were firm believers in the reality of witchcraft, in an age 
when this belief was nearly universal in Europe. 

Witches in Connecticut. — Winthrop's History, under 1647, says 
one of Windsor was executed at Hartford for a witch. The 
records of Connecticut do not allude to any trial or execution of 
a witch in 1647. On the 7th of December, 1648, Mary Johnson, 
at Hartford, was found guilty of familiarity with the devil by her 
own confession, and was executed. One or two persons were 
tried for witchcraft in Hartford in 1 651; it is not known whether 
any one was executed. In 1651, Goody Bassett of Stratford was 
executed for witchcraft, probably at Fairfield. In 1653 or the 
early part of 1654, Goodwife Knap was hung at Fairfield for a 
witch. In January or February, 1663, a woman named Green- 
smith, apparently wife of Nathaniel Greensmith, was hung at 
Hartford for witchcraft. In March, 1665, Elizabeth Seger was 
found guilty of witchcraft by a jury at Hartford, but the court 
set her free. In October, 1669, Katharine Harrison of Wethers- 
field was found guilty of witchcraft by a jury at Hartford, 
but the court did not approve the verdict, and afterwards dis- 
missed her. In September, 1692, Mercy Disborough, wife of 
Thomas Disborough of Compo in Fairfield, and two or three 
other women, were tried at Fairfield for witchcraft, and all were 
acquitted except Mercy Disborough, who was found guilty and 
sentenced to death. She appears not to have been executed. 

King James I. averred that witches thrown into the water 
would float and not sink, and he thought this was a "good help" 
to detect them. The experiment was tried at Fairfield, and 
Mercy Disborough and Elizabeth Clawson were bound, hands 



226 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

and feet, and put into the water, and witnesses testified that they 
"swam Hke a cork." Yet E. Clawson was acquitted, and M. 
Disborough was not condemned because she floated. 

In Massachusetts, Margaret Jones of Charlestown, was hung 
for witchcraft at Boston, June 15, 1648 — the first execution for 
this offense in this colony. Widow Anne Hibbins of Boston, 
was executed as a witch in 1656, and two or three others are report- 
ed to have suffered in Massachusetts previous to 1692, and in the 
year 1692, twenty were executed at Salem. — In the colonies of 
New Haven and Plymouth, no one was condemned for witch- 
craft, before or after their union with other colonies. 

Witchcraft in Hampshire County. 

The first case of supposed witchcraft in Hampshire county, 
occurred at Springfield, in 1651. Mary Parsons, wife of Hugh 
Parsons of that town, was sent to Boston and imprisoned on sus- 
picion of witchcraft, and for murdering her child. She was tried 
for both offenses by the General Court, May 13, 1651. The 
charge in the first indictment was, that being seduced by the devil, 
about the end of February last, at Springfield, she consulted with 
a familiar spirit, making a covenant with him, and had used divers 
devilish practices by witchcraft, to the hurt ofthe persons of Martha 
and Rebecca Moxon, against the word of God, and the laws of 
this jurisdiction. Her plea was, not guilty; and the court found 
the evidences insufficient and cleared her. The two Moxons 
were children of Rev. George Moxon of Springfield. 

Mary Parsons had a son named Joshua, born Oct. 26, 1650, 
whom she killed March 4, 165 1, according to the Springfield 
record. She was charged in the indictment at Boston, May 13, 

1 65 1, with willfully and most wickedly murdering her own 
child, to which she pleaded guilty, and was condemend to die by 
the General Court. She was reprieved until the 29th of May. 
She was a deranged woman, and one like her would not have 
been found guilty of murder, 50 years later. 

Hugh Parsons of Springfield, was tried at a Court of Assistants 
at Boston, May 12, 1652, a year after the trial of his wife. He 
was accused of having familiar and wicked converse with the 
devil, and of using divers devilish practices or witchcrafts, in 
March last, and at other times, to the hurt of divers persons. 
The jury found him guilty, but the magistrates not consenting 
to the verdict, the case came before the General Court, May 27, 

1652, who judged that he was not guilty of witchcraft. After this, 
he removed from Springfield. 



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Mary Bartlett, wife of Samuel Baitlett of Northampton, died 
in July, 1674, and her husband, her father, James Bridgman, 
and others, were suspicious that she came to her end by unnatu- 
ral and unlawful means; and that Mary Parsons, wife of Joseph 
Parsons, senior, of Northampton, had caused her death by witch- 
craft. Mary Parsons was a respectable woman, and her husband 
was one of the most wealthy men in Northampton. She may 
have been somewhat proud and high-spirited, and thereby have 
excited some ill-will. 

The county court met at Springfield, Sept. 29, 1674; and though 
the trial of persons accused of capital offenses did not belong to 
this court, they sometimes inquired into such cases. Samuel 
Bartlett procured divers testimonies on oath from Northampton, 
and Mary Parsons, knowing what was doing, and that she was 
implicated, did not wait for a summons, but "voluntarily made 
her appearance in court, desiring to clear herself of such an exe- 
crable crime." The matter was referred to an adjourned court at 
Northampton, which met January 5, 1675, and Samuel Bartlett 
produced his witnesses. "Goodwife Parsons being called to 
speak for herself,* she did assert her own innocency, often men- 
tioning how clear she was of such a crime, and that the righteous 
God knew her innocency, with whom she had left her cause." 
The court "appointed a jury of soberdized, chaste women to 
make diligent search upon the body of Mary Parsons, whether 
any marks of witchcraft might appear, who gave in their account 
to the court on oath, of what they found." The court ordered 
all the testimony, including the report of the women, to be sent 
to the Governor and Magistrates at Boston, leaving further pro- 
ceedings with them. Mary Parsons was ordered to appear before 
the Court of Assistants at Boston, if so required by them, and her 
husband, Joseph Parsons, was bound in a bond of 50 pounds, 
for her appearance. 

Mary Parsons appeared before the Court of Assistants, March 
2, 1675, and the grand jury presented an indictment against her. 
She was imprisoned in Boston until May 13, when she was tried. 
She was accused of entering into familiarity with the devil, and 
committing several acts of witchcraft on the person or persons of 

*Mary Parsons, as well as her mother, widow Margaret Bliss of Springfield, had sufR- 
cient ability and confidence to speak before a court. There were other women, who some- 
times managed their own business at courts, and spoke when necessary. This was not 
deemed improper. Mary Parsons was invited ''to speak for herself." In 1667, a woman 
spoke in a town meeting in Windsor, in a case which concerned her, and not without effect. 
In 1677, widow Editha Holyoke of Springfield, went into court and "spoke in the case," 
relating to her share of her husband's estate. 



228 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

one or more. She pleaded not guilty, and the jury brought in 
their verdict that she was not guilty, and she was discharged. 

Some testimony was presented to the county court against John 
Parsons, son of Joseph and Mary Parsons, but the court did not 
find much weight in it, and dismissed him. 

On the 7th of March, 1679, John Stebbins of Northampton, 
died in an unusual manner, and a jury of inquest, composed of 
eleven Northampton men and Doct. Thomas Hastings of Hatfield, 
examined the body. They found "several hundred spots, small 
ones as if they had been shot with small shot, which were scraped 
and under them were holes into his body," and some other things 
not usual. There were suspicions of witchcraft. The county 
court met at Northampton, April 29, 1679, and Samuel Bartlett, 
brother of Stebbins's widow, was allowed to bring in such testi- 
mony as he could find. The court sent the testimonies to the 
Governor and Magistrates, but no one was prosecuted.* 

Mary Webster of Hadley. 

The most notable witch in Hampshire county was Mary Web- 
ster, the wife of William Webster of Hadley. Her maiden name 
was Mary Reeve, and they were married in 1670, when he was 
53 years old, and she probably some years younger. They be- 
came poor, and lived many years in a small house in the middle 
highway into the meadow,f and were sometimes aided by the 
town. Mary Webster's temper, which was not the most placid, 
was not improved by poverty and neglect, and she used harsh 
words when offended. Despised and sometimes ill-treated, t she 
was soured with the world, and rendered spiteful towards some 
of her neighbors. When they began to call her a witch, and to 
abuse her, she perhaps thought with the "Witch of Edmonton," 
in the old play, who said, " 'Tis all one, to be a witch, as to be 
accounted one." Many stories of the sorceries by which she dis- 

*There is a tradition that John Stebbins had been at work in a saw-mill some days before 
his death, and that some of the boards and logs, by the aid of witches, made strange move- 
ments, whereby he was injured. 

•j-This highway was then six rods wide, and on the north side towards the east end, were 
the pound, the house of William Webster, and for a time, that of Thomas Webster. About 
three rods wide from the north side were sold in 1797, and added to the adjoining homelot, 
which is now owned by John S. Bell, and the pound and William Webster's house are sup- 
posed to have been on the land now occupied for a garden and barn yard by Mr. Bell. 

jAt the September Court, 1680, Ann Belding, a girl in her i6th year, daughter of Sam- 
uel Belding of Hatfield, was charged with ^'purposes and practices against the body and 
life of Mary, wife of William Webster of Hadley." She acknowledged, and was fined one 
pound to Wm. Webster, and four pounds to the county. Her father engaged to pay. This 
is a strange affair, and cannot be explained. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 229 

turbed the people of Hadley have been lost, but a few traditions 
have been preserved: — 

Teams passing to and from the meadow went by her door, and 
she so bewitched some cattle and horses that they stopped, and 
ran back, and could not be driven by her house. In such cases 
the teamsters used to go into the house and whip or threaten to 
whip her, and she would then let the team pass. She once turned 
over a load of hay near her house, and the driver went in and was 
about to chastise her, when she turned the load back again. She 
entered a house, and had such influence upon an infant on the 
bed or in the cradle, that it was raised to the chamber floor and 
fell back again, three times, and no visible hand touched it. 
There is a story that at another house, a hen came down chimney 
and got scalded in a pot, and it was soon found that Mary Webster 
was suffering from a scald. The story of her bewitching Philip 
Smith is retained, but is less prominent than the others.* 

Mary Webster appeared before the county court at North- 
ampton, March 27, 1683. The court was composed of John 
Pynchon of Springfield, Peter Tilton and Philip Smith of Hadley, 
William Clarke and Aaron Cooke of Northampton. Samuel 
Partrigg of Hadley was clerk. The following is from the record. 

Mary, wife of William Webster of Hadley, being under strong suspicion of having famil- 
iarity with the devil, or using witchcraft, and having been in examination before the worship- 
ful Mr. Tilton, and many testimonies brought in against her, or that did seem to centre upon 
her, relating to such a thing; and the worshipful Mr. Tilton aforesaid binding her to appear 
at this court, and having examined her yet further, and the testimonies aforenamed, look 
upon her case, a matter belonging to the Court of Assistants to judge of, and therefore have 
ordered said Mary Webster to be, by the first convenient opportunity, sent to Boston gaol 
and committed there as a prisoner, to be further examined there as aforesaid, and the clerk 
is to gather up all the evidences and fit them to be sent down by the worshipful Mr. Tilton, 
to our honored governor, that he may communicate them to the magistrates, as he shall 
judge meet, or further order prosecution of said matters. 

She was sent down to Boston in April, 1683, and the Court of 
Assistants was held at Boston, May 22d; Gov. Bradstreet, Deputy 
Gov. Danforth and nine Assistants being present. The record 
of the court follows: — 

Mary Webster, wife of William Webster of Hadley, being sent down upon suspicion of 
witchcraft and committed to prison, in order to her trial, was brought to the bar. The 
grand-jury being impannelled, they, on perusal of the evidences, returned that they did 
indict Mary Webster, wife to William Webster of Hadley, for that she, not having the fear 

*These stories and others were told with gravity by old persons, seventy years ago, and 
were believed by some and laughed at by others. There were certain persons who were 
noted as tellers of witch stories in Hadley, as in other towns. Widow Rebekah (Crow) 
Noble was a famous story teller. 



230 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

of God before her eyes, and being instigated by the devil, hath entered into covenant and had 
familiarity with him in the shape of a warraneage,* and had his imps sucking her, and teats 
or marks found on her, as in and by several testimonies may appear, contrary to the peace 
of our sovereign lord, the king, his crown and dignity, the laws of God and of this juris- 
diction — The court on their serious consideration of the testimonies, did leave her to further 
trial. 

At the Assistant's Court, Sept. 4, 1683, Mary Webster, wife to William Webster of Had- 
ley, having been presented for suspicion of witchcraft, &c. by a grand-jury in Boston on 
the 22d of May last, and left to further trial, was now called and brought to the bar, and 
was indicted by the name of Mary Webster, &c. [Here the indictment of May 22d is all 
repeated; the warraneage comes in as before.] To which indictment she pleaded not guilty, 
making no exception against any of the jury, leaving herself to be tried by God and the 
country. The indictment and evidences in the case were read and committed to the jury, 
and the jury brought in their verdict that they found her^not guilty. 

The expenses of the colony about Mary Webster, appear in the accounts of the colony 
treasurer, viz., 

£. s. d. 
Bringing down Mary Webster from Hadley to prison, .... 500 

Witnesses about Good wife Webster, . . . . . . . 12152 

Robert Earl for keeping Mary Webster in Boston, . . . . 400 

Cash for carrying Mary Webster to Hadley, . . . . . 200 



'3 15 



This acquittal must have elated Mary Webster, and disappointed 
many of the people of Hadley, whose numerous written testi- 
monies, drawn up with care, had failed to convince a Boston jury, 
that she was a witch. Sometime after this trial, the power of 
this enchantress was supposed to be exerted upon Lieut. Philip 
Smith, who died on the loth of January, 1685. The following 
details are from Cotton Mather's Magnalia: — 

Mr. Philip Smith, aged about fifty years, a son of eminently virtuous parents, a deacon 
of a church in Hadley, a member of the General Court, a justice in the county Court, a 
select man for the affairs df the town, a lieutenant of the troop, and which crowns all, a man 
for devotion, sanctity, gravity, and all that was honest, exceeding exemplary. Such a man 
was in the winter of the year 1684, murdered with an hideous witchcraft, that filled all 
those parts of New England, with astonishment. He was, by his office concerned about 
relieving the indigences of a wretched woman in the town; who being dissatisfied at some 
of his just cares about her, expressed herself unto him in such a manner, that he declared 
himself thenceforward apprehensive of receiving mischief at her hands. 

About the beginning of January, 1684-5, he began to be very valetudinarious. He 
shewed such weanedness from and weariness of the world, that he knew not (he said) 
whether he might pray for his continuance here: and such assurance he had of the Divine 
love unto him, that in raptures he would cry out. Lord, stay thy hand; it is enough, it is 
more than thy frail servant can bear. But in the midst of these things he still uttered an 
hard suspicion that the ill woman who had threatened him, had made impressions with 
inchantments upon him. While he remained yet of a sound mind, he solemnly charged his 
brother to look well after him. Be sure, (said he) to have a care of me; for you shall see 

*Warraneag, in some Indian dialects, was the same as the Nipmuck wallaneag or wool- 
laneag. It was the name of the fisher, or pecan, or wild black cat of the woods. All the 
testimony on which the indictment was founded, came from persons in Hadley. She had 
undoubtedly been searched for witch marks by some of the women of Hadley. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 231 

strange things. There shall be a wonder in Hadley! I shall not he dead when it is thought 
I am! He pressed this charge over and over. 

In his distresses he exclaimed much upon the woman aforesaid, and others, as being 
seen by him in the room. Some of the young men in the town being out of their wits at the 
strange calamities thus upon one of their most beloved neighbors, went three or four times 
to give disturbance unto the woman thus complained of: and all the while they were dis- 
turbing of her, he was at ease, and slept as a weary man: yea, these were the only times 
that they perceived him to take any sleep in all his illness. Gaily pots of medicines provided 
for the sick man, were unaccountably emptied: audible scratchings were made about the 
bed, when his hands and feet lay wholly still, and were held by others. They beheld fire 
sometimes on the bed; and when the beholders began to discourse of it, it vanished away. 
Divers people actually felt something often stir in the bed, at a considerable distance from 
the man: it seemed as big as a cat, but they could never grasp it. Several trying to lean on 
the bed's head, tho' the sick man lay wholly still, the bed would shake so as to knock their 
heads uncomfortably. Mr. Smith dies: the jury that viewed his corpse, found a swelling 
on one breast, his back full of bruises, and several holes that seemed made with awls. After 
the opinion of all had pronounced him dead, his countenance continued as lively as if he 
had been alive; his eyes closed as in a slumber, and his nether jaw not falling down. 

Thus he remained from Saturday morning about sunrise, till Sabbath-day in the after- 
noon; when those who took him out of the bed, found him still warm, tho' the season was 
as cold as had almost been known in any age: and a New England winter does not want 
for cold. But on Monday morning they found the face extremely tumified and discolored. 
It was black and blue, and fresh blood seemed running down his cheek upon the hairs. 
Divers noises were also heard in the room where the corpse lay; as the clattering of chairs 
and stools, whereof no account could be given. 

This was the end of so good a man. 

The "disturbing" of Mary Webster by the Hadley young men, is thus related by Hutch- 
inson: — "While he [Philip Smith] lay ill, a number of brisk lads tried an experiment upon 
the old woman. Having dragged her out of the house, tlicy l-.ung her up until she was near 
dead, let her down, rolled her sometime in the snow, and at last buried her in it, and there 
left her; but it happened that she survived, and the m.elancholy man died." 

The people having failed in a legal prosecution, the young men 
now undertook to punish her illegally. Yet Mary Webster lived 
eleven years after they hung her up, and buried her in the snow, 
and died in peace in 1696.* Her age may have been about 
seventy. Her husband died in 1687 or 1688. 

Mary Webster was the fourth person sent from Connecticut 
River to Boston to be tried for witchcraft, and all were acquitted, 
— an indication that the courts were inclined to mildness. No 
inhabitant of Hampshire was ever executed for witchcraft. 

At the Springfield Court, Sept. 29, 1691, Mary Randall was 
complained of for witchcraft. The court postponed the case for 
a year, and then her father, William Randall of Enfield, became 
surety for her good behavior, and there were no further proceed- 
ings. This was the last recorded case of suspected witchcraft 
in Hampshire county. 

*It is not known that Mary Webster annoyed the people of Hadley by her witch pranks 
after 1685. Her last eleven years may have been spent in quietness. The inventory of her 
small estate after her decease, in 1696, included a bed and a few other things for housekeep- 
ing, and some articles of dress. She had a Bible, psalm-book and three sermon books, 
which were probably left by her husband. 



232 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Previous to 1692, the number of persons executed for witch- 
craft in Massachusetts and Connecticut was nine or ten, though 
the magistrates intended to be cautious, and several times set 
aside the verdict of a jury to save those declared guilty. In Feb- 
ruary, 1692, a terrible witchcraft delusion, which commenced in 
Salem Village, now Danvers, produced great terror and suffer- 
ing in several towns and resulted in the execution of twenty per- 
sons. A few misguided ministers and magistrates, by their rash 
and unjustifiable proceedings, "led their fellow-citizens into a 
labyrinth of error and iniquity, and stained the character of their 
country."* In less than a year, men came to their senses, the 
destructive frenzy terminated, and the people looked back upon 
the scene of barbarity and cruelty with horror and remorse. 
Prosecutions for witchcraft forever ceased in New England. f 

The dreadful witch-mania of 1692, was local and not general. 
It did not extend into Hampshire county, and Connecticut was 
free from it, except a part of Fairfield county. Connecticut 
ceased to punish for witchcraft about the same time with Massa- 
chusetts. In 1693 and after, grand-juries refused to indict for 
witchcraft. 

Witchcraft was a capital crime in other colonies and the belief 
in it was as firm in them, as in Massachusetts and Connecticut. 
Suspected witches were tried in most, if not all, the other colonies, 
but it is not known that any were executed. Some of the colo- 
nies manifested their full conviction of the reality of witchcraft 
in the i8th century. South Carolina adopted the act of James I. 
"against conjuration, witchcraft and dealing with evil and wicked 
spirits," in 1712. Still later, in 1728, Rhode Island enacted that 
"witchcraft is and shall be felony; and whosoever shall be law- 
fully convicted thereof shall suflPer the pains of death." 

Almost all the absurdities, superstitions and cruelties connected 
with the belief in witchcraft in America, originated in Europe. 
Our courts, in witchcraft trials, had as guides the decisions of 
distinguished English judges, and the rules of eminent English 
lawyers. The people read English books on witchcraft, written 
by Puritans and by men of the English church. The Rev. 
Joseph Glanvill, vicar of Frome, chaplain of Charles II., and a 
member of the Royal Society, was a distinguished writer in favor 
of the existence of witches, witchcraft and apparitions, and his 



♦President Dwight. -j-A tradition is related by Pres. Dwight, that Col. Samuel Part- 
ridge of Hatfield, instead of listening to the complaint of a Northampton man, who accused 
his neighbor of bewitching him, ordered the accuser to be whipped ten stripes on the spot. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 233 

books were read in New England before any such were published 
here. 

"The horse-shoe's nailed, each threshold's guard," said the 
poet Gay, 150 years since. Among the ridiculous preservatives 
against witchcraft was the horse-shoe nailed on the threshold of 
the door. Several writers in the 17th century mention that it 
was very common to nail horse-shoes to the threshold of doors in 
the west end of London, to keep out witches, and some were laid 
upon a tile under the porches of churches, to prevent witches enter- 
ing. Fifty years ago, many houses in England had the horse- 
shoe nailed against the threshold, and some may still be found. 
Howitt mentions a man at Nottingham, who has the ancient 
charm of reversed horse-shoes nailed on both the lintel and sill 
of his door.* 



CHAPTER XXII 

The Poor of Hadley — Story of Rebekah Crow — Marriages and Weddings — Funerals and 
Mourning — Hadley Grave-yard — Titles — Names — Old Style and New Style. 

Among those who signed the agreement in 1659, to remove to 
Hadley, were John Arnold and widow Westly. Both were poor 
and infirm, and remained at Hartford. The record says that 
John Arnold was too weak to come to Hadley. Those who lived 
at Hadley voted in April, 1662, to give John Arnold £^ a year, 
at Hartford, during his life, and to his wife 50 shillings a year 
after his decease. Voted also to give widow Westly 50 shillings 
a year, if she remain at Hartford. 

For a long time, Hadley had no resident poor that required 
aid from the town. In May, 1676, when men were preparing to 

*A few in New England had faith in the efficacy of the horse-shoe. The houses of two 
or three men (brothers) in Northampton, had a horse-shoe fastened to the threshold, about 
a hundred years since. 

European writers affirm that a belief in witchcraft lingers extensively in every country 
of Europe. There is much of it in England. Let no one imagine that it is extinct in the 
United States. 

Hutchinson says more persons have been put to death for witchcraft in a single county 
in England, in a short space of time, than have suffered in all New England, since the first 
settlement. 

The feats attributed to witches were not all imaginary. Those who testified were not 
all impostors. Some strange, inexplicable deeds were done, as in modern spiritualism. 
This may be admitted, without believing that there is any thing supernatural in these things. 



234 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

go up to the falls-fight, the town voted to pay for damage in per- 
son and estate, if the colony failed to pay. Jonathan Wells was 
severely wounded, and was a long time under the care of Mr. 
Bulkley, the surgeon, at Wethersfield. Massachusetts did not 
pay all the expense, and Hadley paid some pounds. 

In 1679, the town erected a small house, called the town house, 
for the present use of Thomas Webster, in the middle highway 
not far from the pound. William Webster previously had a 
small house in the same highway. See page 189. Thomas 
Webster was not supported by the town. He maintained his 
family by his labor, and returned to Northfield in 1684. William 
Webster was aided by the town some years in his old age; and his 
widow, who had been reputed a witch, was furnished with diet 
and wood a few years. 

Thomas Elgarr, who had been a soldier in the Indian war, 
resided in Hadley some years, and owing to disease or lameness, 
he was supported by the town a year or two. The town paid 32 
persons £1^ for keeping him 65 weeks at 4s. per week previous to 
January, 1685. He seems to have gone from house to house, 
and was kept from one to three weeks at a place. Each was 
paid 4s. per week in town pay. He recovered and settled in 
Suffield. 

In 1687, widow Baldwin was poor and infirm, and the town 
voted March 3d, that she should be removed from house to house, 
to such as are able to receive her, and remain a fortnight in each 
family. "To go from Samuel Porter's, senior, southward, and 
round the town." Joseph Baldwin, senior and junior, each left 
a widow, and it was one of these widows that was to board "round 
the town" of Hadley. Both removed to Springfield, where they 
had relatives. 

John Hillier (or Hilliard,) was from Windsor, and after living 
many years in Northampton, removed to Hadley, where he died 
in 1729, aged 85. Had a wife and three children. In 1697, he 
was to have the house near the pound that William Webster had 
occupied. In 1718, the town voted to build a small log house for 
him, "where he now lives." He had occasional aid from the 
town in his old age.— In 1728, the town voted ;^io to support the 
poor. 

In 1 73 1, and four years after, the town voted 40 pounds yearly 
to Mr. Chauncey, in consideration of two indigent persons in his 
family. In 1735, his son is mentioned as one of them, meaning 
Israel, who was deranged some years. The other indigent 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 235 

person is unknown. In 1760, Daniel Smith, a deranged man, 
died in Amherst. He had received aid from Hadley. 

These are all the poor aided by the town, that are found in the 
Hadley records for a century. Perhaps the names of some are 
not in the records. It may be doubted whether the expense of 
the town for the poor exceeded 150 pounds in 100 years, exclusive 
of those at Mr. Chauncey's. From 1760 to 1780, Aaron Wells is 
the only pauper that appears in the records, but there may have 
been others. 

Previous to 1793, the number of paupers had increased to eight, 
viz., Joel Kellogg and wife, Jabez Selden and wife, David Warner, 
widow Rebekah Noble,* Rebekah Smith, widow Coats. — The 
fathers of five or six of these left good estates. 

In January, 1793, Major John Smith "bid off" these 8 persons, 
and agreed to board and clothe them for a year for 88 pounds, or 
II pounds each, (about t^'] dollars,) and "to return them at the 
year's end as well clothed as when he takes them." In January, 
1794, the same eight poor persons, by vote of the town, were "to 
be disposed of to the lowest bidder, singly, or in pairs. "f Most 
of them were bid off at 4 shillings per week. From 1795 to 1805, 
the town voted yearly for the support of paupers, from 200 to 
250 dollars. Since 1805, the expense of the poor has in some 
years been as high as 500, 600 or 700 dollars. 

Marriages and Weddings. 

In Massachusetts, no persons were married by ministers for 62 
years, except a very few in Boston and the vicinity, under the gov- 
ernment of Dudley and Andros. Only magistrates, and such as 
the General Court and Court of Assistants should authorize, 
where there was no magistrate, were allowed to join persons to- 
gether in marriage. There were similar laws in the colonies of 

*Rebekah Crow, born in 1712, was a daughter of Samuel Crow of Hadley, and had re- 
spectable relatives in Hadley and Hatfield. When young, she was a girl of superior beauty 
and much admired. She was wooed by a young man from Hartford, and the attachment 
. was mutual. She was spirited and self-directing, and in attending an evening party in 
Hadley, her lover paid more attention to another lady than she thought was proper, and her 
jealousy was excited and she hastily dismissed him. She soon exceedingly regretted what 
she had done, but did not attempt to conciliate him. According to tradition, she was after 
this, in some respects, a changed person, and did not again become a gay and sprightly girl. 
She married at the age of 49, Daniel Noble of Westfield and after his death, lived in Hadley, 
and when her estate was expended, she was maintained by the town. She who in early life 
had as fair prospects as any young lady in Hadley, died a town pauper in 1802, at the age 
of 90. She possessed a great fund of anecdotes and stories, including many witch-stories, 
and she delighted the young by her wonderful recitals. 

j-This censurable practice of disposing of the poor to the lowest bidder has long been 
discontinued in Hadley. 



236 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Connecticut, New Haven and Plymouth. The ministers of New 
England approved these laws, and were perhaps the real movers 
of them. They were Bible-men, and though marriage was an 
institution of God, they knew very well that the Scriptures did 
not direct how or by whom the marriage ceremony should be 
performed, and that the intervention of a priest or Levite was not 
required in the marriages of the ancient Jews, and that the mar- 
riages of the early Christians for about 200 years, were not sanc- 
tioned by the services of their ministers. In Scotland and some 
other parts of Europe, it was not necessary that marriage should 
be celebrated by a clergyman. In 1692, under the new charter, 
Massachusetts General Court directed that marriages should be 
solemnized by Justices of the Peace, and settled ministers. In a 
few years after this law, it was the general custom for pastors to 
marry. Before 1692, when magistrates married, they also made 
the prayers, but if a minister was present, he was usually invited 
to make at least one of the two prayers. 

In May, 1661, when Hadley was incorporated, William West- 
wood was authorized to join persons in marriage, or in his absence, 
one of the other commissioners, who were then, Andrew Bacon 
and Samuel Smith. In 1668, Henry Clarke was authorized to 
marry. In 1677, Liput. Samuel Smith was empowered to solem- 
nize marriages. Peter Tilton became a magistrate in 1680, and 
Capt. Aaron Cooke a justice in 1687, and they united people in 
wedlock until Mr. Chauncey was settled in 1696, and Capt. 
Cooke still later, when requested. — Mr. Russell, the first minister, 
did not marry a couple during his life, unless in the last year, 
1692. He had been three times married by a magistrate, and 
all ministers were married by magistrates previous to 1692. — 
Aaron Cooke, Jr. and Sarah Westwood were married May 20, 
1661, and were the first couple married in Hadley. 

Not much is known respecting the nuptial festivities and wed- 
ding customs in this part of the country, in the 17th and part of 
the 1 8th centuries. Marriages were occasions of joy and merri- 
ment. The groom had some new garments, and the bride had 
as rich a wedding dress as in her circumstances, could be afforded. 
Mather, in 1719, said it was expected that the newly married 
couple would appear as such, in the public assembly, on the next 
Lord's day. This custom continued more than a century after 
1 7 19. It was termed "coming out groom and bride." It still 
remains in many places. 

The following account of the marriage of Mr. Aaron Porter 
and Susanna Sewall, daughter of Stephen Sewall, Esq. of Salem, 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 237 

is from the Diary of Judge Samuel Sewall, who was a brother of 
Stephen. Mr. Aaron Porter was a son of the second Samuel 
Porter of Hadley, and was the first minister of Medford. 

"1713. Oct. 22. I go to Salem, visit Mr. Epes and Col. Hathorne. See Mr. Noyes 
marry Mr. Aaron Porter and Mrs. Susan Sewall at my brother's. Was a pretty deal of 
company present — Mr. Hirst and wife, Mr. Blower, Mr. Prescott, Mr. Tuft, senior and 
junior, Madam Leverett, Foxcroft, GofT, Kitchen; Mr. Samuel Porter the father, I should 
have said before; many young gentlemen and gentlewomen. Mr. Noyes made a speech; 
said love was the sugar to sweeten every condition in the married state. Prayed once. Did 
all very well. After the sack-posset, &c. sung the 45th Psalm from the 8th verse to the end, 
five staves. I set it to Windsor tune. I had a very good Turkey-leather Psalm-book, 
which I looked in while Mr. Noyes read, and then I gave it to the bridegroom, saying, 'I 
give you this Psalm-book, in order to your perpetuating this song, and I would have you 
pray that it may be an introduction to our singing with the choir above.' "* 

Kissing the bride was not customary in the interior of New 
England, until some time in the present century, and the practice 
is far from being general now. It was derived from the English, 
who have been notorious for kissing, on various occasions, for 
centuries. — Dancing at weddings was rare among the people, in 
most parts of New England, in the 17th century, but became very 
frequent in the i8th century. f The people of Hadley danced at 
weddings in the last century, but the practice has been uncommon 
in that town for forty years past. 

Stealing the bride, was formerly done in some places in New 
England. Madam Knight of Boston, notices in 1704, "the 
former practice among us, to steal Miss Bride." There are 
many traditions respecting it in Northampton and Hadley. 
Some young men who had not been invited to the wedding, seized 
the bride, in the street or house, and led her off, and kept her until 
they were invited to join the party. A Hadley tradition says 
they sometimes took her to a public house, and retained her until 
the groom ordered an entertainment for them. She was treated 

*I am indebted to the Rev. Samuel Sewall of Burlington, Mass. for this extract from 
the Diary of Judge Sewall. He accompanied it (1846) with observations on the forgotton 
customs of our fathers. Some of his remarks follow: — A century and a half ago, they had 
sack-posset at weddings and sung Windsor. Now not one in a hundred ever heard of sack- 
posset, and I should as soon expect to hear yankee-doodle struck up as Windsor. They 
used the old Bay Psalm-book, which was read and sung, line by line, at the social party, 
on occasions of festivity and in family worship, and was in every parlor as well as in every 
meeting-house, but is now assigned over to the antiquary and forgotton. 

In 1682, Judge Sewall was present at the marriage of Daniel Quincy and Anna Shepard. 
A magistrate married them, the two prayers were made by ministers, and the large company 
had cake, wine and beer, and singing succeeded. 

•j-A great wedding-dance took place at New London, at the house of Nathaniel Shaw, 
Esq., June 12, 1769, the day after the marriage of his son, Daniel Shaw and Grace Coit. 
92 gentlemen and ladies attended, and danced 92 jigs, 52 contra-dances, 45 minuets and 
17 hornpipes, and retired at 45 minutes past midnight. 



i238 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

gently and kindly. These affairs seem to have produced no 
quarrels, but to have been sometimes an addition to the w^edding 
frolic. The last bride stolen in Hadley is said to have been 
Elizabeth, daughter of Oliver Smith, who was married to Doct. 
Job Marsh in 1783. The practice ceased in Northampton some 
years before. 

There were occasionally, second day weddings, or wedding 
festivities kept up the second day, in the last and present centuries, 
with much eating, drinking and dancing.* 

The greater part of the marriages in Hampshire county for 150 
years took place on Thursday, but many on Wednesday, and 
some on other days. Very few on Saturday, or Sunday. Mar- 
riages were usually solemnized at the residence of the bride. The 
paternal mansion seems to be the most appropriate place. — 
There were some deviations. David Hillhouse and Sarah Porter 
were married in Hadley meeting-house, Oct. 7, 1781, and a few 
couples since. — The parents of the writer were married in South- 
ampton meeting-house, Sept. i, 1774. Marriages in meeting- 
houses have been very rare. 

The marriage fee was fixed at 3 shillings in 1692, 4s. in 1716, 
1753 and 1760, and 6s. in 1787. The fee of the town clerk for the 
publishment and certificate was IS. 6d. after 1716. The minister 
or justice was to pay for recording the marriage. 

In some towns in this vicinity, in former days, when a couple 
had agreed to be united, the father of the young man went to the 
parents of the young woman, and asked leave for his son to marry 
their daughter. This was "asking leave." It was sometimes 
done by the young man himself. 

Marrying a deceased wife's sister. — The church of England, 
the church of Scotland, and the laws of England, have never 
allowed a man to marry his deceased wife's sister. The American 
colonies, including Massachusetts and Connecticut, were formerly 
equally averse to such marriages. The Court of Assistants in 
Connecticut judged that the marriage of a man at New Haven 
with his deceased wife's sister, was incestuous, and declared it 
null and void, in May, 1694. In the course of the last century, 
most men changed their views and concluded that a man might 
marry his wife's sister. Ebenezer Clark of Westhampton and 

♦February 2, 1769, Josiah Dwight of Hatfield was married, and had a two days wedding 
in Hatfield Addition, now Williamsburgh. About 18 couples attended the wedding from 
Hatfield, and had a good dinner, and spent most of the succeeding night in dancing and 
frolicking. The next morning, "we greeted the rising sun with fiddling and dancing," 
says one of the party, in his diary. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 239 

afterwards of Lunenburg, Vt., married three sisters, daughters 
of Ebenezer Pomeroy of Hadley, in 1774, 1793 and after 1805, 
apparently without opposition or censure. Judge Story is said 
to have declared that such marriages have no immoral tendency, 
but are deemed the best sort.* 

Divorce. — It is believed that only one couple belonging to 
Hadley were ever separated by a divorce, and they were negroes. 
In January, 1752, the Council of Massachusetts granted to Ralph 
Way of Hadley, a divorce from his wife, Lois Way, on account 
of her adultery with another negro, named Boston. — There was 
a petition for a divorce from Springfield in 1687, which was unsuc- 
cessful. There was one from Northampton in 1695; the result 
is not known. Divorces were always more easily obtained in 
Connecticut than in Massachusetts. 

Courtship. — In this vicinity, where in past times, nearly all 
were working men and working women, courting was done, 
almost necessarily, after night-fall. Even those belonging to 
families considered the most respectable, often extended the hours 
of courtship to midnight, 80 or 100 years ago. When a young 
man requested a girl to spend a little time or a few hours with 
him, and she refused, he was shabbed; if she consented, he staid 
with her. These were common expressions in rural places, in 
former days.f 

By a law of Massachusetts in 1647, no one might endeavor to 
draw away the affections of a maid under pretence of marriage, 
before he had obtained liberty from her parents or governors. 
The fine for the first offense was ;^5. There were no prosecutions 
for this offense in Hampshire county, and very few any where. 

Funerals and Mourning. 

Lechford, in his "News from New England" in 1642, says — 
"At burials nothing is read, nor any funeral sermon made, but all 
the neighborhood, or a good company of them, come together by 
tolling of the bell, and carry the dead solemnly to his grave, and 
there stand by him while he is buried. The ministers are most 
commonly present." There was no prayer. 

*Muscutt, a late writer in England, says, "God's law interdicts not such a marriage. 
Common sense discountenances it not. Christian ethics disapprove it not. Yet in the eye 
of the English law, the wife is only a concubine, and the children bastards." 

■["The mode of courtship called bundling, which prevailed in some parts of Europe, was 
not uncommon in some places in New England, in the last century. Rev. Jonathan Ed- 
wards preached a sermon against it in Northampton, more than a century since. Old men 
in Hadley have no knowledge of any such practice in that town, in their day. 



240 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

The Presbyterian Church of Scotland used no funeral sermons 
nor any prayers at the burial of the dead. The Huguenots of 
France had no prayer nor sermon at funerals. 

The ministers of New England, and those of some churches in 
Europe refrained from prayers at funerals, because there was in 
the Bible neither precept nor example for such prayers. After 60 
or 70 years, a few ministers began to pray at funerals, in Massa- 
chusetts, and Mather says, about 1719, that in many towns the 
minister made a prayer at the house and a short speech at the 
grave; in other places both of these were wholly omitted. 

The funeral customs in England and other parts of Europe 
were very bad for centuries. Brand, in his Popular Antiquities, 
says the wakes or watchings with the dead, were scenes of sport, 
drinking and lewdness in England, and they still resemble Bac- 
chanalian revels. The wealthy made profuse and expensive 
funerals. Many funerals were closed with merry-makings. A 
tavern keeper in London told Mission, a continental traveler, 
about 1696, that at his wife's funeral, above 250 gallons of wine 
were drank. Funeral sermons were often preached. Dr. Sand- 
erson, bishop of Lincoln, in his will in 1662, expressed his "utter 
dislike of the flatteries commonly used in funeral sermons, and of 
the vast expenses laid out in funeral solemnities and entertain- 
ments." 

The practice of partaking of wine, ardent spirits, cakes, &c. at 
funerals was brought from England to the American colonies; 
also the custom of expending large sums for gloves, rings, scarfs, 
and mourning garments. The funeral expenses charged in the 
Probate Records of Suffolk and Middlesex counties in Massa- 
chusetts are often surprisingly large, and must have greatly dimin- 
ished many estates. Men sometimes provided for their funerals 
in their wills. Edward Baker of Lynn, an ancestor of the Bakers 
of Northampton, in his will in 1685, ordered "a decent funeral 
suitable to my rank and quality." The heaviest funeral expenses 
were for mourning apparel, rings, gloves, and wine and other 
liquors. The wine for such occasions was sometimes burnt, 
spiced and sugared. In some cases, gloves were lavishly given — 
700 pairs at one funeral, 1000 pairs at another, and above 3000 
pairs and 200 rings at the funeral of A. Faneuil in Boston in 1738. 
Gold rings were given to ministers and to many others. A Boston 
minister in 1728 estimated that the rings and gloves which he 
received at funerals in a year were worth 15 pounds. The funeral 
of Gov. Burnet at Boston, Sept. 12, 1729, cost Massachusetts 
£iog'j, IIS. 3d. In 1742, the General Court passed an act 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 241 

against giving scarfs, gloves, wine, rum and rings at funerals, 
except six pairs of gloves to the bearers and one pair to the min- 
ister. Penalty, ;^50. The act was to continue only five years.* 

Funeral expenses are seldom noticed in the Probate records of 
Hampshire. The extravagance of many in Boston and the vicin- 
ity at funerals, was not imitated in these agricultural towns. 
Seldom were rings or gloves given. Cake and wine or other 
liquors were sometimes distributed. At the burial of the widow 
of John Barnard, of Hadley, in 1665, the cake and wine cost 40 
shillings. But few mourning articles were worn previous to 
1700, and the people did not indulge in expensive mourning 
down to the Revolution, except a few families. The account 
books of Hampshire traders show that few mourning goods were 
required from 1660 to 1770. They were more common the latter 
part of this period, and were then chiefly black gloves, black 
gauze, black gauze handkerchiefs, black fans, black ribbons, and 
black lustring. There were some black silk scarfs and a few 
black gowns of silk crape, but perhaps these did not always indi- 
cate mourning. A few men wore crape hatbands. Mourning 
crape called widow's crape, was seldom sold. 

At the funeral of Col. John Stoddard of Northampton, in 1748, 
some rings and gloves were given. At the funeral of the wife of 
Col. Timothy Dwight of Northampton, in 1763, 24 pairs of gloves 
were distributed. At the funerals of some persons of less note, 
six pairs of white gloves were given to the pall bearers, and one 
pair to the minister. The six pairs were laid on the coffin, three 
pairs on each side. — Gloves were distributed at the funeral of 
Rev. Dr. Samuel Hopkins of Hadley, Feb. 12, 181 1 — probably 
the last gloves given at a funeral in Hampshire. f 

Hadley Burying Ground. 

There is no record of the vote designating this place as a grave 

yard. It was reserved as early as 1661, on the meadow plain, 

adjoining the west end of the homelot of Edward Church, 16 

rods, and of the middle highway, 4 rods, making it 20 rods north 

*Some eastern towns made expensive funerals for deceased ministers, providing wine, 
rum, gloves, rings, and sometimes pipes and tobacco. The Dutch at New York provided 
for funerals, rum, beer, gloves, rings; and in 1703, at a funeral, "Soo cockles, [cookies or 
cakes] and one and a half gross of pipes'" were furnished. The funeral customs in the 
middle and southern colonies were more exceptionable than in New England. The house 
of mourning in Europe and America was often a house of drinking, and sometimes of feast- 
ing. 

■j-The six pall bearers who received the gloves were four ministers — Lyman of Hatfield, 
Wells of Whately, Williams of Northampton, Parsons of Amherst; and two others. Gov- 
ernor Strong and Doct. Ebenezer Hunt of Northampton. 



242 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

and south, and it was about lo^ rods east and west. It consisted 
of two ridges, the highest in this part of the meadow, and of the 
valley between. These 210 square rods were the burial place for 
the old village of Hadley above 130 years. In 1792, 6 or 7 rods 
by 20 were added on the east side, from the homelots, (the old 
homelot was in two,) and the highway. In 1828, about 16 or 17 
rods by 20 were purchased on the east side. The yard is now not 
far from 34 rods by 20, and contains a little more than four acres. 

Almost all the grave stones erected previous to 1800 are of 
sand-stone, and many of the older ones are thick, heavy and rude. 
The five tables are of the same material. The later grave 
stones are of reddish sand-stone, and exhibit much better work- 
manship, and some have a face sculptured on the front. A 
number of slate stones have been erected. The people began to 
procure marble monuments a few years after 1800, and the greater 
part of those set up for thirty or forty years past, are of marble. 
Flowers bloom on some graves, (June, 1858,) 

There is a stone at the grave of Doct. John Westcarr, who died 
in 1675, but it seems to have been erected many years after his 
death. The oldest monuments in the yard are the tables over 
the graves of Rev. John Russell and his wife Rebekah, erected in 
1693. There are only ten stones in the yard with dates earlier 
than 1720; only ten when the town had been settled 60 years. Of 
the fathers of Hadley previous to 1663, only five have grave stones 
in Hadley grave yard, viz.. Rev. John Russell, Capt. Aaron Cooke, 
Chileab Smith, John Ingram; and the late Noah Webster set up 
a stone to the memory of his ancestor, John Webster, who died 
April 5, 1661. He was the first person buried in the yard, except- 
ing perhaps an unnamed infant of Philip Smith, that was buried 
Jan. 22, 1661.* 

There are four more grave yards in Hadley, viz., at Hockanum, 
North Hadley, Plainville, and near Sunderland. 

There was no hearse in Hadley until the year 1826. In that 
town, as in others, the dead were previously carried on a shoulder 
bier, sometimes for miles. In the winter, some were conveyed 
by sleighs. 

Titles — Mister, Goodman, &c. 
When settlements began in New England, the people of Old 
England, below the nobility, baronets and knights, and above 

*I am indebted to Mr. L. M. Boltwood of Amherst, for the name, time of decease and 
age of those persons to whose memory monuments have been erected in this burying ground, 
copied by him in 1849. The number was then about 313. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 243 

the plebeians, were esquires and gentlemen, and they bore the 
title of Master or Mister or Mr. Lawyers, physicians, educated 
men, captains in the wars, wealthy merchants and others who 
could live without manual labor and bear the port of a gentle- 
man, were called Master and taken for gentlemen. Many of these 
gentlemen, called Master or Mister, came to America. Of 1780 
men made freemen of Massachusetts before 1649, ^bout one in 
fourteen had the title of Mr. before his name. It may have been 
given to some to whom it would not have been applied in England. 
There were a few with this title in Hadley among the first planters, 
as John Russell, the minister, John Webster, William Goodwin, 
Peter Tilton and Henry Clarke; and it was sometimes given to 
a few others. For many years, the people of Hadley would have 
been surprised, if not shocked, if a common farmer or mechanic 
had been called mister. Militia officers always had military titles.* 
Ecclesiastical titles were sparingly used. Magistrates were Mis- 
ters and Esquires; Worshipful, sometimes applied to them, was 
in Eno-land a less dignified title than that of Honorable. 

Of those below gentlemen, in England, and sometimes called 
plebeians, were the yeomen who owned or occupied land, some 
merchants, shopkeepers, artificers or mechanics, and laborers of 
various kinds. Sir Thomas Smith says, in 1563: — "Yeomen are 
not called masters, but to their surnames may add 'Goodman,' 
as Goodman White, Goodman Finch." Markham, in his "Eng- 
lish Husbandman," about 1613, says: — "A husbandman is he who 
tilleth the ground, and the ancients did call him a good man; and 
we at this day call every husbandman, in ordinary conference and 
every particular salutation, Goodman such-a-one, a title of more 
honor and virtuous note than many which precede it at feasts and 
in gaudy places." This appellation was much used among the 
husbandmen of Massachusetts, and was common in Hadley. A 
number in Hadley as in other towns were addressed and spoken 
of by their Christian name and surname only, or by one of these. 

*'''Our fathers were essentially a martial people. The warlike virtues were to them a 
necessity. Military titles were in high repute among them. They were preferred to civil 
or ecclesiastical honors. The corporal was on the road to distinction. A sergeant had 
attained distinction and his title was never omitted. An ensign or a lieutenant was lifted 
quite above the heads of his fellows. A captain was necessarily a man of great influence." 
— Bronson's History of Waterbury. 

Military titles were as common in other colonies as in those of New England. The 
council of sixteen in Virginia, in 1656, was composed of 1 1 colonels, 2 lieut. colonels and 3 
captains. The Virginia House of Burgesses, in 1666, had 26 men with a military title, 
and only 8 without such title. 



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HISTORY OF HADLEY 



Mister was gradually extended, and became so general that it 
ceased to be a distinctive title, in the first half of the last century.* 

Female Titles. — A few women denominated Ladies, came to 
New England. It is presumed that this appellation was not often 
used in the Hampshire towns for many years, as a title or compli- 
ment. The wife and daughters of a Mister might claim to be 
called Mistress, which, abbreviated, became Mrs. and was some- 
times written Mtris. The title Miss, applied to a young female 
of good reputation, was introduced later, perhaps in 1720. It 
seems to have had a struggle with Mrs. and each was occasionally 
given to an unmarried female. Some young females were pub- 
lished in Hadley previous to their marriage, with Mrs. before their 
names, down to 1794. — The Goodman's wife was called Good- 
wife or Goody; and when he became a Mr. she might be a Mrs. 
Many women as well as men were spoken of and to by their 
names, without any addition. It is seldom that female titles are 
found in the records of towns, and those of men are often omitted. 

Christian Names. 

Christian names of Hadley children from 1660 to 1700, including some born after 1700, 
belonging to families in which the births began before that date; with the number of chil- 
dren that bore each name. Those born on the west side of the river, which was a part of 
Hadley some years, are not included. 



Males. 




Timothy, 


5 


Westwood, 


2 


Martha, 




John, 


5^ 


Benjamin, 


4 


Mark, 


2 


Ruth, 




Samuel, 


5° 


Experience, 


4 







Anne, 




Ebenezer, 


28 


Noah, 


4 




360 


Dorothy, 




Joseph, 


28 


Isaac, 


4 


One name. 


22 


Thankful, 




Nathaniel, 


20 


Israel, 


4 







Bridget, 




Jonathan, 


18 


Philip, 


3 




382 


Dorcas, 




William, 


17 


Jacob, 


3 


Females. 




Miriam, 




Thomas, 


16 


Edward, 


3 


Mary, 


58 


Rachael, 




Daniel, 


14 


Luke, 


3 


Sarah, 


42 


Experience, 




Stephen, 


8 


Hezekiah, 


3 


Hannah, 


33 


Priscilla, 


2 


James, 


7 


Nathan, 


3 


Elizabeth, 


31 


Prudence, 


2 


Moses, 


7 


Charles, 


2 


Abigail, 


^3 


Mabel, 


2 


Eleazar, 


6 


Nehemiah, 


2 


Rebecca, 


20 


Eunice, 


2 


David, 


6 


Elisha, 


2 


Mehetabel, 


13 


Catharine, 


2 


Richard, 


6 


Martin, 


2 


Joanna, 


II 







Aaron, 


6 


Joshua, 


2 


Mercy, 


10 




318 


Ephraim, 


5 


George, 


2 


Esther, 


10 


One name, 


12 


Ichabod, 


5 


Josiah, 


2 


Lydia, 


8 








330 

Names given to only one child. — Males. — Robert, Solomon, Chileab, Peletiah, Eliakim, 
Preserved, Andrew, Henry, Abraham, Adam, Elihu, Caleb, Edmund, Ezekiel, Job, Peter, 
Enos, Cotton, Phinehas, Antony, Benoni, Zechariah. — 22. — Females. — Elinor, Hope, 
Jerusha, Mindwell, Margaret, Dinah, Susanna, Theoda, Grace, Jane, Frances, Deliver- 
ance. — 12. 

*Rev. Thomas Ruggles of Guilford, Conn., in a short History of that place written in 
1769, says the first settlers were gentlemen called Mr. and the commonalty named Goodman 
or Neighbor such-a-one. He continues: — "How greatly are times now changed! Every 
man almost is called Mr. and every woman Miss, Madam or Lady." 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 245 

There were 382 male children, of 61 different names, and 330 
female children, of 38 different names. The males were about 
100 to 86 females — an unusual inequality. The people of Hadley 
have no reason to be ashamed of the names which their ancestors 
gave to their children, though many of them are seldom now 
given. The planters of Hadley perused the Bible, and derived 
most of their names from it, rejecting the most harsh and uncouth 
Scripture names. They had a few names from virtues, &c., as 
Mercy, Thankful, Prudence, Grace, Hope, Experience; and some 
Saxon and Norman names, as William, Richard, Edward, Henry, 
&c. Two of the children were named from the surname of the 
mother, viz., Westwood and Cotton. More than half the males 
had one of the first six names in the list of males, and half the 
females had one of the first four names of females. Of 226 wives 
named in Hadley from 1660 to 1720, 146 bore the name of Mary, 
Sarah, Hannah, Elizabeth or Abigail. Of 147 persons in Hadley 
valuation in 1731, half had one of these five names, — John, Sam- 
uel, Ebenezer, Joseph, William.* 

Double Christian Names. — The people of Old and New Eng- 
land were generally satisfied with one baptismal name until the 
1 8th century. Men with a middle name are rarely found previous 
to 1700. In New England, the number of double Christian names 
was small previous to the Revolution, and such names did not 
become numerous till after 1800. Nine persons in Hadley had a 



*A few names seem to have comprehended more than half the people of Old England as 
well as of New England. In many lists of men in England, from 1600 to 1700, seven names 
included above one-half, and in almost every list, these most common names were John, 
Thomas, Richard, William, Edward, Henry, Robert. Of 800 ofEcers of the king's army in 
Sept. 1640, more than half bore these names. Of 578 persons appointed by the Parliament 
in 1643 '•° ^'"^ ^^ assessing taxes, about two-thirds bore the same seven names. Of 903 
baronets created from 161 1 to 1686, the seven names included many more than half. Of 
a large number of men, named in a History of the county of Essex, England, before and 
after i6co, half had the same seven names. Of a long list of Esses females, nearly half were 
named Mary, Elizabeth, Anne or Margaret. Names of Puritans and anti-Puritans were 
very similar in England. The names of the emigrants to New England did not differ much 
from the names generally used in England. Of above 1200 admitted as freemen of Mass- 
achusetts before 1641, more than half had one of the same seven names. There was a great 
increase of Bible names after the emigration to New England. The names of half the grad- 
uates of Harvard College previous to 1701 were John, Samuel, Joseph, Thomas, Nathaniel. 
It appears by a remark of Montaigne, that the Huguenots of France preferred Bible-names. 

The Puritans had some awkward names, but it seems that many of the ridiculous names 
attributed to them, in England, by Hume and others, are fictitious. Says the Pictorial 
History of England, 1603 to 1660, "nearly all the ridiculous names, given to the Independ- 
ents at this time, are pure inventions, made fifty years after by a clergyman of the estab- 
lished church." The names of men on the fictitious juries of Hume and Lower, and the 
"new names'' noticed by Camden, are not found among those who came to New England. 
A few of the shorter ones were given to children born in New England, but not often. 



246 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

middle name before the year 1776, and five of them were named 
from their maternal grandfather. 

Old Style and New Style. 

Julius Caesar made a reform in the calendar, 46 years before 
Christ. His solar year consisted of 365 days and 6 hours, and the 
6 hours were taken into account, by making every fourth year of 
366 days. This manner of computing time is old style. There 
was an error in it, the true solar year being 11 minutes and some 
seconds short of 365 J days, and this difference made a whole day 
in about 129 years, and before the year 1582, the vernal equinox 
occurred on the nth of March, 13 or 14 days sooner than in the 
time of Caesar. Pope Gregory XIII. introduced the new style in 
1582, by taking out 10 days from the month of October, which 
corrected the calendar back to the Council of Nice, 325 years 
after Christ. To countervail in future the excess of 11 minutes 
and 12 or 15 seconds in a year, it was determined to omit three 
days in four centuries, by making common years of three leap 
years, viz., 1700, 1800 and 1900. Some English philosophers and 
others objected to this imperfect reform of the calendar, this going 
back to the Council of Nice instead of the Christian era, and there 
were other objections, and England continued to follow the old 
style till 1752, which differed 10 days from the new style until 
1700, and II days after that year. By an act of Parliament, ii 
days were taken from the old calendar in 1752, the 3d of September 
being reckoned the 14th, and England and her colonies conformed 
to the new style.* 

*In New England diaries for 1752 and in correct almanacs, September has only 19 days, 
and the first four days are'thus numbered: — 
September, 1752. 

1. Tuesday. 

2. Wednesday. 

14. Thursday. 

15. Friday. 

One almanac-maker in New England (and perhaps more than one,) made his almanac 
for 1752 according to the old style. Madam Porter, wife of Eleazar Porter, Esq. of Hadley, 
kept interleaved almanacs many years, where she noted various occurrences, and she had one 
of these old style almanacs for 1752 and had to alter with her pen the number of every day 
after September 2d. The maker's name is torn off. 

Gregory's reform in the calendar was beneficial, but his object was more superstitious 
than scientific. The learned Benedictine monks, who wrote in French, "L'Art de Verifier 
les Dates," remark that "the principal object of Gregory was to regulate the celebration of 
Easter." Burke says the dispute about the time of celebrating Easter was "one of the 
most trivial controversies of ecclesiastical discipline;" yet astronomy and chronology gained 
something from this trivial dispute. 

The French work referred to, in 23 volumes, furnishes much information in regard to 
different forms of the year, and different modes of dating. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 247 

The Beginning of the Year. — Julius Caesar began the year with 
the first of January, but some centuries after Christ, the priests 
and others unwisely varied from that day, and there were many 
beginnings in different parts of Europe, as January I, (used by a 
few), March i, March 25, Easter in March or April, December 
25, and three or four other days. March 25 and Dec. 25 were 
the most common.* When the first of January was restored, after 
some centuries, it was a part of the new style, and the other begin- 
nings of the year became old style. England long used Dec. 25, 
but began to use March 25 from the 12th century, and this was 
the legal beginning of the year in church and state, until 1752, 
when the first of January began the year by act of Parliament. 
The first of January had long been reckoned as one beginning of 
the year, and English almanacs began the year with January 
more than 250 years ago. Many in England and America used 
a double date to distinguish the "mongrel time" from January 
I to March 24, inclusive, and set down both years thus — Jan. 20, 
167!, March 4, I70g. The upper figures, 3 and 7, denoted the 
year beginning March 25, and the lower figures, 4 and 8, the year 
commencing Jan. i. In the same part of the year, single dates 
were often used as well as double ones. The two beginnings of 
the year produced confusion in dates in Old England and New 
England. 

In New England, for a time, the first of March was accounted 
the beginning of the year by some, and the months were numbered 
first, second, third, fourth, &c. as 20th of 3d mo. for 20th of May; 
loth 8mo. or 10 — 8, for loth of October. This method of com- 
puting time did not lessen the disorder in dates. It was far from 
being general in New England; was more used in the records of 
churches than in those of towns. In many records, it continued 

♦When men began to celebrate the birth of Christ, two or three centuries after that event, 
they were ignorant respecting the year, month and day in which he was born, and the time 
of his birth is still unknown. Learned writers suppose the 25th of December was selected 
because the sun then began to return towards the north, and was deemed emblematical of 
the rising of the Sun of Righteousness. From this date, men counted back 9 months to 
the 25th of March, which they called the day of the Conception of Christ, or Annunciation 
day. And a large portion of Europe in the middle ages and after, began the year with one 
of these days. — Men did not begin to count years from Jesus Christ until the 6th century. 

Rev. H. H. Milman, a clergyman of the church of England, says in his "History of 
Christianity,"— "The year in which Christ was born is still contested. There is still more 
uncertainty concerning the time of the year. Where there is and can be no certainty, it is 
the wisest course to acknowledge our ignorance, and not to claim the authority of historic 
truth for that which is purely conjectural." He thinks the time of Christ's birth is of no 
importance, and is satisfied with the traditionary day. — Dr. Adam Clarke, the Commentator, 
says "Fabricius gives a catalogue of 136 different opinions concerning the year of Christ's 
birth; and as to his birth-day, that has been placed by Christian sects and learned men in 
every month of the year." 



248 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

but a few years, in some, many years. It was gradually given up, 
and March 25 became usually the first day of the year, as in Eng- 
land, and so continued until 1752, though January i was often 
referred to as new year's day, and New England almanacs began 
the year with January before 1700. After Hampshire county was 
incorporated, the recorders of the county and of the towns in it, 
commonly began the year with March 25, but there were many 
deviations; they used both single and double dates between Dec. 
31 and March 25. In Hadley, the town clerk sometimes seemed 
to reckon January i as the beginning of the year, long before 1752. 
In this History of Hadley, the dates are given as if the year 
began on the first of January, in new style, but with respect to the 
excess of 11 days before 1752, the old style and old records are 
followed. 



CHAPTER XXIII 

The second Indian War, 1688 to 1698 — Six persons killed at Northfield — Presents to the 
Maquas — Destruction of Schenectady — Troubles with Albany Indians — Persons killed 
at Deerfield and Brookfield — Murder of Richard Church of Hadley, and trial and exe- 
cution of two Indians — Attack in Hatfield meadows — Expenses of the war — Pay of 
soldiers — The war in Hampshire — Hampshire soldiers — Taxes — Palisades — Contribu- 
tions. 

Of the five towns in Hampshire, that were broken up by the 
Indian war in 1675, Suffield began to be re-settled in 1677, Deerfield 
in 1682 or 1683, Northfield about 1685, and Brookfield not long 
after. No record alludes to any settlers at Swampfield, (Sunder- 
land.) Enfield, a new town, was incorporated, in 1683, and 
Hampshire had ten towns and plantations before 1688. There 
were very few settlers at Brookfield. 

In 1688, while New England was under the despotic govern- 
ment of Andros, another Indian war began in Maine, and in 
Hampshire county. In the latter part of July, five friendly In- 
dians living at Spectacle Pond near Springfield, were killed by 
other Indians. A few days after, eleven Indians appeared near 
Northfield, and some of them were recognized as Indians who 
formerly lived in these parts. On the i6th of August, three men, 
two women and a girl were killed at Northfield, and it was believed 
that they were murdered by these Indians. Major Pynchon sent 
soldiers to Northfield, and thirteen men were sent up from Hart- 
ford. By order of Gov. Andros, in November, 60 Connecticut 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 249 

men were posted at Northfield, under Captain Jonathan Bull, 
during the winter. The destruction of six persons at Northfield 
is not noticed by any historian, and their names cannot now be 
found.* 

The revolution in England, which drove king James into exile 
and placed William and Mary upon the throne, began in Novem- 
ber, 1688. On the i8th of April, 1689, the people of Boston and 
other towns seized Gov. Andros and his associates, and restored 
the old governor and magistrates. The revolution in England 
was followed by war between England and France, which extended 
to their colonies in America, and for the first time, the people of 
New England were involved in a desolating war with the French 
in Canada and their Indian allies. — Most of the attacks in 1689 
were directed against New Hampshire and Maine, both under 
the government of Massachusetts. The frontier which Massa- 
chusetts had to defend, extended from the Connecticut to the 
Kennebec and beyond. 

"The tears, fears and groans of the broken remnant of North- 
field" is the beginning of a petition from that place to the General 
Court, dated June 27, 1689, in the hand-writing of Rev. John 
Russell of Hadley. They say that they had 25 families before the 
six persons were slain by the Indians, and that half had since 
deserted the place, and only 12 families remained. They asked 
for advice and help. Peter Tilton, Samuel Partridge and John 
King were appointed to order matters at Northfield. About 70 
souls, of whom only 15 were men, remained in the place until the 
spring of 1690, when Northfield was abandoned the second time, 
and remained desolate 25 years. Hadley was again the most 
northern town on the east side of the river. 

In August, 1689, Massachusetts and Connecticut sent agents 
to Albany, with Major Pynchon at the head, to make presents 
to the Maquas and river Indians, and engage them against the 
Indian enemy. (See page 124.) Speeches were made, and the 
chiefs of the Five Nations used the customary, unmeaning expres- 
sions, and made deceptive promises. The agents gave to them 
500 pounds of powder, looo pounds of lead, 150 yards of duffel, 
500 guilders in wampum, 90 shirts, and 40 pounds of tobacco, 

*Pynchon's Letters, and the depositions of Thomas Wells of Deerfield, and of Micah 
Mudge of Northfield, and other papers relating to these events, are in the Massachusetts 
Archives. — Gov. Andros made a short visit at Hadley, apparently in September, 1688, and 
and sent to Northampton for the committee appointed to re-settle Northfield. He did not 
cross the river. — Mr. Warham Mather of Northampton preached at Northfield 6 months, 
after the 6 persons were killed. 



250 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

and they made presents to the sachems privately, and entertained 
100 of their people with beef, pork, bread, beer, &c. They also 
made presents to the Hudson's River Indians, whom they named 
Mahikanders and Scachkooks. "Albany is a dear place," said 
Major Pynchon, and it was so to the people of Massachusetts, who 
paid the bills. Connecticut paid only a small part in 1689. — In 
March, 1690, Robert Livingston asked of Massachusetts, 400 or 
500 pounds worth of goods as presents to the Five Nations, to 
counteract the attempts of the French to withdraw them from their 
alliance with the English. 

The leading men at Albany, fearing an attack from the French 
and Indians, desired the aid of 100 men from New England. The 
preservation of Albany was important to New England, and Con- 
necticut sent about 66 soldiers, and 24 were taken from the county 
of Hampshire, and they left Westfield, Nov. 18, 1689, under 
Capt. Jonathan Bull. Capt. Bull found the people of Albany 
and Schnectady divided into two parties, and bitterly opposed to 
each other. While the inhabitants of Schnectady were quarreling 
and neglecting the means of defense, they were attacked by the 
French and Indians on the night of Feb. 8, 1690, and about 62 
were slain and 28 made captives, including five killed and five 
taken, of Capt. Bull's company. Some from Hampshire were 
taken, and perhaps some slain.* 

The year 1690 was one of great calamities and much distress 
to New England. The French and Indians made successful 
attacks on the northern and eastern towns; an expedition against 
Quebec, with more than 2000 troops from Massachusetts, failed, 
and several vessels and many men were lost; a land army that 
was to attack Montreal, was unable to proceed beyond the south- 
ern point of Lake Champlain. 

Hampshire county escaped the ravages of war in 1689 and 1690, 
but there were many alarms, and men were often called to arms. 
There was a garrison at Deerfield, and scouts were sent up to 
West River, and smaller scouts were sent out frequently from the 
other towns. In 1690, Major Pynchon detached 40 men from 
Hampshire, to join the army at Albany, but there were so many 
reports of Indians at the Falls above Squakeag, at Coasset and 
other places, that the 40 men were not sent out of the county.f 

*Of the Hampshire men, Joseph Marks was carried to Canada; Samuel Beaman was 
taken, but escaped. Robert Alexander and Jonathan Church were slain, or died of sickness; 
David Burt, Jr. of Northampton, was a captive in Canada, 1690, and never returned. 

■[■These alarms brought up Capt. Samuel Talcott of Wethersfield, with his company of 
horsemen, in June, 1690, who remained but a few days. A company from Connecticut, 
under Capt. Bull, were at Deerfield in January and February, 1691. 



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HISTORY OF HADLEY 251 

On the 2d of July, Hadley scouts espied an Indian, and discovered 
the tracks of others, "about Swampfield mill."* 

Small parties of Maquas and Albany Indians, and others pre- 
tending to be from New York, came into the Hampshire towns, 
and some were insolent and used threats. Two were arrested in 

1690, and one of them was shot at Deerfield, in attempting to 
escape. These things brought complaints from the Maquas. 

New Troubles with Indians in 1691. — On the 2d of December, 

1691, Major Pynchon informed the governor and council, that in 
November, about 150 Indians, men, women and children, came 
to Deerfield from the vicinity of Albany, and settled under the 
side of the mountain, about a mile southerly from the town. The 
men had written passes from the mayor of Albany; they employed 
themselves in hunting, and left the women and children at the 
wigwams. They had been quiet with one or two exceptions; 
some of them were supposed to be former enemies who settled 
near Albany. 

They professed to be friendly, but the people of Hampshire 
were afraid they would prove unfriendly, and the committees of 
the militia of the towns of Northampton, Hadley, Hatfield and 
Deerfield met Jan. i, 1692, and sent a letter to the governor and 
council. They estimated the Indians at 40 or 50 fighting-men, 
and 100 women and children. Major Pynchon again wrote, and 
said some of the Indians had set up their wigwams near Hatfield. 
"They are very unacceptable to our people," said Major P. and 
should they be false, could do much harm. The reason of their 
coming was the scarcity of provisions about Albany. f The gov- 
ernor and council replied, that it was best to observe the motions 
of the Indians, avoid giving offense, take care that strong drink 
was not sold to them, write to the mayor of Albany, and keep 
good watches. — Some regulations were proposed to the Indians, 
Jan. 18, to which they consented. As to strong drink, they said, 
"our young men and squaws will buy liquor, and your English 
will sell it. "I Most of these Indians returned to Hudson's River 
in May, 1692. 

About the first of February, 1692, Capt. William Whiting of 
Hartford came up with 50 soldiers to garrison Deerfield a few 
weeks, Major Pynchon having written to Connecticut for aid. 

♦These words of Major Pynchon are the only intimation that there was a mill at Swamp- 
field. Probably only the foundation or beginning of a mill. 

•j-It may be inferred that game had become more plenty in the Hampshire woods, after 
the Indians left in Philip's war. 

|The Indians were right. There were men in Hampshire then who would sell liquor 
regardless of consequences, and there are such men now. 



252 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

When the ice was thick upon Lake Champlain, which was usually 
in January and February, the people of Hampshire and Albany 
apprehended an attack from Canada. After the ice broke up, 
there was not much fear of an assault, till the trees were covered 
with leaves. 

The county of Hampshire escaped the attacks of the enemy, 
four years in succession, viz., 1689, 1690, 1691 and 1692. Reports 
of danger were frequent, and Major Pynchon said in 1692, "strict 
watches, wards and scouts we keep in all these towns, and im- 
prove four men allowed by the country, in scouting up the river." 

On the 6th of June, 1693, three or four persons were killed or 
severely wounded at Deerfield, in the family of Hepzibah Wells,* 
widow of Lieut. Thomas Wells; and Thomas Broughton, his 
wife and three children were slain. These two families lived on 
the west side of the street near the north end. Soldiers were sent 
to Deerfield from the towns below; and two companies from Con- 
necticut who remained but a few days. Another company, under 
Capt. William Whiting, came later and remained three months. 
Canada Indians probably committed these murders, but some 
New York Indians were at first suspected, and two were confined. 
Their friends complained to Gov. Fletcher of New York, and he 
wrote to Connecticut and Massachusetts; he said the Indians were 
much displeased with New England, and in danger of being drawn 
off "by your rigor and French bribes." Gov. Phipps ordered the 
two Indians to be released, but they escaped before the order 
arrived. 

On Thursday, the 27th of July, 1693, a party of 26 Canada 
Indians, killed at Brookfield, near the Boston road, east of the 
garrison house, Rebekah, the wife of Joseph Wolcott and her 
two daughters, Joanna, aged 6, and Hannah, aged 2 years, 
Thomas Lawrence, and Joseph Mason and son; and they took 
Daniel Lawrence and Mason's wife and her infant, and they 
killed the infant at night. John Lawrence, brother of Thomas 
and Daniel, rode speedily to Springfield for assistance, there 
being only five or six men at the garrison house. Major Pynchon 

*Widow Wells, who was a Buel of Windsor, went to Connecticut to get surgical aid for 
her wounded children, one or two of whom had been scalped. The healing process was 
long and expensive. The General Court of Connecticut passed the following order, Oct. 
II, 1694. 

"Widow Wells of Deerfield motioned that she might have liberty to crave the charity of 
the good people of this colony for her relief of the great charge she hath been at in curing 
the wounds of her children, received by the Indians. This court recommends to the con- 
gregations in Windsor, Hartford, Wethersfield, and Farmington, to be charitably helpful to 
the woman therein." 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 253 

called out 20 men from SpringField and 8 from Westfteld, and sent 
a post to Hadley for 30 men from Northampton, Hadley and Hat- 
field, all to be commanded by Capt. Thomas Colton of Springfield. 
The 28 soldiers reached Brookfield on Friday, at 2 p. m., and 
buried the dead, and the 30 arrived about sunset. On Saturday, 
the 29th, Capt. Colton left 16 men at the garrison, and with 
42 followed the track of the Indians northerly, and came to a 
pond where the Indians lodged the second night, which they 
judged to be 30 miles* from Brookfield. A few miles from the 
pond, the way became very difficult for horses, and 19 men were 
left to bring on the horses, and Capt. Colton and 23 resolute men 
pursued on foot. On Sabbath morning, the 23 men started early, 
and about sunrise, discovered the enemy "in a most hideous, 
thick, woody place," where they could hardly be seen. Capt. 
Colton made signs to his men to advance and fire upon them, 
which they did. The Indians were at breakfast, and were sur- 
prised and terrified, and all that could, instantly disappeared in 
the thicket, leaving their prisoners, ammunition, &c. Capt. Col- 
ton saw four that were killed, and the soldiers said six or seven 
were killed. The company recovered the two captives. Mason's 
wife and Daniel LawTence, and brought away 9 guns, 20 hatchets, 
4 cutlasses, 16 or 18 horns of powder, and two barks full of powder, 
neatly covered. They returned to Brookfield that day, and came 
home on Monday, leaving 6 or 8 at the garrison house. f 

The General Court gave the men ;^40, and what was taken 
from the enemy, to be shared equally. $ 

In August, 1694, Commissioners from Massachusetts, Connect- 
icut, New York and New Jersey, guarded by 60 horsemen from 
Connecticut, met the Indian sachems at Albany, and loaded 
them with presents, to secure their attachment to the cause of the 
English. The expenses of Massachusetts were £^J0, and of Con- 
necticut, including her dragoons, about as much. 

September 15, 1694, M. Castreen and Indians attacked the 
fort at Deerfield, and were repulsed. John Bement of Enfield, 
and Richard Lyman of Northampton, of the garrison, were 
wounded. Daniel Severance, a lad, was killed in the meadow. 

♦Soldiers' miles in the woods were too many. The pond may have been 15 or 20 miles 
from Brookfield. 

■j-This account is from Major Pynchon's Letters in the Massachusetts Archives. — This 
pursuit of Indians into swamps and thickets, though successful, was rash and dangerous. 

jThe officers of the Northampton militia company objected to the equal division of the 
plunder; they said much plunder was left at the place of assault which might have been 
brought away by men who came away empty, and that half of those left with the horses were 
not needed for that purpose, but were unwilling to go further. "It seems to be hard, they 
said, that valor and cowardice should have the same reward." 



254 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Hannah Beaman, wife of Simon Beaman, kept a school north of 
the pahsade, and she and her scholars ran to the fort, and though 
fired upon, escaped unhurt. — John Lawrence was slain in Brook- 
field in 1694. He had lived some years in Hadley, and Law- 
rence's bridge and Lawrence's plain were named from him. 

Some of the Albany Indians, called also River Indians, who 
lived above and below Albany, came to Connecticut River every 
year, game being much more plenty here. A company of them 
came to Hatfield, Aug. 9, 1695. On the loth of August, eight or 
nine Albany Indians who were hunting near Nashawelet* River, 
were killed by hostile Indians. Major Pynchon sent up to Nash- 
awelet, a company of horsemen under Capt. Colton, from Spring- 
field and the towns above, but they did not find the enemy. 

On the i8th of August, 1695, five Deerfield men set out for 
the mill, on horses with bags of grain, and when they had gone 
about a mile southward, they were fired upon by seven or eight 
Indians who were concealed near the road, and Joseph Barnard 
was sorely wounded and fell from his horse. The others set him 
upon his horse with one to hold him on, when another shot 
killed his horse. They then put him upon one of their horses, 
when a gun was fired and he was again hit; yet they all reached 
the garrison, unharmed, except Joseph Barnard, who died on the 
6th of September.f The Indians were pursued but not overtaken. 

In September, 1695, Indians were lurking about the Hamp- 
shire towns, and were seen near Deerfield, Northampton and 
Hadley. Men were frequently out, ranging the woods. 

Deerfield was a much exposed place, and many attacks of 
the enemy were directed against the inhabitants of that town. A 
garrison was there, from the Hampshire towns, and sometimes 
from Connecticut. 30 Connecticut soldiers were there in January 
and February, 1695, and 30 were sent up in August. In 
September, 1695, there were 24 men at Deerfield and 8 at Brook- 
field from the five old Hampshire towns, and 16 more were sent 
to Deerfield, Sept. 30. Some of these men were scouting daily. 

On the i6th of September, 1696, the Indians captured John 
Gillet up Green River, above Deerfield, and came to the village 
and took Daniel Belden and two children, Nathaniel and Esther; 
killed his wife Elizabeth and three children, Daniel, John and 

*So Major Pynchon wrote the name of the stream, now spelled Ashuelot. The Indians 
had the sound of N. at the beginning of the word, as in Nashua. 

■j-Major Pynchon wrote that Joseph Barnard was "a very useful and helpful man in that 
place, so much under discouragement, and they will the more find and feel the want of him." 
He was a son of Francis Barnard of Hadley. Hannah Beaman of Deerfield, the school 
dame, was his sister. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 255 

Thankful; and wounded Samuel and Abigail, who recovered, 
though Samuel's skull was fractured. 

Murder of Richard Church of Hadley. 
On the 5th of October, 1696, a murder was committed in 
Hadley, which produced a great excitement in the county, and 
occasioned the capital punishment of two of the New York 
Indians. Richard Church of Hadley, tailor, aged 27, and re- 
cently married, was slain by some of the Hudson's River Indians. 
He was a son of Samuel Church, deceased, and grandson of 
Richard Church, a first settler. The following account is gath- 
ered from the testimony and many other papers, which are still 
extant in the Archives at Boston. Eight or ten families of the 
Albany Indians lived near Hatfield, as in preceding years, and on 
the first of October, four of these Indians went up Hadley Mill 
River to hunt, though they had been ordered not to hunt on the 
east side of the Connecticut. Their names were Mahweness or 
Mowenas, Mahquolous or Moquolas, Wenepuck, and Pemeque- 
noxet or Pameconoset. When they were returning on the 5th, 
and were about two miles from Hadley village, in a north-easterly 
direction, apparently in the vicinity of Mount Warner, they 
found Richard Church hunting in the woods, and shot him, a 
little before sunset. Samuel Barnard and Ebenezer Smith of 
Hadley had been hunting with Church that afternoon, but he 
had parted from them; and sometime after he left them, they 
heard the reports of two guns, near together, followed by a shout. 
They returned home, and as the evening advanced, and Church 
did not return, they and the people of Hadley believed that he 
had been killed by a party of the enemy. Messengers were sent 
to Northampton and Hatfield, and many men from the three 
towns assembled at Hadley, and went into the woods after mid- 
night. They were joined by some friendly Woodstock Indians 
under Peter Aspinwall. They found the body of Church towards 
morning; a bullet had been shot through his head, an arrow stuck 
in his side, his gun and part of his clothes were gone, and he was 
scalped. Some of the men conveyed the body to the house of his 
mother, widow Mary Church, and about 40 others followed 
the tracks of three or four Indians, from the place where the body 
was found to the west end of Mount Toby, where they came in 
sight of four Indians in the woods, and captured one; three es- 
caped and came into Hatfield, where they were apprehended 
that day, October 6, and the Indians at Hatfield were disarmed 
and secured; there were 8 men besides the four taken, 9 squaws 



256 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

and 23 children. There were others at Deerfield. — The four 
Indians were examined, Oct. 6, before three Justices, and the 
ministers of Northampton and Hatfield were present. The 
Indians were kept singly, and all at first denied, but Pameque- 
noxet was taken to the place of the murder, and there without 
force or threats, he owned that he saw Mahweness and Mah- 
quolous kill the man with their gun and bows and arrows, and 
he showed where they stood when they did it, and where he and 
Wenepuck stood. Being brought back, he owned the same before 
the justices and others. Wenepuck was then called and owned 
the same. Mahquolous being brought in, admitted that Mah- 
weness killed the man, but did not implicate himself. Mahwe- 
ness denied all, and said the others were liars. The next week, 
Oct. 12, Joseph Hawley and Joseph Parsons of Northampton, 
with eight others, took Wenepuck and Mahquolous towards the 
place of the murder, in two companies, the two Indians being 
about a mile apart, leaving the Indians to lead. Wenepuck went 
directly to the spot, and pointed out the trees at which, as he 
said, the two Indians stood when they killed Church, and the 
trees at which the other two stood, and they were the same trees 
that Pemequenoxet showed, the week before. Wenepuck was 
then taken away into a swamp, and Mahquolous came to the 
same place, and showed the same trees, and said that Mahweness 
killed the man. 

The others constantly affirmed that Mahquolous was active 
with Mahweness in the murder. Martha Wait of Hatfield testi- 
fied that Mahquolous said at her house, that he would kill a 
Hadley man because Hadley men threatened them when they 
hunted in Hadley woods. 

A court of Oyer and Terminer was holden at Northampton 
on the 2ist of October, 1696, to try the Indians. Lt. Gov. 
Stoughton and council had specially commissioned to hold this 
court, John Pynchon, Samuel Partrigg, Joseph Hawley and 
Aaron Cooke, Esquires, and Joseph Parsons, Gentleman.* 

*John Pynchon, 3d of Springfield, was Clerk, EbenezerPomery of Northampton, acted as 
king's Attorney, Richard Webls and William Holton of Northampton, were Interpreters. 
Samuel Porter of Hadley, was the county Sheriff. 

The grand-jury. — Preserved Clapp, foreman, John Taylor, Isaac Sheldon, Enos Kings- 
ley, John Parsons, Thomas Lyman, William Holton and Samuel Wright of Northampton; 
Nehemiah Dickinson, Jonathan Marsh, George Stillman, and Samuel Barnard of Hadley; 
and Joseph Belknap, Samuel Belding, Samuel Dickinson and John White of Hatfield. 

The petit jury. — John Holyoke, Esq. foreman and Thomas Colton of Springfield; John 
King, Medad Pomery, Judah Wright and John Clark of Northampton; Timothy Nash, 
Daniel Marsh, Thomas Hovey, of Hadley; John Coleman, Daniel White and Eleazar Frary 
of Hatfield. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 257 

Mowenas and Moquolas were indicted as principals, and 
Wenepuck and Pameconeset as accessories. All the Indians from 
Hatfield and the vicinity were present. Each of the four was tried, 
and each was declared guilty by the jury. Only the principals 
were sentenced, and they were to be shot to death on the 23d of 
October, about 2, P. M. and they were executed at Northampton. 
These were the first executions in Hampshire County.* 

This event disturbed the Indians about Hudson's River, and 
being misled by various false reports, they became incensed 
against New England, pretending that the two Indians were 
innocent. By their complaints, they much annoyed Gov. Fletcher 
of New York, and many letters passed between him and Lieut. 
Gov. Stoughton of Massachusetts, and the correspondence did 
not cease till May, 1697. A detail of the evidence and of the pro- 
ceedings of the Court, signed by the Justices, was sent to Lt. 
Gov. Stoughton, who sent a copy to Gov. Fletcher. The two 
accessories, who were not sentenced, were at liberty in February. 

The Albany Indians continued to dwell between Hatfield and 
Deerfield until the latter part of April, 1697, when they departed, 
and did not come again. They had been the source of much 
disquiet and trouble in Hampshire. 

The Treaty of Peace at Ryswick between England and France, 
was proclaimed at Boston, Dec. 10, 1697. Some of the Indians 
continued hostilities several months longer. 

Sergeant Samuel Field of Hatfield, was slain by Indians, July 
13, 1697. — On the 15th of July, 1698, four Indians came into the 
upper part of the North meadow in Hatfield, where men and boys 
were hilling Indian corn, and killed John Billings, aged 24, and 
Nathaniel Dickinson, Jr., aged 13, and took Samuel Dickinson, 
aged II, and a lad named Charley. They shot at Nathaniel 
Dickinson, the father, and killed his horse, but he escaped. The 

*An order from John Pynchon and Samuel Partrigg, dated at Northampton, Oct. 23, 
1696, after mentioning the crime and sentence of Mowenas, required the Sheriff of Hamp- 
shire "to take Mowenas from the place where he is now in custody, to the place of execution, 
and cause the sentence to be executed upon him." 

The sheriff certified on the back of the warrant, Oct. 23, that he "caused the within 
mentioned Mowenas to be taken to the place of execution, and there to be shot to death about 
two of the clock on the said day." Signed by Samuel Porter, Sheriff of Hampshire. 

The warrant and certificate in regard to the execution of Moquolas were the same. — 
Undoubtedly a great number of people assembled to see the two Indians "shot to death." 
The place of execution in Northampton is not known. 

The expenses incurred in consequence of this murder were £31.16.0. John Pynchon 
received 5 shillings per day, and the other Justices, 4s. Grand and petit jurors, 2s. a day. 
Guarding the Indians was i s. 6d. to 2s. for a day and night. Provisions for Indians, 6 pence 
a day. Blacksmith for irons, 8s. It is believed that there was no prison in Northampton. 



258 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Indians had canoes on the river, and were not found until a 
scout of three Northampton men, and eleven men from the town 
and garrison of Deerfield, went up the river many miles above 
that place, and lay in wait; when the Indians came along in their 
canoes, on the other side, they killed or severely wounded two 
of them, and rescued the two lads, but lost one of their party, 
Nathaniel Pomery of Deerfield, aged i8. Benjamin Wright of 
Northampton was the leader. The General Court gave these 
soldiers £,11. 

In this war often years, sometimes called King William's war. 
New England lost some hundred lives, a great amount of prop- 
erty, and numerous captives were carried to Canada. The gov- 
ernment of Massachusetts expended in the war more than 150,000 
pounds, (500,000 dollars.) About half of the expense, exclusive 
of the Quebec expedition, was for the defense of Maine, and 
much was expended for New Hampshire. Not a great number 
of Indians were slain. The bounty offered for Indian heads or 
scalps was at first 8 to 10 pounds, and was increased in some 
cases to 50 pounds.* 

Hampshire county suffered much less than some other frontiers; 
yet at least 28 of the inhabitants were slain, and several captured. 
Seven or eight Indians may have been slain in the county. North- 
field was the only town deserted. The people of Deerfield were 
always in danger, and as Major Pynchon said, "continually 
pecked at" by the enemy. The war expenses of Massachusetts 
in Hampshire, during the last five years of the war, averaged 
above ;^500 a year, and more than two-thirds of this was for the 
pay of soldiers and provisions at Deerfield; the rest was for 
Brookfield, scouting, &c. Considerable sums were paid by the 
county and towns for scouting. The soldiers of Connecticut, 
when in this county, were paid by that colony and supplied 
with provisions at the expense of Massachusetts. These soldiers 

*Wages of officers and soldiers. — In 1696 and in other years, a private had 6 shillings per 
week, drummer and corporal, 7s., clerk and sergeant, 9s., ensign, 12s., lieutenant, 15s., 
captain, 30s., major, 50s., chaplain, 20s., surgeon, 20s. — Regular troopers or cavalry, each 
furnishing his own horse. Common trooper, los., trumpeter, clerk and corporal, 12s., 
quarter-master, 15s., cornet, 20s., lieutenant, 25s., captain, 40s. — Dragoons or common 
soldiers with horses, 8s. These wages seem not to differ much from those in Philip's war. 
— A post had 4 pence a mile one way, and bore the charges of himself and horse. 

Subsistence for soldiers. — In 1696, the price of food for soldiers not stationary was 8 
pence per day; for those in garrison, 3s. 6d. per week. The soldiers were well supplied 
with food. Many were billeted in families and lived as they did. Others had pork or beef, 
bread or dry biscuit, and peas. In some expeditions, they carried tlie Indian food called 
Nocake, which was Indian corn parched and beaten into meal. — Rum, sugar, pipes and 
tobacco were to be provided for an expedition to Maine in September, 1689. — Keeping a 
horse at grass a day and night was 3 pence, and at hay and provender, 6 pence. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 259 

commonly came up on horseback; and much of the scouting and 
pursuing in the woods was performed on horses. There was 
constant watching by night and frequent warding by day in the 
Hampshire towns, and guns and ammunition were carried to 
the meeting-houses every Sabbath.* 

The war taxes were heavy. The expenses of Massachusetts in 
1690, the year of the disastrous Quebec expedition, were more 
than 50,000 pounds, and occasioned the first issue of paper 
money. In 1689 and 1690, five single country rates in money, 
and thirty-five in produce, were ordered. In 1691, there was a 
tax of ;^24,ooo. In 1692, the nev/ charter went into operation, 
and Plymouth colony was united with Massachusetts. The first 
tax after this union, for 1692 and 1693, was ;^30,ooo in three 
parts. The taxes from 1692 to 1702, both inclusive, amounted to 
;^i 15,143. The proportion paid by the polls varied. In the 
eleven years, the polls averaged not far from one shilling each in 
2300 pounds of tax. — The taxes of ;^24,ooo and ;^30,ooo were 
collected with difficulty. In 1691, Springfield paid her share of 
20 country rates, laid in 1690, by sending 1214 bushels of grain 
to Boston, mostly peas.f 

Palisades. — The people of Hadley were building a palisade on 
the east side of the street, in January, 1690, and in February, 

♦Soldiers or militia in Hampshire — In May, 1690, Major Pynchon stated the number 
of soldiers belonging to the five old towns, at 454, viz., to Northampton, 128, Springfield, 
120, Hatfield, 80, Hadley, 66, Westfield, 60. Those of Springfield were in the town plat, 
60, on the west side of the river, 28, at Longmeadow, 20, at Skipmuck, 12. From other 
accounts, it may be conjectured that Suffield in 1690 had about 56 soldiers, Enfield, from 
25 to 30, Deerfield, not far from 44, and Brookfield, about 12; making in the county a few 
short of 600, and indicating a population of not less than 2500. 

Hadley had fewer soldiers than Hatfield in 1690, but perhaps not fewer inhabitants. 
Hadley returned 78 ratable polls in May, 1693, ^^^^^ ^ careful revision. If the old compu- 
tation of one poll to four inhabitants be correct, Hadley had in 1693 a population of 312. 

■j-In Hampshire, there was great complaint of the money taxes. In June, 1690, Spring- 
field complained louder than in 1685. The selectmen said in a petition — "our people have 
not patience to hear such a yoke, who know not such a thing as money." They hinted that 
some people thought it would be easier to pay taxes to Connecticut. In October, 1690, 
delegates from the Hampshire towns met, and sent a petition against money rates. They 
said — "not one in ten of the inhabitants of said county have any income of money in any 
manner." They begged "that it may be as of old, when those that had silver paid silver, 
and those that had it not, paid goats' hair, ram skins, &c." 

The Puritans knew what was in the Bible, and could readily refer to any passage. An- 
thony Austin, in a petition for the people of Suffield, in 1700, calls them, "your lame Me- 
phibosheth." 

Three province taxes of the Hampshire towns, ordered in 1692, 1696 and 1700, are sub- 
joined. Also a county tax for 1702. Some of the pence are omitted. The polls in 1700 
paid 3s. Brookfield was not taxed, and Deerfield, Suffield and Enfield were only partially 
taxed. Suffield and Enfield were suffering from the claims and violent acts of the people 
of Windsor. Hampshire was slow in paying the heavy taxes, and in June, 1694, owed 
£1853.3.1, and was ordered to pay in bills of credit or otherwise, except Suffield and Enfield. 
Suffield was abated £200. 



260 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

they voted to lay aside their private business and finish the forti- 
fication; and then to fortify some places within the town. They 
did not name any palisade on the west side. In March, 1691, 
they voted to repair the old garrison houses, and the east fortifi- 
cation, and to continue scouting in the woods. In June, 1693, 
they voted to have a daily scout, and to have two more houses 
fortified on the east side. George Stillman and others who lived 
near him at the north end, without the palisade, had liberty to 
fortify Stillman's house.* 

The grist-mills were preserved. The mill of Hadley, in a lonely 
place three miles north of the village, was not assailed, and the 
miller, Joseph Smith, was unharmed. 

Contributions. — Acts of kindness and beneficence were very 
frequent in New England during this war. Massachusetts con- 
tributed largely for the relief of the poor and distressed, and the 
redemption of the captives. There were captives not only in 
Canada, but some of our people were in captivity in Morocco 
and Algiers. — Connecticut made contributions for the east in 
1691, and she contributed much corn and some rye to the sufferers 
in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine, in the spring and 
summer of 1697. 





1692. 


1696. 


1700. 


1702. 




£30,000 


£9619 


£6038 


County Tax. 


Springfield, 


341-11 


114 


70. 4 


10.16 


Northampton, 


329. 


102 


70. 4 


10.16 


Hadley, 


209. 9 


78 


46.16 


7- 4 


Hatfield, 


184. 7 


63 


38. 6 


5. II 


Westfield, 


112. 13 


39 


24.17 


3-1* 


Deerfield, 


104. 9 




6. 


0.18 


Suffield, 


103. 9 


24 


14.12 


3- 3 


Enfield, 


20. 


6 


6. 


1. 16 



£1404.18 £426 £276.19 £43i6 

Samuel Porter, the sheriff, stated to the Gen. Court in May, 1695, that he had seized 
on execution, the lands and estates of constables who had not paid their rates, but nobody 
would buy them for want of money, &c. 

A tax ordered in June, 1695, required single females, who earned a livelihood, to pay 2 
shillings each, being half as much as the poll tax of males. This was the only tax levied on 
females in this province. In 1692, East New Jersey taxed females over 16, one shilling each. 
♦Northampton, Hatfield and Deerfield built palisades in 1690, and some houses were 
fortified. The palisade of Northampton was the longest and most irregular. That of 
Hatfield, a few years later, was 229 rods on one side and 246 rods on the other, besides the 
ends; and the house of Mr. Williams was fortified, and three on the "Hill," and one at the 
"Farms." The line of the palisades could be traced in many houselots in Hatfield, 25 years 
ago. — A new fortification was made at Deerfield in 1693, by order of Major Pynchon, 302 
rods in length, (one account says 202 rods,) and the estimated cost was five shillings per rod, 
in money. Deerfield was allowed £40 for it in her province rates. The fortification was 
repaired in 1696 and 1702. — It may be inferred that well made palisades cost about five 
shillings per rod, as money. 



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CHAPTER XXIV 

Execution of Sarah Smith and Negro Jack — Sickness of 1689 — Change of Government — 
New Charter, 1692 — Connecticut and Hampshire county — Third Indian War began in 
1703 — Destruction of Deerfield and Pascommuck, and other events in 1704 — Snow 
Shoes — The war from 1705 to 171 3 — Expenses — Taxes — Pay and food of soldiers — 
Captives — Scalps — Dogs — Dutch at Albany — Mohawks. 

Martin Smith of Deerfield was taken by the Indians in 1693, 
and returned from Canada in 1698. In his absence, his wife 
Sarah murdered her illegitimate child, at Deerfield, Jan. 11, 
1698. The judges of the Superior Court came up from Boston, 
escorted by 26 troopers, on account of the Indians, and she was 
tried at Springfield, Aug. 18, 1698. The jury brought in a verdict 
of guilty, and justice Winthrop sentenced her "to be hanged by 
the neck till she was dead," on the 25th of August, between 12 
and 4, P. M. Rev. John Williams of Deerfield preached a 
sermon at the execution. There was no newspaper to describe 
the scene. She was the first white person executed in Hampshire. 
She came from New Jersey to this county. 

Jack, a negro, who had been a servant of Mr. Samuel Wolcott 
of Wethersfield, was executed at Boston, in September, 168 1, 
for burning the house of Lieut. William Clark of Northampton, 
in the night of the 14th of July, 168 1. The house was on the lot 
on which Judge Dewey's dwelling-house now stands. In the 
indictment, jack was charged with setting the house on fire 
feloniously, "by taking a brand of fire from the hearth and 
swinging it up and down, to find victuals, as by his confession 
may appear." Jack only confessed carelessness, but the court 
and jury had evidence which led them to believe that he set the 
house on fire purposely. He was sentenced to be hung by the 
neck till dead, and "then to be taken down and burnt to ashes 
in the fire with Maria, negro."* 

Sickness of 1689.— This was a year of great sickness and mor- 
tality in Connecticut. For some weeks, they could not convene 

*The reason for burning the dead body does not appear. Perhaps it was done because 
he was a slave. Maria, a slave, had burnt the house of her master in Roxbury and another 
house. Mr. Savage says she was sentenced to be burnt to death. Barbarity and cruelty 
were often exhibited in punishing slaves, as they still are. One or two female slaves have 
been burnt at the stake in Massachusetts. On the 1 8th of September, 1755, Mark, a negro man, 
and Phillis, a negro woman, were executed at Cambridge, for poisoning their master, Capt. 
John Codman of Charlestown. He was hanged, and she was burnt at a stake about ten 
yards from the gallows. Phillis was burnt alive, a few miles from the capital of New England , 
by the sentence of Massachusetts judges, and according to the laws of England, which con- 
demned a male servant who killed his master to be hanged, and a female servant to be burnt 
alive. Such was the deference of English laws to English females. Many slaves were 
burnt alive in New York, New Jersey, and other colonies. 



262 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

a General Court, and could not raise soldiers; and they were not 
able to gather all their crops. The sickness extended up into 
Hampshire county as far as Springfield, where it was noticed by 
Major Pynchon and the selectmen. The latter said they lost 
much of their English and Indian harvest and hay, by reason of 
the sickness. If the disease was in the towns above the Falls, it 
was less severe and general. 1683 was a sickly year in Connecti- 
cut and at Springfield. 

Change of Government. 
Under the government of Dudley some months, and of Andros 
above two years, the people were deprived of power and had no 
voice in the government. From May, 1686 to May, i68g, there 
were no representatives of the people. After the overthrow of 
Andros, Randolph, Dudley and their associates, the Council of 
Safety at Boston, early in May, 1689, wrote to the towns in Hamp- 
shire, requesting each to choose a representative to aid in the 
establishment of government. Seven towns in the county made 
returns between May 9 and May 17. That of Hadley follows: 

"Hadley, May 15, 1689. This day, the inhabitants of Hadley, (so many of them as 
could conveniently assemble,) chose Capt. Aaron Cooke, their representative, to join with 
the representatives of the other towns of the Massachusetts, at Boston, on the 22d of this 
instant May, impowering him to act with them for the common safety according to the need 
of our present state, and to any emergency, till there be a more orderly settlement of gov- 
ernment. Then also voted that the Governor, Deputy Governor and Assistants, chosen 
and sworn in May, 1686, according to charter rights, and the deputies then sent by the free- 
men, be the government now settled in the aforesaid colony. At the same time, gave in their 
votes for the adding of five to the aforesaid Assistants, which votes are sent by their repre- 
sentative, Capt. Aaron Cooke. As attest, 

SAMUEL MOODY, \ Selectmen for 

GEORGE STILLMAN, J the town." 

Representatives from six Hampshire towns appeared at Boston, 
May 22. A government according to the forms under the old 
charter continued about three years, though the charter had been 
abrogated. They made no permanent laws, but provided for the 
war, &c. The first General Court under the new charter met 
June 8, 1692, and began to legislate for the "Province of Massa- 
chusetts Bay," which embraced Plymouth colony and Maine.* 

Connecticut and Hampshire county. — Connecticut, having no 
enemies from Canada to encounter within her own borders, was 



*By the new charter, the governor and some other officers were appointed by the king. 
The royal governor could negative any of the 28 councilors who were chosen by the repre- 
sentatives and council jointly, and he appointed all judges and other officers of the law, 
with consent of the council. It was the intention of the king and his advisers to form a 
royal party, a party favorable to England, and they partially succeeded. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 263 

to furnish occasional aid to Massachusetts and New York. As 
she did not comply with all their requests, complaints were made 
to the government in England, especially by the governor of 
New York, To counteract these, particular accounts of what 
Connecticut had done were sent to England, and the following 
letter of acknowledgment was obtained from Hampshire.* 

The ready assistance this county of Hampshire, in their majesties' province of the 
Massachusetts Bay, in New England, have had and found in our distresses in the times of 
war, from our neighbors and friends of Connecticut colony, calls for our grateful acknowl- 
edgment, as we do expect the continuance of their former friendliness and good neighbor- 
hood. 

Wherefore, these are humbly to signify, that we have received great help and good assist- 
ance from the government of their majesties' colony of Connecticut, in a ready, large and 
plentiful supply of men and help, both in the first war in the years 1675 ^^^ ^^1^> 3s also at 
divers times upon emergencies and exigences, they have performed great helpfulness in 
going upon discoveries and keeping garrisons, to their great charge, and now lately in their 
assistance at Deerlield, our chief frontier town; whereby through God's goodness, they have 
been a great support and guard, encouragement and safety to our county, and discourage- 
ment to the common enemy; and hereunto we subscribe our hands, September 28th, 1693. 



Justices of the Peace 
for West Hampshire, 
in the province of 
the Massachusetts Bay, 
in N. E. 
Hatfield. / Thomas Colton, Capt. of Springfield. 

Edward Taylor, Minister ofl Samuel Roote, Lieut, of Westfield. 



Solomon Stoddard, Minister ofl John Pynchon, 

Northampton. J Peter Tilton, 

John Williams, Minister ofl Aaron Cook, 

Deerfield. J Joseph Hawley, 

William Williams, Minister ofl Samuel Partrigg, 



Westfield. j Timothy Nash, Lieut, of Hadley. 

[Springfield and Hadley were desti- Samuel Partrigg, Capt. of Hatfield. 

tute of a settled minister, in 1693.] John King, Lieut, of Northampton. 

Andros was aided in his despotic and tyrannical government by a few degenerate sons of 
New England, and some others approved even in Connecticut. King William was no 
friend to popular liberty, and he appointed to office Andros and those associated with his 
tyranny, and Joseph Dudley became governor of Massachusetts in 1702. The people at 
first had no confidence in him, but he sought and gained the good will of many influential 
men among the clergy and people, including a number in these river towns, of whom one 
minister was a relative. A large party in the province were strongly opposed to him. — Lord 
Bellamont, who preceded Dudley, was a very popular governor. 

James II. directed Andros to encourage Episcopacy, and the first Episcopal church in 
Massachusetts began under him. 

England had much more influence under the new charter than under the old. Our 
governors lauded the English sovereigns on whom they depended, and sought to gratify 
their wishes; and the governors were praised and seconded by their dependents and those 
who looked to them for favor. These men and others celebrated birth, accession and coro- 
nation days of kings and queens, and some other royal events, at the public expense, in the 
council chamber, by drinking wine and illuminating. These fooleries did not extend into the 
country. 

Such patriots as these are very common in the United States at the present day. 

♦Trumbull mentions letters of thanks from Hampshire under 1705, when Gov. Dudley 
of Massachusetts and Gov. Dongan of New York were attempting to injure Connecticut 
and abridge her rights. Connecticut has records of soldiers sent to the aid of Hampshire 
until^i7o8. 



264 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

"The Honorable Colonel John Pynchon, Esq. was sick and 
died January 17, 1702-3, in the 77th year of his age," says the 
Springfield record. Lieut. Col. Samuel Partrigg, or Partridge, 
of Hatfield, succeeded him, as the most influential and powerful 
man in the county, in civil and military affairs. 

Third Indian War, 1703 to 17 13. 

In May, 1702, war was again commenced between England 
and France, which extended to their colonies in 1703. Hamp- 
shire had the same nine towns as in the last war. There was an 
alarm in August, 1703, and aid being requested of Connecticut, 
two companies came up to Deerfield; one remained 6 days and 
the other 39 days. On the 8th of October, Zebadiah Williams 
and John Nims were taken in Deerfield meadow and carried to 
Canada. Those who lived without the palisade removed within.* 

Accounts of the destructive and memorable assault of the 
French and Indians upon Deerfield, on the 29th of February, 
1704, have often been published. It appears by a comparison 
of Hatfield records and Deerfield narratives, that the number of 
persons killed and taken was 162, including three Frenchmen 
taken, who resided in Deerfield; that 38f were slain in the pali- 
saded village, and nine in the meadow fight; and that 112 of the 
English were taken, of whom 2 soon escaped, 22 were slain or 
perished on the way to Canada, 28 remained in Canada, and 60 
returned. Eight or nine of the slain and as many of the captives 
belonged to other towns. 

Some papers in the state archives, relating to the movements 
of men from the towns below, and to the fight in Deerfield 
meadow, have not been published. The following petition, 
signed by Capt. Jonathan Wells of Deerfield, and Sergt. Ebenezer 
Wright of Northampton, in behalf of the company, was presented 
to the General Court, May, 1704. 

"We [of the towns below] understanding the extremity of the poor people at Deerfield, 
made all possible haste to their relief, that we might deliver the remnant and do despoil on 

*A letter from Rev. John Williams to Gov. Dudley, in October, 1703, a few months be- 
fore the fatal attack, says; — "The fortification can be mended no longer; we must make it 
all new, and fetch the timber for 206 rods, 3 or 4 miles, if we get oak. We have been driven 
from our houses into the fort, and there are only 10 homelots in it, and we have been 
so crowded together that indoor affairs are carried on with difEculty. Strangers tell us that 
they would not live where we do, for twenty times as much as we get." 

A letter from S. Partridge, in October, 1703, says Northampton, Hadley, Hatfield and 
Westfield had all laid out much in forting. — Hatfield voted in 1703 and 1704 to fortify three 
houses on the Hill and six in the town; to rebuild the palisade, and to build stairs into the 
turret of the meeting-house, so that a ward or day-watchman might be placed in theturret. 
The other towns may have done as much. 

•j-The Hatfield account makes the number slain in the fort, 41, and on the way to Canada, 
19. Two or three of the former belong to the latter. 



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HISTORY OF HADLEY 265 

the enemy.* Being joined by a number of the inhabitants and garrison soldiers, we forced 
tlie enemy out of the town, leaving a part of their plunder behind them; and pursuing them 
about a mile and a half, did great execution upon them; we saw at the time many dead 
bodies, and we and others did afterwards see prints on the snow where dead bodies were 
drawn to a hole in the river. The enemy being reinforced by a great number of fresh men, 
we were overpowered and necessitated to run to the fort, and in our flight, nine of the com- 
pany were slain, and some others wounded, and some of us lost our upper garments, which 
we had just before put off in the pursuit." The action was over before others came into the 
fort. They asked the General Court for some recompense. 

Ebenezer Wright gave the names of 57 men who fought in 
Deerfield meadow. Of these, 13 belonged to Deerfield, 8 to 
Northampton, 14 to Hadley and 22 to Hatfield. Of those whose 
dwellings were in the three towns below, 6 were of the Deerfield 
garrison, and 38 went up on the morning of the 29th. The nine 
slain were Joseph Catlin and David Hoyt, Jr. of Deerfield; 
Samuel Foot, Samuel AUis and Sergt. Benjamin Wait of Hatfield; 
and Sergeant Samuel Boltwood, his son Robert Boltwood, Jona- 
than Ingram and Nathaniel Warner, Jr. of Hadley. John 
Smead of Deerfield was shot in the thigh, and carried the ball 
until his death in 1720. 

The 14 men in the fight, who belonged to Hadley, were the four 
just named, that were slain, and Samuel Boltwood, Jr., Samuel 
Church, wounded in the arm, Benjamin Church, wounded in the 
foot, John Montague, Jr., Ebenezer Selden, Nathaniel White, Jr., 
Thomas Hovey, Joseph Smith, Jr., Samuel Crowfoot, John Marsh. 
Samuel Boltwood was a sergeant of the Deerfield garrison; the 
others went up on the morning of the 29th. Thomas Selden 
of Hadley was among those slain in the town, and was probably 
one of the garrison. Hadley had five men slain in one day. 
Joseph Eastman of Hadley was one of the captives. 

The General Court, June 9, 1704, ordered that the losses of 
the soldiers, amounting to ;^34. 17.0, should be made up; that 
each of the four widows of soldiers slain should have 5 pounds; 
and that though only one scalp was obtained, the survivors of the 
57 should have ;{^6o equally divided, and the plunder taken from 
the enemy, which amounted to ;{^i6.i2.io, and consisted of guns, 
blankets, hatchets, &c. The articles which the soldiers lost were 
coats, jackets, hats, &c.f 

*A petition of some of the survivors in 1735, stated that "the light of the burning build- 
ings at Deerfield, gave notice to the towns below, sometime before we had news from the 
distressed people." — John Stoddard of Northampton was at the house of Mr. Williams in 
Deerfield, and he leaped from a chamber window and ran to Hatfield with the news. 

•j-In January, 1705, payment was requested for losses in the "Deerfield Fight," meaning 
the fight in the village, for nine men. One of them was Sergt. Samuel Boltwood, several 
were from Northampton, and some were taken. Two Hatfield men requested a reward for 
killing an Indian in the same fight. These may all have belonged to the garrison. The 
petition was not granted at that time. 



266 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Deerfield was soon filled with soldiers from the towns in 
Hampshire and from Connecticut. A post was sent to Hartford, 
and 147 men came up from that colony on the first of March, 
who remained at Deerfield only 4 or 5 days. They could not 
pursue the enemy for want of snow shoes, the snow being deep. 
The French and Indians had snow shoes. Capt. Newberry 
came up in March with 62 men and remained until September. 

The Deerfield people who remained, were about to desert the 
town, and seek safety elsewhere. To prevent this, Lt. Col. Par- 
tridge of Hatfield, on the second of March, impressed the men 
into the service, and posted them at Deerfield as garrison soldiers. 
Pay and subsistence were allowed to them for fifteen months 
and perhaps longer.* 

On the 13th of May, 1704, a party of Indians attacked a ham- 
let of five families, at Pascommuck, near the north-east end of 
Mount Tom in Northampton, and killed or captured not less 
than 33 persons. Of these, 19 were slain, viz., Samuel Janes, 
his wife and three children, four children of Benjamin Janes, 
Benoni Jones and two children, John Searl and three children, 
Moses Hutchinson and one child and Patience Webb; and three 
escaped, eight were rescued, and three were carried to Canada.")" — 
Capt. John Taylor of Northampton, who pursued the Indians 
with a company of horsemen, was slain. — A post was sent to 
Hartford, and the next day. Major Wm. Whiting came up with 
192 dragoons; they pursued the Indians at first on horseback, 
and next on foot, on account of mountains and swamps, but did 
not overtake them. 

Before the middle of June, there was a credible report that 
an army of French and Indians had marched from Canada, to 
attack Northampton, or some other Hampshire town. Major 
William Whiting came up at the head of 343 men in 5 companies, 

*There may have been about 25 men remaining, and 50 or 60 women and children. 
Samuel Partridge, in Oct. 1704, estimated that "half who were to pay the Deerfield tax in 
May last, were killed or captured." The other half of the taxable persons seem to have 
been left. Some houses within and without the palisade were not burnt. 

■j-Three were found alive, knocked on the head, and one of them scalped. They all re- 
covered. The wife of Benjamin Janes, who was scalped, was under the care of Dr. Gershom 
Bulkley and others, at Wethersfield, several years. Her husband lived in Wethersfield with 
her, and the governor and council kindly gave him a brief, May 8, 1707, craving the charity 
of the people of Branford, Guilford, Killingworth and Saybrook. She was finally cured 
and they settled in Coventry. — Those carried to Canada were Elisha Searl, son of John, 
aged 9 years, Esther, wife of Benoni Jones, (an Ingersol,) who died in Canada, and her 
niece, Margaret Huggins, aged 18, who returned. Elisha Searl came to Northampton in 
1722, and was reluctantly induced to remain, the government aiding. He, like some other 
New England children, had been strongly attached to the Catholic religion and to the Indian 
mode of life. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 267 

from every county and almost every town, in Connecticut, and 
they remained many wrecks. His head-quarters were at North- 
ampton, There was intelligence of the approach of the enemy 
three times in June and July, and other troops came up each 
time, and remained a few days. The French and Indians, finding 
these towns prepared, went eastward and fell upon Lancaster. 
The county was more full of troops in 1704, than it had been 
since 1676. Many of the county soldiers were in arms. There 
was frequent marching and constant scouting. Several persons 
were slain in the county. May 11, John Allen and wife were 
slain at Deerfield. July 19, Thomas Russell of Hatfield, was 
slain above Deerfield, and a friendly Indian near Hatfield mill. 
July 29, Thomas Battis of Brookfield coming to Hadley as a post, 
was killed in the present Belchertown. July 31, Capt. Allen of 
Connecticut lost two men, Benton and Olmstead, between North- 
ampton and Westfield, and killed two Indians. — John Hawks of 
Deerfield wounded. 1704 was an expensive and calamitous year. 

On the 5th of June, 1704, Caleb Lyman of Northampton, with 
five Connecticut Indians, left Northampton to go up and attack 
some Indians who had established themselves at Cowas of Cowas- 
set.* In nine days, they came near an Indian wigwam in the 
evening, in which were nine Indians. They rushed upon them 
and killed six men and one squaw, and two escaped. They 
returned to Northampton on the 19th or 20th of June, with six 
scalps and some plunder. The General Court gave Caleb Lyman 
£21, and the five Indians ;^io, each. 

Snow Shoes. — It was not until the enemy made attacks in the 
winter, and could not be pursued, that snow shoes were deemed 
of importance. The Massachusetts General Court, March 13, 
1704, ordered 500 pairs of snow shoes and as many moccasons, 
for the frontiers, one-fourth of them for Hampshire. The snow 
shoes or rackets were not used with common shoes, but with 
Indian shoes or moccasons. The province allowed only five 
shillings for a pair of each, for some years, though men in Hamp- 
shire and elsewhere affirmed that good ones cost ten shillings 
in money. The price was raised to seven shillings in 1712, and 
in April, 17 12, Col. Partridge sent the names of 463 soldiers in 
Hampshire, who had provided themselves with snow shoes and 
"mogginsons," and each was allowed seven shillings. f 

*This Cowas, or region of white pines, was, in later times, a part of the Lower Coos, now 
in Newbury, Vermont. Tlie wigwam was supposed to be 20 miles below Cowas. 

■j-These Indian inventions for traveling on deep snows, were noticed by Champlain ir 
Canada in 1603. Josselyn found them among the Indians of Maine. A few Englisu 
hunters and soldiers in Massachusetts used them in the 17th century. 



268 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

But little damage was done by Indians in Hampshire in 1705. 
A winter attack upon some of these towns was expected, and 
200 men from Connecticut with snow shoes were posted at West- 
field, Northampton, Hadley and Hatfield, in January, February 
and part of March. Garrisons were kept also at Deerfield and 
Brookfield. There were in the year several reports of the approach 
of Indians, and many men were in the public service. — In 1706, 
Samuel Chapin of Springfield was wounded, July 31; widow 
Mary Tosh, or Mackintosh, was killed at Brookfield; and Judah 
Trumbull of Suffield was slain in July. A company from Con- 
necticut was in garrison three months or more. — In July, 1707, 
Edward Bancroft of Westfield, aged 19, was mortally wounded, 
and died Sept. 10. No other harm from Indians in this county 
in 1707, is recorded. An unsuccessful expedition against Port 
Royal cost Massachusetts above ;;(^i 6,000. 

In 1708, several lives were lost in Hampshire. July 9, Samuel 
and Joseph Parsons, sons of Capt. John Parsons of Northampton, 
were slain in the woods. July 26, seven or eight Indians rushed 
into the house of Lt. Abel Wright of Skipmuck in Springfield, 
and killed two soldiers, Aaron Parsons of Northampton and 
Benajah Hulbert of Enfield; scalped the wife of Lt. Wright, who 
died Oct. 19; took Hannah, the wife of Lieut. Wright's son Henry, 
and probably slew her; killed her infant son Henry in a cradle, 
and knocked on the head her daughter Hannah, aged 2 years, 
in the same cradle; the latter recovered. In August, a son of 
Josiah Barber of Windsor was slain and Martin Kellogg, Jr. taken 
"100 miles up the river." Oct. 13, Abijah Bartlett was slain at 
Brookfield, John Wolcott taken and three Brookfield men 
wounded. Oct. 26, Ebenezer Field, son of John Field of Hatfield, 
was slain at Muddy Brook in Deerfield. Some Connecticut 
soldiers were in Hampshire in 1707 and 1708. 

Excursions to Lake Champlain and Cowasset. — Capt. John 
Stoddard of Northampton, with 12 men, crossed what is now 
Vermont, in May, 1707. They killed no Indians. It is supposed 
that this was the first party of soldiers that went from Connecticut 
River to the lake. — In February, 1708, Capt. Benjamin Wright 
of Northampton, with a company, ascended the river to Coasset 
or Cowasset, (now Newbury, Vt.) They found no Indians. 
Soldiers extended their excursions much farther than in the last 
war. — In 1709, Capt. B. Wright, with about 10 men, crossed the 
wilderness to Lake Champlain. On the 20th of May, they killed 
one Indian and wounded others near the lake. On their return 
they had a skirmish with a party of Indians on Onion River, and 



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Lt. John Wells of Deerfield was slain, John Burt of Northampton 
was slain or perished in the woods, and John Strong of North- 
ampton was wounded. The General Court gave to Capt. Wright 
;^I2 and to nine men £b each. They had a pocket compass to 
guide them. 

In 1709, the English government directed the northern colonies 
to raise forces, to unite with those of England, and attack Canada 
by sea and land, but the promised fleet and troops from England 
did not arrive, and the enterprise failed. Massachusetts had 
900 men in arms near Boston, and many vessels employed, from 
May to October, and the expense to the province was above 
20,000 pounds. 

April II, 1709, Mehuman Hinsdale of Deerfield, was captured 
in the road above Hatfield.* June 23, Joseph Clesson and John 
Arms were taken near Deerfield, and the next day, Jonathan 
Williams was killed, Matthew Clesson mortally wounded, and 
two others wounded. Aug. 8, John Clary and Robert Granger 
were slain at Brookfield. 

July 22, 1710, six men, who were making hay at Brookfield, 
were surprised and slain. A great loss for that small place. There 
is no account of any attack near Connecticut River in 17 10. Pen- 
hallow's History states that a post was slain between Brookfield 
and Hadley in 17 10. The Indians did mischief at Waterbury, 
Conn. The capture of Port Royal in 17 10, cost Massachusetts 
about 20,000 pounds. 

Aug. 10, 171 1, Samuel Strong of Northampton was taken, and 
his son Samuel slain, as they were going into the south meadow 
gate. The father was carried to Canada, but returned. f 

In 171 1, an expedition fitted out by England and the northern 
colonies, against Quebec, was a failure. This was the third 
attempt to conquer Canada. The expense to Massachusetts was 
near 21,000 pounds. Soldiers had not before been drawn from 
Hampshire for distant expeditions, but one of the 18 companies 
of Massachusetts that embarked at Boston in July, was from 
this county, and commanded by Capt. Ebenezer Pomeroy of 
Northampton. He must have had men from all the towns in 
Hampshire, except one or two. Their pay from June 23 to Oct. 
26, 171 1, amounted to ;^367.2.io. Their names are not found. 

*He thought he was in no danger because the leaves were not out. The Indians seldom 
appeared in the spring till they could be hidden by the leaves. 

•j-He was the grandfather of Nehemiah Strong, professor in Yale College, and Judge 
Simeon Strong of Amherst, 



270 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

On the 9th of January, 1 712, the lake and rivers being frozen 
hard and the snow deep, Col. Partridge levied 100 men from his 
regiment to strengthen Deerfield and other exposed places. The 
men had snow^ shoes, and made some excursions on them. 

In April, 17 12, Lieut. Thomas Baker of Northampton, vi^ith 
32 men, passed up the Connecticut, and crossed it south of 
Cowasset, and proceeded to the Pemigewasset, w^here they found 
a party of Indians, and killed one, and mortally v^^ounded others 
as they believed. They took as many beaver skins as they could 
carry, and went down near the Merrimac to Dunstable, and thence 
to Boston. The General Court gave them 30 pounds besides their 
wages. 

July 29, 1712, Benjamin Wright, aged 18, of Skipmuck in 
Springfield, was taken, and afterwards killed, July 30, a scouting 
from Connecticut, was attacked west of Deerfield, and Samuel 
Andrus of Hartford slain, and two taken. 

The queen's proclamation for a suspension of arms, was pub- 
lished in Boston, Oct. 27, 1712. The peace of Utrecht was signed 
March 30, 1713. 

This second ten years war, called Queen Anne's war, was much 
more expensive than King William's war. The expenditures of 
Massachusetts, civil and military, from May, 1703 to May, 1713, 
amounted to 370,000* pounds. Of this sum, at least 285,000 
pounds, or 950,000 dollars, were for war. The war was exces- 
sively burdensome to Massachusetts. In 10 years, taxes were 
laid upon the people to the amount of 227,000 pounds, or about 
75,000 dollars yearly. The polls were taxed 10 shillings yearly. 
The impost and excise in ten years produced about 35,000 pounds. 
Province bills were issued every year, and in May, 17 13, the 
amount of unredeemed bills was 127,000 pounds, and the debt of 
the province was not much short of that sum.f 

*The expenses for nine years are obtained from the accounts of treasurers, in the Massa- 
chusetts Archives. One year's expense is estimated. 

•j-The military expenses in Hampshire county in this war were between 2500 and 3000 
pounds in a year, including the subsistence of Connecticut troops. The pay of these troops 
cost Connecticut large sums. 

The pay of soldiers in this war was generally six shillings per week; for a time, those in 
garrisotis received only five shillings; in the Canada expedition, 171 1, they had eight shillings. 
Their food was from three shillings to four shillings and eight pence per week. In 1704, the 
allowance to a man per day, in a fort or garrison, was one pound of bread, two-thirds of a 
pound of pork or sometimes one pound and a third of beef, half a pint of peas, and two 
quarts of beer. The Connecticut allowance was nearly the same. Marching soldiers had 
a little more food. The ration of provisions down to the Revolution did not differ much 
from that of 1704. 

The first regular allowance of rum to soldiers, that I have noticed, was one gill per day, 
instead of beer, in the Port Royal expedition in 1707. Connecticut allowed the tame, in a 



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Many of the Hampshire soldiers were employed in scouting 
and garrisoning. Capt. John Stoddard of Northampton, com- 
manded a large number of soldiers many years, who were in 
several towns, and moved to places that were threatened, and 
ranged the woods. 

The Hampshire province tax in 1708 was ;^I046, los., and 
it was the same for several years, thus proportioned: — Spring- 
field, £^']^, Northampton, 220.10, Hadley, 157.10, Hatfield, 
136.10, Westfield, 100, Suffield, 70, Enfield, 60, Deerfield, 30, 
Brookfield, o. 

During this war, 103 persons were slain in this county, or in 
excursions from it, viz., 47 at Deerfield in one day, 20 at or near 
Pascommuck,and 36 in various places. 123 were taken, of whom 22 
were slain or died on the way to Canada, and two died in Canada.* 

There were 187 captives in Canada from New England, early 
in 1706, after a number had returned, and many were captured 
after 1706. Messengers were sent from Hampshire county to 
Canada by way of Albany, five times to redeem captives, and 
from Boston to Quebec by water twice, from 1705 to 17 13. In 
1706, John Sheldon of Deerfield, brought to Boston 44 captives 
and Capt. Appleton, 57; among the latter was Rev. John Williams 
of Deerfield. Many came at other times. Much of the difiiculty 
in recovering captives was owing to the Catholic priests who were 
more inhuman than the French governors and people. The 
captives who remained in Canada were lost to their friends. They 
were ignorant Catholics, and many differed little from the savages. f 

In this war, Massachusetts gave a reward of ;^io for Indian 
scalps, obtained by those who received wages and subsistence, 

land expedition to Canada, in 171 1. Soldiers on the frontiers were not furnished with rum. 

This war, like all others, promoted idleness and vice, and had a pernicious influence on 
many of the people. 

*To those who had been in Canada, may be added William Boltwood, son of Sergeant 
Samuel Boltwood of Hadley. He died below Quebec, Aug. 27, 1714, on his return. He 
had been a captive, or perhaps an aid in recovering captives. 

Three men taken at Deerfield were sent to France and came home by way of England. 
They saw a part of both countries. 

•j-Several unsuccessful attempts were made to redeem Eunice Williams, daughter of Rev. 
John Williams of Deerfield. May 26, 1713, John Schuyler of Albany, visited her among 
the Cagnawagas or French Mohawks in Canada, with a priest and an Indian interpreter. 
She had recently been married to an Indian who was present. Neither Mr. Schuyler nor 
the priest nor the interpreter could persuade her to talk with Mr. S. or answer his questions. 
The only words she uttered in almost two hours were jaghte oghte, which meant a denial. 
She was a besotted. Catholic Indian. [Mr. Schuyler's letter is in the Massachusetts Ar- 
chives.] 

Rev. Eleazar Williams, whom all believed to be a descendant of Eunice Williams, until 
recently some have supposed him to be the Dauphin, or son of Louis XVI., died at Hogans- 
burg, Franklin Co., N. Y., Aug. 28, 1858. 



272 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

and in some cases, i^20. Volunteers who went out at their own 
expense, received ;^ioo for a scalp, after March, 1704. Not 
many Indians were destroyed. Penhallow said thechargeof thewar 
was so great, that every Indian killed or taken cost 1000 pounds. 

Dogs. — In November, 1706, Massachusetts passed an act "for 
raising and increasing dogs, for the better security of the frontiers." 
In 1708, the sum of 41 pounds was paid for "trailing of dogs" 
on the frontiers of Middlesex. Dogs were employed on the west- 
ern frontier in 1746, and Gideon Lyman of Northampton, was 
allowed ;^I2, 13s. yd. for purchasing dogs. — Connecticut, in 
October, 1708, appropriated 50 pounds to bring up and main- 
tain dogs to hunt after Indians. New Jersey, in 1758, proposed 
to procure 50 "large, strong and fierce dogs," for the service. 
It is not known that any Indian was harmed by the dogs. Per- 
haps the main object was to trace the Indians to their hiding 
places. (See page 167.) 

The Dutch at Albany. — The Five Nations made a treaty of 
neutrality with the French, which enabled the latter and their 
Indian allies to direct all their efforts against New England. 
Grahame's History of the United States affirms that the Dutch 
merchants at Albany purchased in the most open manner of the 
Canadian Indians the plunder they had taken from the people of 
New England, thus encouraging them in their depredations. 
Some respectable citizens of Albany detested this base policy, 
especially Col. Schuyler. Kalm, in his Travels in North America, 
in 1749, relates similar things of the Dutch at Albany. 

The Mohaw^ks or Maquas. — Massachusetts made presents to 
the Mohawks in 1704 and 1708; and entertained some of them 
in Boston, and gave gifts to them in 1709. The four Mohawk 
sachems, who sailed for England with Col. Peter Schuyler, in 
February, 1710, were supported in Boston and the vicinity about 
five weeks, in the usual style. (See pages 124, 125.) They went 
out to Dunstable to hunt several times, and Josiah Parker ac- 
companied them, and furnished them with horses, rum, tobacco, 
&c. The General Court voted £^0 for Col. Schuyler and these 
chiefs on the voyage. They attracted the attention of the English, 
were feasted by the nobility and had an audience with the queen. 
They returned to Boston in July, 17 10, and Gov. Dudley furnished 
Col. Schuyler and the sachems with 9 horses for themselves, and 
a guard of 10 troopers to Westfield. 

The objects of this embassy were to impress the Indians with 
an idea of the power and greatness of England, and to solicit the 
aid of a British force to conquer Canada. 



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CHAPTER XXV 

Common lands — Division of Hadley lands now in Amherst — Division of Hadley lands now 
in South Hadley and Granby — The Crank — Highways and Paths — Division of the In- 
ner Commons in Hadley — Summary of Grants and Distributions — Hockanum — Peter 
Domo. 

The division of the common uplands, or outer and inner com- 
mons, was a most important and exciting subject, in a great 
number of New England towns, for a long time. It was a ques- 
tion of property, in which men are always interested. The more 
wealthy inhabitants desired a distribution of the commons ac- 
cording to the estates or valuations of men; those of small estates 
contended for a more equal division, having more regard to 
persons. Men of middling estates were seldom united, and many 
of them acted in concert with the first class. In these river 
towns, the subject of dividing the commons was not much dis- 
cussed until the latter part of the 17th century; the agitation 
continued at times for half a century or more.* 

Division of Amherst Lands. 

Hadley ordered no general division of a tract of upland until 
1700. On the fourth of March, 1700, the town voted that all the 
land from Mount Holyoke to Mill River, west of a line three and 
a quarter miles from the meeting-house, should lie as common 
land forever, "supposing (they say,) that this line will take in the 
whole of the New Swamp," that is, leave the whole west of it. 
And they voted that the commons east of that line, should be 
laid out in three divisions, between the Brookfield road and Mill 
River; leaving forty rods between the divisions for highways, and 
what was necessary for east and west highways.f Every one 
was to have a proportion in the first or second division, and every 

*Rev. Jonathan Edwards, in a letter written in 1751, said there had been in Northamp- 
ton for 40 or 50 years, two parties, "somewhat like the court and country party of England, 
if I may compare small things with great." The first party embraced the great proprietors 
of land, and the parties contended about land and other matters. There were similar parties 
in other towns. 

■fit is supposed that the highways were left 40 rods wide, to enable the future inhabitants 
to deviate many rods from a straight course, on the public land, in forming the ways for 
travel, and thus avoid swamps, steep ascents, and other bad places. In 1754, Hadley re- 
duced the western highway to 20 rods in width, and the eastern to 12 rods, most of the way. 
They also reduced the width of the cross highways. In 1788, Amherst narrowed the high- 
ways to 6 rods, and some to 4 rods in width, and sold the land thus gained to the owners of 
adjoining lots. 



274 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

one in the third division. Every householder to have a 50 pound 
allotment, and parents or masters to have a 25 pound allotment 
for each male minor above 16. The town voted, March 3, 1 701, 
that the rest of these commons should be laid out according to 
the meadow land each man possessed. In drawing, the first lot, 
or No. I, was to be next to the Brookfield road, in each division, 
and the numbers were to proceed northward. They then drew 
lots.* Wood and timber might be cut on the lots as long as 
they were unfenced. The town measurers, Capt. Aaron Cooke, 
^ Cornet Nehemiah Dickinson and Mr. Samuel Porter, were not 
ordered by the town to lay out the east commons until March i, 
I703,and they reported on the 3d ofMay ensuing, thatthey had laid 
out thethree divisions. Theywerenotaidedbyasurveyor'scompass. 
The number of persons who drew in the first and second, or 
west and middle divisions, were 97, or 60 in the first and 37 in 
the second. Of these, 16 were Hatfield men, who owned land 
in Hadley meadows, chiefly on the west side of the river, and three 
more were non-residents, leaving 78 lots for the inhabitants of 
Hadley.f Apparently, the head of a family drew 17J rods in 
width, or 26^ acres, for himself, and half as much for each son 
between 16 and 21 years of age. Men over 21, and not house- 
holders, seem to have had no more than minors. The rest was 
drawn for meadow land— more than half of the whole. These 
two divisions were 240 rods wide each, and the lots were 240 rods 
long. The first division extended from Brookfield road to Mill 
River, and according to the measurers, the distance was 1 96 1 
rods, or the width of 60 lots 1841 rods, and of three highways 120 
rods. The land in the 60 lots was 2760 acres. — The second divi- 
sion extended north from the Brookfield road 1674 rods, or the 
width of 37 lots was 1562 rods, and of 3 highways, 122 rods. 
Land in the 37 lots, 2343 acres. This division stopped far short 
of Mill River. 

"Here foUoweth an account of the wood lots laid out in April, 1703, the first lot beginning 
at Brookfield road, and each lot in the first and second divisions to run 240 rods in length, 
due east of the stakes and marks at each corner," of the west end. The breadth and acres 

*In a division south of Mount Holyoke, lots were drawn in this manner. As many 
papers as there were proprietors, were numbered and put into a box and well shaken. Each 
proprietor drew out one of these papers, or if any were absent, the moderator drew for them. 

■j-The number of families in Hadley in 1701, may have been 70, and they all lived on the 
old broad street, and the highway at the north end, except perhaps the miller. 78 persons 
in Hadley drew two lots each in the Amherst lands, and many of the lots were extensive 
enough for farms, and much of the soil was good. 

The laying out in 1703, was according to polls and meadow land in 1701, and to the 
drawing of 1701. In the following list of names, those of Hatfield men have this mark,*, 
and of other non-residents, this mark, -j". Samuel Crowfoot was casually omitted, and had 
land„elsewhere. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 



275 



are given in the records. Only the breadth is given here. Every rod in breadth makes 
one acre and a half. 

51 Preserved Smith, 17 8 
Highway 40 rods N. end of Wells's Hill. 

52 Samuel Gaylord, 25 5 

53 William Gaylord, 17 5 

54 Wid. Hannah Porter, 25 10 

55 Samuel Porter, 151 8 

56 Hezekiah Porter, 31 6 

57 John Porter, 13 6 

58 Experience Porter, 32 3 

59 Ichabod Porter, 23 6 

60 Peter Montague, 89 o 
Mill River, North. 
Second Division. 

Brookfield Road. 

1 John Goodman, 67 I 

2 Aaron Cook, Esq., 39 7 
.3 Thomas Hovey, 48 9 

4 Westwood Cook, 73 9 

5 Samuel Cook, 44 I 
Highway 40 rods — removed 1734. 

6 Moses Cook, 44 15 

7 Samuel Boltwood, 62 i 

8 Daniel Marsh, 134 3 

9 fThos. Dickinson, 44 15 

10 Deac. Samuel Smith, 45 10 

1 1 John Montague, 54 o 

12 Isaac Warner, 17 8 

13 Daniel Warner, 8 13 

14 Widow Cooke, 2 15 

15 Ens. Chileab Smith, 39 10 

16 Samuel Smith, son of Ch. 34 2 

17 Luke Smith, " 55 7 

18 Ebenezer Smith, " 21 15 

19 John Smith, " 26 o 

20 Mr. Isaac Chauncey, 52 9 
2! Town Lot, 60 acres, 40 o 

22 George Stillman, 55 7 

23 Ichabod Smith, 38 o 

24 Jacob Warner, 44 i 
Highway 40 rods, "runs down to 
Foot's Folly from New Swamp." 

25 Land of Coleman, 39 6 

26 John Kellogg, 32 8 

27 Edward Kellogg, 17 8 

28 Lt. Joseph Kellogg, 55 6 

29 Nathaniel Kellogg, 17 8 

30 -j-Mr. Samuel Russell, 4 3 

31 •j'Mr. Jonathan Russell, 7 6 

32 John Nash, 31 6 

33 Joseph Nash, 31 o 

34 *Thomas Nash, 8 13 
Highway 32 rods in breadth. 

35 Neh'h Dickinson & sons, 113 13 

36 Timothy Eastman, 69 5 

37 Peter Tilton, 59^ acres, 39 6 
Commons, North. 



First Division. 






Brookfield road. 








Rods. feet. 


I Jonathan Marsh, 


57 


7 


2 Samuel Nash, 


16 


I 


3 Ebenezer Nash, 


12 


7 


4 *Samuel Marsh, 


21 


13 


5 Ephraim Nash, 

6 Samuel Crow, 


12 

35 


7 



7 Thomas Selding, 

8 John Selding, 

9 William Rooker, 


70 
20 
22 




7 
II 


10 Joseph Smith, 

11 Widow Craft, 


26 
3 


5 



12 *Sam'l Dickinson, 


8 


13 


13 *Mr. Wm. William.s, 


7 


5 


14 *John Cole, 


6 


8 


15 *John Graves, 


4 





16 *Stephen Belding, 

17 *Ebenezer Billing, 


10 

5 


5 

2 


18 *Samuel Belding, Jr., 


3 





19 *Daniel Warner, 


8 


7 


20 *Widow Warner, 


8 


7 


Highway 40 rods wide, S. of Fort River- 


21 *Joseph Smith, 

22 *Ebenezer Wells, 


4 
21 


6 

14 


23 Nathaniel White, 


72 


II 


24 John Smith, Tailor, 

25 John Preston, 


44 
29 


8 
9 


26 Nathaniel Warner, 


45 





27 Daniel Hubbard, 


60 


8 


28 *Col. Samuel Partrigg, 

29 Samuel Partrigg, Jr., 

30 Sam'l and Eben'r Moody, 

31 John Ingram, Sr., 

32 John Ingram, Jr., 

33 Samuel Ingram, 

34 Nathaniel Ingram, 

35 Jonathan Ingram, 

36 Thomas Goodman, 


40 

75 
69 
42 
24 

17 
17 
17 
52 


8 


5 
5 

I 

9 
9 
9 
9 


37 John Smith, orphan, 

38 Samuel Barnard, 


48 

45 


2 




A Highway 40 rods wide, goeth over New 
Swamp, and runs to Foot's Folly. 

39 Samuel Church, 45 o 

40 Josiah Church, 24 14 

41 Joseph Church, 16 i 

42 John Taylor, Sr., 68 1 1 

43 John Taylor, Jr., 17 8 

44 Eleazar Warner, 17 8 

45 John Hilyard, 17 8 

46 William Brown, 17 8 

47 *Nathaniel Dickinson, 3 11 

48 *Edward Church, 35 o 

49 Samuel Smith, Sr., 17 8 

50 James Smith, 46 1 1 



276 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

The third or eastern division, was called two miles in width, 
or the lots two miles in length. The number of lots was 93; two 
persons in the other divisions received an equivalent elsewhere, 
and three others drew as one. The head of a family seems to 
have drawn 10 rods and 6 feet in width or 41 J acres, for himself, 
and half as much for sons between 16 and 21, besides what he 
drew for meadow land. The width of the 93 lots, according to 
the measurers, was about 1971 rods, and there were no cross 
highways. A rod in width made four acres, and the division 
contained 7884 acres, as laid out, but the west line of the equiva- 
lent lands cut off about 3000 acres. There still remained in the 
three divisions about 10,000 acres, besides the highways. 

The Hadley measurers began the west line of the tract they 
were to lay out at the Brookfield road, and in order to not include 
the New Swamp and some other lands, they, in running northerly, 
inclined 13 or 14 degrees easterly of the course of the east line of 
Hadley. This west line determined the direction of those east of 
it, and carried the east division beyond the east line of the town,* 
into province land, afterwards called equivalent land, now in 
Belchertown and Pelham. When the line between Hadley and 
the equivalent land was fixed by the compass, it did not reduce the 
width of the east division at the south end, very much, but at the 
north end, it was reduced to half a mile. — In 1738, the town grant- 
ed to 31 persons, whose lots were in the northern part of the east 
division, and who had lost the most by the equivalent line, about 
600 acres, on the Flat Hills, so called, and west of them, between 
the second and third divisions and Mill River, and there were a 
few grants to others in this tract. f 

Amherst was not settled as early as South Hadley. There was 
an Indian war from 1722 to 1726, and perhaps it was deemed 
hazardous to remove families to either place, especially north of 

*Perhaps they knew not where the eastern line was. 

There had been grants in or near the east division in 1698, viz., 38 acres to ten men, 
southwest of Lawrence's Swamp; and a tract to Samuel Boltwood northward of Foot's Folly 
Swamp. These grants were not regarded in the distribution of 1703. 

•{•Prices of Land. — After the lands in Amherst were laid out, there was an Indian war for 
ten years, and outlands were of little worth. In inventories, land in the first and second 
divisions was valued at about one shilling per acre, and in the east division at six pence, and 
even as low as four pence. From 1713 to 1722, the value of the best lots of land increased, 
to two shillings and sixpence or three shillings per acre, and of the poorer to half as much. 
After settlements were made, or from 172S to 1731, the more desirable lots seem to have 
been worth from six to ten shillings ($1,00 to $1,67) per acre, and those less favorably situ- 
ated, from three to five shillings per acre. These are prices in proclamation money, six 
shillings to a dollar. In province bills, the nominal value was much higher. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 277 

the mountain. Permanent settlements may have begun in Am- 
herst in 1727, and in South Hadley about two years before. 

Division of Lands in South Hadley and Granby. 

The first grant of land by Hadley south of Mount Holyoke, 
was in February, 1675, when Thomas Selden had six acres at 
the mouth of Dry Brook, adjoining the Connecticut, below the 
present Rock Ferry. In 1682, Timothy Nash had a grant of a 
parcel of land between Bachelor's brook and Stony brook, ad- 
joining the great river, "at the southernmost part of our bounds." 
This land is now owned by Emerson Bates and H. Moody. In 
1680, the town granted 20 acres each to David Hoyt, Thomas 
Wells and Joseph Hovey, "beyond Mount HoUiake, on Bache- 
lor's brook;" and in 1688, John Lawrence had a grant of 3 or 
4 acres towards Bachelor's brook. The grants to the four men 
last named, seem to have become void. — In 1684, four men had 
liberty to set up a saw-mill on Stony brook or Bachelor's brook, 
and the right to cut timber. In 1699, four other men had per- 
mission to erect a saw-mill at the falls of Bachelor's brook, below 
the former grant, with the frame and right to timber. The 
mills erected under these grants are not known. In the proprie- 
tor's records in 1721 and 1722, the "old mill place" on Bache- 
lor's brook is mentioned, which was above Allen's present paper- 
mill; also the "old mill pond" on Stony brook, which was below 
Smith's present grist-mill, and a saw-mill below the pond. When 
Hadley had been settled 60 years, there had been no grants south 
of Holyoke but those noticed, and the only building was a saw- 
mill. The lands belonged to the great horse and cattle pasture 
of Hadley, as well as most of those north of the mountain. Deer 
also fed in these open, park-like forests. 

On the 25th of January, 1720, Hadley voted to lay out the 
land on the south side of Mount Holyoke, according to the list 
of estates and polls, taken in the same month; and to add to them, 
for the proprietors or town an estate of ;^I50, the head and estate 
of Mr. Chauncey, and the polls of some aged* or infirm men, 
whose heads were not taxed. The amount of estates and polls 
was ;^6o63, 8s. How polls were estimated does not appear. The 
number of those who were entitled to lands south of Holyoke 
was 117. Of these, 95 belonged to Hadley, 21 to Hatfield, and 
the heirs of Thomas Dickinson to Connecticut. 

♦Among the aged men were two of the first settlers of Hadley, viz., Ens. Chileab Smith 
and John Ingram. Ens. Chileab Smith let his sons draw his shares, and his name is not 
in this list of proprietors. 



278 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 



The rule for dividing the lands south of Mount Holyoke was the following list which was 
taken in January, 1720, with a few additions made by the town. 117 names. 
East side of the street, beginning at the 



north end. 



39 



73 
151 



10 
16 



16 



18 



Mr. Samuel Partridge, 
Mr. Peter Montague, 
John Smith, 2d, (orphan) 
Lt. John Smith, 
Ichabod Smith, 
John Montague, Sr., 
Corp. John Montague, 
Experience Porter, 
Samuel Porter, Jr., 
Daniel Hubbard, 
Timothy Hillyer, 
Town or Proprietors, 
Rev. Isaac Chauncey, 

Middle Highway 
Capt. Samuel Barnard, 
Corp. Samuel Dickinson, 
Lt. Nehemiah Dickinson, 
Israel Dickinson, 
Deac. John Smith, 
Mr. Samuel Porter, Esq. 
Nathaniel White, Jr., 
Deac. Nathaniel White, 
Joseph White, 
Joseph Eastman, 
Serg. John Marsh, 
Ebenezer Marsh, 
John Goodman, 
John Goodman, Jr., 
Lt. Samuel Cook, 
Lt. Thomas Hovey, 
Wid. Mehetable Dickinson, 
John Lane, 
West side of the street, beginning at the 

south end. 
Joseph Kellogg, 
John Kellogg, 
William Rooker, 
Mary, wid. of Preserved Smith, 
Timothy Eastman, 
William Montague, 
Doct. John Barnard, 
Sergt. Samuel Moody, 
Ebenezer Moody, 
Sergt. William Dickinson, 
Mr. Jonathan Marsh, 
Samuel Crow, 
Luke Smith, 
Thomas Taylor, 
Ebenezer Taylor, 
Samuel Taylor, 
Sergt. Joseph Nash, 
Mr. Daniel Marsh, 
Wid. Elizabeth Warner, 



94 
96 

75 

41 

117 

89 

94 
24 

'5° 
92 

116 

36 
89 

^3 
81 

29s 
27 

118 
24 
70 
58 
55 
64 

38 
83 
69 

36 

25 



26 
114 

31 
48 
96 
24 
26 
91 
55 
53 
71 
61 
116 



27 
40 

3' 
132 

3° 



5 



Jacob Warner, 

Thomas Goodman, 83 

Lt. Westwood Cook, 158 

Middle Highway. 

John Nash, 67 

Samuel Nash, 24 

Thomas Selden, 4° 

Ebenezer Selden, 39 

Samuel Church, 72 

Joseph Church, 5° 

Benjamin Church, 47 

Nathaniel Kellogg, 118 

Ens. Moses Cook, 106 

Solomon Boltwood, 53 

Samuel Crowfoot, 26 

Noah Cook, 53 

Corp. Chileab Smith, 59 

Sergt. Samuel Smith, 104 

Elisha Perkins, 29 

Nathaniel Ingram, 62 

John Ingram, Sr., 44 



On the North Highway and at the Mill 

Daniel Warner, 43 ' 

Samuel Gaylord, 52 

John Preston, 80 

John Ingram, 2d, 49 

John Ingram, 3d, 23 

Sergt. Joseph Smith, 32 

Jonathan Smith, 23 

Benjamin Smith, 21 i 

On the New Street, on the Pine Plain. 



17 



Eleazar Warner, 

Stephen Warner, 

Joseph Smith, Jr., called drummer, 

John Nash, Jr., 

Peter Montague, Jr., 

Nathaniel Kellogg, Jr., 

Samuel Boltwood, 

Ephraim Nash, 



32 
19 
26 
26 

27 
45 



16 



33 



Continuation of Middle Highway. 

Job Marsh, 

John Selden, 

John Taylor, Sr., 

John Taylor, Jr., 

John Smith, Jr., son of Deac, 

John White, 

Ebenezer Smith, 

Peter Domo, 

William Murray, 



43 1° 

71 6 

90 o 

21 10 

28 10 

25 o 

24 o 

20 O 

18 10 



Hatfii 


ELD Men. 




£■ s. 




£. s. 


48 


Ebenezer Billing, 


6 


6 


Cornet Samuel fielding, 


5 ° 


26 


Ebenezer Warner, 


4 


19 10 


Ebenezer Wells, 


II 


2 


Jonathan Smith, 


2 


16 


Nathaniel Dickinson, 2d, 


13 10 


4 10 


Joseph Kellogg, 


7 


3 


Jonathan Graves, 


3 ° 


4 


Thomas Dickinson's heirs in 




15 
2 10 


Connecticut, 


6 10 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 279 



Col. Samuel Partridge, Esq., 

Thomas Nash, 

Isaac Hubbard, 

Richard Church, 

John Graves, 

Ichabod Porter, 

Jonathan Cowls, 

Joseph Smith, 

Sergt. Stephen fielding, 

Deac. Samuel Marsh, 

Nathaniel Dickinson, 

Samuel Dickinson, 3 o £6063 8 

Daniel Warner, 12 o 

The inhabitants of Hadley in the preceding Hst are nearly all 
arranged according to their residence. A few may not be rightly 
placed.* 

Falls Woods Field was the only general field laid out south of 
Holyoke. It was named Falls Woods, because it was wood-land, 
near the falls. This field was voted March 14, 1720, and every 
proprietor of Hadley was to have his share. The western boundary 
'was the great river, the southern was Col. Pynchon's north line; 
and the eastern line began 361 rods and 9 links from the great 
river, on Col. Pynchon's line, and ran north to Stony brook, and 
this brook was to be the northern limit. The lots ran from the 
great river to the east side. Every man was to fence in proportion 
to the acres he had in the field. The whole fence was above 
HOC rods, and was to be made up by the last of May, 1721. 
One pound of estate drew between 46 and 47 rods of land, and 
the whole field contained about 1775 acres. 

Homelots were voted March 14, 1720, and they were laid out 
in 1720 and 1721. Every man drew a homelot according to his 
estate. These lots were in nine places or divisions, and they 
selected land which they considered proper for houselots and 
homesteads, avoiding pine plains, and low, wet lands. They did 
not reject elevated situations, as Chileab's hill and Cold hill. 
Sandy hill, so called, a central place on the roads to Springfield, 

*Such lists are given with a view to show who were the inhabitants of Hadley at certain 
times, and for other purposes. 

In 1701, the eight men in Hadley who drew the most land, were Samuel Porter, Daniel 
Marsh, Nehemiah Dickinson, Peter Montague, Samuel Partridge, Jr., Westwood Cook, 
Nathaniel White and Thomas Selden. — In 1720, the eight men highets in the valuation, 
were Samuel Porter, Westwood Cook, Peter Montague, Daniel Marsh, Nathaniel Kellogg, 
Nathaniel White, Experience Porter and Luke Smith. 

The four John Smiths in the roll of names in 1720, were Deac. John Smith, son of Philip; 
John Smith, orphan, son of John who was slain in 1676; Lt. John Smith, son of Chileab; 
and John Smith, son of Deac. John. A fifth John Smith, son of Ebenezer and grandson 
of Chileab, arrived at the age of 21 years in 1720. 



280 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

and the site of much of the present village, had no homelots on 
the west side. All the homelots contained looo acres; 6 pounds 
of estate drew about one acre. 

Meadow land was voted in February, 1722, and was laid out 
the same year, in six meadows, named Stony brook meadow, 
Chapin's meadow, Great meadow. Little meadow, Long meadow 
on Taylor's brook, and Pichawamiche meadow. Most of these 
meadow lots were within the present limits of Granby, and 
some were swampy. There were similar mowing lands on Bach- 
elor's brook and elsewhere. In those days, the hay was all ob- 
tained from low grounds, many of them marshy. The meadow 
land distributed was 500 acres, and 12 pounds of estate were 
entitled to about one acre. 

Five more distributions were voted in half a century, viz., one 
of 5000 acres in 1722; one of 4000 acres in 1731; one of 3000 
acres in 1752; one of 2500 acres in 1770; and one of 2000 acres 
in 1772. Each of the 117 proprietors, or his heirs or assigns, had 
a first and second choice, or two lots, in each of these five divi- 
sions, all of which contained 16,500 acres. 

These five distributions of land were made in a very singular 
manner. Each proprietor selected his lots where he pleased, in 
any part of 16,500 acres not already taken up, with some slight 
limitations. The number on the paper which a man drew from 
the box, did not designate his lot of land, but his turn for choosing 
a lot, If he drew No. 40, he knew that 39 men had a right to select 
their shares, and cull the best unappropriated lands they could 
find, before his turn came. Many inconveniences resulted from this 
skipping and culling. The later locations of land often over-lapped 
those made many years before. Many lots in the later distributions 
were not surveyed and bounded for many years, and not a few 
have been laid out since 1800, especially on the mountain.* 

There were 19,775 ^^res of land in the 8 divisions, and a few 
pieces were sold by the proprietors. Every pound of the 117 
estates was entitled to a little more than 3I acres of land, good 
and poor, in 52 years. 

The Crank. — The tract of land in the south-eastern part of 
Granby, granted to the inhabitants south of Holyoke in 1727, 
and noticed on page 187, was called the Crank in old land records 
and deeds. I find no account of the division of this tract. It 
was not considered very valuable. In 1736, nine proprietors 

*The surveyors employed to lay out the lands south of Holyoke, were first, Timothy 
Dwight of Northampton, in 1720; 2d, Nathaniel Kellogg of Hadley; 3d, Eleazar Nash of 
Granby; 4th, Gardner Preston of South Hadley. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 281 

sold their undivided rights to Capt. James Bowdoin of Boston. 
Many others sold their rights in the Crank. 

Highways. — Northampton and Hadley, in early days, had a 
cartway to Springfield through the territory that is now South 
Hadley. In 1662, there was an "old cart bridge" across Bache- 
lor's river or brook. The highway laid in 1664, went "as the cart- 
way now runs, in breadth 20 rods." It was laid again in 1710, 
"as the road now runs 10 rods wide." Long before 1710, two 
ways, the western and eastern, were traveled from Dry brook 
easterly of Rock ferry, to Sandy hill, where they came together, 
a little north of the Female Seminary. It is not known which was 
the original road. The western road could not have been traveled 
in high water, but it is more often called the Springfield or country 
road than the other in the land book, in 1720 and after.* 

*These two roads have been continued to the present day, with some alterations. The 
western traveled way, after crossing the valley or dingle called by the odd name of Lubber's 
Hole, near the present village, passed west of the buildings now on the west side of the street, 
to near the north-east corner of the burying yard. The eastern road has always passed 
over the elevation called Chileab's hUl. 

In 1720, there were various paths in the scattered woods, on both sides of the mountain, 
made by men and animals. Hunters and other men, domestic animals, deer and turkies 
crossed the mountain in those low places called "cracks'" by the fathers, especially at the 
Round Hill Crack, where is now the road between Amherst and Granby and South Hadley. 
Here was a beaten path which extended southerly and crossed Bachelor's brook, before 
there were any settlers in Amherst or South Hadley. At a later period, the hunters some- 
times called this Crack, or a low place west of it, the Turkey Pass. Another path passed 
over Cold Hill, and extended to the eastern limits of the township. 

The prices of a few pieces of land in the early divisions of South Hadley, have been ob- 
tained. In 1722, some lots in Falls Woods Field were appraised at two shillings per acre, 
and homelots and meadows from six pence to a shilling more. In 1725, a few lots in Falls 
Woods and Great Meadow were as high as four shillings and six pence per acre. In 1728 
and 1729, good lands in Falls Woods had advanced to seven and eight shillings per acre; 
and some large lots in the division of 5000 acres were valued at various prices, from four to 
six shillings an acre. Choice meadow land, not very distant from houses, was as high as 
eighteen shillings an acre. As settlers became more numerous, the price of lands advanced. 
The prices mentioned refer to dollars at six shillings, not to province bUls. 

There is a tradition that parents in Hadley shed tears over their sons and daughters, and 
implored the blessings of Heaven upon them, when they left the old village to settle in the 
woods south of the mountain. Some of the new settlers, both south and east, returned to 
the old homes every S abbath, and attended meeting in the old place, and heard Mr. Chauncey 
preach. 

Many elderly men, who had always cultivated the intervals of Hadley, doubted whether 
families could get a living on the uplands of South Hadley and Amherst, and talked dis- 
couragingly to the young people who proposed to remove to those places. 

The south settlers increased faster than those east. In 1 73 1, the taxable "South Inhab- 
itants" were 37, and the taxable "East Inhabitants," 18. The south inhabitants on page 
284, are arranged with some regard to residence. Several were single men. The five 
Taylors at the beginning of the list were not very far from the Springfield line, on the plain 
and on the Pynchon lot. Most of the next i6 were on the old road between Stony brook 
and the top of Chileab's hill; the last 16 and perhaps 2 of the preceding 16, were on the other 
roads, east of this m ain road. About eight were within the present limits of Granby. Thos. 
Goodman, Jr. and William Gaylord were early settlers in Falls Woods, but may not have 
been there in 1731. 



282 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Early in 1722, Samuel Porter, Esq., Lt. John Smith and Ex- 
perience Porter laid out for the proprietors 21 highways, most 
of them 8 rods wide, which are all recorded. The two Spring- 
field roads to Sandy hill, and one thence to Springfield line, 
remained as before. A road from Cold hill easterly to the end of 
their bounds, was called by the name of "Pichawamiche road." 

Division of Hadley Inner Commons. 

Hadley, having disposed of the Outer or Outward Commons, 
voted, on the lOth of May, 1731, to divide the Inner or Inward 
Commons among the inhabitants; and that each should have his 
proportion in these lands, according to his real estate, as it stood 
in the list taken in January, 1731. Rev. Mr. Chauncey's real 
estate was to be taken into the list, and each poll to be estimated 
at three pounds estate, and all Indian, mulatto and negro ser- 
vants to be estimated as polls. 

The attempt to divide the Inner Commons did not then succeed. 
The proprietors of the undivided lands between Mount Holyoke 
and Sunderland, assumed the management of them, and held 
meetings. In August, 1733, they decided that it would be advan- 
tageous to improve the lands for the growth of fire-wood and 
timber, "which is the principal thing, they said, that said commons 
are needed for." They deemed them unfit for cultivation. They 
ordered that walnut and oak trees less than 12 inches in diameter 
at the stub, should not be cut for fire-wood, but they might be cut 
or timber. There were similar votes in 1740 and 1741. In 1737, 
maple and elm staddles under 8 inches in diameter might not 
be cut, but in 1741, they were free for all. In 1739 and 1741, 
each proprietor had liberty to take one pine tree for boards to 
every 15 pounds estate.* 

November 30, 1741, after a delay of 10 years, the proprietors 
voted to divide the commons according to the rule of 1731, 
and chose a committee to get the lands surveyed. Nathaniel 
Kellogg, Jr. was the surveyor. 

♦In 17 1 3, by an order of the town, oak staddles under 12 inches in diameter might not 
be taken from the commons. In 1726, walnut and oak staddles under 8 inches at the stub 
might not be cut, except for timber. In 1727, oak and walnut staddles under 10 inches at 
the stub were not to be cut, except for timber. 

It may be inferred from these votes, from 1713 to 1741, that good timber was not plenty 
on the Hadley commons, in consequence of burning the woods. 

The New Swamp of the Hadley records was divided as Inner Commons, except some 
on the east side, which was included in the first division of East Hadley. The old north 
road from Hadley to Amherst, crosses this swamp. — After East Hadley was settled, the 
plantation was sometimes named New Swamp. 

The vote of March 4, 1700, that certain land (page 273) should lie as common land 
forever, was repealed May 10, 1731. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 



283 



A list of the real estate of each inhabitant of Hadley, in January, 1 731, with the addition 
of three pounds for each poll, and servant. The Inner Commons were divided according 
to these sums.* 



North end of street on east si 

^- 

Mr. Samuel Partrigg, 

Cotton Partrigg, 
Westwood Cook, Jr. 
Peter Montague's heirs, 
Ja's Smith, son of Preserved, 
John Smith, 3d, son of orphan, 
Hezekiah Smith, 
Noah Smith, 
Lt. John Smith, 
Ichabod Smith, 
John Montague, Jr. 
Nathaniel Montague, 
Heirs of John Montague, Jr. 
Heirs of John Marsh, and 
widow Sarah Marsh, 
Samuel Porter, 
Eleazar Porter, Esq. 
Joseph Hubbard, 
William Fargeson, 
Daniel Hubbard, 
Town Lot. 
Mr. Isaac Chauncey, 

Middle Highway. 
Samuel Barnard, 
Deac. Samuel Dickinson, 
John Smith, son of Deac. 
Joseph Smith, son of Deac. 
Daniel Smith, shoemaker. 
Job Marsh, 

Deac. Nathaniel White, 
John White, 
William White, 
Ebenezer White, 
Joseph Eastman, 
Ebenezer Marsh, 
John Goodman, 
James Goodman, 
Lt. Samuel Cook, 
Lt. Thomas Hovey, 
Wid. Mehetabel Dickinson's 
sons Daniel and John, 

South end of street on 
James Kellogg, 



de. 



South Highway. 



49 


10 




William Rooker, 


•5 






3^ 


10 




Timothy Eastman, 


84 


5 




33 






Doct. Thomas Barnard, on 








77 


4 




School lot. 


22 






3 






Samuel Moody, Sr. 


49 


•3 




16 


13 


4 


Samuel Moody, Jr. 


8 


10 




21 


3 


4 


John Moody, 


3 






22 


5 


4 


Nathan Moody, 


3 






55 


'9 


6 


Ens. Wm. Dickinson, 


79 


2 


6 


39 


12 


6 


Samuel Crow, 


42 


10 




44 


6 




Capt. Luke Smith, 


71 


8 




3 






Jona. Smith, son of Luke, 


8 






8 


16 


6 


Samuel Nash, 


10 


10 










Daniel Marsh, 


42 


II 


6 


57 


10 




Wm. Marsh's heirs. 


42 


4 




120 


5 




Jacob Warner, 


5J 


'5 




114 






Thomas Goodman, 


53 


11 




3 






Samuel Goodman, 


3 






3 






Lt. Westwood Cook, 


90 


•9 




62 


17 


6 


Middle Highway. 








42 


15 




Mr. John Nash, 


53 


5 






Ebenezer Selden, 


>9 


I 










Mr. Thomas Selden, 


24 


10 




88 


18 




Samuel Church, 


45 


6 


6 


61 


8 


6 


Serg. Benjamin Church, 


38 


6 


6 


37 


I 




Ezekiel Kellogg, 


42 


3 




20 


17 


6 


Lt. Moses Cook, 


7i 


7 




3 






Solomon Bolt wood. 


45 


•9 




63 


17 




Samuel Catlin, 


3 






20 


12 




Samuel Crowfoot, 


4 






20 


12 




Noah Cook, 


51 


5 




20 


12 




Sergt, Chileab Smith, 


37 


12 





58 






44 

23 


13 
16 


4 

8 


79 
46 


4 
7 


6 
6 


3^ 

iSt 


side. 




56 


16 





At north end, and on the new or back 

Street. 

William Murray, 8 

Samuel Gaylord, 36 10 

Nathaniel Ingram, 42 9 9 

Aaron Cook, 31 10 
Mr. Joseph Smith and son 

Benjamin, 9 10 

Mr. Samuel Mighill, 3 

Peletiah Smith, 12 15 



*Tlie names of men iii Hadley were formerly placed on valuations and tax bills accord- 
ing to their dwellings. (See page 204.) The assessors, in entering the names on the list 
of 1731, proceeded down on the east side of the main street, and up on the west side; then 
through the north highway, and down in the back street. Probably there were some devi- 
ations. Nathaniel Ingram and Aaron Cook may not be in their places. Some buildings 
at the north end had been swept away or endangered by the river. 

The residence of the 147 persons in the list of 1731, was as follows; — 90 in the old town, 
2 near School meadow, 37 in the second precinct, south of Holyoke, and 18 in what was 
afterwards the third precinct and Amherst. The latter marked H. were from Hatfield. 



284 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 





£. 


s. d. 


South Inhabitants, (South 


Hadley.) 


Widow Warner's daughters 








£. s. 


Mary and Joanna, 


6 




John Taylor, 


16 


Stephen Warner, 


9 


17 


Joseph Taylor, 


6 12 


Joseph Smith, Jr., cooper, 


7 




Samuel Taylor, Jr. 


S 


Nathaniel Kellogg, Jr., 


5° 


12 6 


Joshua Taylor, 


3 


Nathaniel Kellogg, Sr., 


6o 


8 


Moses Taylor, 


3 


Ralph Way, 


II 


5 


Nathaniel Ingram, Jr. 


3 


Doct. Wm. Squire and 






William Gaylord, 


3 


Doct. Richard Crouch, 


IZ 




John Preston's heirs. 


10 


John Selding, 


34 


19 


Samuel Rugg, 


4 


Isaac Selding, 


12 




Nathaniel White, Jr. 


8 


Jonathan Atherton, 


3 




Thomas Goodman, Jr. 


6 


Israel Dickinson, 


26 


8 6 


Samuel Smith, 


12 


Peter Domo, 


3 




Samuel Kellogg, 


10 


Thomas Temple, 


3 




Richard Church, 


6 


Samuel Nash, Jr. 


3 




Samuel Taylor, Sr. 


5 


Abel Roberts, 


3 




William Smith, 
Daniel Nash, Sr. 


10 10 




3073 


14 9 


7 








Daniel Nash, 2d, 


3 
7 


East Inhabitants, 


(Amherst.) 


William Montague, 


John Ingram, Sr. 


36 


I 3 


Joseph White, 


12 


John Ingram, Jr. 


IS 




Luke Montague, 


7 


Ebenezer Kellogg, 


65 




Ephraim Nash, 


15 


John Cowls, H. 


6 




Timothy Nash, 


3 


Jonathan Cowls, H. 


7 




Joseph Nash, 


18 


Samuel Boltwood, 


21 




Ebenezer Moody, 


45 


Samuel Hawley, N.H.&H. 


9 


10 


Ebenezer Moody, Jr. 


3 


Nathaniel Church, 


22 




Peter Montague, 


4 


John Wells, H. 


6 




Chileab Smith, Jr. 


4 


Aaron Smith, 


7 


lO 


John Smith, son of Ebenezer, 


7 


Nathaniel Smith, 


7 


10 


Jonathan Smith, son of Joseph 




Richard Chauncey, 


7 




Smith, Sr., cooper, 


5 


Stephen Smith, H. 


6 


10 


William Dickinson, Jr. 


5 


John Nash, Jr. 


8 




Nehemiah Dickinson, 


3 "° 


Joseph Wells, H. 


3 




Joseph Kellogg, 


5 


Ebenezer Scovil, 


3 




Thomas Taylor, 


4 


Ebenezer Ingram, 


7 




Ebenezer Taylor, 


4 


Ebenezer Dickinson, 


8 




Timothy Hilyard, 


3 


School Meadow. 




John Lane, 


3 


Jonathan Smith, H. 


3 










Jonathan Dickinson, 


3 






278 12 



^5' I 3 
In the year 1742, the first, second, third and fourth divisions 
of the Commons were allotted and surveyed, each division having 
several distinct tracts, and all those whose names were in the 
list of real estate and polls in 1731, or their successors, in their 
names, had a lot in each division. Many highways were reserved 
across and between the rows of lots. Excepting the Pine Plain 
west of Spruce Swamp, these four divisions comprehended the 
commons in Hadley, from near the foot of Holyoke to Sunderland 
line, and included the land north of Mill River, which is now in 
Amherst. Mount Warner was in tracts 3 and 4, in the first 
division. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 285 

In 1743, the fifth or mountain division was laid out and divided. 
It extended from the equivalent land in Cold Spring, (Belcher- 
town,) on the east, to the common fence of Hockanum and Fort 
meadow, on the west, 1750 rods, or almost 5I miles, comprising 
most of the northern declivity of Holyoke, and some land not on 
the mountain slope. The lots were opposite the south end of the 
third precinct, or Amherst, for 1200 rods, and farther west for 550 
rods. The Bay or Brookfield road separated them from Amherst 
about 1 150 rods. The lots terminated on the top of the mountain, 
except a few beyond the east end of the mountain. The length 
of the lots was estimated, for it could not be measured, and varied 
in the surveyor's record,fromabout half amileto upwards of a mile, 
averaging about three-fourths of a mile. The lines between the 
lots were north and south by the needle. It was ascertained 
many years after that the eastern lot was partly in Belchertown. 

Sheep pasture. — A cow or sheep pasture on the north side of 
Holyoke, was voted by the town in 1725. In 1737, they voted to 
fence in as a sheep pasture, the tract called cow pasture, to en- 
courage the keeping of sheep. In 1749, the fence was rebuilt or 
repaired around the sheep pasture. These pastures were west of 
the common fence and mountain division. That of 1749 was on 
the northern and north-western slope of the mountain, and a part 
of it extended westward from the common fence above a mile, 
almost to the Hockanum highway. — In 1754, this sheep pasture 
was divided among the 147 persons in the list of 1731, making 
very narrow lots. Many of them ended on the top of the mountain, 
but some on the north-western side. A few lots were laid out 
north of the sheep pasture. There was to be a path two rods 
wide across the lots. This was called the sixth division of commons. 

In 1754, lots were drawn in the 7th division, which was on the 
pine plain, east of the homelots and others granted on that plain, 
and west of Fort River swamp and Spruce swamp. This narrow, 
irregular division stretched northward, from the highway by 
Fort meadow fence, above two miles, to near the Stone Bridge, 
so called. The portions of men were small. 

The real estates in the valuation of 1731, with three pounds 
for each poll, amounted to 3603 pounds in the town book. The 
surveyor's total seems to be three pounds less.* 

♦Nathaniel Kellogg surveyed the lands and proportioned the lots; he registered the divi- 
sions and lots and drew plans of five divisions which are extant. He was a skillful surveyor, 
but not skilled in spelling. In 1742 and 1743, '^^ received 15 shillings a day for surveying, 
and chain-men had 6 shillings. In silver, his wages would have been not above five shil- 
lings, and those of the chain-men about two shillings. They boarded themselves. 



286 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 



The quantity of land drawn by one pound in each division, 
and the whole number of acres drawn by ;{^36o3, at that rate, 
in each division, were as follows: — 





Acre 


rods. 


1st Division 


£1 drew I 


28. 


2d 




9^1 • 


3d " 




74i. 


4th 




8ii. 


5th " 


I " 


iiSi 


6th " 




18. 


7th " 




18. 


£1 drew in all, 3 


III. 







Acres. 


rods. 


All drew 


4^33 
2086 


84. 
118. 






1677 

1835 
2660 


84. 
44- 
04. 


" 


acres, 


405 
405 


54- 
54- 


Total 


13303 


122. 



In 52 years, from 1703 to 1754, both inclusive, near forty 
thousand acres of land were divided among the inhabitants of 
Hadley, and a few non-resident proprietors, besides the land in 
the Crank, which belonged to the south precinct. In 1770 and 
1772, four thousand five hundred acres of the poorer lands, south 
of Holyoke, were ordered to be distributed. 

Those old Puritans, the first settlers of Hadley, in distributing 
lands, were more mindful of the interest of those who had but 
little property, than their descendants were in later divisions. The 
proportion of land received by those in moderate circumstances 
became less and less in the subsequent divisions. The head of a 
family without real estate, drew above 50 acres in 10,000 acres, in 
the Amherst divisions of 1703; he had not far from 50 acres in 
about 20,000 acres in South Hadley and Granby under the 
rule of 1720; and he received only 11 acres in 13,000 acres of 
commons distributed according to the vote of 173 1. The division 
of 1 73 1 must have been contrived by the large land-holders, and 
aided by a considerable portion of the middling class. Their 
rule was, — "whosoever hath, to him shall be given." The wealthy 
man received as much land on account of his slave, as the poor 
man on his own account. 

Many persons obtained farms for themselves or their sons, 
from their lots in the commons, but the greater part of the first 
owners of the commons in the three parishes did not settle on any 
of their lots, nor did their sons. The land-holders did not become 
rich by these great accessions of land. The sales were too slow 
and the prices too low. Wild lands were very abundant, and the 
supply far exceeded the demand. The Inner Commons of the 
first parish of Hadley continued to be used chiefly for wood, 
timber and pasturage, for more than 30 years after 1743. There 
was much pine plain land, and this had always been despised by 
the people of Hadley. Good timber was scarce, especially white 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 287 

pine. Previous to 1770, perhaps half a dozen houses had been 
erected on the 13,000 acres of Inner Commons.* 

Summary of Grants and Distributions. 

It may be estimated that the old township of Hadley contained 
about 89 square miles, or 57,000 acres;f and that 42 square miles, 
or 27,000 acres, were south of the summit of Holyoke, and 47 
square miles, or 30,000 acres, were north of the summit. The 
grants and distributions were nearly as follows: — 

North of Holyoke. 

Acres. 
Distributions before 1703, ...... 3500 

Divisions in Amherst in 1703, ..... 10000 

Flat Hills and lands adjoining, ..... 900 

7 Divisions, from I74Z to 1754, ..... 1330° 

27700 

The highways and streams, the nooks and corners not distributed in the divisions, the 
grants to Hockanum people on the mountain, and some rocks and precipices on Holyoke 
not reckoned as land, may make 2300 acres. 

South of Holyoke. 

Acres. 

8 Divisions in South Hadley and Granby under the rule of 1720, 19775 
In the Crank, supposed, ...... 4500 

Pynchon's Grant at the Falls, ..... 500 

24775 
The highways, ponds and streams, lands sold by the proprietors, the rocks and steeps 
and corners not surveyed, may be 2225 acres. The Crank may contain more or less than 
4500 acres. The extent of South Hadley and Granby may exceed 42 square miles. 

*The value of the Inner Commons in inventories, down to 1758, was generally from 
three shillings to nine shillings per acre, in good money. Some lots were valued at less than 
two shillings per acre, and a few at twelve shillings or more. Some of the Mount Warner 
lots seem to have been accounted as valuable as any. 

•j-The computed extent of Hadley on pages 186 and 187 is too small. Chandler in 171 5, 
measured from the line which the inhabitants of Hadley supposed to be the south line 
of their ten miles, 3 miles and 100 rods to Springfield line, making the township 13 miles 
and 100 rods in length. This south line of the ten miles must have been conjectural, and 
too far south. It is calculated from the statemap,and various measurements, that the entire 
township of Hadley was full 14 miles in length, and on an average, not far from 6| miles 
in breadth, making about 89 square miles or 57,000 acres. 

It is not pretended that the estimates of the square miles in the old township, and north 
and south of the summit of Holyoke, are free from errors. The writer has not the exact 
measures that are necessary for accuracy. — An old estimate that the land in South Hadley 
and Granby was 24,000 acres, did not probably include the mountain. 

Mount Holyoke is about 65 miles in length, and with the spurs and smaller hills connected 
with it, may average one mile and a third in breadth, making 8^ square miles or 5550 acres. 
The mountain occupies almost one-tenth of the old township. The summit in some places, 
is about 8^ miles south of the old Sunderland line and 55 miles north of the old Springfield 
line. Some parts of it are further from the Springfield line. 



288 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

HOCKANUM. 

This hamlet in Hadley, between Mount Holyoke and the 
Connecticut, and about three miles south of Hadley village, 
was commenced by a few men from Northampton. Capt. John 
Lyman* and his son Zadok were the first settlers about 1744, 
and Ebenezer Pomeroy, the 3d, son-in-law of Capt. Lyman, 
joined them in a few years, and afterwards his brother, Stephen 
Pomeroy. Gideon Lyman, Esq., purchased lands at Hockanum, 
and his son, Gideon Lyman, Jr. lived there some years, and 
after his death, another son, Elijah Lyman; also Caleb Lyman, 
the youngest son of Capt. John, Israel Lyman, the oldest son of 
Zadok, and Ethan Pomeroy, son of Ebenezer. Stephen Coats, 
a native of Westfield, lived in a small house in the ferry lane, 
and took care of the ferry. These were all the heads of families 
previous to 1780. 

The first settlers, with other proprietors, for their own conven- 
ience, opened a road through their own lands about three-fourths 
of a mile, from the highway into Hockanum meadow, southerly 
to the mountain gate; and travelers soon began to use the new 
road and to neglect the upper road, on the lower part of the moun- 
tain, which had been traveled about 85 years. In March, 1745, 
the town allowed Capt. Lyman to build a fence across the old 
Springfield road, provided he would keep a good gate. 

The Hockanum men, having become inhabitants of Hadley 
after 1731, had no share in the commons. But the proprietors, 
in May, 1754, as an equivalent for the new highway and a little 
money, granted to Capt. John Lyman; Israel, Azariah and Luke 
Lyman, sons of Zadok deceased; Mr. Gideon Lyman of North- 
ampton and Ebenezer Pomeroy, the land from the lower side of 
the old Springfield road to the top of Mount Holyoke, beginning 
against the south end of the skirts, and extending along the moun- 
tain north-easterly to the sheep pasture lots, perhaps near a mile. 
The Lymans were "to allow the highway across their land to 
lie open where it now is." In 1761, a county road was first laid 
through Hockanum street, from the mountain gate to Fort River 
bridge, 587 rods.f 

*Capt. Lyman's house in Northampton was burnt Dec. 8, 1742, and two of his children 
perished in the flames. There is a tradition that he desired to leave the homestead where 
this afflictive event had occurred, and that this was one reason for his removing across the 
river. 

The Lymans and Pomeroys had relatives and friends in Northampton, and for many 
years they had more intercourse with the people of that town than with those of Hadley. 

•)-In 1761, Capt. Lyman lived on the east side of the way, 1 16 rods north of the mountain 
gate; his son Caleb lived on the same place, and the house still remains. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 289 

In April, 1750, Zadok Lyman purchased of Elias Lyman of 
Northampton, the island in Connecticut River, below Hockanum 
meadow, estimated at 2j acres, for £^, 6s. 8d. The island gradu- 
ally increased and became valuable, and is now connected with 
the main land. 

A ferry was first established at Hockanum by the county court 
in 1755.* There was before no licensed ferry across the Connect- 
icut between Springfield and Hadley village. There were two 
ferries to accommodate the travel between this village and 
Northampton. There was no licensed ferry connected with South 
Hadley until 1770. 

Peter Domo. 

A few years before 1719, a man named Peter Domo or Domer appeared in Hadley. In 
1 719, he married Mary Crowfoot. He lived some years in a small house on the pine plain 
street, near where Cook's brick blacksmith's shop now stands,-j- and had four or five daugh- 
ters and one son. He was poor and industrious, not ambitious, and, according to tradition, 
his wife governed him and the family, which gave him no uneasiness except when excited 
by the sneers and sarcasms of mischievous wags. After a sheep pasture had been enclosed 
on the side of Holyoke, as early as 1737, Peter is found living in a log house west of the 
meadow fence, and north of the sheep pasture fence, near the corner where they intersect, 
and but few rods from either. It is supposed that the owners of the sheep induced him to 
establish himself in that solitary place, and paid him for taking care of the flock. His house 
was on the south-western part of a high plain, called Lawrence's plain, near where the 
gentle slope of the mountain begins. There were many acres of this plain within the mead- 
ow fence, unappropriated, and Peter could use as much of it as he chose to clear. He made 
an opening of considerable extent, and raised wheat, rye, corn and garden vegetables. He 

Zadok Lyman lived on the west side of the way, a few rods south of the present house of 
Samuel Russell, and there he kept a public house from 1746 until his death, the latter part 
of 1753. ^'^ widow was licensed in 1754. Ebenezer Pomeroy, who lived in the house next 
north, where the Pomeroy house still stands, was the next innkeeper in Hockanum. 

E. Pomeroy's tavern had the sign of the White Horse. At the August court, 1759, 
Joseph Hawley complained of Pomeroy for misrule and disorder in his house, on the 6th of 
August, in suffering young people of both sexes from Northampton, to sing, dance and revel 
in his house, to a late hour. He confessed and was fined ten shillings. The young men 
were also complained of for drinking and tippling some hours, and for fiddling, singing, 
dancing and reveling "for three hours after nine o'clock," at Pomeroy's. Charles Phelps 
of Hadley appeared as counsel for the dancers, at the February court, 1760, and the indict- 
ment was quashed. Seven of the young men were from Northampton and one from Hock- 
anum. 

*Gideon Lyman, Jr. was first appointed ferryman, in 1755. Stephen Coats was appoint- 
ed in 1759, ^^'^ many years after. He conveyed people across the river before 1755. Israel 
Lyman began to keep the ferry soon after the Revolution commenced, and continued a long 
time. The fare in 1756 was five coppers, (3 J pence,) for man and horse, between May 15 
and Nov. 15, and six coppers, (4 pence,) for the rest of the year. For a single person, one 
penny from May 15 to Nov. 15, and one penny and a third, or two coppers, for the rest of 
the year. Coppers were estimated at two-thirds of a penny. The fare for man and horse 
at Hadley village was a little less. 

•j-Peter had a small house and orchard on this sandy place, which James Kellogg bought. 
In 1759, they were still called "Domer's orchard and old house," and were appraised at 40 
shillings; the land was supposed to belong to the town. 



290 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

was aided by his wife and children. The cattle that roved in the woods came and looked 
wistfully through the common fence at Peter's corn and cabbage, but the spacious ditch, 
high bank, and strong post and rail fence were an effectual barrier against them. The wild 
animals gave him more annoyance. The howling of the wolves was sometimes heard in the 
night, but if they approached too near the sheep-fold, the faithful dog gave an alarm. The 
raccoons plundered Peter's corn-field, and the woodchucks sometimes came into his garden, 
and the foxes, hawks and owls carried off his fowls. He destroyed some of the depredators 
with his trap and gun, and he shot partridges and turkies on the side of the mountain, and 
rarely a deer. Peter lived a number of years in quietness and peace in this sequestered 
nook, about two miles from all human habitations. But changes and improvements were 
approaching, and they never come without bringing discomfort to some. The talk of divid- 
ing the sheep pasture and the land adjoining foreboded ill to Peter, for he was only a squatter 
on public land. It is believed that he foresaw the evil and removed to Granby, then a part 
of South Hadley, before the division took place. The records show that the land he had 
occupied, called "Peter Domo's Improvements," was allotted to other men in 1754. He 
died in 1763, and his grave-stone may be seen in the South Hadley burying yard. He left 
some property to his children. 

"Peter Domo's House" was a famous landmark in the division of the commons, in 1742, 
1743, ^^* ^'^^ '^ several times mentioned. The corners of two or three divisions were a 
certain number of rods from this house. 

When I cross this plain, I sometimes linger awhile near the spot where stood the lonely 
dwelling of Peter Domo. The hole which he used for a cellar is almost filled up, but pieces 
of brick still indicate that civilized man has lived there. In a near ravine, is the same spring 
of water that supplied Peter's family. There is now a fence where the sheep pasture fence 
was, and the ditch of the old common fence still stretches up the mountain side. Most of 
the old sheep pasture is now wood-land. Stately trees have grown there since Peter guarded 
the Hadley flock. 

About three-fourths of a mile north of Domo's house, by the side of the common fence, 
is the place of the old Indian fort, which has been before noticed. 220 rods south of Domo's 
house, where the mountain is steep, is the south end of the common fence. 

When I was young, I heard the expression, "as silly as Domer," and it was used in some 
of the river towns. This is said to have come from a foolish remark which Peter made to 
his wife, after some mischief-making young men had been joking and jeering him because 
he was governed by her. 

[This was written in 1848. The axe has since made an inroad among the trees of the 
sheep pasture, as in most other forests.] 



CHAPTER XXVI 

Equivalent Land — New Towns — Land Speculation — Tar and Turpentine — Candlewood 
— Scarcity of Timber — Floating timber down the Connecticut — Logs on the meadows — 
Rafts of boards— Carting by the Falls — Hadley Landings — Island between Northamp- 
ton and Hadley. 

EQUIVALENT Land. — Massachusetts, adhering to a wrong south 
line, which was run in 1642, and crossed Connecticut River several 
miles too far south, granted south of the true line 105,793 acres of 
land, mostly to Suffield, Enfield and Woodstock, but partly to 
individuals and other towns. After a long controversy, it was 
agreed in 17 13 that Massachusetts should give to Connecticut 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 291 

the same number of acres as an equivalent, and that the towns 
named should remain to Massachusetts.* In 1715, two men 
from Connecticut and one from Massachusetts laid out for Con- 
necticut 105,793 acres, viz., 51,850 acres east of Hadley, after- 
wards in Belchertown and Pelham,f 10,000 acres afterwards in 
Ware, and 43,943 acres at Coasset, above the present village of 
Brattleboro', Massachusetts then claiming the lower part of Ver- 
mont and New Hampshire. 

In April, 1716, the agents of Connecticut sold the 105,793 acres, 
at auction, in Hartford, for 683 pounds, or a trifle more than three 
half pence per acre. The land was held in 16 shares. 

New Towns. — After the peace of 1713, permanent settlements 
were begun at Northfield and Swampfield,t (Sunderland,) in 
1714. The inhabitants of the latter were chiefly from Hadley 
and Hatfield. Brimfield was settled about the same time, and 
there were twelve towns and plantations in the county. All but 
Enfield and Brimfield had been commenced previous to Philip's 
w\ar, forty years before. After the close of the fourth Indian war 
in 1726, there was peace until 1744, and many new settlements 
were commenced in Hampshire. There were inhabitants at Cold 
Spring, (Belchertown,) about as early as at East Hadley, (Am- 
herst,) and Aaron Lyman was a licensed innkeeper at Cold 
Spring in 1728, indicating that there was considerable travel 
between Hadley and Brookfield. 

Land Speculation was known in New England in the 17th 
century. Roger Williams said in 1670, that there was a great 
desire for getting large portions of land in this wilderness. The 
reforming synod of 1679, noticed among the evils, "an insatiable 
desire after land in many professors." Land speculation was 
much more common in the i8th century, especially after the peace 
of 1726. Many men in Boston, Salem and in country towns 
made extensive purchases of wild lands in the new towns and in 
the outward commons of old towns; generally in Hampshire at 
prices equivalent to from one shilling to three shillings per acre, 

*In 1747, these towns, and Somers which had been set off from Enfield, requested the 
General Assembly of Connecticut to take them under that government, and they were re- 
ceived in 1749. ^y *1"^ revolt, Massachusetts lost four towns, three of them in Hampshire. 

■j-It was the west line of this land that cut off so much, not unjustly, from the east division 
of Amherst. 

jMuch work must have been done at Swampfield by Hadley men and others, before 
Philip's war in 1675. They were fencing in 1674 and 1675. I" 1685, Joseph Hawley 
mentioned that there was an old ditch for a fence four miles long, on the outside of the swamp, 
and that above 100 acres of plow-land had been formerly broken up. Old chimneys and 
cellars are noticed in some records. See page 181. 



292 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

in money at six shillings to a dollar. Before 1745, much land 
in the Hampshire towns was held by speculators. Ezekiel Kel- 
logg, a trader in Hadley, was a noted land-jobber. In 1729 and 
1730, he bought 25 lots in the Amherst Divisions, and sold them 
to Col. Samuel Brown of Salem and others. He purchased in 
Sunderland Addition, (Leverett,) 17 lots containing 3128 acres 
and sold them in 1731 to Wm. Brown of Salem, for four shillings 
per acre in province bills, equal to 25 cents. In 1734, he sold 
2124 acres in the eastern part of Northfield to James Brown 
of Newport, R. I., at a sum equal to 22 cents per acre. He bought 
and sold land south of Holyoke and in other places. There was 
much buying and selling of the equivalent land at Cold Spring. 
In 1722, twelve men, seven of them Northampton farmers, bought 
8400 acres at Cold Spring at three shillings per acre in bills, equal 
then to half the sum in good money or 25 cents. Those who sold 
in a few years gained little or nothing, and some lost.* 

Tar was early made in New England. John Tinker from 
Massachusetts, and John Griffin and Michael Humphrey of 
Windsor, first made tar in Connecticut, at Massaco, (Simsbury,) 
in 1643. Some years after, much tar was made at Windsor. In 
1646, John Clarke and others of Springfield were gathering 
candlewood on the plains to make tar. In 1650, it was ordered 
by Springfield that no person should gather and burn candle- 
wood for making tar, pitch or coal within six miles east of the 
great river, but every inhabitant might gather candlewood 
for his family use where he pleased. No records show when the 
people of Northampton, Hadley and Hatfield began to make tar. 
In Hadley in 1704, all persons were forbidden *'to draw candled 
wood for tar," in the bounds of the town, without liberty from 
the selectmen. In 17 14, all that drew candlewood for tar without 
liberty, were to be prosecuted. The candlewood seems to have 
been needed for light. f 

*In 1738, John Stoddard of Northampton, sold to the Scotch, (often called Scotch-Irish,) 
who were about to settle at Pelham, 14,137 acres of the northern part of the equivalent land, 
for 7300 pounds in bills of credit, equal to 2s. 7d. an acre, in proclamation money, or 43 
cents. This land was bought for settlement. 

After Canada was conquered, and there was no fear of Indians, vast quantities of land in 
New England and other colonies were laid open to the farmer and speculator. But all the 
land speculation in the colonies was trifling in comparison with what has taken place since 
1783 in the United States. Our laws and government often practically favor the sharper 
and the speculator. 

•j-Governor John Winthrop of Connecticut, being in England, read a paper before the 
Royal Society in London, July 9, 1662, on "Making Pitch and Tar in New England." He 
noticed the pitch pines that grew on barren plains, from which the tar was made, and de- 
scribed the pine knots and the tar kilns. He said many old trees had been blown down ages 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 293 

Turpentine was not gathered for market until many years after 
tar was made. It was procured from live pine trees, chiefly pitch 
pines; and the business may have been begun in Hadley as early 
as 1685. The trees were boxed, that is, a hollow place was cut in 
them with an axe, and the turpentine that collected in these boxes 
was dipped out and put into barrels and sent to Boston. The 
town regulated the boxing, intending to prevent damage to valua- 
ble pine timber, and did not allow any to box trees on the com- 
mons without leave. In 1701, the penalty for boxing without 
liberty was 2s. 6d. a tree; in 1 702, 5s. a tree. Pine trees were let for 
one year or more. In 1696, three men had the liberty of the pine 
trees west of Spruce hill, and others might use the pines near 
Partrigg's swamp. In 1703, the town voted to sell the pine trees 
for three years, between the Brookfield road and Bachelor's 
River, north and south of Holyoke, to those who would give the 
worth of them; and all other pines on the commons that were not 
likely to be beneficial for timber. In 1708, Westwood Cook had 
the use of the pine trees for turpentine, between the mountain, 
Bay road and certain brooks, one year, for 40 shillings. In 17 14, 
Joseph Nash had the liberty of pine trees enough to cut 1000 
boxes, on the south side of Stony brook, towards the mouth. He 
paid for them. In 1723, the pine trees on Lawrence's plain and 
some lands adjoining, were let to Luke Smith "for the drawing 
of turpentine," three years, for 28 pounds. A committee was 
chosen to lease the pines at the north-east and south-east corners 
of our bounds.* In 1726, the town voted to lease the trees on 
Lawrence's plain, after Luke Smith's time was out. 

Large quantities of turpentine and tar, from Hampshire county 
and Connecticut, were shipped at Hartford for Boston.f Much 

before, and had all perished except the knots where the bough was joined to the tree, and 
some of the body towards the root which was full of turpentine. The fires of the Indians 
that burnt up the dry and rotten parts of the old trees, only scorched the knots and wood 
full of resinous matter. Tar had been made in Massachusetts, Plymouth and Connecticut. 
Pitch was made of tar by boiling. 

*In 1723, Timothy Dwight of Northampton, and Ebenezer Marsh of Hadley, were ap- 
pointed by the General Court to let out the pine trees on the province lands in Hampshire. 
Dwight leased trees near Hadley, which he believed to be on province land, for 63 pounds. 
He reported that Hadley claimed the trees, and violently opposed the gathering of turpentine 
there by others. The General Court did not yield, and Hadley doubtless gave up the con- 
test. It is supposed that most of the trees in dispute were near the south-east corner of 
Hadley, on land that was granted to the south precinct in 1727, and named the Crank. 

Sixty years ago, many pines that had been boxed were alive, and some were tall, yellow 
pines. 

•j-The turpentine was distilled in Boston, and Doct. Douglass says 112 pounds yielded 
about three gallons of oil, (spirits of turpentine,) and the residue was rosin. In 1750, when 
Douglass wrote, the business of making tar, and gathering turpentine, was nearly at an end 
in New England. 



294 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

more turpentine than tar was sent from these upper towns. 
Joseph Parsons sent down from Hampshire above 500 barrels 
of turpentine, from 1696 to 1706, and much was sent from Had- 
ley by Samuel Porter and others. Many of the turpentine barrels 
contained about 300 pounds. The price here for a few years after 
1708, was 5s. 6d. to 6s. per 112 pounds, and in Boston about two 
shillings more. As province bills depreciated, the nominal 
price was higher. Tar was not worth as much as turpentine. 
The premium granted by England in 1703 and after, to those who 
imported tar and turpentine from America, seems not to have 
affected the price upon Connecticut River. 

Candlewood was so named because it was a substitute for 
candles.* It was first used in this country for light by the Indians. 
A writer in 1624 said the pieces of resinous pine, used for candles, 
smeared one badly. Higginson in 1629 commended them for 
giving a clear light. Wood in 1634 disliked the candlewood 
because it was sluttish, dropping a pitchy substance. Gov. Win- 
throp, in his communication to the Royal Society, in 1662, said 
the pine knots and resinous wood were split into shivers, and 
burnt instead of candles, giving a good light, and were much used 
in New England, Virginia and among the Dutch; to avoid the 
smoke, the candlewood was usually burnt in the corner, upon a 
flat stone or iron, except sometimes a stick was taken in the hand 
to go about the house. 

This torch-wood was used by farmers and others in many 
towns of Massachusetts from 100 to 140 years after Winthrop's 
description. Farmers generally had tallow candles, but they 
were used sparingly, and oil was not burnt in the interior towns. 
The candlewood was used also for kindling fires, when few 
people had wood-houses and dry wood. That families might 
be well supplied with candlewood, tar-burners for many years 
were restricted, and not allowed to collect candlewood every 
where. It appears from the account books of Deac. Ebenezer 
Hunt of Northampton, that he bought a cart-load of candlewood 
every year from 1739 to I776.t Many others on both sides of 
the river had a load yearly.^ Some men belonging to Northamp- 

*Pine lights were not peculiar to America. They were used by the ancients. Were 
used by the Germans 300 years ago. Our missionaries in Asia Minor report that a pine 
torch is a common evening light of the Armenians. Lamartine, in his Genevieve, notices 
the use of pine knots and pine splinters for light, in France. 

•j-The price of candlewood was always much higher than that of walnut wood. In 1750, 
it was 6s. 8d. per load; in 1776, from 10 to 12 shillings. 

jThat eccentric man, Grindall Rawson, the first minister of Ware, was fond of jokes 
and sarcasms, even in the pulpit. In a sermon from Matt. 5: 15 — "neither do men light a 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 295 

ton, Hadley and Granby, born between 1780 and 1790, affirm 
that when they were young, many farmers got a quantity of 
candlewood from the pine plains every year, both knots and 
pieces of fat wood, for lights and kindlers. They were burnt in 
the fire-places; some splinters were used for candles, to go into 
the cellar for cider, apples, &c.* 

Scarcity of Timber is noticed on pages 99 and 282, from 
records. Tradition corresponds with records. The fathers of 
elderly men now living, represented that small trees or staddles 
were plenty in Hadley, 80 or 90 years ago, having grown after 
the fires ceased, but larger trees fit for frames of buildings and 
for fences, and white pinesf for boards, were deficient, and tim- 
ber and boards were sometimes brought several miles. Oak-sills 
had been conveyed from Belchertown. Large yellow pinesj 
were more plenty, and many rooms in those days were lined 
with yellow pine boards, and some of these rooms remain. Much 
yellow pine was used in frames. There were some large chestnut 
trees on the mountain, § but chestnuts for rails have since been 
more abundant. Aged men say that large and middling trees 
were more plenty in many places of the Inner Commons, 25 
years ago than 70 years ago. White pines had increased on both 
sides of Holyoke. 

Floating timber down Connecticut River, did not commence 
apparently, till after peace with the Indians in 1726. The first 
notice that is found, states that several persons assembled on the 
bank of the river, Aug. 31, 1732, to see 25 masts float down 
Enfield falls, and that one mast struck a rock, was turned from 
its course, and killed a boy of Windsor. || 

candle and put it under a bushel," he told the people that they would understand the text 
better, if the word pine-torch was substituted for candle — "neither do men light a pine-torch, 
and put it under a bushel." Yet Ware was not different from many other towns in respect 
to candles and torch-lights. 

*George Bliss, in his Sketches of the History of Springfield, in 1828, says of the candle- 
wood: "Till within 50 years, it was the custom of the people, to have gathered, every fall, 
for family use, a quantity of pine knots and hearts of trees. A prudent farmer would al- 
most as soon enter upon the winter without hay, as without pine." 

•j-There was a scarcity of large white pines in other towns. When a court liouse was 
built in Northampton in 1767, the pine boards, common and clear, were mostly brought 
from Bernardston and Deerfield. When Deac. Ebenezer Hunt of Northampton, built his 
house in 1772, which is now near the Edwards Church, his pine boards were brouglit from 
Bernardston and Montague. 

f The tall, yellow pine is only a variety of the pitch pine, according to botanists. The 
Norway or red pine is not found on Mount Holyoke, though many are on Mount Tom. 

§Some men born before 1750, used to say that they could remember when a deer or 
other object, could be seen forty rods, on the side of Holyoke. 

||Boston Weekly Journal, Sept. 1732. 



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A company had been formed in 1732 or before, of several men 
in Connecticut, and four belonging to Suffield, Westfield and 
Deerfield in Hampshire, for the purpose of cutting and floating 
down the river, white pine logs, suitable for masts, booms, yards 
and bowsprits, for the British navy, having made an agreement 
with the king's contractor at Boston. In October, 1733, they 
said in a petition that they had floated down and got to New 
London, one ship load of timber, and had then "in the woods, 
near seventy miles above Fort Dummer, a considerable number 
of men cutting and preparing another ship load," and had 
expended 1200 pounds.* The company continued the business 
in 1734 and 1735. Two logs that lodged upon the river bank in 
Saybrook were three feet in diameter at the large end and 80 
feet in length, and were valued at 162- pounds each. 

English laws prohibited the cutting of pine trees fit for masts, 
24 inches or more in diameter, 12 inches from the ground, and 
not private property, in the colonies north of Pennsylvania. Such 
trees were reserved for masts, in the charter of Massachusetts, 
1 69 1. The pine-tree laws were off'ensive to the people and pro- 
duced tumults in other parts of New England, long before saw- 
logs were floated down the Connecticut. 

It is not known when men began to send logs for boards down 
the Connecticut, After the conquest of Canada, and the settle- 
ment of towns far up the river, great numbers of logs were floated 
down in freshets, and many lodged on intervals and lowlands, in 
various towns. Benning Wentworth of New Hampshire, the 
Surveyor General of the King's Woods, had agents upon Con- 
necticut River, and in April, 1763, 960 logs and 14 masts were 
seized in several towns above Northfield, 266 logs at Northfield, 
and 140 at Northampton. In May and June, 1763, more logs 
were seized, viz.. 

At Hatfield, 21 logs, in diameter from 15 to 30 inches. 

At Northampton, 21 " " 16 to 24 

At Hadley, 45 " " 15 to 36 



At Northampton & 
South Hadley.f 



326 " " 14 to 36 



At Springfield, 185 " " 12 to 30 " 

In July and September, 1763, 6389 logs were seized in Maine, 
New Hampshire, and in Massachusetts towns on the Merrimack. 

♦Connecticut Archives. 

•j-Many logs lodged not far from the mouth of Stony brook in South Hadley, and some 
on Northampton interval, opposite South Hadley. 



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HISTORY OF HADLEY 297 

In December, 1764, 733 logs were seized in Hampshire, be- 
tween School meadows in Hadley and Connecticut. 27 were in 
Hadley, from 19 to 34 inches in diameter, and 143 in South Had- 
ley, from 12 to 44 inches in diameter. 

Benning Wentworth alledged, after every seizure in Hamp- 
shire, that the trees grew in New Hampshire (which then included 
Vermont,) and not in any township. All interested were to appear 
at the vice-admiralty court in Boston, and show cause why the logs 
should not be forfeited. How many were forfeited, is not known.* 

Eleazar Burt and Elijah Lyman of Northampton were appoint- 
ed by Wentworth, Assistants to seize and mark pine timber. 
They engaged in this unpopular business, and marked 363 trees 
and logs in Northampton, but all were soon taken from them 
except 37. They applied to Samuel Mather, Esq. of Northamp- 
ton, a magistrate, to aid them, but he refused. They then applied 
to Israel Williams, Esq. of Hatfield, and he would not give them 
a warrant to press men. They next wrote to the governor, April 
24, 1764. The result is unknown.f 

In an interleaved almanac of Josiah Pierce of Hadley, is 
noticed, Oct. 25, 1765, — "A mob in Hadley on account of logs." 
No particulars are given. Probably men from up the river with 
some Hadley people, took logs from Wentworth's agents, as at 
Northampton. 

After the Revolution, pine trees were cut and sent to market 
without restriction. Before 1783, and for more than 30 years 
after, pine timber in abundance came down Connecticut River, 
and when there was a heavy freshet, a great number of logs and 
trees stopped on the intervals and flats of Hampshire; the logs 
were long, and some of the trees were above 80 feet in length. 
Great stories are told of the logs and trees left on the meadows 
of Northampton and Hadley, by high floods, especially by the 
Jefferson flood, so called, of 1801. It is said that a man could then 
walk 100 rods on logs in Northampton meadow; in some places 
they were heaped up one above another, and there were some 
extraordinary piles on Fort meadow in Hadley. When the 
freshet was not high, the river was sometimes so full of logs 
between Northampton and Hadley, that it seemed as if one could 
walk on logs across the stream. Some of those on the meadows 
were drawn to the river in the spring, and others in the fall. The 
owners of the land were entitled to compensation for the damage 
received, from the owners of the timber. Some of the logs were 

♦Boston Post Boy, 1763 and 1764. -j-Massachusetts Archives. 



298 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

sold to owners of saw-mills; and some to men about to build 
houses, who bought a few logs for clear boards and for shingles; 
such excellent pine did not grow in these towns. All my inform- 
ants say that there were some men who stole logs, and others 
who ingeniously obliterated marks; if a log had not been marked, 
the log-men could not claim it. The greater part of the timber 
reached Hartford and other places in Connecticut. 

A few Rafts of Boards were conveyed down the Connecticut 
River, from the upper settlements, before 1755; there were not 
many until after the peace of 1763. Such rafts were safely 
guided down the falls or rapids of Willemanset and Enfield,* 
but all sawed lumber and shingles were carted by the falls at 
South Hadley, and Montague. The first notice of this business 
in Hampshire, is a petition to the Court of Sessions in February, 
1754, for a road by the falls at South Hadley, for transporting 
lumber. South Hadley successfully opposed the laying of the 
road at that time. In March, 1755, they voted that Elijah Alvord 
might make an agreement with several persons, to cross their 
lands with lumber, in the Falls Field and Taylor's Field. After 
the close of the French war, there was another petition to the 
Court for a road by the falls, and in April, 1765, a road was laid 
from the head of the falls, (near the head of the subsequent canal,) 
to a landing place below the foot of the falls, about two and a half 
miles. The landing was 25 rods on the river and 10 rods wide. 
This new road was named the "Lumber Road."t Some rafts 
and boats stopped at the mouth of Stony brook, and boards, pro- 
duce and other things were carted thence, some to the landing 
at the foot of the falls, and some to the landing below Willeman- 
set rapids. Much merchandize was carried up by the falls to 



*John Pynchon sent small rafts of boards, sawed at his saw-mills, down Enfield falls 
to Hartford and other places, before and after 1683. 

■|-When this lumber road was laid in 1765, there was no house near the river or falls. 
On Taylor's field, as the old Pynchon grant, bought by the Taylors, was sometimes called, 
lived Joseph Taylor, aged 67, and his sons William and Joseph; and Samuel Taylor, aged 
6a, and his sons Elisha and Samuel. On the eastern part of the field dwelt Titus Pomeroy 
from Northampton, and there may have been another family. Pomeroy was the first inn- 
keeper in 1767; after his death, his widow kept an inn many years. William Taylor was 
a retailer in 1771. Daniel Lamb began to keep an inn in 1782. There were two saw-mills 
in 1 77 1, and a third one in Falls field, near the lumber road. After 1765, the transportation 
of lumber, and the taking to pieces and putting together of rafts, made some stir about the 
falls, and the quietness noticed on page 186, was interrupted about forty years after 1726. 
The number of families seems not to have increased much for 25 years after 1765. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 299 

Stony brook, from this lower landing; and some which had been 
forced up the rapids, was taken at the foot of the falls.* 

The farmers of Falls Woods changed their employment in part, 
and were the carriers of lumber and goods by the falls for more 
than thirty years, or until the canal could be used; and at times 
many years later, when the canal or dam was not in order. They 
could not cart lumber and cultivate their farms, and their lands 
and fences had a neglected appearance. Sometimes farmers 
from other parts of the town were transporters of lumber. Oc- 
casionally, large quantities of boards were conveyed by the falls 
and rapids on the west side of the river. 

In August, 1770, the first Elias Lyman was licensed to keep a 
ferry between Northampton and South Hadley, not far from his 
inn, where Smith's ferry now is. No one had been licensed before, 
though people had long crossed the river in boats, at this place. 
The river at the ferry was said in 1770, to be 45 rods wide. It is 
now above 50 rods wide.f 

After Hadley had induced the county court to alter the road 
to Springfield, and lay it not far from the Connecticut River, in 
1673, (pages 36 and 94) the people of Hadley obtained from 
some land-owner, a landing place on the river and a way to 
it, not far north of Chickopee River. Boats came up to this 
place, and the Hadley teams went down to it. About the same 
time, Northampton and Hatfield established a landing on the 
west side of the river. Both landings and the roads to them, were 
laid out by authority in 1730. The Hadley landing and road 
were taken from John Chapin's land, and the road was south of 
his house. He was allowed 20 pounds for damages. The place 

*The inovith of Stony brook, where everything is now so still and quiet, was a bustling 
place, at times, more than half a century. It was a harbor for rafts and boats, and in fresh- 
ets, great numbers of logs lodged on the adjoining lands. Immense piles of boards were 
sometimes on the south bank, and many men and teams. Elijah Alvord had a warehouse 
near the brook before 1765. He sold goods and kept a public house, more than a mile 
below. He was the first retailer in Falls Woods in 1754, and the first innkeeper in 1755- 
Noah Goodman succeeded him as innkeeper in 1770. 

Some men relate that when the canal was in operation, and boats and rafts were daily 
passing through it, the rafts above, waiting their turns, were sometimes so numerous that 
they lined the shore from the head of the canal to Stony brook, above two miles, 

•j"The fare at this ferry in 1770 was fixed at 3J pence for man and horse, for three summer 
months, and 4 pence for the rest of the year; for a man, 2 pence all the year. Gideon Alvord, 
who lived on the South Hadley side, was the ferryman many years. He was inquisitive, 
and when he carried a stranger across the river, he inquired his name, whence he came and 
whither he was going. This habit was not peculiar to Alvord. 

It is said that formerly some females of Northampton Lower Farms, when they visited 
their friends in South Hadley, took a skiff and readily rowed themselves across the river. 



300 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

was used by the people of Hadley and others about 30 years 
after 1730, when a new landing was prepared about two miles 
up the river, at the foot of Willemanset rapids, by Job Alvord, 
from South Hadley. In 1760 and 1761, he built a house near 
the county road and a wharf on the river, and he was licensed to 
keep an inn in 1761. His solitary house at Willemanset which is 
still standing, was two miles from inhabitants both north and 
south. In 1765, a court's committee laid out a place 6 rods by 
18, "for landing, rafting, &c." and a road from it to the county 
road near Alvord's. There was so much business at this landing, 
that Alvord's inn did not lack customers. This was the Hadley 
landing place until the first canal was made in 1795, and the 
navigation of Willemanset rapids improved, and afterwards at 
times; and it was used by the people of other towns east of the 
river, and by the river-men of New Hampshire and Vermont.* 
The Island in Connecticut River, between Old Rainbow 
meadow in Northampton and Fort meadow in Hadley, was 
noticed in 1754, and was supposed by some to belong to the 
province. It was then said to contain six or seven acres, "which 
has been gathering about 30 years, whereon the brush begins to 
grow." After the grass began to grow, it was claimed by some 
persons in Northampton and some in Hadley, and one year the 
grass was mowed by a Brooks of Hadley, and the hay carried 
away by Nathaniel Day of Northampton."}" A committee of the 
General Court, appointed November, 1770, sold the island at 
public vendue, to Solomon Stoddard of Northampton, for 100 
pounds, and he sold half to Noah Edwards. In 1803, it was all 
purchased by Levi Shepherd for 1200 dollars. 

♦Northampton had boats and boatmen on the river, below the falls, when needed, for 
I zo years, before the first canal of 1795. They carried freight between "Hampton Landing," 
in West Springfield, and Hartford and other places below. There was a Hadley boat on 
the river in 1668, and it is believed that Hadley boats and boatmen conveyed loading 
between Hadley landing and Hartford, in most of the 120 years, though few notices of them 
are found. Boats continued to navigate the river half a century after 1795, until they were 
superseded by the freight-cars of the rail road. When the navigation of the canal was in- 
terrupted, which happened many times, teams were again necessary, and the lading of the 
boats and the lumber of the rafts were carried by the falls. 

j-Is it to be inferred from this strife, that the island was then near the middle of the river ? 
Whence did the province derive its title to this new-formed island ? The province gave 
the 100 pounds to Hampshire county, to help maintain 6 or 8 county bridges. 



HISTORY OF HADl.EY 301 

CHAPTER XXVI I 

Paper Money, or Colony Bills and Province Bills — End of Province Bills, 1750 — Old 
Tenor — The shad and salmon fishery at Hadley and South Hadley — Lampreys — Gath- 
erings at the falls. 

Massachusetts first issued paper money, or indented bills of 
credit,* in 1690, to pay the expenses of the unfortunate expedi- 
tion against Quebec. About 40,000 pounds, in bills from five 
shillings to five pounds, Vv^ere emitted in 1690 and 1691, and 
taxes w^ere ordered for their redemption. They were received at 
the treasury for rates at 5 per cent, advance. They at first passed 
at a discount of near one-third, but when the amount in circula- 
tion was considerably reduced, they became current at or near 
par, and were convenient for the people, who had very little specie. 
A portion of them were reissued almost every year; 3000 pounds 
were ordered into circulation in February, 1702, and these were 
the last of the colony bills. Not many of these bills reached Con- 
necticut River. Rates and debts continued to be generally paid 
in produce in the river towns. 

Those bills of public credit, called province bills, were first 
ordered to be made and emitted, by the province of Massachu- 
setts-Bay, in November, 1702, on account of the "scarcity of 
money and the want of other medium of commerce." New 
bills were issued, or old ones reissued, almost every year, from 
1702 to 1749. The treasurer paid the expenses of the province 
in these bills, and received the same for rates and duties. Those 
brought into the treasury, if not again put into circulation, were 
counted by a committee and burnt. There was generally a blaze 
of province bills once in a year. The amount of bills sent forth 
much exceeded the aggregate of the rates and the duties of impost 
and excise, and the paper money in circulation was almost yearly 
increasing. The inevitable consequence was a falling of the 
value of the bills, and the depreciation, at first hardly perceptible, 
in a few years became large, and continued to grow larger. The 
rise in the nominal value of labor, produce, goods and lands fol- 
lowed the reduction in the worth of the paper currency. 

In May, 1736, there was an emission of bills which were to be 
equal to coined silver at six shillings and eight pence per ounce. 
One pound in these bills denominated new tenor, was to be equal 
to three pounds in the other bills called old tenor. In November, 

♦"Indented bills of credit" were often issued in England under William and Mary, 
sometimes called exchequer bills. 



302 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

1 741, bills called the "last emission," were first ordered, which 
were to be equal to silver at six shillings and eight pence per ounce, 
and one pound was made equal to four pounds of the old tenor.* 
The bills of this emission were sometimes named new tenor, and 
those issued in 1736 were denominated middle tenor.f 

The neighboring colonies had bills of credit; and Rhode Island 
emitted great sums. Connecticut was more careful, but the 
depreciation of her bills did not differ much from that of Massa- 
chusetts bills. 

Massachusetts expended in taking and securing Louisburg or 
Cape Breton, in 1745 and 1746, £26i,'joo, in last emission or 
new tenor bills. Great Britain granted to Massachusetts a re- 
imbursement of the charge to the amount of ;^i 83,649 sterling, 
and the money arrived in Boston, Sept. 18, 1749, in Spanish 
pieces-of-eight or dollars, and some tons of copper coins. 

The General Court of Massachusetts in 1749, passed an act 
to redeem the bills in circulation, with the money that was ex- 
pected from England. After the 31st of March, 1750, the posses- 
sors of bills of credit were to receive silver at the rate of one piece- 
of-eight for forty-five shillings in bills of the old form and tenor; 
and one piece-of-eight for eleven shillings and three pence in bills 
of the new form and tenor, and of the middle form and tenor.J 
Each was to take some copper. All debts after March 31, 1750, 
payable in old tenor, were to be paid in silver at the rate of a 
dollar for 45 shillings; and debts payable in middle or new tenor, 
at the rate of a dollar for lis. 3d. All bargains after that date, 
were to be understood as in silver at 6s. 8d. per ounce, or in Span- 
ish milled dollars at 6 shillings. 

*Tliese old tenors must not be confounded with the later old tenor of 72 for one, or 45 
shillings to a dollar. 

•j-The sum total of each kind of province bills, printed, signed and sent out by Massachu- 
setts, (not including old bills reissued,) from 1702 to 1749, '^•^^ ^^ follows, according to treas- 
ury accounts, and the papers of Col. Israel Williams: — 

£. 

Old tenor bills, so called, ...... 675,016 

Middle tenor bills, so called, ...... 57,966 

Last emission " "...... 602,708 

Of these, there remained in circulation or unrtdeemed in 1749, ■'ft'^r making an allowance 
for some outstanding taxes that would bring in a portion of them. 

Of old tenor bills, ....... 116,903 

Of middle tenor bills, 28,888 

Of last emission "....... 459,295 

jThe holders of old tenor bills received two shillings and eight pence on a pound, and 
the holders of new tenor bills, ten shillings and eight pence. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 303 

The bills were redeemed, and a specie currency was introduced in- 
to Massachusetts, which continued until the Revolution, 25 years. 

Our Histories and Records in Massachusetts, relating to the 
first half of the i8th century, or from 1702 to 1750, cannot be 
well understood without some knowledge of the value of the 
province bills. They were for a few years, or from 1702 to 1707, 
esteemed equal or nearly equal to proclamation money or to 
dollars at six shillings, or to Troy ounces of silver at six shillings 
and eight pence or seven shillings. Before 17 10, an ounce of 
silver was worth from 7s. 6d. to 8s. in bills. The following table 
shows what amount of old tenor bills was equivalent to a Troy 
ounce of silver, in different years, from 17 10 to 1749.* 

1710 — 1712, bills were 8 shillings for an ounce of silver. 
1713 — 1715, " 8s. 6d. to 9s. 

1716 and 1717, " 9s. 3d. to los. 

I 71 8 1720, " IIS. to I2S. 

1721 and 1722, " 13s. to 14s. 

1723 and 1724, " 15s. to i6s. 

1725 — 1727, '' i6s. to 17s. 

1728, " 17s. to i8s. 

1729 and 1730, " 19s. to 22s. 

1731 and 1732, " i8s. 6d. to 20s. 6d. 

1733, " 2is. to 23s. 

1734 — 1737, " 24s. to 27s. 

1738 — 1744, " 28s. to 30s. 

1745, " 32s. to 37s. " '' 

1746, " 38s. to 40s. 

1747, '' 50s. " " 
1748 and 1749, ' 53^' 4*^* ^° ^°^" 

The bills had fallen to one-half their nominal value in 1722; 
to one-third in 1732; to one-fourth in 1737; and to one-sixth in 
1746. In 1747, they were estimated at seven and a half for one 
in silver, and they were redeemed at that rate in 1750. They 
sunk still lower between 1747 and 1750. Old tenor bills were, 
however, but a small part of the paper money in circulation after 
1744. Most of the money from England was paid to redeem 
middle and new tenor bills, at ten shillings and eight pence for 
a pound. 

The price of wheat in this vicinity for some years after 1702 
was from 2s. 8d. to 3s. per bushel. It rose as the bills depreciated 
until it was 27 or 28 shillings per bushel, and sometimes 30 shil- 

*I liavc four of thetc old estimates or scales uf depreciation. That in Felt's Massachu- 
setts Currency is the most complete. No one of them can be deemed strictly accurate. 
They all profess to give the value of an ounce of silver in bills. 

The tables of depreciation were calculated for Boston. In the country, or in Hampshire, 
the fall in the value of the province bills was slower, and often from 15 to 25 per cent, less 
than in the tables, and the rise in produce and labor corresponded. 



304 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

lings, before 1750. After 1750, the price in specie currency, was 
from 3s. 6d. to 4s. The prices of other kinds of property and of 
labor experienced similar changes. 

Besides the bills of credit issued to pay public charges, the 
province made four loans of bills, amounting to 260,000 pounds. 
1st. By an act of 17 14, ;^50,ooo were put into the hands of trustees 
to be let out, on good security at five per cent. 2d. In 17 16, 
;^ioo,ooo were received by county trustees, to be let out at five 
per cent, for ten years. The proportion of Hampshire was £\(^^J, 
and this was lent to many men in the county, who mortgaged 
their lands for security. 3d. In 1 721, ;^50,ooo were received by 
the towns, and loaned by town trustees, payable before June, 
1730. The share of Northampton was ;^486.i5.o; Hadley, 
;^286.i5.o; Hatfield, £2t,t,.\^.o. Hadley chose Westwood Cooke, 
Experience Porter and John Nash, trustees to let out the money. 
The town had the interest. 4th. In 1728, ;^6o,ooo were loaned 
by trustees of towns for ten years. The towns had two per cent, 
of the interest, and the province four per cent. Northampton 
received ;^488.io.o; Hadley, £290.10.0; Hatfield, ;^238.io.o. The 
Hadley trustees were Eleazar Porter, Luke Smith and Job Marsh. 
These four loans seem to have been all paid. 

Many were injured by the falling of the paper money; debtors 
and some others were benefited. Some ministers suffered from 
the depreciated paper; this did not often take place where har- 
mony and good will existed between the minister and people. In 
Hadley, Hatfield, South Hadley and Amherst, there was no 
difficulty between the minister and people on account of province 
bills. The people of Northampton, in the midst of their warm 
controversy with Rev. Jonathan Edwards, paid him 750 pounds, 
in old tenor, for a year's salary, which was equal to any salary 
he had received from them. In these towns, the rise in salaries 
did not keep up with the depreciation of bills in Boston, but it 
appears to have been equal to the rise in produce and labor. 

Old Tenor. — It is a little remarkable that the old tenor currency 
of 45 shillings for a dollar, or seven shillings and sixpence for one 
lawful shilling, should have continued in business transactions 
and book accounts, so long after 1750, when dollars at six shillings 
were the legal currency. Very many farmers and not a few traders 
and professional men kept their accounts in old tenor, from 
10 to more than 20 years after 1750. Dr. Crouch of Hadley, 
kept his account book in old tenor, until his death in 1761. 

Interest in Massachusetts was 8 per cent, until 1693, when it 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 305 

was reduced to 6 per cent. In England, interest was reduced 
from ID to 8 per cent, in 1623, and to 6 per cent, in 1660. 

Many towns kept accounts in old tenor, some years after 1750.* 
The taxes of the town and old precinct of Hadley, were in old 
tenor down to 1 759, but Josiah Pierce, the treasurer, kept his accounts 
in lawful currency. He thus entered the taxes of the precinct: — 

Rate, Feb. 1754, £1555.0.10 old tenor; in lawful, £207.6.9 
" Feb. 1756, 1021.9.10 " " 136.4.0 

" Feb. 1758, 633. II. 9 " " 84.9.6 

Mechanics' bookswereinoldtenor. Theaccount book of Eliakim 
Smith, of Hadley, a joiner and cabinet maker, from 1757 to 1770, 
is extant, and is in cumbrous old tenor, 45 shillings to a dollar. 

The Shad and Salmon Fishery. 
When the English established themselves on the banks of the 
Connecticut, there was in the river and tributary streams, in the 
proper seasons, a great abundance of shad, salmon, bass and 
other fish, such as the Indians had long used for food. The shad, 
which were very numerous, were despised and neglected by a 
large portion of the English, for near 100 years in the old towns 
of Connecticut,! and for about 75 years in these Hampshire towns 
above the falls. It was discreditable for those who had a compe- 
tency to eat shad; and it was disreputable to be destitute of salt 
pork, and the eating of shad implied a deficiency of pork. The 
story which has been handed down, that in former days, the 
fishermen took the salmon from the net, and often restored the 
shad to the stream, is not a fable. Poor families ate shad, and 
doubtless some that were not poor, and they were sometimes put 

*The people of Boston complained of great taxes in 1758. The five highest taxes in 
Boston that year were — Charles Apthorp, £540.13.1; Thomas Hancock, £418.19.10; F. 
Borland, £329.11.10; James Smith, £312.19.10; Thomas Greene, £301.8.10. These taxes 
must have been in old tenor. 

The paragraph about interest on the last page is misplaced. Legal interest in England 
was reduced to 5 per cent, in 1713. 

It may be well to remark that the sum of province bills issued by Massachusetts, on page 
302, does not include those of the four loans, on page 304, amounting to 260,000 pounds. 

■[■Field's Account of the County of Middlesex, Conn., 1819, (Middletown, Haddam, 
&c.) says there was such a prejudice against shad and some other fish, because they were 
so generally used by the Indians, or from some other cause, that "little effort was made to 
take them for more than a century after the county was settled. Within the memory of 
persons living, there was very little demand for salmon, and as for shad, it was disreputable 
to eat them." 

A story is told in Hadley of a family in that place, who were about to dine on shad, when 
it was not reputable to eat them:— hearing a knock at the door, the platter of shad was im- 
mediately hid under a bed. 

There is a minute in John Pynchon's account book, which shows that shad were not 
slighted by all who were in good circumstances, in the 17th century. In 1683, he sold a 
fish-net and agreed to receive for pay some shad packed for market, and "50 shad for my 
family spending at times." 



306 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

in barrels for exportation. Connecticut shad in barrels were 
advertised in Boston in 1736. 

The first purchase of shad, found in any account book in these 
towns, was made by Joseph Hawley of Northampton in 1733; 
he gave for 30 shad one penny each, which was not equal to half 
a penny in good money. Ebenezer Hunt gave i| penny for shad 
in 1736, 2 pence for "good fat shad" in 1737, and 2 and 3 pence 
in 1742 and 1743.* These prices were all less than a penny in 
lawful money. The early settlers of Pelham bought many shad. 
After the specie currency in 1750, shad were usually one penny 
each. Josiah Pierce of Hadley bought 100 shad at a penny each 
in 1762, 90 shad at a penny in 1763, and shad at a penny in 1764, 
'65 and '66. Oliver Smith of Hadley gave a penny each for 30 
shad in 1767. For forty years after 1733, the price did not exceed 
a lawful penny. From 1773 to 1776, the price was 2 coppers each 
or i^ penny; from 1781 to 1784, from 2 to 3 coppers; in 1788, 
2h and 3 pence; in 1796, 3I and 4 pence; and in 1798 and 1800, 
4 pence half penny. The dams across the river and other im- 
pediments diminished the number of shad, and they gradually 
advanced in value to 6 pence, 9 pence, one shilling and higher 
prices, and men ceased to buy shad to barrel for family use.f 

Salmon were used but wiere seldom noticed in records in the 
17th century. Salmon nets began to appear before 1700, and 
some salmon were salted in casks by families, before and after 
1700. They were seldom sold, and the price in Hartford in 1700, 
was less than one penny per pound. Fish were so plenty in the 
Connecticut and its branches, that laws were not necessary to 
regulate fishing for a long time. There was a law in Massachu- 
setts against erecting wears or fish-dams in rivers, without per- 
mission from the court of sessions. Petitions for liberty to erect 
wears to catch fish, in the Hampshire streams, began in 1729, 
and there were several after 1760. These wears were chiefly for 
the purpose of catching salmon. In Northampton, salmon were 

*Ebenezer Hunt bought bass, suckers, pickerels and common eels. No trout are men- 
tioned. He says of shad in 1743, "shad are very good, whether one has pork or not." 

■j-Shad-eating became reputable thirty years before the Revolution. Shad were caught 
plentifully in many places in Connecticut before 1760, and were sold at one penny and one 
and a half penny each, some years later. They were carried away on horses. Some thou- 
sands of barrels of shad were put up in Connecticut for the troops from 1778 to 1781. 

Shad never ascended Bellows Falls at Walpole, nor could they ascend the falls of Chick- 
opee River. Salmon passed up both. In 1739, Brookfield petitioned the General Court 
for liberty to make a passage for shad through the bars of rocks across Chickopee River 
in Springfield, so that they might come up the river into their ponds. Springfield opposed, 
and liberty was not granted. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 307 

sold from 1730 to 1740 at a price equal to one penny per pound, 
in lawful money, and some at i|^ penny. The price in 1742 was 
i^ penny; and from 1750 to 1775, it was commonly 2 pence per 
pound. — Josiah Pierce of Hadley bought salmon from 1762 to 
1765 at 2 pence, and some at is. 6d. old tenor, or 2f pence. He 
bought some years above 70 pounds of salmon. Oliver Smith 
bought 27 pounds of salmon in 1773 at 2 pence, and Enos Smith 
57 pounds in 1776, at 2 J pence. The price was from 2 to 3 pence 
from 1781 to 1787, 4 pence in 1794, and it advanced to 7 or 8 
pence in 1798. The first dam at South Hadley about 1795, 
impeded the salmon, and the dam at Montague was a much 
greater obstruction, and salmon soon ceased to ascend the river. 
Few were caught after 1800. — Some of the prices of shad and 
salmon noted, were retail, barter prices. 

Fishing Places. — There were at least three in Hadley. One 
was below the mouth of Mill River, on Forty Acre meadow. 
A more important one was a little east of the lower end of the 
street, when the river flowed near the street. There was another 
in Hockanum meadow. Opposite to the two last, Northampton 
men had fishing places.* The late Elihu Warner remembered 
when 40 salmon were caught in a day, near the lower end of the 
street, about 1773, the largest of which weighed between 30 and 
40 pounds. t 

In South Hadley, there was a noted fishing place near the mouth 
of Stony brook, and another above Bachelor's brook, against 
Cook's hill. Many salmon were taken at those places; 24 are 
said to have been caught at one haul, near Stony brook, weighing 
from 6 or 8 to 40 pounds. $ There were other fishing places in 
South Hadley above the falls. 

The falls of rivers were great fishing places in New England, 
for the Indians and the English. The falls at South Hadley, 
called Patucket by the Indians, were one of the most favorable 

*The Northampton and Hadley men were often near each other, and they bantered and 
joked abundantly, and sometimes played tricks and encroached upon each other. These 
things proceeded not from ill-nature, but from a propensity for fun and sport. — In those 
days there were many coarse jokes, and some harsh tricks. 

•j-Mr. Pierce and 6 others owned a seine in Hadley in 1766. The whole income of the 
seine for the fish season was £22.17.0, and the expenses were £14.12.10, leaving for gain 
£8.4.2. Shad were then one penny each. 

jTlie brown, gambrel-roofed house of one story, easterly of the mouth of Stony brook, 
owned by Emerson Bates, was first built by John Smith, father of Major John Smith of 
Hadley, about a hundred years since. It was enlarged by John Stickney, and after 1773, 
he kept an inn a number of years in this solitary house on the plain. It is said that he was 
induced to do this, because his house was thronged by people who came to the fishing places. 
Some of the lumbermen on the river visited his inn. 



308 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

places on the Connecticut for taking fish. Though there is no 
intimation in any old writing, that the Indians resorted to that 
place for fishing, and very little is found recorded which indicates 
that the English frequented it for that purpose before 1740, yet 
it cannot be doubted that the Indians caught fish there in early 
days, and the English before 1700.* 

The following account of the fishery at the falls, after the 
Revolution, was derived from two aged men, in 1848, Joseph 
Ely in his gid year, and Justin Alvord in his 85th year, who had 
often caught fish at the falls, and from others since 1848. 

Fishing generally began between April 15 and May i, very sel- 
dom as early as April 15. The best fishing season was in May. 
Shad were caught in seines below the falls, and in scoop-nets on 
the falls. Boats were drawn to places on the rocky falls, fastened, 
and filled with shad by scoop-nets; then taken ashore, emptied 
and returned. A man in this manner could take from 2000 to 
3000 shad in a day, and sometimes more, with the aid of a boat- 
man. These movements required men of some dexterity. There 
were some large hauls of fish at the wharves below the falls. The 
greatest haul known was 3500, according to Ely, and 3300,f ac- 
cording to Alvord. It was not often that 1500, or even 1200 shad 
were taken by one sweep of the net.J Salmon were taken on the 
falls in dip-nets, and below in seines with shad. Before their 
day, salmon had been taken at the foot of the falls in places called 
pens. Ely had never known a salmon taken at the falls that 
weighed above 30 pounds; some weighed 20, and many from 6 
to 10 pounds. They were always few in number compared with 
shad. The river seemed to be full of shad at times in some places, 
and in crossing it, the oars often struck shad. Ely and Alvord, 
like other old men, related that fishermen formerly took salmon 
from the net, and let the shad go into the river again, but not in 
their time; and that people in former days were ashamed to have 
it known that they ate shad, owing in part to the disgrace of being 
without pork. Alvord sold thousands of shad after the Revolu- 
tion for three coppers each, and salmon were sold from two to 



*In 1685, when Northampton and Springfield settled the line between them, west of the 
river, it was agreed that Northampton might catch fish at the lower falls, below the line. 
The fishery was then thought to be of some importance. 

•j-One man of South Hadley, gives 3000 as the largest haul. 

Connecticut archives contain an account of 3000 shad taken at a haul in the cove at East 
Haddam, before 1766. The number in these great hauls is probably exaggerated. 

jMorse's Geography, 5th edition, says there were as many as 14 fishing wharves at the 
foot of the falls in 1801, and that they sometimes caught 1200 fish at one haul; it was re- 
ported that one company cleared 48CX3 dollars in one season. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 309 

three pence per pound. It was much more difficuh to sell salmon 
than shad. 

Some bass were caught with hooks after shad time. Sturgeon 
were taken on the falls with spears. Lampreys, called lamprey- 
eels, had long been plenty on the falls, and many were taken at 
night by hand, by the aid of torch-lights. Some were eaten in a 
few towns in old Hampshire, but most were carried to Granby, 
Simsbury and other towns in Connecticut.* 

Shad seasons brought to the falls, on both sides of the river, 
multitudes of people from various quarters. Some came from 
Berkshire county. All came on horses with bags to carry shad, 
except a very few who had carts. Some, intending to purchase 
two loads of shad, led a horse. For some years there were only 
two licensed inn-keepers at the falls — Daniel Lamb and widow 
Mary Pomeroy, but every house on both sides of the river was 
full of men, and some lodged in shelters and out-houses. Horses 
filled the stables and many other places. It was estimated one 
day, that there were 1500 horses, on both sides of the river; this 
estimate is not reliable. A great number of the men brought 
victuals with them; many cooked shad, and others bought food 
at the houses. Many were detained one day or longer. They 
indulged in plays and trials of skill. Where there were so many 
men, and rum was plenty, there was of course much noise, bustle 
and confusion. The greater part were industrious farmers, and 
after leaving the falls, they wound over the hills and plains with 
bags of shad, in every direction. They were plainly dressed, ac- 
cording to their business. There was another class at these gather- 
ings, composed of the idle, the intemperate and the dissipated. 
They came to drink and frolic, and some to buy shad if their 
money held out.f 

♦Lampreys came above the falls in great numbers, and entered the streams that run into 
the Connecticut, until the Holyoke dam was built in 1849. They were very numerous in 
Fort River in Hadley, below Smith's mills, and were caught by the light of torches, some- 
times several hundred in a night. Men waded into the stream, and grasped them with a 
mittened hand and placed them in a bag. Sometimes the lampreys in the night crawled 
into and about the flutter-wheel of the mill, and into the throat of the gate, in such great 
numbers, that the wheel could not be turned in the morning until they were cleared away. 
— In Northampton Mill River, below the lower mills, lampreys were caught in the same 
manner as in Hadley, and in other ways. In a dark night, men might be seen in the river, 
clasping now and then with one hand a squirming lamprey, and holding in the other a birch- 
bark torch, which threw light on the river and on all objects on its borders. Very few were 
cooked in Northampton and Hadley; many were given to hogs. Some were conveyed to 
other towns in Massachusetts but most to Connecticut. None are now caught above Hol- 
yoke dam. 

•j-There were great gatherings at Amoskeag falls, on the Merrimack, in the fishing 
season, more than a century since. In 1742, Rev. Joseph Secombe gave them a discourse, 
which was published. Judging from the title, it must have suited the merry-makers. 



310 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Many thousands of shad are still taken annually at South Had- 
ley falls, though none can ascend the river above the Holyoke 
dam. Instead of a penny each, w^hich was paid one hundred 
years ago, men now pay at retail for shad brought from these 
falls and from Saybrook, from 25 to 40 cents, and sometimes 50 
cents. 



CHAPTER XXVIII 

Second Meeting-House in Hadley — Sounding-board — Square glass — Seats and pews — 
Seating — Spire — Clock — Weather-cock — Bells — Horse-blocks — S t o v e s — Plan of the 
lower floor. 

At a town meeting Jan. 5, 17 13, Samuel Porter, moderator, it 
was voted to build a new meeting-house* 50 feet in length and 
40 feet in breadth with a flattish roof and a balconyf at one end; 
to be set as near as conveniently may be in the middle of the 
town street, against the town lot; Mr. Samuel Porter, Lieut. 
Nehemiah Dickinson, Sergt. Daniel Marsh, Peter Montague and 
Samuel Barnard to be a committee to carry on the work. The 
committee were "to buy glass, nails and other necessaries, let 
out work by getting clapboards, shingles, &c., and hire work- 
men for money, improving our own inhabitants as much as con- 
veniently may be, and leveling all the work at money price." 
On the 2d of March, the town voted that the new meeting-house 
should be plastered with white lime, both the walls and overhead, 
and " that they will have joiners' windows." On the 2d of Decem- 
ber, 1714, Capt. Aaron Cook, Esq.lj: Ens. Chileab Smith, Mr. 
Samuel Porter, Esq., Jonathan Marsh, Daniel Marsh, sen'r, 
Deac. Nathaniel White and Deac. John Smith were chosen to 
seat persons in the meeting-house. The house was then ready 
for use though not entirely completed. 

*This second meeting-house stood 95 years, or until the last week in October, 1808. It 
was built in the street opposite the town lot, that lot on which three ministers have lived — 
Williams, Hopkins and Woodbridge. The first meeting-house was used only about 47 
years, and the galleries had been built only 13 or 14 years in 1713. It was too far north to 
accommodate the people, and there may have been other reasons for a new house. 

•j-By a "balcony at one end," they meant a steeple buUt from the ground, or tower, belfry 
and spire. The "flattish roof" would now be considered steep. The lower part of the 
steeple was 13 or 14 feet square. This was the first steeple in Hampshire that was built up 
from the ground. 

{The town-clerk sometimes gave to a man a title at each end of his name. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 311 

Jan. 7, 1 71 7, the town voted to make pentices over the meeting- 
house doors, and to do something to prevent the belfry from 
leaking; to make two pews on the north end and two on the 
south end, to complete the seats in the gallery, to case the seats 
in the alleys and to color the front of the gallery and desk. 

The house was plastered according to the vote. The posts were 
all visible and not cased, and the upper part of each post was 
connected with a beam by a long, wide brace, which was also in 
sight. These posts and braces were made smooth and painted. 
The plastering covered the beams overhead. There was a strip 
of plastering on the outside, under the eaves. 

In March, 1738, the old precinct gave Eleazar Porter liberty 
to build a new desk at his own cost; and voted to lath and plaster 
under the galleries, and to color the facings of the galleries. — Mr. 
Porter built a pulpit and a canopy or sounding-board over it, 
and some who remember them, affirm that they were handsomely 
wrought, and more elegant than the pulpit and sounding-board 
at Northampton and Hatfield. On the canopy were the letters 
and figures "M. R. H. 1739;" the letters were for March.* 

"Jan. 7, 1 75 1. Voted that the meeting house shall be repaired 
the ensuing summer with sash casements and square glass." It 
may be concluded from this vote that the windows were then 
of diamond glass set in lead. The sashes with square cornered 
glass were put up in the house in 1752. The "joiners' windows" 
in the vote of 17 13 seem to refer to the frames around the diamond 
glass. There were twelve windows below, and thirteen above, 
besides those in the steeple. The pulpit had no window. 

Seats and Pews. — The meeting-house was at first furnished 
with seats, long ones in the gallery, and shorter ones below. There 
may have been one or two pews on the west or pulpit side of the 
house. Pews were afterwards added from time to time, but not 
without opposition. A pew was considered more honorable than 
a narrow seat or slip, and many disliked to have the town build 
pews for the principal families while others sat in seats. When a 
motion to build a few pews was carried, the vote was usually 
reconsidered. The pews voted in 1717 and others in 1719 were not 
built for many years. Col. Eleazar Porter and Rev. Chester 

*Such a structure over the preacher and pulpit was named sounding-board and canopy 
in England. In this country it was several feet high, had a peculiar form, with several 
sides and angles, and was generally of very nice workmanship as well as the projecting front 
of the pulpit. It excited the attention of children and they gazed upon it with wonder, 
as many who are now elderly persons can testify. It projected from the wall, and seemed 
to them to be hung up, with little to support it, and to threaten to come down with a crash. 



312 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Williams each built a pew before 1748, having liberty from the 
town ; more were built some years later, but not without contention. 
A vote, Jan. 4, 1762, to build four pews, "two on the men's side of 
the body, and two on the women's side," was reconsidered, but 
it shows that in 1762, men did not sit with their wives.* The 
number of pews was increased until only four narrow seats re- 
mained on the lower floor, in 1783, and these were on the west 
side or front of the body. The seats in the pews were fastened 
down, and there was none of that clattering of seats, which was 
heard in many meeting-houses. Those who sat in a pew faced 
three or four ways. — Before 1772 there were two pews in the men's 
gallery and two in the women's gallery. Some years later, there 
were high pews over the stairs, and one was called the "Swallow's 
Nest." Previous to 1790 there was a row of pews next to the wall 
on the three sides of the gallery. Contrary to the common prac- 
tice, the females in the gallery were on the right hand of the 
minister, and the males on the left hand. 

Seating. — The Hadley records give no information as to the 
respectability of the seats, or the rules observed by the seating 
committees. It appears from the records of other towns, that 
the seaters had before them an estimate of the dignity of the seats 
or pews, and that in placing persons in them, they regarded three 
things — age, estate and places of trust, as expressed in Hatfield; 
age, estate and qualifications, in South Hadley and Amherst; 
and age, estate and usefulness, in some records. Seating persons 
in the meeting-house, sometimes produced warm contentions in 
Hadley as elsewhere. It was difficult to please all, and it was 
not uncommon that some were dissatisfied with their seats or 
seat-mates. In 1760, there was open opposition to the doings of 
the seatefs, and for a time, sundry persons refused to take the 
seats assigned them, and crowded into higher seats, to the dis- 
turbance of the congregation. In later years, the reports of seating 
committees in Hadley were generally approved or rejected by the 
town, and when a seating was much disliked, the town chose a 
second committee, or added men to the first one, and alterations 
were ordered, or a re-seating. The fore-seats in the gallery were 
regularly seated before they were occupied by singers, and were 
very respectable seats. On the 13th of April, 1772, the town gave 
directions to the seaters of the galleries, "that the fore-seats in 

*It is not known when men and women begun to sit together. It was soon after 1762. 
The young males and females in the galleries always sat apart, and they ascended by dif- 
ferent stairs. Howitt says men and women are still separated in the churches of Germany. 
The sexes sit apart in other parts of Europe, and in many places in the United States. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 313 

the side galleries shall be left for the singers." This is the first 
notice of the separation of the singers from the congregation in 
Hadley. 

The deacons' seat was before the pulpit and opposite the broad 
aisle. The top of the partition, next to the aisle, was wide, and 
the christening basin stood on this, and the minister entered the 
deacons' seat when he baptized a child. In front of this hung a 
leaf like that of a table, and this was raised up, on sacramental 
occasions. The table, and the bread, wine and cups upon it, 
were covered with snow-white cloths. 

The tradition in Hadley and most other old towns, that form- 
erly there were benches in some of the aisles for little children, 
appears- to be true.* In 1738, Northampton voted benches for 
children before some seats and pews. 

In 1750, the colored people sat in back seats in the gallery, and 
one of them, named Ralph Way, had liberty to take into his seat 
such negroes as he chose; but in 1772, any of the negroes might 
be seated with Ralph Way. After 1783, the high pews in the 
corners over the stairs, which were very conspicuous, were assigned 
to the colored people, that over the boys' stairs to the males, and 
that over the girls' stairs to the females, and they occupied them 
as long as the house stood. f 

The tithingmen in Hadley sat in the gallery, and when one 
observed children or young people behaving improperly, he rapped 
on the top of the seat or pew, and then pointed at them. Some- 
times he led playful children from their seats and placed them 
near himself. In two instances, a child was led down the stairs, 
and left near the parents or guardians. 

*The life of a little hoy in Hadley was endangered on one of these benches about a century 
ago. Isaac Selden had turns of derangement, and when sitting in or near an isle on the 
Sabbath, he rose up, seized a foot stool, and was about to strike a little boy who sat in the 
aisle; the minister observed his motions and instantly gave an alarm, and the blow was so 
far averted that the boy was not seriously hurt. A great excitement was produced, and 
Selden was led away. 

■|- Joshua Boston. — Among the negroes who sat in the pew for males was Joshua Boston, 
a son of Boston; both belonged to Col. Eleazar Porter, previous to his death in 1757. Joshua 
Boston is represented by those who knew him well, as tall, erect and portly; he was well 
dressed, gentlemanly in his manners, and there was much native dignity in his appearance. 
His dignified aspect attracted attention in the street, and when he entered the meeting-house. 
On the day of his funeral, after those who attended had left the grave-yard, a singular curi- 
osity led the sexton to descend into the grave, open the cofBn and gaze once more upon the 
countenance of Joshua, and he declared that it was still dignified and majestic. Joshua 
could read and write, sustained a good reputation, and was a member of the church in Had- 
ley. He had been a soldier in the Revolutionary service. His color was that of a negro. 
He died December, 1819, and his age was said to be about 79. This man in 1758 was a 
chattel, and was valued at 20 pounds. 



314 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

There is a tradition in Northampton and Hadley, that lOO 
years ago, those in the meeting-house rose when the minister 
entered. 

At a meeting, Jan. 15, 1753, the precinct empowered Eleazar 
Porter, Esq. and Messrs. Jonathan Smith, Nathaniel Kellogg, 
Enos Nash and Samuel Smith, to cover the body of the meeting- 
house with quarter-boards* and color it,f to raise the steeple to 
a proper height; to put in new sills where needful, to rectify the 
underpinning and lay gravel and sand about it, and to shingle 
the west side of the roof if necessary. This committee might 
make sale of the clock J in the meeting-house and procure another, 
or get it rectified and mended. 

It is evident that the spire or tapering part of the steeple, above 
the bell, was added after this meeting in 1753. It is said to have 
been neatly and symmetrically formed. The belfry or place 
where the bell was hung, was round, and had eight pillars, with 
some ornamental work. There was no communication between 
the steeple and gallery, but there was a passage into the space 
between the roof and beams. § The height of the steeple was 
between 90 and 100 feet. 

The Cock, which still surmounts the steeple of the third 
meeting-house, is believed to have been put up when the spire 
of the second house was added, not long after 1753. He has kept 
his lofty station, and shown the direction of the wind, for a cen- 
tury, and was removed from the west to the middle street on the 
steeple in 1841.II 

♦Quarter-boards were narrow boards. The third precinct of Hadley, (Amherst,) voted 
Oct. 8, 1735, to cover their meeting-house "with quarter-boards of spruce." White pine 
was often misnamed spruce. In 1749, Joseph Hawley, of Northampton, bought "Scx) 
spruce quarter-boards," which were narrow, sawed boards of white pine. All these quar- 
ter-boards seem to be sawed clapboards, but some intelligent men in Hadley think the old 
meeting-house was covered with split clapboards, and that sawed ones were not used there 
as early as 1753. This may be correct, but before the end of the century, sawed boards 
superseded the cloven-boards or true clapboards, and received the same name, in this 
vicinity. 

j-There was a vote in March, 1771, to color the meeting-house, if a committee, after 
examining it, reported that the timber would answer the cost of coloring. It was colored, 
but in its latter days most of the color was gone. Formerly the word color was used instead 
of paint. 

jThis is the first notice of the clock. It is not known when or by what means it was ob- 
tained. There was a vote to repair it in 1759 and in 1803. It had only one dial and that 
was on the north side of the steeple. It is said to have been a pretty good time-keeper in 
the last century, but has long been silent and useless. 

§The town's stock of powder was formerly stored in the meeting-house garret, in Hadley, 
as it was in many other towns. 

yWhen the cock was first placed at the top of the steeple, Zeb. Prutt, a young colored 
man, ascended to the summit, sat on the copper bird, and imitated the crowing of a rooster. 
Soon after this weather<ock was elevated to the top of the present steeple in 1808, two young 



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In 1763, the meeting-house had spread, and it was necessary 
to take up much of the floor with the seats, in order "to get the 
meeting-house together and secure it from spreading." The 
difficulty was apparently in the underpinning and sills. 

Bell. — Such a bell as was at Northampton was to be purchased 
in 1690, (page 44.) March i, 1731, the town voted to buy a bell, 
and left it with the selectmen to procure one. This seems to have 
been the fourth bell used in Hadley. This bell of 173 1 was broken 
by five young men in a ringing frolic, and the town, January 3, 
1785, voted to get the bell repaired [recast,] and to add to the 
weight, which was 336 pounds, so much as to make it 448 pounds. 
The five persons who broke the bell were to pay four dollars each. 
The bell was sent to New Haven to be recast. — The bell of 1785 
was cracked in July, 1808, in attempting to toll it by the strokes 
of a hammer, and the present bell was obtained from Medway. 

In 1743, curtains were voted for the west windows and three 
on the south end. In 1766, as many curtains were voted as the 
selectmen judged needful. There were curtains at the windows 
most exposed to the sun as long as the house stood. 

Horse-blocks to aid old men and females to mount and dis- 
mount, were necessary near meeting-houses, as well as dwelling- 
houses, when men and women rode on horses. They were less 
needed at the meeting-house in a village like Hadley, than in 
towns where the inhabitants lived more scattered on farms; and 
there were family horse-blocks in Hadley on each side of the street. 
In 1762, Eliakim Smith built a horse-block for the town, near the 
meeting-house; it took 191 feet of boards and required near a 
day's labor, and cost 8s. 8d., besides the slitwork.* 

There were no horse sheds nor Sabbath-day houses about the 
meeting-house in Hadley. 

Iron Stoves were first employed to warm the meeting-house in 
Hadley in the winter of 1 730-1 731. Foot Stoves were previously 
used by the women and small children to warm their feet. Foot 

men, for mischief and sport, climbed the steeple in the night, lifted the vane from the spindle, 
brought it to the ground and hid it. They were found out, and were required to replace the 
cock on the spire. — Bailey's Dictionary, id Vol. 1737, says, "the cock is generally placed 
on the tops of steeples in England, and is called the weather-cock." The cock was common 
on steeples centuries before. 

*Horse-b]ocks, or platforms with steps, were made of boards and slitwork, or of a large, 
solid log, or of stone. In towns, where most of the females rode to meeting on horses, 
there was a lively scene about the horse-blocks, after the congregation was dismissed. 
Young women easily alighted from a horse without the aid of a horse-block, and when nec- 
essary, they readily sprung upon a horse from a fence. 



316 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Stoves do not appear in Hampshire county and other parts of 
Massachusetts until about 1730. For a long time, most of them 
were made of wood, and partly or wholly lined with tin, and the 
coals were placed within, in a small iron vessel. Towards the 
close of the last century, tin stoves, confined in a neat, wooden 
frame, became more common.* Heated stones, bricks or pieces 
of plank may have been used long before stoves. The people of 
former generations in these and other towns were hardy, and 
inured to the cold, and they suffered much less in the meeting- 
house in the winter, than some persons imagine. The ministers 
were hardy also, and their sermons in cold weather were seldom 
very short. f 

Neither the first nor second meeting-house in Hadley was form- 
ally dedicated, and there were no unmeaning ceremonies at 
the laying of corner stones. Meeting-houses in New England 
were not dedicated for more than a century. They were "opened" 
with prayers, and sometimes with a sermon. The people of New 
England were too knowing to believe that any ceremony or solem- 
nity could make wood, brick or stone holy, and they did not 
esteem their meeting-houses too holy to be used for useful civil 
purposes. The people of Hadley held town meetings in their 
meeting-houses near 150 years, though more often perhaps in 
the school-house. J 

In Hadley, persons were appointed to sweep and take care of 
this second meeting-house, and ring the bell, but they are not 
named in the records. 

On the north post of the eastern door, was the place for publish- 
ments, and many persons as they entered the house, stopped on the 
steps long enough to see who were going to be married. 

*Eliakim Smith of Hadley, made wooden stoves, from 1757 to 1775; they were perforated 
with holes, and entirely or partially lined with tin. The price of a stove was from zs. to 2S. 
8d., and of the lining from is. to is. 6d. Samuel Gaylord also made wooden stoves lined 
with tin. Tin stoves were sold in this vicinity in 1793, from 5s. 6d. to 6s. Stephen Kellogg, 
who died in Hadley in 1738, had a stove which was valued at two shillings, the only one 
noticed in Hampshire before 1745. Roxbury meeting-house took fire from a foot-stove in 
1744, and was burnt. — Foot stoves were derived from Holland, where the women still carry 
them into the churches. 

■j-The writer attended meeting in houses not warmed, until he was 33 years old, and is 
not conscious that he and those about him were seriously incommoded by the cold, except 
on a few Sabbaths. There were a few keenly cold Sabbaths in the winter, when young 
men and boys in the gallery knocked their feet together and made some noise. The expe- 
rience of some Hadley men has been similar to that of the writer. 

J"The idea of a special sanctity transfused through the boards and timbers of a meeting- 
house by the mystic ceremony of a dedication, or by the grace of priestly benediction, to 
make it a sacrilege to use it for any other purpose, is repugnant to common sense and the 
simplicity of Christ." N. T. Evnngelist, July 17, 1851. 



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317 



Plan of the Aisles, Pews, &c. 
On the Ground-floor of the second Meeting-house in Hadley, as 
they were after 1788. No old plan is found; this is made from 
information derived from elderly people. 















Steeple. 

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South 
Door. 



Many of the pews were nearly square; some were smaller than the square ones, and a 
few were larger. Two pews on the west side were denominated the "Great Pews," and lo 
or 12 persons sat in each. There was a chair in each of these, and in some other pews. 
There were four narrow pews or slips on the west side of the body; in two of these, next to 
the middle or broad aisle, sat two of the most wealthy men in Hadley, about 1800, viz., 
Charles Phelps and Oliver Smith. The pewg were all high-backed, and in the upper part 
were nicely turned, little balusters, which children were fond of handling. It is hardly 
necessary to say that the aisles and pews were uncarpeted, and the seats uncushioned. 



318 HISTORY OF HADLEY 



CHAPTER XXIX 

The second, third and fourth Ministers of Hadley — Ordinations — Inscriptions on the Grave- 
stones of four Ministers — Texts and Sermons — The Lord's Supper — Baptisms — Lec- 
tures — Whitfield — Ministers' wood. 

Rev. Isaac Chauncey, the second minister of Hadley. 

The town of Hadley voted, Aug. 27, 1693, to send two messen- 
gers to procure a minister; they desired one to come "upon trial 
for some time." Not long after this, Mr. Samuel Moody* was 
preaching there, and Jan. 11, 1694, a rate was voted to pay him. 
Almost eleven months later, Dec. 3, 1694, the town voted to give 
Mr. Moody £^5, in wheat, peas and corn for his labors. These 
votes indicate that he preached there a few months in 1693, 
and a longer time in 1694. Mr. Simon Bradstreetf began to 
preach in Hadley in the early part of 1695, and April 26, 1695, 
a committee was appointed to treat with him about settling as 
their minister, and there was a vote about his pay to that time. 
No agreement was made with him. 

Mr. Isaac Chauncey began to preach in Hadley not far from 
July, 1695, and on the i6th of October, 1695, the town earnestly 
desired Mr. Chauncey to settle among them as their minister, 
and offered to him the homelot of about ten acres and buildings, 
that belonged to their former pastor, Mr. Russell, and twenty 
acres of meadow land, to be to him and his heirs forever, and a 
salary of 70 pounds for three years "in provision pay," and after 
that, 80 pounds per year in the same pay. It appears from subse- 
quent votes that he was to be supplied with fire-wood. These fair 
propositions were evidently accepted. His acceptance and the 
time of his ordination are not recorded in the town records. $ 

Mr. Chauncey's salary of 80 pounds in provision pay, was not 
equal to 60 pounds or 200 dollars in proclamation money. His 
houselot of ten acres and the buildings with 20 pounds for 
repairs, and twenty acres of meadow land, were worth in money 
about 700 dollars, and the getting of his wood cost the town six 
or seven pounds. He was well provided for and never complained. 
Jan. 5, 1713, after province bills were in circulation, Mr. Chaun- 

*This Samuel Moody is supposed to have been a son of Rev. Joshua Moody, of Ports- 
mouth and Boston, H. C. 1689. j-This was a son of Rev. Simon Bradstreet of New Lon- 
don, H. C. 1693. H^ settled in Charlestown. 

jThe church records were burnt in 1766. — The date of his ordination, in Allen's Bio- 
graphical Dictionary, is Sept. 9, 1696; this seems too late. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 319 

cey requested the town to pay his salary in money, that is, in 
province bills, and said he would accept of ;^6o in money instead 
of ;{^8o "in pay." The town consented to do this for ten years. 
The value of the bills had fallen some before 1713, and ;{^6o did 
not equal 200 silver dollars. 

As the province bills continued to depreciate, the town in- 
creased his salary to £']0, £^0, £%^, and from 1720 to 1725 to 
;^ioo, he providing his own firewood; and to ;{^iio the next three 
years. In 1729 they voted ;^I20, adding ;^io, "in consideration 
of the difficult circumstances of his family." In 1730, they voted 
;^I30. In 1731, the town granted ;^I20, and added £\o "for the 
support of two indigent persons in his family."* In 1732, 1733 
and 1734, they gave him ;^I20, and £^0 more yearly, on account 
"of the ill circumstances of his family," or "of the indigent persons 
in his family," and in 1735, they added £i^o "in consideration of 
his son, &c." In 1736, they added, ;^20 for his son.f In 1637, 
the precinct granted ;(^I70, and in 1738 and 1739, ;^i6o. After 
Mr. Chauncey ceased to preach, his salary was reduced to £'j^ 
in 1740, ;^6o in 1741, and ;^70 a year for the succeeding years of 
his life. This reduction was apparently made with his consent. 

Mr. Chauncey is represented as studious in his habits, and 
attentive to his duties. He evidently led a peaceable and quiet 
life with the people of Hadley. There is no intimation that there 
was ever any difficulty or misunderstanding between them. 
When he made a request, it was reasonable, and they readily 
complied. Several short letters from him are recorded, in which 
he expresses his satisfaction with what the town had done. Very 
few events of his ministry are known. Four of his sermons were 
published, viz., A Sermon at the ordination of Rev. William Rand 
at Sunderland, May 20, 1724, from 2 Cor. xii. 15. A Sermon on 
the death of Rev. John Williams, at Deerfield, June 12, 1729. 
A Sermon preached at Hadley upon a Lord's day, 1731, on the 

*There is some uncertainty regarding the "two indigent persons" in Mr. Chauncey 's 
family. One may have been his distracted son. There is an error on 234th page; Mr. 
Chauncey's son is not mentioned as one of the indigent in 1735, though he seems to have 
been one of them. 

•[•Mr. Chauncey's son Israel graduated at Harvard College in 1724. He taught the 
grammar school in Hadley, and preached acceptably in several towns. He preached in 
Northampton nine months previous to August, 1726. He was invited to settle at Glasten- 
bury, in March, 1727, but declined. Norwalk sent for him in 1727. He preached atHous- 
atonnuck. The Boston Weekly Journal of Dec. 7, 1736, thus notices the derangement and 
death of this promising young man. "At Hadley something over a week ago, a small out- 
house of Mr. Chauncey was burnt, and in it one of his sons, who was liberally educated and 
had preached some time, but of late was distracted, and was confined in the building con- 
sumed. He used frequently to cry fire, in the night, and for this reason, his cry now was not 
heeded till too late." 



320 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

vanity of superficial religion, from Joshua xxiv. 19. A Lecture- 
Sermon preached at Hadley on the i6th of February, 1732, on 
the loss of the soul, from Matthew xvi. 26; this was delivered on 
a week-day.* Mr. Chauncey assisted at the ordination of Rev. 
Robert Breck, of Springfield, and gave the charge, Jan. 26, 1736, 
after a previous council of ministers from Hampshire had refused 
to ordain him, because they thought him to be heretical. 

Rev. Isaac Chauncey was a son of Rev. Israel Chauncey, of 
Stratford, Conn, and grandson of Rev. Charles Chauncey, Presi- 
dent of Harvard College. Rev. Nathaniel Chauncey, the second 
minister of Hadley, was his uncle; and Rev. Charles Chauncey, 
of Stratfield, now Bridgeport, an ancestor of Commodore Chaun- 
cey, was his brother. Mr. Chauncey of Hadley was born Oct. 5, 
1670, graduated at Harvard College, 1693, and died May 2, 1745 
in his 75th year. He became so infirm as to require assistance in 
the pulpit, in his 69th year, and preached but little after 1738. 
His estate was settled without the aid of the probate court. Four 
of his daughters married ministers. f 

Rev. Chester Williams, the third minister of Hadley. 

After Mr. Chauncey became infirm, the first precinct paid for 
preaching in 1739, to Mr. Edward Billings, £^4, 15s. (he was or- 
dained pastor at Cold Spring, May 7, 1740;) and to Mr. Hobart 
Estabrook, ;^39, 13s. (he was ordained at Millington in East 
Haddam, 1745.) In 1740, to Mr. Daniel Buckingham, £^4., 
(he was settled in the ministry at Green's Farms, (Greenfield,) 
Fairfield Co.) to Mr. Benjamin Dickinson, who resided in Had- 
ley, ;^22, 4s., to Mr. Noah Merrick, £j, los. (he was the first 

*Prof. W. C. Fowler's interesting "Memorials of the Chaunceys," mention only these 
four publications of Mr. Chauncey of Hadley. These are not now to be found in Hadley. 
Many years since, the late Dr. Brown, of Hadley, had a printed Lecture or Sermon by Mr. 
Chauncey, to the young people of Hadley, and he read it in a conference meeting, a century 
from the time it was delivered. He and those who heard it, thought it an excellent discourse. 
Possibly it was the same as the Lecture-Sermon, preached Feb. i6, 1732. Allen's Bio- 
graphical Dictionary says Mr. Chauncey's sermon at the funeral of Rev. John Williams of 
Deerfield, "displays very considerable learning and taste, uncommon for the time." 

•|-Mr. Chauncey, as well as his predecessor and successor, offended against right, by hold- 
ing persons in bondage. Arthur Prutt and his wife Joan are said to have been slaves of 
Mr. Chauncey. They had seven children. 

His son, Josiah Chauncey, sold the homestead of 10 acres and 14 acres of meadow land, 
to Samuel Gaylord, Nov. 23, 1749, for 2770 pounds, old tenor, equal to 1231 dollars. Most 
of the homelot is still owned by Mr. Gaylord's posterity, and the Academy and the Meeting- 
house of the west parish stand on the same lot. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 321 

minister of Wilbraham, 1741,) and to Mr. John Woodbridge, who 
settled in South Hadley, £"2, los.* 

Mr. Williams began to preach at Hadley, about September, 
1740, and at a precinct meeting held Nov. 3, 1740, the inhab- 
itants desired Mr. Chester Williams of Pomfret to settle among 
them in the work of the gospel ministry, and voted to give for his 
encouragement, the town homelot of ten acres, and 300 pounds 
in money; and during Mr, Chauncey's life, an annual salary of 
140 pounds, and the use of the town land, or instead thereof 
30 pounds, as he shall choose; and after Mr. Chauncey's decease, 
180 pounds in money and the use of the town land or 30 pounds 
in money. The salary to be made equal to silver at 28 shillings 
per ounce. They voted to provide a sufficiency of fire-wood. 



The following is the answer of Mr. Williams if 

"To the church of Christ in Hadley first Precinct, and to said Precinct — Beloved Breth- 
ren; I have before me your call to the work of the gospel ministry in this place; and your 
several votes respecting a settlement and support, bearing date Nov. 3, 1740, to which I 
would reply as follows:^! have a grateful sense of what you offer for a settlement and sup- 
port during the Rev. Mr. Chauncey's life; believing it to be your duty to minister to his 
support as long as God shall lengthen out his life among you, and mine to encourage and 
assist you therein. But I am in doubt whether what you offer for an annual salary after 
the Rev. Mr. Chauncey's death, be sufficient to support a minister in his work, so free from 
the entanglements of life as would be most for his and the people's comfort and interest, 
as he should be. Yet being unwilling to insist on any terms that should look unreasonable 
or mercenary or that threaten the peace of this place, but desiring only to be supported as it 
shall be for a minister's honour and the honour of the people, hoping I covet you more than 
yours, I accept of your call upon the terms you have proposed, having confidence in your 
honour, justice and readiness to do for my support at all times as my circumstances shall 
call for, and shall appear to be your duty. Begging your united prayers, that I may come 
to you always in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ, and be a faithful and 
successful labourer in this part of his harvest. 

CHEST'R WILLIAMS." 

Hadley, 5th December, 1740. 



*Pay of preachers. — Hadley paid to men who preached one, two or ten Sabbaths, in 
1739 and 1740, from 40 to 50 shillings a Sabbath, in the first old tenor, or from 13s. 4d. to 
i6s. 8d., in silver at 6s. per dollar. Mr. Josiah Pierce, the grammar school-master, preached 
occasionally at 13s. 4d. a Sabbath; in 1754, the precinct gave to him and others 20 shillings 
each Sabbath. Northampton paid to preachers, for three years after the dismission of Mr. 
Edwards in 1750, from 7 to 10 pounds a Sabbath, in old tenor, or from 18s. 8d. to 26s. 8d. 
in lawful money. 

Mr. Benjamin Dickinson, a native of Hatfield, and Mr. Josiah Pierce, anativeofWoburn, 
men of collegiate education and licensed preachers, resided in Hadley most of their lives. 
They often supplied vacant pulpits in Hadley and the towns around. 

•j-I have supplied as well as I could a few words torn from the answer in the record. 



322 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Mr. Williams was ordained* Jan. 21, 1741, "to the great satis- 
faction of the people," says the Boston News-Letter. His salary 
of 180 pounds, payable in province bills at the rate of 28 shillings 
for an ounce of silver, did not exceed 150 silver dollars, or 
45 pounds in the specie currency of 1750. He consented to the 
moderate salary proposed, trusting that the people would give 
more for his support, if necessary. His confidence was not mis- 
placed. The precinct paid him almost every year, more than they 
had engaged to pay, and he appears to have been fully satisfied. 
As province bills fell, his salary was increased until it was ;^385 
in old tenor, for 1747 and 1748. In 1752 and 1753, it was £^^ 
in lawful money. The precinct continued the salary to his family 
through the year 1753, though he died in October, and they gave 
to his widow the use of the precinct land which he had occupied, 
for the year 1754. 

It is not known that any thing was published by Mr. Williams. 
Tradition attributes to him energy of character, and earnestness 
as a preacher. He is said to have used plainness of speech, both 
in the pulpit and in conversation. f He evidently lived in harmony 
with the people, and was highly esteemed by them. 

In the controversy that took place in Hampshire, respecting 
the qualifications for communion, Mr. Williams was conspicuous 
on the lax side of the question, and was opposed to the sentiments 



*Ordinations were very rare in the last century, in most towns; there were only two in 
the old parish of Hadley in the whole century. They were commonly on Wednesday. 
They were occasions of joy and festivity, and there was a great collection of people from 
many towns. An ordination dinner was provided at the expense of the town or parish, for 
the ministers and many invited guests. These entertainments were quite expensive in 
many towns. After the installation of Mr. Gumming, in the Old South, Boston, in 1761, 
the guests at the feast were so numerous, that it required two houses to hold them. The 
people of Hampshire were more moderate than those of some other counties. Northamp- 
ton expended at Mr. Hooker's ordination, Dec. 5, 1753, 52i)43, including 19 shillings for 
wine. At Mr. Williams's ordination, June 4, 1778, the expense was really less, though 
nominally more; 106 pounds of beef, pork and veal were provided for the dinner. Thetown 
paid for no liquor. There is no record of ordination expenses at Hadley, but it may be 
concluded that they did not exceed those at Northampton. In some places the young people 
had a supper and dance in the evening after an ordination. Miss Caulkins, in her History 
of New London, says "an ordination ball was as common as the ordination itself." There 
was sometimes dancing in Hampshire after an ordination. After Mr. Wells was ordained 
under the oak trees at Whately, Sept. 25, 1771, some gay, young men came back to Hub- 
bard's inn at Hatfield, and had a supper, succeeded by fiddling and dancing. It is believed 
that dances after ordinations have been very few in this part of the country since 1800. 

•j-He is said to have told a parish tale-bearer who came to his house, that if he came as a 
tell-tale, there were two doors in the room, and he might take which he pleased. 

Mr. Edwards of Northampton, was sometimes led astray by the exaggerated reports 
of officious persons. Some of his troubles in regard to the young people in 1744 came 
from this source. 



HISTORY or MADLEY 323 

of Rev. Jonathan Edwards of Northampton on this subject, as 
were ahnost all of the Hampshire ministers. Mr. Williams was 
a member and the scribe of the Council, that dismissed Mr. 
Edwards, and he and Mr. Enos Nash, the delegate from Hadley, 
voted for his dismission, June 22, 1750. He and those who acted 
with him were of opinion that the Lord's Supper was a converting 
ordinance, and that persons believing themselves to be uncon- 
verted, might be admitted to the Lord's table. Mr. Edwards did 
not believe that the Lord's Supper was a converting ordinance, 
and insisted that those received into the church should make a 
credible profession of piety.* 

Mr. Williams was a son of Rev. Ebenezer Williams of Pomfret, 
Conn, and his mother's maiden name was Penelope Chester; she 
was from Wethersfield. His father was from Roxbury, and was 
a nephew of Rev. John Williams of Deerfield, and a relative of 
Rev. William Williams of Hatfield. Mr. Williams of Hadley 
graduated at Yale College in 1735 and was a tutor two years. 
He made his will Oct. i, 1753, being then "visited with grievous 
sickness" and died on the 13th of the same month in the 36th 
year of his age, and in the 13th of his ministry. He was buried 
on the 15th. f He gave his property to his wife, two sons, and 
three daughters — to the latter ;^ioo or 333 dollars each when 
21 or at marriage. His estate as appraised, was worth £1200 or 
4000 dollars, after paying his debts. There were not many so 
large estates in the town. Much of his property must have been 
derived from his father or some other source besides the parish. 
Some came from his wife's father, Hon. Eleazar Porter, who was 
the most wealthy man in Hadley. Mr. P. gave to his daughter 
in household stuff and in-door goods, ;^I72 or 573 dollars, and 
these things with the additions, were still prized at £\']'l. The 
library of Mr. Williams was valued at ;^55.ii.i; his homestead 
and buildings at ;^346; 18 acres of meadow land at ;^I40; debts 
due to the estate, chiefly in Connecticut, at ;^490. — He rode a 

*The Hampshire ministers found it more easy to assist the disaffected in Northampton 
and to dismiss Mr. Edwards, than to refute his arguments. They did not attempt to reply 
to him in print. 

The belief of the minister and the people of Hadley in regard to qualifications for com- 
munion, differed widely from that of Mr. Russell and their fathers. They had become less 
strict than Mr. Stone and the church at Hartford, in the preceding century. The change 
must have begun under Mr. Chauncey. 

From the "Life of President Edwards," it appears that not more than three ministers 
and two churches in Hampshire county, partly agreed with Mr. Edwards as to the Lord's 
Supper, in 1750. He thought that only one minister was fully of his mind, and no church. 

•j-It is not known who preached his ordination sermon, or his funeral sermon. 



324 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

valuable horse, and was well dressed. He was apparently atten- 
tive to his dress and appearance.* 

Rev. Samuel Hopkins, the fourth minister of Hadley. 

After the death of Mr. Williams, each minister of the associa- 
tion appears to have supplied the pulpit of Hadley one Sabbath. 
Mr. Pierce preached 21^ Sabbaths in 1753 and 1754. Mr. Mills 
preached several Sabbaths. Mr. Abel Newell preached six Sab- 
baths as a candidate in May and June, 1754, and the precinct 
requested him to preach longer as a "probationer," but he did 
not comply. f 

Mr. Samuel Hopkins preached at Hadley the first time Sept. 
22, 1754. He preached six Sabbaths, and the precinct desired 
him to preach longer as a "probationer." He came again and 
preached in December. On the 23d of December, 1754, after 
the first church in Hadley had made choice of Mr. Hopkins, 
the first precinct concurred with the church and chose him for 
their minister, and voted to give him a settlement of 200 pounds, 
lawful money, 60 pounds salary, to be governed by the necessaries 
of life, the use of all the precinct land, and his fire-wood. Decem- 
ber 31st, Mr. Hopkins signified that he doubted the sufficiency 
of the salary and proposed that after two years, ;^6.i3.4 (fifty 
pounds, old tenor,) should be added. The precinct concurred 
with his proposal, and voted that the annual salary should be 
;^66.i3.4, (222 dollars 22 cents. )$ 

*His horse was valued at £20 or 66| dollars. No horse so valuable is found in any pre- 
vious Hampshire inventory. — His apparel was appraised at £34, los. or 115 dollars. He 
had a cloak, a gown, 2 great coats, 6 coats, 6 waistcoats (one was of leather,) 5 pairs breeches 
(one of leather,) 7 shirts, 6 neckcloths, 3 cotton hkfs., 3 bands, 5 stocks, 5 caps, 2 hats, 4 
wigs, 4 pairs gloves, i pair mittens, 17 pairs stockings (2 pairs were of silk,) i pair garters, 
I pair boots, 2 pairs shoes, i pair moccasons, gold sleeve buttons, 26s. 8d., silver shoe, knee 
and stock buckles, i8s., 2 gold rings, 20s., a tobacco boi and a snuff box. Some of his 
garments were much worn. — He had a silver tankard valued at 22 dollars, a cane with a 
gold ferule, i6s. and a cane with a white head, 5s. 4d. 

Mr. Williams gave to his wife, in one line, "my negro woman Phillis, my cows and sheep," 
and Phillis was appraised at £40, in connection with the cows and sheep. 

■[■Mr. Abel Newell was settled as pastor at Goshen, Conn, in 1755. 

jMr. Hopkins and the committee agreed, and the precinct voted, that the salary should 
rise or fall, from £66.13.4, as the following eight articles should rise or fall from the prices 
now agreed upon, viz., ist, English goods at wholesale, which cost ;Ci°o sterling are now 
£170 lawful; 2d, husbandman's labor in summer, two shillings per day; 3d, men's shoes, six 
shillings per pair; 4th, wheat, four shillings per bushel; 5th, rye, two shillings and eight 
pence per bushel; 6th, Indian corn, two shillings per bushel; 7th, fall beef, one penny two 
farthings half farthing per pound; 8th, pork, two pence two farthings per pound; in the 
town of Hadley or county of Hampshire. Each eighth part of the salary to rise or fall as 
each of said articles shall rise or fall. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 325 

Mr. Hopkins returned the following answer: 

"To the Church of Clirist in Hadley first Precinct, and to said Precinct. — Beloved Breth- 
ren; I am informed by some of your committee of your compliance with what I proposed to 
you. I have a grateful sense, gentlemen, of your generosity, and am obliged to you for the 
respect you have shown me, and do accept of your call on the terms you have proposed; 
and beg your prayers that I may come to you at all times in the fullness of the blessing of 
Christ, and be a faithful and successful labourer in this part of his harvest. 

SAM'L HOPKINS." 

Hadley, Dec. 31, 1754. 

The town voted Jan. 6, 1755, to raise money "for charges of 
the designed ordination." Mr. Hopkins was ordained on Wed- 
nesday, Feb. 26, 1755. His father, Rev. Samuel Hopkins of 
West Springfield, preached the sermon, from i Thess. 2:7 to 12, 
and Rev. Stephen Williams of Longmeadow, gave the charge. 
There was a fast the preceding week, in reference to the ordi- 
nation, and two sermons. Mr. Hopkins married Mrs. Sarah 
Williams, the widow of his predecessor, Feb. 17, 1756, and lived 
in the same house. On the 2ist of March, 1766, the house was 
burnt, and almost all its contents. Liberal contributions were 
made in Hadley and elsewhere, and the people of Hadley erected a 
new frame in eleven days. Madam Porter, the mother of Mrs. 
Hopkins, was in the house on the night of the fire, and she thus 
notices the fire and some other events, in her interleaved almanac 
for that year. 

"1766, March 21. A little before one in the morning, the house of Mr. Hopkins was 
burnt, amazingly quick after it was first discovered. The family being fourteen, had but 
a few minutes to escape. Most of us were almost naked, and all except Chester Willimas 
went out at windows." March 26. The family came together to housekeeping. March 
30, Sabbath. Mr. Hopkins's first sermon after the fire was from Job. i: 21. "The Lord 
gave and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord." April i. The 
new house was raised. Nov. 24. Mr. Hopkins removed into his new house.* 

Rev. Parsons Cook relates that, "while, amid the consternation of the scene, Mr. Hop- 
kins bore away from the flames the last of his rescued children, he turned and addressed the 
fire as a living agent, saying, 'now burn and welcome.' " His youngest child was only 15 
days old. 

Mr. Hopkins's salary, whenever noticed in the records, before 
1789, is £66.1 ^.^.\ Some addition was made in later years. 

♦August 10, 1768, Mr. Hopkins purchased the houselot of 10 acres and buildings for 
£266.13.4. Mrs. Hopkins previously had a right to the use of one-third. The town added 
half an acre in 1773. ^" '814, John Hopkins sold this homestead, called 11 acres, and 
buildings, to Rev. John Woodbridge, for 3100 dollars, reserving his shop on the S. W. cor- 
ner. This house of Dr. Woodbridge, which is now, 1859, 93 years old, is still a fair and 
commodious dwelling. 

■j-The salary of Rev. John M'oodbridge of South Hadley was the same many years. This 
sum, £66.13.4, was £500, in old tenor, turned into lawful money. Northampton gave Mr. 
Hooker a salary of 100 pounds after 1758. 

Jan. 6, 1783, when the times were hard, the town of Hadley sent a committee to Mr. 
Hopkins, "to see whether he is willing to have any part of his estate taxed; or otherwise to 
bear any of the burthens of the present war, with his parishioners." His answer is not 
recorded- 



326 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Omitting the years of the Revolution, the prices of produce and 
labor did not advance very much between 1754 and 1789. The 
great rise did not begin until about 1789. 

Mr. Hopkins was a son of Rev. Samuel Hopkins of West 
Springfield, who was a native of Waterbury, Conn. His mother, 
Esther, was a sister of Rev. Jonathan Edwards of Northampton. 
He was a cousin of the Rev. Samuel Hopkins, from whom "Hop- 
kinsians" derived their name. He was born Oct. 20, 1729, and 
graduated at Yale College in 1749, where he was a tutor three 
years. He received from Yale College the degree of D.D. in 1802. 
He preached in Hadley 54 years, or until February, 1809, when 
he was struck with paralysis, which impaired his mental faculties. 
He died March 8, 181 1, and Rev. Dr. Lyman, of Hatfield, preached 
his funeral sermon, March 12, which was published. Silk gloves 
were given to the pall-bearers who are named on 241st page. 
Dr. Hopkins published two Discourses on the church membership 
of infants, 1799; and a Half-century Sermon, 1805.* 

His first wife, Mrs. Sarah (Porter) Williams, the mother of his 
nine children, died Feb. 5, 1774. He married Miss Margaret 
Stoddard of Chelmsford, Oct. 1776, and she died Oct. 3, 
I796.t 

Dr. Hopkins was a man of economical habits and a good man- 
ager. With a salary of 222 dollars aided by his settlement, &c. he 
brought up a numerous family, entertained much company, edu- 
cated a son at college, and added to his estate. 

Extracts from a communication in Sprague's "Annals of the American Pulpit," contrib- 
uted by Rev. Parsons Cook, D.D., a native of Hadley, dated Lynn, Oct. 29, 1854. 

"Remarkable as Dr. Hopkins was for facetiousness among his friends, he was never 
otherwise than dignified. And as he walked abroad, he carried with him such an amount 
of gravity and dignity, as inspired with reverence, all juvenile spectators, to say the least. 
The children just let loose from school, when he was passing, checked in mid-volley the 
explosion of their mirth, held their breath, formed a line and took off their hats for their 
customary token of reverence." 

"His manner in the pulpit was entirely without action; his reading of his sermons was 
slow and drawling. His hearers had occasion to be something more than passive receivers. 
It needed laborious attention to draw from him what he produced. His mind was remark- 
able for sound judgment and practical wisdom. A distinguished lawyer, after hearing 
him preach, remarked that he would make a good judge. 

*01d people in Hadley who knew Dr. Hopkins, always speak of him with respect. They 
say that his delivery in the pulpit, was dull and languid. They are confident that he did 
not wear a wig, and many say that he did not wear a cocked hat. His common dress was a 
straight-bodied coat, a vest with skirts or lappets, breeches, long stockings, and shoes with 
buckles. Wherever he called, he was a welcome visitor, and in some places a long pipe was 
kept for him. He stooped considerably in his latter years. 

■{•The families of the ministers will be noticed in the genealogical part of the work. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 327 

In his Theology, he was Calvinistic, but he held views of the means of grace different 
from those which now obtain among Calvinists. He placed among the sinner's means of 
conversion, his attendance on the Lord's supper. He felt it to be his duty to urge all persons 
whose lives were not immoral to connect themselves with the church. [He held the views 
of Mr. Stoddard, and not those of President Edwards.] 

The Half-way Covenant was not in use under his ministry. There was no occasion for 
it. As unconverted men found admission to full communion, it was not necessary for them 
to enter the church half-way, to secure the baptism of their children. 

. From what I have said, it must not be inferred that Dr. Hopkins was lax in doctrine or 
discipline. He held the main body of Calvinistic Divinity, and he was not wont to hold 
back from his people, what he himself received. 

One fact which contributed not a little to change the sentiments of his people against 
some of his peculiarities, was the frequent preaching of his sons in law in his pulpit. Dr. 
Emmons married his step-daughter. Dr. Austin, Dr. Spring, Mr. Worcester and Mr. 
Riddel — all Hopkinsian preachers, married daughters of his. These were frequently vis- 
iting him and preaching in his pulpit. 

In Dr. Hopkins's day, the whole town formed but one congregation. No other sect had 
gained a foot-hold in it. And though there are now three congregations, they are all of the 
same denomination. In his day, it was a great point of interest to keep out other sects. 
And no small part of the minister's duty was to watch against interlopers. He had a rare 
sagacity in this matter. 

[When it became needful for his people to settle a colleague he expressed great interest 
to secure the settlement of Rev. Dan Huntington, who resided in Hadley and was a popular 
preacher.] 

Dr. Hopkins's social qualities were of the highest order. His wit and pleasantry were 
abundant, yet always tempered with prudence. He was an attractive companion for per- 
sons of all ages and all grades, and especially for young men. He would not unfrequently 
invite to dinner parties, young students and others, and of such parties he was himself the 
centre and life. His anecdotes and sallies of wit on such occasions were exhaustless. But 
his conversation, however facetious, was carefully guarded as to its religious tendency. He 
was remarkable for his talent at conveying reproofs when needed, in a way not to give 
offence. 

He loved a timely joke, and it mattered little whether the laugh was with him or at him. 
He used to tell such as this. On visiting an invalid, he said to him — "It is a long time since 
you have been able to attend meeting; would you not like to have the neighbors called in, 
and have me preach a lecture at your house?" The invalid replied — "I should like it 
much, for I have not been able for a long time to get any sleep, and I know from much ex- 
perience that your preaching will give me essential aid in this respect." 

He used to tell a similar compliment which he received from Governor Strong. When 
on an exchange in Northampton, he dined with the Governor, and Mrs. S. offered him 
some pudding which he declined, saying that pudding before preaching made him dull. 
Gov. S. instantly replied, — "Did you not eat pudding for breakfast, sir?"* 

He was to receive annually so many cords of good hard wood. On one occasion, a 
parishioner brought a load, about which he raised a question if there were not some soft 
wood in the load. To which the other replied — "and do we not sometimes have soft 
preaching?" 

He would not have received such missiles if he had not been expert in throwing them. 

Another communication in Sprague's American Pulpit says: "From all that I have been 
able to gather, I conclude that Dr. Hopkins must have been a man of excellent judgment, 
of fine moral qualities, an evangelical and instructive, but not very popular preacher, a 
faithful pastor; and held in high estimation by his brethren in the ministry and by the 
community at large." 

*I heard this anecdote in Northampton 30 years ago. Dr. Hopkins related it to Doct. 
Ebenezer Hunt the next time that he came over. It is presumed that the Governor's ques- 
tion was asked in a whisper, and not in the hearing of his family. Gov. Strong and Doct. 
Hunt were familiar friends of Dr. Hopkins. 



328 history of hadley 

Inscriptions on the Grave-stones of the first four min- 
isters OF Hadley. 

The three oldest stones are sandstone; Dr. Hopkins's is mar- 
ble. Three are upright; Mr. Russell's is a table. The inscription 
on Mr. Russell's is not in good taste. 



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Here lies interred, the body of the Rev'd Mr. Isaac Chauncey, pastor of the first church 
of Christ in Hadley, who was of a truly peaceable and catholick spirit, a good scholar, an 
eloquent orator, an able divine, a lively, pathetick preacher, a burning and shining light in 
this candlestick, an exemplary christian, an Israelite indeed, in whom was no guile. He 
departed this life May ye 2nd, A.D. 1745, ^^^- 74* 

Here rests ye body of ye R'd Mr. Chester Williams, in whom bright parts, solid learning, 
unfeigned piety, happy elocution, universal benevolence, hospitality, and christian love, 
combined to form the exemplary pastor, the kind husband, the tender parent, the dutiful 
companion, and the faithful friend, who departed this life, October ye 13th, 1753, anno 36 
aetat. suae. 

Sacred to the memory of the Rev'd Samuel Hopkins, D. D. who in christian duty exem- 
plary, in friendship frank and sincere, for prudence and meekness eminent; able in counsel, 
a pattern of piety and purity, ever upright and honourable in conduct, the epitome of the heart ; 
as a peace-maker blessed, as a minister of Christ skillful and valiant in the truth; having 
with ability and charity long magnified his holy office, and served God and his generation 
faithfully, fell asleep, March 8th, A.D. 181 1, in the 82 year of his age and 57 of his ministry. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 329 

Texts and Sermons. — It appears from Madam Porter's inter- 
leaved Almanacs, between 1751 and 1770, that Mr. Williams and 
Mr. Hopkins preached double sermons, or two sermons from one 
text, about two-thirds of the Sabbaths. This seems to have been 
a common practice in the country. Mr. Hopkins sometimes 
preached three, four, and even six sermons, from one text. His 
exchanges were not very numerous; were most frequent with Mr. 
Hooker of Northampton and Mr. Parsons of Amherst. 

Ministers often adapted their sermons to events and seasons. 
Mr. Hopkins preached two sermons in reference to the earth- 
quake* of Nov. 18, 1755. His new year's sermons, Jan. i, 1764, 
were from Jer. 28: 16 — "This year thou shalt die." May 13, 
1764, he preached a spring sermon from Psalms 104: 30 — "And 
thou renewest the face of the earth." April 26, 1 761, Mr. Parsons 
of Amherst, preached at Hadley a spring sermon, from the beau- 
tiful description of spring in Solomon's Songs 2: 10 to 13. f Mr. 
Hopkins preached about singing, April 10, 1763, from i Cor. 

14: 15- ^ 

The Lord's Supper was administered by Mr. Williams and Mr. 
Hopkins six times in a year, but the intervals were not equal pre- 
vious to 1770, being sometimes more or less than two months. 
The Sacramental Lecture was commonly on Friday. — In the 17th 
and 1 8th centuries, the quantity of wine used on sacramental 
occasions was much greater than now, for the same number of 
communicants.! 

Baptisms were formerly administered in the meeting-house, 
and commonly the next Sabbath after the birth of the child. Mr. 
Hopkins's record of baptisms begins after the church record was 
burnt, March 21, 1766. For some years, a large portion of the 
children baptized by him were only from one to seven days old; 
some were older. A number were born on Saturday and baptized 

♦Madam Porter says — "Nov. 18, 1755, an awful earthquake about four o'clock in the 
morning." 

j-In the last century, ministers took texts from Canticles, as Solomon's Songs were called , 
mostly for sermons preceding the Lord's Supper. Mr. Williams of Hadley preached such 
a sermon, Feb. z, 1752, from Cant. 8: 7— "Many waters cannot quench love," &c. Mr. 
Hopkins preached a sacramental lecture, March 20, i76i,from Cant. 2: 16— "My beloved 
is mine," &c. Mr. Parsons of Amherst preached a sacramental sermon at Hadley, March 
31, 1754, from Cant, i: 12. Most ministers preached sermons from texts in Solomon's 
Songs. — In April, 1728, Rev. Dr. Cutler, of the Episcopal Church, Boston, preached a 
funeral sermon from Solomon's Songs 8: 6 — "cruel as the grave." 

|In Springfield from 1676 to 1681, each communicant paid a peck of wheat yearly for 
sacramental charges, worth from ten pence half penny to a shilling. In Northampton in 
1666, each was to pay three half pecks of wheat in a year, worth about a shilling. The 
sacrament was administered six times in a year on Connecticut River; in some eastern towns 
once a month. 



330 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

the next day. Mothers did not carry out their own children; the 
father was attended in the aisle by a female friend; sometimes by 
the nurse. The custom of baptizing infants so young gradually 
ceased, though there were a few cases in Hadley as late as 1789.* 

Lectures on week-days were established in New England by 
the Puritans. The ministers and people in three, four or six 
towns in a neighborhood united, and had a lecture in one of the 
towns every week. Northampton, Hadley and Hatfield had these 
circulating lectures before and after Philip's war. They are 
noticed on pages 38 and 90. They must have been interrupted 
during the Indian wars. In the last century, Deerfield and Sun- 
derland were added to the circle, and afterwards Amherst and 
South Hadley. For some years there were only six towns united, 
and the lectures were named "the six weeks lectures." Madam 
Porter notices public lectures in Hadley on Wednesdays, 1752 
to 1764, and names as preachers at different times, the ministers 
of each of the seven towns. f 

Mr. Whitefield once preached in Hadley and perhaps more 
than once. He first came to Northampton on the evening of 
Oct. 16, 1740, having preached at Hadley on the way. He visited 
the county 'again in 1745, and preached at Northampton June 
15, and at Southampton June 17, and probably in other places. 
The leading men in Hatfield would not allow Whitefield to preach 
there, but many of the people came down to Northampton and 
Hadley to hear him. It has been said that when he preached in 
Hadley, his voice was heard in Hatfield. 

*The people of New England professedly rejected the absurd doctrine of baptismal re- 
generation, yet many seem to have been influenced by superstitious notions in regard to the 
efficacy of baptism. Hence the half-way covenant, and the anxiety to have a sick child 
baptized, and perhaps early baptisms. The diary of Rev. Jonathan Judd of Southampton, 
shows that he had been called up in the night to baptize a child near its end; and that he was 
sometimes sent for to go to Northampton, 8 miles, after Mr. Edwards was dismissed, to 
baptize a sick child, as if salvation depended on the performance of this external rite. 

The baptism of babes in our meeting-houses 50 years ago, was an interesting sight, es- 
pecially to the young, who rose up, and some stood on seats, and gazed with delight on the 
infant, when the mother in the broad isle divested it of the nice, and sometimes rich, chris- 
tening blanket, and the father received it in a dress and cap as white as snow, and presented 
it to the minister before the deacon's seat. When the minister was about to pronounce the 
name and sprinkle the face of the child, all were still, and the young and others listened with 
much curiosity for the name, and looked earnestly upon the child, which almost always 
started and cried, when cold water was applied to the face. In those days, ministers, in- 
stead of laying a wet hand upon the face of the child, really sprinkled the face. 

•j-The widow of Silas Billings of Hatfield, born about 1747, with whom I conversed when 
she was 88 years old, remembered the six weeks lectures. In regard to the early lectures, 
she said that the widow of Rev. William Williams of Hatfield, who was a daughter of Rev. 
Solomon Stoddard, and born in 1676, told her that when a girl, she had often walked from 
Northampton to Hatfield to attend one of the lectures. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 331 

Ministers' Wood. — The quantity of wood carried to Mr. Wil- 
liams is not stated. In his latter years, the town gave for ordinary 
loads 25s. O. T. or 3s. 4d. and for good sled loads, 4s. In 1759, 
wood for Mr. Hopkins was 3s. 4d. for cart loads, and 4s. for sled 
loads. In 1769, his wood was 55 middling loads, at 4s. 8d.; and in 
1770, 60 loads at 4s. 8d. From 1772 to 1788, his wood was fifty 
cords a year at 6s. a cord. The price was 8s. per cord in 1797 
and 1798, but lower in succeeding years. Mr. Hopkins's family 
was so small, that the quantity was only 25 cords for some years 
after 1801. 

Fifty and sixty years ago, the minister's wood was got on days 
appointed, and the minister furnished the flip and other drink, 
but not the food. These were high days for young men and 
some not young, in Hadley and other towns. 



CHAPTER XXX 

Fourth Indian War, 1722 — 1726 — Expedition to the West Indies — Fifth War, 1744 — 1749 
— Sixth War, 1754 — 1763 — Small pox — Road to Albany — French Neutrals — Pirates. 

The Indians were instigated by the Jesuit Rasles, to begin 
the fourth Indian war; he resided at Norridgewock on the Kenne- 
bec, and was slain Aug. 12, 1724. The French in Canada fav- 
ored the Indians, but did not openly engage in the war. The 
principal attacks of the Indians were directed against the towns 
in Maine and New Hampshire. The towns in Massachusetts 
suff"ered less. The war commenced in 1722 and continued about 
four years, and the expenses of Massachusetts from May, 1722 
to May, 1726, were not far from 215,000 pounds in province bills, 
of which near three-fourths were for the war. A large portion of 
this war expenditure was for Maine. 

The war charges in Hampshire, paid by the province, may 
have averaged 5000 pounds a year, including the subsistence of 
Connecticut troops.* Garrisons were kept at Northfield and 
Deerfield, and at Brookfield which was connected with Rutland, 
and men were employed in the other towns as scouts and guards, 
and sometimes as garrisons. A new fort and garrison were 

*Some Connecticut soldiers were in Hampshire in 1723, 1724 and 1725. Some Mohegans 
and Pequots came up. 



332 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

added in February, 1724. On the 3d of that month, Timothy 
Dwight, with soldiers, carpenters and teams, left Northampton 
and went up the river; and in a few weeks they built a block house, 
named Fort Dummer, on the equivalent land, a mile or two 
below the present Brattleborough, which cost ;^256. This was 
the first building erected by civilized men in Vermont. Capt. 
Timothy Dwight commanded the garrison at this fort till the 
close of 1726. Capt. Joseph Kellogg, a native of Hadley, com- 
manded at Northfield.* Capt. Samuel Barnard, and afterwards 
Lieut. Timothy Childs, commanded at Deerfield. Capt. Benja- 
min Wright,f formerly of Northampton, then of Northfield, was 
always ready to fight Indians, and he was at the head of several 
scouts and expeditions up the river and towards Lake Cham- 
plain in this war. Lieut. Eleazar Warner J was the chief officer 
at Brookfield, under Capt. Samuel Wright at Rutland. Col. 
Samuel Partridge of Hatfield, who was 80 years old in 1725, had 
the chief command in the county, and next to him was Lt. Col. 
John Stoddard of Northampton. § 

Indian onsets in Hampshire. — Aug. 13, 1723, Thomas Holton 
and Thomas Merriman were slain at Northfield. Oct. 9, 1723, 
Ebenezer Severance was killed, Samuel Dickinson of Hatfield 

*Capt. Dwiglit's lieutenant was Elisha Searl, of Northampton, who had been many years 
a captive among the Indians, and had seen the vast prairies of the west. — Capt. Kellogg had 
been a captive, and had seen the Mississippi. 

•j-Capt. Benjamin Wright had been much irritated by Indian cruelty. He once said, that 
if he took a pappoose, he would dash out its brains. "Nits will be lice," said the captain. 

jThis man, afterwards Capt. Eleazar Warner of New Braintree, was experienced in 
Indian warfare and had visited Canada. He had incurred the ill will of an Indian, who 
came all the way from Canada to kill him in time of peace, but Capt. Warner had notice of 
his approach, and contrived to shoot the Indian, and his body was sunk in a pond in New 
Braintree. 

§The pay of men in Hampshire per week, in this war, was for captains, 35 shillings, lieu- 
tenants, 20s., sergeants, 13s. ^d., corporals and drummers, 12s., common soldiers, los. All 
were supplied with food at 5 shillings per week, except at Fort Dummer, 5s. 6d. Troopers 
leceived the same, and in addition 3s. 6d. a week for a horse, and 3s. 6d. for a horse's feed. 
All were paid in province bills, which had fallen in the country about one-half. The sol- 
dier received less than a dollar per week. Wages by the year were no higher for farm labor. 
Those sent on long scouts or to a distance received more. 

In December, 1724, the Hampshire towns were required to have a number of men sup- 
plied with snow-shoes and moccasons, for which each man was to be allowed 10 shillings. 
Hadley was to have 30 snow-shoe men. 

Col. Stoddard suggested in 1724 that it might be well to provide some good dogs to pur- 
sue the enemy. None were so employed on this frontier, in this war. 

Sickness. — Col. Partridge said in a letter, April 21, 1725: — "The hand of God is much 
upon the several towns upon our river, in sore sicknesses and many deaths." 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 333 

taken, and two men wounded, at Northfield.* June 18, 1724, 
Benjamin Smith, son of Joseph S. of Hatfield, was slain, and 
Aaron Wells and Joseph Allis taken, when they were loading 
hay, about 3 miles from Hatfield village. June 27, 1724, Ebenezer 
Sheldon, Thomas Colton and a friendly Indian were killed, about 
a mile north of the present village of Greenfield. July 10, 1724, 
Lt. Timothy Childs and Samuel Allen were wounded in Deerfield 
meadow. Aug. 26, 1724, Nathaniel Edwards, 2d, of Northamp- 
ton was killed and Abraham Miller wounded in the present East- 
hampton.f The next day a man was wounded in Westfield, and 
Noah Ashley of Westfield killed an Indian, for whose scalp he 
received ;^ioo.J Aug. 25, 1725, Deac. Samuel Field of Deerfield 
was wounded. Sept. 11, 1725, a scout from Fort Dummer was 
surprised, and Nathaniel Chamberlain of Hatfield and two others 
were taken, and Thomas Bodurtha of Springfield and John 
Pease of Enfield were slain. Three Northampton men belonging 
to a party of volunteers, under Capt. Thomas Wells of Deerfield, 
were drowned in Connecticut River, April 24, 1724. 

Hadley was less exposed than other towns, and no person was 
hurt during the war. The records of the town do not once allude 
to the war. Hadley employed a few men as scouts and guards 
three or four months in 1724, and again in 1725, and the govern- 
ment paid a part of the expense. Many towns had guards in 
harvest time and in other busy seasons. Some soldiers from 
Hadley were at Northfield and Deerfield, and others were called 
out when there was an alarm. The cavalry of this and other 
towns were summoned many times. § 

It was in this war that Massachusetts expended so much at 
Albany and Boston (more than 1500 pounds in 1723,) to engage 
the Maquas or Mohawks against the eastern Indians. (See page 
124.) The Mohawks did not perform their engagements. Col. 
Stoddard believed that they were dissuaded by the Dutch and 
others at Albany. || 

*Hoyt, page 211, has erroneously represented this as an attack upon Fort Dummer. 

j-His widow, Hannah (French) Edwards, married Nehemiah Strong and was the mother 
of Judge Simeon Strong. Her son, Jonathan Edwards, Hved in Amherst. 

fThe bounty in this war for a scalp to those who went out at their own expense, was £100. 
Others received less. Lt. Gov. Dummer said in a letter to Capt. Kellogg at Northfield, 
July 25, 1724, — "I shall be glad to see a scalp or two brought down by some of your scouts." 

§There were two companies of Cavalry in the county. The officers of the northern Troop 
in 1725 were Henry Dwight of Hatfield, Captain; Westwood Cook of Hadley, Lieutenant; 
Eleazar Porter of Hadley, Cornet; Nathaniel Coleman of Hatfield, Quarter-master. There 
were 39 troopers. 

||In 1724, some New York Indians were employed at Fort Dummer some months. They 
required more food and drink than the English, and proved inefficient. 



334 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

A treaty of peace with the eastern Indians was signed at Boston, 
Dec. 15, 1725, and ratified at Falmouth, Maine, Aug. 5, 1726. 
A present of ;;^300 was made to them not long after. The hostile 
Indians in Canada became peaceable. 

The number of towns in Hampshire in 1726 was only twelve,* 
and one of them, Brimfield, was not incorporated until 1731. 
The people began new towns after the peace. When Worcester 
county was formed in 1731, Brookfield was included in it. 

Expedition to the West Indies. — In 1740, the British govern- 
ment, being at war with Spain, sent to the colonies for men to 
join an expedition to the West Indies. 1000 men were enlisted in 
Massachusetts, but only 400 were then wanted; 100 more were 
sent in 1741. Of these 500 men, only 50 ever returned; the others 
fell victims to the fatal climate. These men were induced to 
engage by liquor and delusive representations. Gov. Shirley in 
1741 talked about "lands in Cuba."f 

The fifth War. 

The war between Britain and France began in Europe in the 
early part of 1744, and soon extended to their colonies. Col. 
John Stoddard had the command in Hampshire until his death, 
June 19, 1748. He was succeeded in a few weeks by Col. Israel 
Williams of Hatfield. $ Many new towns and plantations had 
been commenced in Hampshire since the last war. All of those 

*Their proportion of a province tax of £20,000, in 1726 was — Springfield, £249.19; 
Northampton, £194.4.4; Hadley, £114.1.8; Hatfield, £93.5.8; Westfield, £99.3.8; Suffield, 
£109.5; Enfield, £86.11. 2; Deerfield, £53.1.6; Brookfield, £19.18.10; Sunderland, £19.8.10. 
Northfield and Brimfield were not taxed. 

Expresses traveled alone between Boston and Albany, in this, as in the preceding wars. 
Benjamin Alvord of Northampton often went to Boston as an express. Joseph Hawley in 
June, 1724, "thought it much boldness for one to travel alone," but Alvord was not afraid. 
He was an express in the next war. 

tin 1740, Capt. Stephen Richards, after having obtained some men at Watertown and 
Newton, came up to Hampshire, and enlisted men in Suffield, Springfield and Westfield 
for the West Indies. It was affirmed that "he had a drummer, and plied drink very freely." 
In this manner, young men have often been incited to become soldiers. Rum and "lands 
in Cuba" would have the same effect with many now. — Capt. R. had 50 yards of ribbon for 
cockades. 

f Eleazar Porter of Hadley was Lieut. Colonel under Col.' Stoddard. He was better 
fitted for civil than military life, or as Rev. T. Woodbridge of Hatfield wrote July 21, 1748, — 
"Mr. Porter has not a genius for war." He was respected by all. Secretary Willard wrote 
to Maj. Israel Williams, July 7, 1848 — "The governor has thought it a proper respect to 
Col. Porter to offer him the command of the forces in Hampshire, either singly or jointly 
with you — expects he will decline." He declined in a few weeks, and Major Williams was 
appointed colonel in August. 

Doct. Douglass says there were 2600 men in the Hampshire Regiment in 1748. The 
regiment seems to have been divided the latter part of 1748. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 335 

above Northfield were added to New Hampshire in 1740, by the 
king in council, who estabHshed the north hne of Massachusetts 
far south of the Hne claimed by her, and even 14 miles south of 
the line claimed by New Hampshire. 

Massachusetts maintained garrisons in this war at No. 4, or 
Charlestown, and Fort Dummer, and at times in the Ashuelots 
and other places in New Hampshire. Fort Shirley was built in 
the present Heath, Fort Pelham in Rowe, and Fort Massachusetts 
in East Hoosuck or Adams, and these forts were garrisoned. 
Soldiers paid by the province were stationed at Northfield and 
Greenfield, and in fortified houses or other works in Falltown, 
Colerain, Southampton, Blanford, Stockbridge and upper and 
lower Sheffield, in most of these only a part of the year. Some- 
times there were troops at Deerfield, and a few men at No. i, 
and No. 2, west of Blanford, and at Shutesbury and New Salem. 
Some of the places named were at times manned by soldiers 
from Connecticut. There were palisaded or picketed houses, 
some with mounts, in Northampton, Hatfield and other places 
that were not guarded at the expense of the province.* 

Scouting was continual, and much' was paid to scouting parties. 
Scalping parties also went out; but it was very rarely that a scalp 
was obtained. In 1745, 100 pounds in new tenor were offered to 
volunteers for scalps; and in 1747, when the bills had fallen much, 
250 pounds. Nathaniel Kellogg of Hadley was at the head of a 
party of "volunteers" in 1746. Their object is not stated. 
300 pairs of snow-shoes were ordered to be sent to Hampshire, 
January, 1746. 

Capture of Louisburg. — On the 17th of June, 1745, at the end 
of a siege of 49 days, Louisburg in Cape Breton surrendered to 
the forces of New England, aided by a British squadron. By this 
capture of the strongest fortress in North America, New England 
acquired renown, and there was great rejoicing throughout the 
land. Sadness succeeded and eventually great disappointment. 
Previous to the surrender, only about 100 lives had been lost, but 
after that event, fatal diseases prevailed, which were destructive 
to the soldiers; Douglass says New England lost about 2000 men. 
Douglass is a careless writer, but a more cautious one estimates 

*The following may give an idea of some of the fortifications or stockades of those days. 
In 1751, Ephraim Williams and others proposed to picket Fort Hoosuck in this manner: — 
To get 3000 pickets 6 inches in diameter, 9^ feet in length, sharpened at the upper ends; 
the lower ends to be set in a trench 18 inches deep, and a rib to be fastened across the whole 
by a pin through each picket and rib. 



336 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

the loss at 1500. When peace was made, Britain restored Cape 
Breton to France.* 

Soldiers were enlisted for this enterprise in all the Hampshire 
towns, and almost all the towns lost men by sickness. With few 
exceptions, the names of these men are not to be found. Major 
Seth Pomeroy of Northampton commanded a company at Louis- 
burg, and there were other captains from Hampshire.f 

There was a project for reducing Canada in 1746 by Britain and 
the colonies. Men were voted liberally by the colonies; Massa- 
chusetts voted to raise 3000 men, May 31, 1746, and actually 
enlisted 2000. Britain did not send the promised fleet and army, 
and the levies for Canada were kept on foot until Oct. 1747, 
and then dismissed. Many in Hampshire had enlisted in this 
Canada expedition. The Canada soldiers cost Massachusetts 
;(^68,ooo before May, 1747, and much after. They aided in de- 
fending the frontiers. $ 

The war continued in Europe until the treaty of Aix la Cha- 
pelle, Oct. 7, 1748, and in New England, a few months longer. 
Several persons were killed and taken in this war at the upper 
towns and forts in Hampshire, and Fort Massachusetts was taken 
Aug. 20, 1746. The attacks of the enemy were more frequent 
in New Hampshire, north of this county, and a much larger num- 
ber of men were slain and captured than in Hampshire. 

*The Louisburg Expedition cost Massachusetts £261,700 in new tenor or last emission 
bills, which were nearly equal to silver at 6s. 8d. per ounce when the war began. The wages 
of the men on land amounted to £88,871, and their provisions to £54,153. The services 
of many continued several months in 1746. — Britain allowed Massachusetts 183,649 pounds 
sterling. 

The wages of men at Louisburg, per month, in last emission bills, were for a colonel, £i2, 
lieut. col., £10, major, £8.10, captain, £4.10, lieutenant, £3, ensign, £2, sergeant, 32s., 
corporal and drummer, 28s., private soldier, 25s. or 6s. 3d. per week. A surgeon, £6.5 per 
month, a chaplain, £6. Provisions were much higher than in New England, and were es- 
timated at 6 shillings per week for each man. — Massachusetts paid a bounty of 20 shillings 
each to 3433 men enlisted for the first embarcation, and to 674 men for the second; and 
enlisting officers received 2s. 6d. for each man enlisted. Every man received a blanket. A 
second bounty of 25 shillings was paid at Louisburg after the reduction of the place. 

•j-In Major Pomeroy 's muster-roll, three men are said to belong to Hadley; two of them 
seem to be from South Hadley. Of the three, Reuben Smith, son of Joseph, returned, and 
Peter Montague, Jr. and John Taylor died. Phinehas Smith of South Hadley was at Cape 
Breton under Col. Wm. Williams. Joseph Cook of Hadley and South Hadley was there 
also. Doubtless there were some from Amherst, and others from Hadley and South, 
Hadley.- 

jThe expenses of Massachusetts in five years, from May, 1744 to May, 1749, including 
Cape Breton charges, (estimating the expenses of one year, not found,) exceeded 670,000 
pounds, in bills of last emission. 

The rations allowed to troops in garrisons were per day, one pound of bread, half pint 
of peas or beans, two-thirds of a pound of pork, and in six weeks, one gallon of molasses. 
Marching forces had one pound of bread, one pound of pork and a gill of rum. 



HISTORY OF HADLEV 337 

Those slain not far distant from this part of the county, were 
the following: — Aug. 25, 1746, at the Bars south of Deerfield, 
Samuel Allen, Eleazar Hawks, Oliver Amsden, Simeon Amsden 
and Adonijah Gillet were slain; Samuel Alleji, Jr. was taken, and 
Eunice Allen's skull was fractured, but she recovered. Oct. 19, 
1747, John Smead was slain near the mouth of Miller's River. 
In Southampton, Elisha Clark was slain Aug. 27, 1747, and 
Noah Pixley May 9, 1748.* — Samuel Goodman of South Hadley 
was taken at Fort Massachusetts, and carried to Canada, where 
he died March 21, 1747. 

In the "brave little garrison "f under Capt. Stevens, that so 
courageously defended the fort at No. 4 (Charlestown, N. H.) 
near the first of April, 1747, were six men from South Hadley 
and Amherst, viz., Eleazar Smith, William Boltwood, Nehemiah 
Dickinson, Nathaniel Church, Jr., Josiah Snow, and Ebenezer 
Dickinson. In the same fort were nine from Northampton. 

The sixth War. 

This was commenced in 1754; and in 1755 an expedition was 
undertaken against Crown Point, a French fortress on the west 
side of Lake Champlain. It was unsuccessful as were the suc- 
ceeding campaigns of 1756, 1757 and 1758, in the same quarter, 
owing principally to the incapacity of the British commanders. 
In 1759, the French evacuated Ticonderoga and Crown Point, 
and Quebec surrendered, and in 1760, Montreal and the rest of 
Canada were taken. The war continued until 1763. For each 
of these six Crown Point and Canada expeditions, Massachusetts 
voted to raise from 4000 to 7000 men, excepting a less number in 
1757; and men were raised yearly to defend her own frontiers, 
and many were sent to Nova Scotia, Louisburg, &c. The 
Treasurer's book for 1759 records the payment of wages to "eight 
companies, up the river St. Lawrence, at the reduction of Quebec." 
The province levied about 3000 men in 1 761, and nearly as many 
in 1762. Some hundreds from Massachusetts joined a British 
expedition to the West Indies in 1762, and nearly all perished. 

*In Southampton, the house of Rev. Jonathan Judd, which is still standing was picketed 
and had a mount, in this war. 

j-See an account of this defense in Hoyt's Indian Wars, pages 242 to 245. Hoyt has not 
the names. 

Fourteen Hampshire towns were in the province tax in 1746, and 18 in 1751. Three 
united with Connecticut about 1747. In 1751, Northampton was taxed £i<)(>, Hadley, 156, 
Hatfield, 91, Deerfield, 89, Sunderland, 51. Whole tax, £30,394. Polls paid 5 shillings. 



338 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

In 1762, there were men from this province at Crown Point, 
Hahfax, Newfoundland, and "beyond Niagara."* 

Until Canada was subdued, the enemies made attacks upon the 
western frontiers of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, as in 
the preceding war, and the killed and captured were numerous. 
Massachusetts furnished soldiers for some places in New Hamp- 
shire, and for forts or fortified houses at Northfield, Greenfield, 
Falltown (Bernardston,) Colerain, Charlemont, Huntstown (Ash- 
field,) Fort Massachusetts, West Hoosuck (Williamstown,) New 
Framingham (Lanesborough,) Pontoosuck (Pittsfield,) and Stock- 
bridge. Connecticut sometimes garrisoned Pontoosuck and 
Stockbridge. Men were not posted at Southampton, Blandford 
and Sheffield after 1 755-1 

Many of the men in the garrisons were scouts. These were 
provided with snow-shoes and moccasons. On the western 
frontier were scouting parties, ranging parties and scalping parties; 
all wishing to obtain scalps. The bounty offered in June, 1755? 
to those in service, was 40 pounds for Indian scalps; to volunteer 
companies, 200 pounds. In May, 1757, the bounty to volunteers 
was raised to 300 pounds for each scalp. I find in the Treasurer's 
accounts for 1757 and 1758, that he paid 300 pounds of looo 
dollars each, for five scalps. ijl 

Capt. Moses Porter was the only captain in the service from 
Hadley, during the war. In 1755, he commanded a company in 
Col. Ephraim Williams's regiment, and under him were Lieu- 
tenant Hezekiah Smith, Ensign Reuben Wait of Hatfield, Clerk 
Joshua Ballard of Hadley, 3 sergeants, 4 corporals, a drummer 
and 38 privates. In the fighting on the 8th of September, 1755, 
in the vicinity of Lake George, there were slain of this company, 
Capt. Porter,§ Ens. Wait, Henry Bartlett of Hadley, Asa Strat- 

*New England lost thousands of her active and hardy young men in these military ex- 
peditions, and the morals of survivors were injured. Many of the British officers were 
profligates. 

•j-Col. Israel Williams of Hatfield had the command on this frontier. He was colonel of 
the northern Hampshire regiment, and John Worthington of Springfield, of the southern. 

Jin June, 1755, 20 pounds were offered for female scalps and the scalps of males under 
12 years. This offer was not repeated. The governor of Pennsylvania offered 50 dollars 
for women's scalps in 1756. 

§The late Lieut. Enos Smith of Hadley, informed me that he saw Capt. Porter, when he 
left Hadley for Albany, in the spring of 1755. His military dress appeared to Smith, then 
9 or 10 years old, very rich and showy. Capt. Porter was slain by the Indians, and his dress 
became their prey. He left a wife, a daughter who married Charles Phelps, Esq. and a 
good estate. He had recently erected a handsome house, about two miles north of the vil- 
lage, on "Forty Acres," so called, and he owned about 300 acres in and near Forty acre 
field, and on Mount Warner. His house and barn were raised May 27, 1752, and he and 
his family removed to this place Dec. 5, 1752, This house, built 107 years since, is occupied 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 339 

ton of Northfield, and Zebadiah Williams perhaps of Amherst. 
James Hulbert was wounded. Col. Williams was slain, and 46 
men in his regiment, and 24 were wounded. The news of the 
battle and deaths did not reach Hadley until Sunday, Sept. 14. 

Men engaged in this war from Hadley, South Hadley, 
Amherst and Granby. 

Officers. — The commissioned officers from these places, besides 
Capt. Porter, were Job Alvord from South Hadley, who was an 
Ensign under Capt. John Burk in 1757, and was in the capitula- 
tion of Fort William Henry. He was a lieutenant in 1 759. Joshua 
Ballard of Hadley was an Ensign after Sept. 8, 1755, and a Lieu- 
tenant in 1759. James Gray of Hadley was an Ensign in 1759. 
John Woodbridge, Jr. of South Hadley, was a Lieutenant in 1760. 
He had been an officer before, and is said to have been at the 
taking of Quebec. Jonathan Cook of Hadley was a Lieutenant 
in 1758. Asahel Judd of South Hadley was an Ensign at 
Nova Scotia, and died there in 1756. 

Soldiers. — The names on the next page, of sergeants, corporals 
and privates were derived from muster-rolls, and rolls of enlist- 
ments, and other papers in the state house at Boston. There 
were other lists which have not been preserved, and the names of 
some soldiers are not found. There may be errors in the place 
of residence, as Amherst was not made a district and named 
until 1759. Granby was a part of South Hadley during the war. 

The dates indicate the years in which the names of the Crown 
Point and Canada soldiers first appear. For example, all between 
1758 and 1759 are first found under 1758. Many were in the 
service two, and some three or four campaigns. Very many were 
young men from 16 to 25; a few were above 40, and two were 
above 50. John Clark of Hadley and his two sons, John and 
William, were soldiers, (Scotch-Irish.) Samuel Hawley, Jr. of 
Amherst and his son Elijah belonged to one company. Some of 
the soldiers possessed property; the greater part were men of 
small estate or no estate, including servants, apprentices and 
other minors. 



by Rev. Dan Huntington, who married the daughter of Charles Phelps, and it is still a con- 
venient mansion, of respectable appearance. Charles Phelps put on the present mansard 
or gambrel roof, and made other alterations. He added to Capt. Porter's farm until he had 
about 600 acres. This farm was noticed by Pres. Dwight and he declared this estate to be 
"the most desirable possession of the same kind and extent, within my knowledge." Mr. 
Phelps gave it to his son, the late Charles P. Phelps, Esq. and to his daughter, the late 
Elizabeth W. Huntington. 



340 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 



Hadley. 
John Clark, 1755 
William Clark 
Hezekiah Hubbard 
Eliakim Smith 
Benjamin Knights 
Joseph Alexander 
Henry Bartlett, slain 
Nathaniel Church, Jr. 
John Eastman 
William White, 175C 
Elisha Smith 
Joseph Wright 
Jabez Cook 

John Clark, Sr. aged 52 
Azariah Selden 
Samuel McNeill 
Josiah Smith 
John White, Jr., 1757 
Matthias Kelsey 
John Brooks 
Aaron Cook, 1758 
John Bartlett, died 
David Crosby, died 
Edmund Hubbard 
Ebenezer Stearnes, died 
Daniel White 
Stephen Coats 
Timothy Nash 
Thomas Selden 
Robert Emmons, 1759 
James Meacham 
Samuel Catlin, Jr. 
John Mills 
Samuel Cook 
Caleb Lyman 
Benjamin Smith, 2d 
Elisha Smith, 2d 
Timothy Church 
Richard Church, Jr. 
Cotton Gaylord, 1760 
Oliver Bartlett 
Nathaniel Fox 
Warham Smith 
Jonathan Jones, died 
Oliver Thomas 
Eph. Wheeler, 1761 
Aaron Cleaveland 
William Farrand, 1762 
South Hadley. 
Titus Smith, 1755 
Noah Goodman 
Daniel Crowfoot 
Josiah Snow 
John Church 
John Hillyer 
Samuel Henry, 1756 



Elisha Taylor 

Eleazar Loveland 

Moses Taylor 

John French, 1757 

Jesse Bellows 

Obed Severance, died 

Oliver Taylor, 1758 

Benjamin Pierce 

Asa Goodman 

Seth Smith 

Josiah Henry 

William Gaylord, Jr. 

Benjamin Church 

Philip Smith 

James Patrick 

John Marshall 

Samuel Rugg 

Joseph Hillyer 

Thomas Fairfield 

Joel White 

Ebenezer Stoddard 

James Ball, aged 44 

Simeon Goodman, 1759 

William Taylor 

Jabez Kellogg 

Titus Pomeroy 
Martin Wait 
Nathaniel Bartlett 
Timothy Hillyer, Jr. 
Joel Church 
Silas Smith 
Ephraim Smith 
Samuel Wheeler 
Joshua Taylor, aged 53 
Samuel Ball, 1760 
Nathaniel Gaylord 
John Camp, Jr. 
Thomas Rockwood 
Azariah Alvord 
Jabez Snow 
Thomas Stanley, died 
Artemas Newton, died 
Daniel Taylor, 1761, died 
Eliphalet Gaylord 
Eleazar Olmstead 
Simeon Church, 1762 
Gershom Barton 

Amherst. 
David Smith, 1755 
David Dickinson 
Preserved Clapp 
Reuben Dickinson 
Nathan Dickinson, Jr. 
Jonathan Moody, Jr. 
Oliver Cowles 
Elijah Baker 
Justus Williams, 1756 



The soldiers from these towns served under various captains 
Elisha Pomeroy of Northampton, Elijah Smith of Bclchertown, 



Samuel Hawley, Jr., died 
Elijah Hawley, died 
Pelatiah Bucknam 
Joseph Clary 
Noadiah Lewis, 1758 
Caesar Prutt 
Asahel Moody 
Eleazar Harwood 
Thomas Morton 
Benjamin Bucknam 
Isaac Ward, Jr., 1759, died 
Nathaniel Dickinson 
Samuel Graham 
Charles Chauncey 
Abner How 
Charles Wright 
Philip Ingram 
Nehemiah How 
John Keet, Jr. 
Isaac Temple 
Alexander Smith, aged 41 
Moses Warner 
David Blodget 
Lemuel Moody 
Eli Colton 
Paul Guilford 
Nathan Davis 
Simeon Walker 
Israel Chauncey, 1760 
Benj. Harwood, died 
Micah Guilford, died 
Solomon S art well 
John Gould 

Granby. 
Asaph Stebbins, 1755 
John Moody, Jr. 
Francis Green 
Gideon Moody, died 
Josiah Montague 
Nehemiah Dickinson 
Samuel Lane, 1756 
Benjamin Eastman 
William Negus 
Stephen Warner 
Timothy Smith 
Timothy Burr, 1757 
Wm. Negus, Jr. 
Waitstill Dickinson, 1758 
Joseph Dickinson 
Ebenezer Taylor 
Elisha Barton 
Ezekiel Barton 
Asahel Smith 
Thomas H. Moody 
Eleazar Warner 
John Negus, 1760 
Ithamar Amidoun 
, — Moses Porter of Hadley, 
Salah Barnard of Deerfield, 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 341 

The bounty offered to induce men to enlist, for one campaign, 
was for some years, six dollars; next it was four pounds, and 
afterwards 20 dollars, and some received 30 dollars; in 1762, it 
was seven pounds. Such bounties were a strong inducement to 
poor men and young men. Most soldiers were enlisted; some 
were impressed. When men of property were impressed, they 
generally paid a fine or provided a substitute.* 

On the 9th of August, 1757, Fort William Henry, near Lake 
George, surrendered to the French. The Indians disregarded 
the capitulation, and a scene of pillage, cruelty and bloodshed 
ensued. There was a great alarm before the surrender and mas- 
sacre, as well as after, and thousands of the militia of Massachu- 
setts marched westward. They were not needed and soon re- 
turned. Few went as far as Albany. Gen. Pepperell wrote from 
Springfield, Aug. 13, that the people were so ready "to go to the 
assistance of the distressed, that this part of the province seems 
almost evacuated, the whole militia within 40 or 50 miles being 
drawn off." 

John Burk of Bernardston, Jonathan Carver of Montague and others. Capt. Carver was 
the author of "Carver's Travels." 

*The wages varied. The pay of privates, most of the time, was 36 shillings per month, 
corporals, 38s. yd., sergeants, 43s. id., ensigns, ^^3, 10s., lieutenants, £^, captains, £8. 
Soldiers in garrisons and scouts on the frontier received less. Those who enlisted soldiers 
commonly were paid 3 shillings for each one; sometimes 6 shillings. Those who furnished 
provisions for the soldiers at Northfield, Greenfield and Southampton received for each man 
4 shillings per week; at other places on the frontier north of Stockbridge, from 4s. 8d. to 6s., 
the transportation being expensive. A week's rations for each Massachusetts soldier north 
of Albany cost 5 shillings in 1755 and 1756. They had bread, meat, peas, rum, a little flour 
and meal, and a small quantity of sugar, ginger, butter and molasses. They were allowed 
more than they consumed. The gill of rum per day cost two shillings per gallon, and was 
probably hot from the Boston stills. The British seem to have furnished provisions for 
the Crown Point and Canada troops after 1756. 

Bayonets were useless in Indian warfare, and there were few in Hampshire before this 
war. The province purchased many thousands of bayonets, or "bayonets and slings," 
(meaning belts.) after the war commenced. Some cost seven shillings each. 

Expresses who went from Connecticut River to Boston and back, received £'^, and some- 
times £2, 6s. Benjamin Alvord of Northampton was an express in three wars. Charles 
Colton rode courier from Boston to Albany and back 31 times in 1759, and received £j for 
each time. He kept 7 horses on the road, and went with speed. 

The expenses of Massachusetts for 8 years, from May, 1755 to May, 1763, were not far 
from 1,265,100 pounds, or 4,217,000 dollars. This aggregate, which I formed from the 
accounts of the province Treasurer, is not exact, but it is not too high. Not less than four 
millions of dollars were for military expenses. Great Britain repaid to Massachusetts at 
different times, from 1756 to 1766, about one and a half million of dollars. The province 
taxes in the eight years of war amounted to 608,000 pounds, or a little more than two millions 
of dollars. The currency was gold and silver. 

The province tax of a few towns in 1761, follows: — Northampton, £418, Hatfield, £270, 
Hadley, £194, South Hadley, £204, Amherst, £142. The whole tax was 75,000 pounds. 
The poll tax was 10 shillings. 

Captains and soldiers from Maine first appeared in Massachusetts Proper in this war. 
Maine men crossed the Connecticut in 1755, 1756, 1757, &c. 



342 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Of the Hadley militia, Capt. Moses Marsh, Ens. Eleazar 
Porter, Sergeants EHsha Cook, Jonathan Cook and Josiah Dick- 
inson, one corporal and 38 privates were gone 12 days, and their 
miles were estimated at 15 a day, or 90 miles each way. They 
probably w^ent as far as the North River. Soldiers found them- 
selves and were allowed 2s. 8d. per day. — Of the South Hadley 
company, Capt. Samuel Smith, Lieut. Luke Montague, Sergeants 
Aaron Nash, Joseph Moody and Reuben Smith, four corporals 
and 54 privates were gone also 12 days, and their distance both 
ways was called 180 miles. — The list of the East Hadley company 
that marched in this alarm, has been lost. 

Diseases destroyed more lives than the French and Indians. 
There was much sickness in the army every year, and in the latter 
part of the season, sick men w^ere dispersed in various places 
along the route, from the camp to Albany and Greenbush, and to 
Sheffield and Connecticut River. Many men rode from Hamp- 
shire and elsewhere towards the camp, seeking for a sick relative 
or friend, and took care of him when found, till he died, or was 
able to ride home. Some died after they reached home. Men 
were sometimes sent from Boston to look after the sick along the 
roads to the camp, and see that they were tended, and supplied 
with necessaries. There were hospitals at Sheffield,* No. i, 
(Tyringham,) Westfield, &c. 17 soldiers died in the hospital in 
Sheffield in less than a year, in 1756 and 1757. 

The Small-pox became prevalent in the latter years of the war, 
and many died with it. Some, not knowing that they had been 
exposed, brought home the disease and gave it to their friends. 
In the Westfield hospital, 12 soldiers had the small-pox from 
Nov. 1760 to Feb. 1761, and 6 died; and 4 died in Brookfield, in 
the same months. Tenders for small-pox hospitals w^ere im- 
pressed by authority. But few persons had had the disease, and 
such were necessary for tenders. f 

*Probahly Upper Sheffield is meant, now Great Barrington. Much rum was consumed 
in these hospitals, — 30 gallons at Sheffield hospital in less than a year, and 17 gallons of 
rum and some gallons of wine at Westfield small-pox hospital, in three months. 

•j-In 1732, John Bedortha caught the small-pox among the Dutch, and died in West 
Springfield. This may have been the only case in Hampshire before this war. In 1757, 
there were cases in two families in South Hadley; in 1760, in several towns. In 1761, there 
was a place for inoculated small-pox in or near Springfield. Elisha Porter of Hadley was 
inoculated at Springfield in Feb. 1761. Caleb Strong, Jr. of Northampton had the small- 
pox by inoculation the same year. 

Bonfire. — After the surrender of Quebec in 1759, a bonfire on Copp's Hill in Boston was 
made of 45 tar barrels, 2 cords wood, a mast, spars, boards, a barrel of tar, and 50 pounds 
of powder, and cost, with another on Fort Hill, j(j 25. 12. 4. The province paid this sum, and 
for 32 gallons of rum much beer for the people, and £,44 for the dinner and wine of the 
Council and Court. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 343 

Road to Albany. — The way from Hampshire and Hartford to 
Albany, in early days, was through the villages of Westfield and 
Kinderhook, and the territory now in Blandford, Sheffield, &c. 
A later road crossed North Sheffield, (Great Barrington.) Almost 
all the travel between Hampshire county and Albany, for near a 
century, was through Westfield. In 1755 and after, some soldiers 
went to the camp north of Albany and returned, by way of Charle- 
mont and Fort Massachusetts, and some crossed the woods of 
Vermont, yet most of the travel to and from the camp was 
through Westfield.* 

French Neutrals. — Of those French people, who were cruelly 
driven from their homes in Nova Scotia, and dispersed among 
the British colonies, in 1755 and 1756, near a thousand were 
brought to Massachusetts, and their support cost the province 
and towns many thousand pounds. One family was sent to 
Hadley and one to Northampton about 1761. Hadley voted, 
Jan. 4, 1762, "that the family of French Neutrals now in this 
town shall be supported together, during the town's pleasure." 
March 25, 1767, the town voted three pounds to remove the 
French Neutrals, "whom we are obliged to support," to Canada. 
They were removed before January, 1768. 

The father of the family sent to Northampton was named 
Silvine Dupee, and he had a wife and seven children. This 
family and that at Hadley appear to have been kindly treated. 
Silvine worked for Deac. Ebenezer Hunt and others, and received 
his pay in provisions and clothing. The town gave him 4 shillings 
per week through the year and the use of a house, and he kept a 
cow. The family was not here in 1768. 

Pirates. — In the days of our forefathers, stories of the cruel 
deeds of pirates were recited around the kitchen fire, as well as 
those of the barbarities of the Indians and of the strange doings 
of the witches. 

William Kidd, famous in pirate history, was arrested at Boston 
in 1699, and executed in England in I70i.t June 30, 1704, 6 
pirates were executed at Boston. Of the gold taken with them, 

*The road through Blandford towards Albany, though laid as a county road in 1754, was 
little more than a horse path in this French war, and teams could have drawn only light 
loads. Pork and flour purchased in Hampshire for the army, were sent down the Connect- 
icut and up the Hudson. A horse road was marked out in 1753, fron^ '5 rniles east of 
Albany through Pontoosuck to Northampton; it was little used. Before SheiBeld was 
settled, when the Housatonnuc was high, posts have been sent from Hampshire to Albany 
by way of Woodbury, Conn, where was a ferry. 

■j-There have been men in Hampshire foolish enough to dig for Kidd's money, on the 
banks of Connecticut and Westfield rivers. 



344 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

788 ounces were sent to England, after paying £']i'] for charges. 
July 19, 1723, 26 pirates were hung at once at Newport, R. I. 
under their own blue flag, hoisted upon the gallows. They had 
taken 45 vessels. 3 pirates were executed near Boston, July 
12, 1726, and 5, Nov. 2, 1726, and 4 at Newport, Nov. 3, 1738. 
Many were executed in the southern colonies. Pirates were 
hung and buried near low water mark. 



CHAPTER XXXI 

Noxious Beasts and Birds — Wolves — Wildcats — Bears — Catamounts, Crows and Black- 
birds — Woodchucks — Furred Animals and the Fur Trade — Beavers — Raccoons — 
Muskrats — Deer and Deer Hunting — Venison — Deerskin Garments — Wild Turkeys 
— Pigeons — Rattlesnakes. 

Wolves were very common and destructive in the New Eng- 
land and other colonies, and long tried the patience of our 
fathers. Wood in 1634 considered them "the greatest incon- 
veniency in the country." A reward has been off"ered in Massa- 
chusetts for killing wolves since 1630. The nocturnal bowlings 
of these ravenous animals have been heard by the inhabitants of 
almost every township. Wolves annoyed the people of Hamp- 
shire more than 100 years after the settlement of Northampton 
and Hadley. 

The reward for destroying wolves in 1643 was thirty shillings. 
In 1662, it was forty shillings, of which the county was to pay 
twenty, the town ten, and the colony ten.* In 1693, the bounty 
for grown wolves was twenty shillings, and for whelps five shil- 
lings. In 171 7, it was raised to four pounds for grown wolves 
and one pound for whelps, all paid by the province. After 1741, 
the bounty varied from thirty shillings to four pounds. 

The colony paid for 147 wolves killed from 1650 to 1655, for 
37 destroyed in 1657, 58 in 1662, 140 in 1683, 158 in 1684, 319 
old wolves and 26 whelps in 1694, 297 old ones and 40 whelps 
in 1697, and 305 old ones and 34 whelps in 1698. Not so many 
were killed after 1700. Wolf-killing was at its height the latter 
part of the 17th century. According to the treasurer's accounts, 
in 28 years, between 1700 and 1737, a bounty was paid for killing 

*The heads were to be carried to the constable or selectmen, who were to cut off the ears. 
Capt. Aaron Cook of Northampton was a famous wolf-killer, and he once sent a wolf's 
head by his daughter. Wolves killed sheep, goats, calves, swine and deer. When the 
county reward was 20 shillings, it required most of the Hampshire county tax, some years, 
to pay for wolves. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 345 

2852 old wolves and 191 whelps, averaging a few more than a 
hundred in a year. The yearly number was not given after 1737. 
Wolves were killed in many of the Hampshire towns down to 
1775, and in some, several years later.* 

The colony treasurer credited to Hadley 7 wolves in 1662, ii 
in 1669, 8 in 1672, 3 in 1674, 43 in three years, 1680, 168 1 and 
1682, 10 in 1683, 19 in 1684, and 10 in 1694.1 Wolves were 
killed in Hadley in the years omitted, and in the last century, 
but the returns are not found. The town offered in 1686, ten 
shillings for every wolf killed in the town, and brought to the 
constable, and the same in 1692. 

Some wolves were caught in traps and some were shot. Many 
were taken in pits called wolf-pits, which were fitted to entrap 
them. Wolves were seldom killed by dogs. 

Wildcats. — A reward for their destruction was first offered in 
1727, viz., twenty shillings for those over a year old, and ten 
shillings for those younger. In 1753, the reward was ten shillings 
and five shillings. It appears by the province treasurer's accounts, 
that 251 old wildcats were killed in 1728, 261 in 1729, 436 in 
1730, 175 in 1731, 679 in 1733, 330 in 1734 and 49 in 1736. In 
these seven years, 2181 old wildcats and 88 young ones were 
destroyed. After this havoc, they did not again become so nu- 
merous. $ 

Bears. — In 1742, a bounty was first offered to those who killed 
bears, viz., ten shillings for old ones and five shillings for cubs, 
from the first of April to the first of September. The small 
reward, and the delay in giving it, evince that bears were much 

*6 were killed in Northampton in 1763, 5 in Greenfield and 2 in Amherst in 1765, &c. 
Northampton was disturbed by wolves after 1772, and they howled near the dwelling of the 
father of the writer in Westhampton, in 1775. They seldom troubled the people of Hadley 
and South Hadley after 1761;, yet in March, 1785, Hadley offered 4 pounds to any Hadley 
man who should kill a wolf, if his track was taken in the town. 

About the year 1805, two wolves ranged some time from the northern part of Hadley and 
Amherst to the northern part of Montague, and killed many sheep. Men from three or 
four towns turned out after a light snow, and surrounded and killed them. One of my in- 
formants often heard these wolves howl in the woods of North Hadley, and he was in Mon- 
tague when one of them was brought in on a pole by two men. The hunters had a merry 
time. 

•j-Eleven of the wolf killers in Hadley from 1668 to 1672, were John Smith, Philip Smith, 
Robert Boltwood, Samuel Boltwood, Hezekiah Dickinson, Thomas Wells, David Hoyt, 
Joseph Selden, Azariah Dickinson, Thomas Dickinson, James Beebee. — Goodman Ayres, 
Corporal Coy and Goodman Pritchard killed many wolves at Quabaug. 

In the winter of 1660-61, John Holton of Northampton killed a wolf on the ice of the 
Connecticut, between Northampton and Hadley; and the county court decided that each 
town should pay half of the town bounty. 

|The common wildcats of New England were a species of lynx. The fisher was some- 
times called the black wildcat. It may be supposed that many of the wildcats were killed 
in Hampshire, and many in Maine. 



346 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

less hurtful than wolves and wildcats, yet in some seasons, es- 
pecially when acorns and nuts were scarce, bears destroyed pigs 
and sheep, and devoured soft corn.* 

Catamounts or Panthers. — There were a few of these animals 
formerly near the western border of New England. Connecticut 
offered a bounty for them in 1694 and 1713, and paid for four or 
five in 1769. Massachusetts first ofi'ered a reward in 1742, of 
40 shillings; in 1745 of 50 shillings; and in 1753 of 4 pounds. 
The killing of a catamount must have been a rare occurrence. 
An animal called a catamount was killed by some Northampton 
hunters in 1764, and there are stories of others shot in Hampshire 
in later days. Some of the tales relating to the catamount are not 
reliable. It had a terrific scream, but rarely if ever attacked 
man, woman or child. f 

Town Premiums. — The province once offered rewards for kill- 
ing small vermin ;$ the towns often gave premiums, especially for 
the destruction of crows and blackbirds. For many years, the 
blackbirds were the most mischievous, and most towns offered 
rewards for killing them before they made war upon the crows. 

Hadley first offered a premium of one penny each for black- 
birds, Jan. 7, 1717, and their heads were to be cut off in presence 
of one of the selectmen. At the same time, 8 pence each were 
offered for wood-hatches, meaning woodchucks,§ and their ears 
were to be cut off in presence of one of the selectmen. Hadley 
first voted a premium for crows, of one shilling. May 8, 1727. 
In 1730, the bounty was one shilling for grown crows, 6 pence 

*The late John Cook of Hadley informed me that about 1788, John Montague shot a 
bear which his dog had treed in Hadley meadow, and carried him into the street on the top 
of his load of corn. This was long after bears had disappeared from Hadley. 

Bear's meat was eaten in these towns, and was accounted about as good as venison. The 
price in Northampton from 1721 to 1759 ^^^ from I5 to 2 pence per pound, in lawful 
money. 

■{•The stories about lions in the early writers of New England and of the other colonies, 
came from the reports of Indians who had seen the catamount and heard its scream. It 
was named by some Indians, qunonou, meaning apparently, the long animal. Eliot in his 
Indian Bible has qunonou for lion. 

I In 1740, the province offered for five years, 6 pence for crows, 3 pence for blackbirds' 
and 4 pence for water rats, ( ?) gray and ground squirrels. These vermin cost the province 
105 pounds in 1744. Doct. Franklin said in 1749, that the worms had greatly multiplied 
in New England since the destruction of the blackbirds, and done more damage than the 
birds. 

§Northampton and Hatfield gave premiums for woodchucks for a short time. The 
premiums which some towns offered for foxes, woodchucks, skunks, squirrels and blue 
jays did not continue long. 

The custom of giving rewards for the destruction of creatures denominated vermin, is 
more than 300 years old in England. Various scarecrows, to keep birds from wheat, 
cherries, &c. were common in England before 1600. 



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HISTORY OF HADLEY 347 

for young ones, one penny for blackbirds, and half a penny for 
young ones. From 1772 to 1800, blackbirds were omitted, ex- 
cept one year, and the reward for crows was commonly one 
shilling. 

The shrewd and cautious crow has maintained himself against 
all the arts and efforts of men, and still abounds. He does much 
harm by pulling up the springing corn; and he is also useful 
as a scavenger, devouring reptiles, worms, insects and all sorts of 
dead carcasses. 

Woodchucks* and Skunks were very rare in New England 
when first settled by the English. These and some other quadru- 
peds, and many species of birds, greatly increased in the neigh- 
borhood of civilized men, whose farms yielded much more food 
for them than the forests and Indian towns. 

Furred Animals and the Fur Trade in Hampshire. 

Beavers, which were once numerous in this region, were almost 
all caught by the Indians before Philip's war in 1675. The 
beaver trade with the Indians, for some years, was in the hands 
of John Pynchon, and of those appointed by him. He packed for 
England in six years, from 1652 to 1657, 47 hhds. containing 
8992 beaver skins, weighing 13,139 pounds, and sent 663 pounds 
in bundles. From 1658 to 1674, he packed 6480 beaver skins. 
Most of these skins may have been worth about 8 shillings sterling 
per pound in England. From 1652 to 1674, he packed 699 otter 
skins, about 900 skins of muskrats, and many of the gray and 
red fox, raccoon, marten, fisher, mink and wildcat. Also 426 
moose skins, weighing from 12 to 25 pounds each, and 67 pounds 
of the drug called castor, obtained from beavers. Very many of 
the beaver and other skins were brought from the north and west, 
and most were purchased of Indians. f [Derived from Pynchon's 
Account books.] 

In the inventory of Samuel Porter of Hadley, in 1722, are three 
hhds. of furs in Boston, shipped for England, valued at ;^I48, 8s. 

Deac. Ebenezer Hunt of Northampton, manufactured hats 
extensively during 40 years after 1734. He sold hats to people 

*Woodchucks were caught and their skins tanned for whip lashes, perhaps loo years ago. 
50 and 60 years since, many boys in the Hampshire towns caught them in traps set at the 
mouth of their holes; the skins were divested of hair by the aid of lime or ashes, and then 
tanned — many of them in the common soap barrels. The writer in his boyhood tanned 
many in soap. The boys obtained spending money for the whip lashes. 

•j-The Indian names of some animals, in the accounts of fur-dealers, were for wildcat, 
pessow; mink, nottomag; marten, openock, and sometimes wappenauk; fisher, wullaneag. 
Raccoon was a name derived from Virginia Indians. Skunk was spelled by Wood in 1634, 
squncke, which may have been the Indian name. 



348 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

residing near and far off, and bought of them furs and skins. 
He had of men Hving in middle Hampshire, including Hadley, 
South Hadley, Granby and Amherst, the skins of raccoons, 
minks, muskrats, red and gray foxes and deer, and rarely the 
skin of a beaver, otter, marten, wildcat and wolf.* From towns 
up the river, in the county and north of it, he obtained some 
beaver skins, and at times the skin of a fisher, bear and moose. 
He bought most of his beaver in Albany and Boston, and many 
raccoon skins in Albany. 

Oliver Warner of Hadley learned the hatter's trade of E. Hunt, 
and made and sold hats and bought furs in Hadley, many years 
after 1750. His business was not extensive. Josiah Dickinson 
from Hadley, succeeded Hunt in Northampton. 

Deer and Deer Hunting. — For a long time, the mild and nim- 
ble deer were very numerous. The early planters of Hampshire,f 
though they occasionally hunted deer, turkeys, &c. were too indus- 
trious to spend much time in such pursuits. The Indians were 
the principal hunters in this region while they remained. Many 
persons of the succeeding generations sometimes diverted them- 
selves by hunting; few let this recreation interfere with their 

*Hunt gave after 1750, for good beaver, 10 to 12 shillings per pound, and for inferior, 
much less; for a few otter skins, 8 to 12s. each; raccoons, is. 6d. to 3s. 6d.; minks, is. 6d. 
to 3s.; red and gray foxes, 2s. to 3s. 3d.; muskrats, 4 to 9 pence. Only the fur of beavers, 
raccoons and muskrats was made into hats. Beaver hats were sold, after 1750, from 20 to 
42 shillings each, and raccoon and muskrat hats, from 12 to 20 shillings. Felt hats, 3s. 4d. 
to 5s. 6d. 

Raccoons have been hunted more than two hundred years, both for pleasure and profit. 
Fifty or sixty years ago, and long before, they were commonly hunted in the night, by the 
aid of a good dog, which treed them. A raccoon on a climbable tree was shaken off by a 
man, and caught by the dog; sometimes one was shot by moon-light; the hunters often 
kindled a fire and waited until morning, and then shot one or more; if a raccoon was in a 
hollow tree, it was cut down and the dog seized him. The writer when a boy carried a 
lantern for raccoon hunters two or three nights. These animals still devour green corn, and 
are still hunted in many of our towns. The meat was esteemed by some in the last century 
nearly as good as venison. 

Muskrats have been plenty in some parts of Hampshire for two centuries, and they are 
still hunted, perhaps more for sport than for the skin. When a flood covers most of the 
meadows and low lands, and muskrats are driven from their habitations, boats may be seen 
in Northampton and elsewhere carrying men with guns and a dog, and now and then is 
heard the peculiar, clicking noise made by the discharge of a gun near the water, and the 
dog leaps into the water and brings to the boat a musquash, if one has been killed. They 
are hunted in other ways. This animal was called tump in Northampton 100 years ago, 
and still is; perhaps an Indian name. 

That large animal, the moose, doubtless came into Hampshire. One was killed at 
Brookfield in Sept. 1765, another in Sept. 1767, 6 feet high, and one in New Braintree in 
Sept. 1769, 5 feet high. 

The raisers of the meeting-house in Upper Ashuelot, (Keene,) June 22, 1737, feasted on 
the flesh of a moose, killed the day before. 

■j-Many of the early settlers of Massachusetts brought from England, "fowling pieces," 
so called. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 349 

regular business.* Noxious animals were hunted from necessity. 
Deer were more useful to men than all else that was hunted. 
As these animals were lean in winter, and the females produced 
their young in the spring, Massachusetts enacted in i6g8, that 
deer should not be killed between January ist and August ist. 
These dates were afterwards altered a little. Other colonies had 
similar laws. In 1739, each town of the province was required to 
choose men annually to prosecute or inform against those that 
killed deer out of season. In March, 1740, Hadley chose Lt. 
Westwood Cook of the old precinct, Samuel Rugg of the South 
precinct, and John Nash of the east precinct. Two men called 
"Deer Reeves" or "Informers of Deer," were chosen yearly in 
Hadley, from 1758 to 1780. Only a few deer were killed in Hadley 
after 1780. The county records notice the prosecution of many 
persons in Hampshire, for killing deer unlawfully. The fine was 
10 pounds, half to the informer. f 

Seventy or eighty years since, a number of men in the old towns 
were denominated the "old hunters." They had chased deer 
and other animals long before the revolution, and sometimes a 
jovial party and a venison feast had succeeded a hunt. Many 
of their hunting stories were formerly in circulation, some of them 
wild and hardly credible. Some hunters were trappers also. J 

Venison. — William Pynchon and John Pynchon bought much 
venison of the Indians, from 1645 ^^ 1662, and sold it to the 

*Those who spent a large portion of their time in hunting were poor. The habits of 
such are inconsistent with regular industry. Hunting does not increase property nor im- 
prove morals. 

•j-A few men in Hadley, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby were prosecuted. The 
following from the county records exhibits the form of some complaints. 

At a court in Northampton, March, 1763. "John Worthington, Esq. Attorney for our 
sovereign lord the king, in this behalf, here instantly complains and gives this court to under- 
stand and be informed, that Azariah Selden of Hadley, in the county of Hampshire, yeoman, 
on the 8th day of March current, did at said Northampton, wittingly and willingly, with 
force and arms, kill one wild deer, and then and there had in his possession the raw flesh and 
raw skin of one wild deer, killed since the 21st day of December last, contrary to a law of 
this province, the peace of said lord the king, his crown and dignity." He was fined 10 
pounds and costs 29 shillings. Noah Smith, Jr. of Hadley, the informer, was to have half 
the fine. 

jLevi Moody of Granby, born in 1784, informs me that deer continued on the extensive 
pine plains in the eastern part of Springfield, and were killed by hunters from South Hadley 
and Granby down to 1800 and after. When pursued by hounds, they often crossed Chick- 
opee River. Mr. Moody has shot deer on these plains, the last one in 1820. 

Heath-hens, similar to prairie hens, were formerly on the Springfield plains. Mr. Moody 
hinks they have not been seen for about 50 years. 

Several persons have been undesignedly shot and killed in Hampshire in hunting. Joseph 
King was killed by Samuel Burt of Southampton, Oct. 8, 1742; Nathan Tuttle of Monta- 
gue by his son, Sept. 16, 1762; John Lammon of Palmer by John Davis of Ware, Dec. 5, 



350 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

inhabitants of Springfield, from two pence to two and a halfpence 
per pound. 

In Northampton, from 1674 to 1771, the price of venison, (re- 
duced to lawful money,) was two pence and one and a half penny 
per pound; lean w^as often one penny. Josiah Pierce of Hadley 
bought venison at two pence per pound in 1764. Many quarters 
of venison appear to have weighed from 14 to 30 pounds each. — 
The venison pasty or pie, so much esteemed in England, was 
rarely noticed in New England.— Venison was sometimes salted 
in a cask. — Deer's tallow was made into candles. 

Deer Skins and Garments. — Leather garments were common 
in England. A vast number of deer skins were dressed in New 
England, and many were dressed in oil. Some deer's leather was 
called wash-leather. Dressing deer skins, moose skins and 
beaver skins, was a regular trade. Jonathan Moody of Amherst 
was a dresser of deer and other skins; also his son Lemuel. 
Breeches were the most common garment made of deer's leather;* 
jackets or waistcoats were numerous; there were leather doublets 
and coats, and some had a leather suit. A few had wash-leather 
stockings, and many had deer skin gloves. Moccasons were made 
of deer's leather and moose leather. "Leather Breeches Maker 
and Glover" was a common mechanic in Boston. Many men 
in Hadley formerly had leather breeches, and some had other 
leather garments. Rev. C. Williams of Hadley, (page 324,) had 
leather breeches and waistcoat. Leather breeches were worn by 
some military men. When sheep skins were scarce, some leather 
aprons were made of dressed beaver skins. 

Wild Turkeys were abundant in this and other colonies. No 
notice is found of them in the towns on Connecticut River pre- 
vious to 1700. The Pynchons did not buy nor sell them. They 
naturally frequented the oak, chestnut and beech forests, more 
than the pine lands, the former furnishing the most food. Wild 
Turkeys were sold in Hartford about 171 1, at one shilling and 
IS. 4d. each, and in Northampton in 1717 at is. 4d. From 1730 

1764; Ezekiel Wood by Samuel Coleman of Southampton, Dec. i, 1778; Major Jonathan 
Allen of Northampton by Seth Lyman, Jan. 7, 1780; a son of Rev. Edward Upham of Aga- 
wam, while hunting bears in the night. 

*Many years ago, a woman informed me that in her youth, young men sometimes went 
to courting, in deerskin breeches. Such were worn on the Sabbath, in cool weather. 

Dressed deerskins differed much in size and value. In this vicinity, for ;o years before 
1770, the greater part were sold from 8 to 24 shillings each, in lawful money. The skins 
of bucks were larger and more valuable than those of does. Many skins were sold from 
12 to 16 shillings. 



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to 1735, the price of those dressed was in Northampton equal to 
one and a half penny per pound, in lawful money; they weighed 
from 5 to 15 pounds. In 1766, the price was 2^ pence; in 1788, 
3 pence; a few years after 1800, 4 to 6 pence; and about 1820, 
10 to 12I cents. 

In the last century, turkeys were hunted on Holyoke and in 
other places in the old township of Hadley.* Deer hunters were 
also turkey hunters. Turkeys were killed after 1800, but they 
were not as plenty as on the west side of the river. f Thad- 
deus Birge of Northampton, supposes that he shot about 100 
turkeys between 1803 and 1820, and none of them on Tom; and 
the late Oliver Warner killed a large number in those years. 
Others killed many on Tom. Wild turkeys continued on Tom 
and Holyoke longer than elsewhere. There was a flock on Tom 
in 1842, a few in 1845, and a single turkey in 185 1. A few re- 
mained on Holyoke nearly as long. All are gone. 

Pigeons passed over the eastern part of Massachusetts in 
countless multitudes, in early days. Wood says in 1634, "we 
could see neither the beginning nor ending of these millions of 
millions." They are not named in Hampshire until after 1700; 
but undoubtedly some were here. In 1741, they had a breeding 
place near the line between Hampshire and Vermont, and their 
nests on the beech and hemlock trees extended for miles. Pigeons 
were taken in nets around Boston as early as 1700, and in this 
county before 1740, and many were shot. They were sometimes 
decoyed by a flatterer or stool-pigeon, but were more often taken 
without such a lure. Levi Moody says that in former days, they 
were at times caught so abundantly in Granby, that they could 
not all be sold nor eaten, and the bodies of many were given to 
the hogs, after the feathers were plucked from them. Pigeon 
feathers were much used for beds. In August, 1736, pigeons 
fell in Boston to two pence per dozen (not a penny, lawful,) and 
many could not be sold at that. In Northampton, from 1725 to 
1785, pigeons when sold, brought usually from 3 pence to 6 

*I have been told that many years since, the initials of several Hadley turkey-hunters 
might be seen in the bark of a white birch tree, near the path over Holyoke, called by the 
hunters, Turkey Pass. 

•[About 1800, when a boy, I often saw small flocks of wild turkeys in the woods near my 
father's; observed their tracks in the snow in the winter, and heard their gobbling in the 
spring. 

The old writers of several colonies tell large stories about the weight of some wild turkeys, 
reporting it to be from 40 to 50 pounds, and two report 60 pounds. Vanderdonck, more 
moderate, says fat ones weigh from 20 to 30 pounds. In Northampton, Mr. Birge killed 
only two or three that weighed 24 pounds, and Mr. Warner's largest weighed only 18 pounds. 
These weights were before the turkeys were dressed. 



352 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

pence per dozen. In 1790, they were 9 pence, and a few years 
after 1800, is. 6d. Since 1850, they have been sold from 75 cents 
to ;^i,50 per dozen. 

Partridges are greatly lessened in numbers, and their drum- 
ming, a sound of spring, is much less frequent. Quails, which 
were sometimes caught in box traps, and by the aid of the figure 
4, are rare, and their prediction of more wet, is seldom heard. 
Wild ducks were formerly abundant; now but few alight about 
our ponds and streams. Wild geese are still more uncommon. 
The woodcock, a bird which the old fowlers would have despised, 
is shot on both sides of the river. 

Hunters in Hampshire, previous to the middle of the last cen- 
tury, bought more lead than shot. They had molds and run 
bullets and perhaps large shot. Samuel Alexander of Northamp- 
ton, who spent much time in hunting and was poor, bought of 
one trader in six years, from 1720 to 1726, 22 pounds of powder 
and 24 pounds of lead. Several kinds of shot, named pigeon, 
duck, goose and turkey shot, were sold. The first Thomas Smith 
of Hadley and others of the family bought many turkey shot.* 

The Rattle Snake excited the curiosity of many Europeans who 
came to this country. Wood in 1634 obtained from reports some 
correct notions respecting this poisonous reptile. He remarked 
that it was "a most sleepy, unnimble creature, never offering to 
bite unless trod upon." Five or six men had been bitten, and all 
had been cured by snake weed. Rattle snakes inhabited Mounts 
Tom and Holyoke, when Northampton and Hadley were settled, 
and some still remain. It is believed that in 200 years no man has 
lost his life by them in these towns, though some have been 
bitten. May 27, 1751, a son of Hugh Queen of South Hadley 
was bitten; Doct. Crouch of Hadley visited him and scarified 
about the wound; he was brought to Hadley the same day, and 
Doct. Mather of Northampton went over to see him. He returned 
to South Hadley in 1 1 days. Enos Pomeroy, son of Stephen P. 
of Hockanum, was bitten in his father's garden, and two young 
men named Smith, south of Holyoke; these were cured. The 
bite has been fatal in a few cases elsewhere. A small number of 
rattle snakes are killed almost every year on the sides and near 

*The old hunters and fowlers did not shoot singing birds, nor did the Indians. That 
barbarous practice belongs to later times. 

Squirrel hunts with two sides, and shooting at tame turkies about the time of Thanks- 
giving, are sports introduced into this part of the country since the revolution, which do 
not make better the habits or heart of any one. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 353 

the foot of these mountains. They are as clumsy as they were 
in the time of Wood. 

Physicians formerly supposed that there was much medicinal 
virtue in the flesh and gall of the poisonous viper of Europe, and 
of the rattle snake of America. The flesh of the latter was eaten 
by some infirm persons in this vicinity in the last century, and 
the gall was mixed with chalk and made into balls.* These 
precious balls were bought even by physicians; Doct. Crouch of 
Hadley and Doct. Hunt of Northampton gave 8 shillings per 
dozen for them. Traders bought them. Col. Eleazar Porter 
had two pounds of snake balls, valued at 24s. 6d. in 1758. 



This History had been printed to this page and read by Prof. F. D. Huntington, before 
the celebration at Hadley June 8, 1859. 

When Hampshire and Hampshire county are mentioned, they mean the old county of 
Hampshire, comprising the present Hampshire, Hampden and Franklin. 



CHAPTER XXXI I 

Husbandry — Wheat, Peas, Rye, Meslin, Barley, Oats, Beans, Buckwheat, Indian Corn, 
Potatoes, Turnips, Pumpkins, Flax, Hemp, Broom Corn, and Brooms — Hay Grasses, 
native and foreign — Cider and Apples — Apple Molasses — Beer — Gardens. 

The first planters of Massachusetts, for want of oxen, tilled 
their lands mainly with the spade and hoe, for some years. When 
this valley was settled, men had cattle and plows. The people 
of Northampton plowed for the Indians i6 acres in Hadley in 
1654. It is not known where this first plowing in Hadley was done. 

Wheat.— No part of New England was more productive of 
wheat and other grain than the valley of the Connecticut. In 

*About 1773, my father killed five rattle snakes near the foot of Pomeroy's mountain 
in Southampton, cut off their heads, fastened the bodies to the saddle by the mail straps, 
and carried them to his father's house, dangling from his saddle. 

That rattle snakes have the power of fascination has long been believed by some. This 
is disputed by many naturalists. 

The stories told of black or other snakes winding themselves round the bodies of persons 
in New England are fabulous. 

Another person bitten by a rattle snake was Stephen Coats at Hockanum, Sept. 5, 1760. 
Dr. Crouch or Doct. Kellogg scarified and dressed his toe, and he grew well. 

A chapter could be added respecting the hunting of foxes, hares, squirrels, &c. and the 
trapping of various animals. — Among the hunters of Hadley, none were more fond of the 
sport than Major John Smith and Timothy Stockwell. 



354 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

the three towns above the falls, Northampton, Hadley and Hat- 
field, every farmer raised v^^heat, and wheaten bread w^as common, 
though much Indian corn was prepared for food. Large quanti- 
ties of wheat were sent to Boston for rates, debts and goods. 
Both winter and summer wheat were raised; apparently most of 
the latter. The alluvial lands became less productive as early as 
1680, and the crops of wheat were considerably diminished before 
1700.* In the next 60 years, the crop became so uncertain and 
so often failed, that most men ceased to sow wheat on the intervals. 
The greater part of the wheat consumed in Hampshire for a long 
time, perhaps 60 or 70 years, in the last and early part of the 
present century, was raised on uplands newly cleared. During 
much of this period, wheat was sparingly used in Hadley and 
other towns; many families had only enough for the entertain- 
ment of friends and the annual Thanksgiving.f Some wheat is 
still sown on the intervals and uplands, but the crop often fails. 
Enriching land with manure does not restore those properties 
which it had when new. 

Some wheat flour was sent to Hartford and Boston from Hamp- 
shire and the region north of it, during the revolutionary war, 
and some years later. In a few years after 1800, barrels of flour 
began to be brought up the river, into Hampshire. There were 
no sellers of such flour in Springfield and Northampton^ in 
1807, though a few barrels had been received by bakers and 
others. Barrels of flour were advertised by Hadley traders 
in i8o9.§ For some years the quantity sold in this vicinity was 
not large. After the Erie canal and rail roads were made, the 
quantity of wheat flour consumed in New England was vastly 
increased. It has been more freely used by all for many years 
than in any preceding generation, not excepting the first. 

*The blasting of wheat began in Eastern Massachusetts and in Plymouth in 1664, and 
in Connecticut a few years later, and continued. It was mentioned by writers and in Fast 
Appointments, and was deemed a judgment. It may have been chiefly owing to the ex- 
haustion of the soil by many crops. The Hampshire lands had not been tilled so long, and 
the blights did not begin here so early. In the last century, the blasting of grain in many 
places was attributed to the barberry bushes. 

The English sower sometimes had a seed-basket, called a seed-lip, fitted to his side, and 
some of the first settlers of Hadley had a seed-lip. Loudon's Agriculture has a picture of 
a seed-basket. 

•j-Pies were sometimes made with rye paste for the bottom and top; some had rye below 
and a wheaten upper crust. 

{My informant as to 1 807, is Josiah D. Whitney of Northampton, who came from Spring- 
field and established himself in Northampton in 1807. 

§Barrels then held i| cwt. or 196 pounds, and had for twenty years or more. This sing- 
ular quantity originated in the old way of selling flour by the 112 pounds. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 355 

Peas. — These were extensively cultivated on the intervals of 
the Connecticut, and many were sent to Boston. They were 
valued no higher than rye in the 17th century; in the next half 
century, they were injured by pea-bugs, much less land was 
sown, and the price of good peas became equal to that of wheat. 
Field peas were sown by some in Hadley down to the present 
century.* 

Rye. — This species of grain was early raised in the eastern 
part of Massachusetts, and in some places in Connecticut. In 
the three towns in Hampshire above the falls, where grain was 
sowed on the intervals, rye is only once named in records 
before 1685. It was not received for town rates in Hadley until 
1690, nor in Hatfield until 1694. It seems to have been sown 
on land that had ceased to yield good crops of peas and wheat, 
and the production gradually increased, and still continues. Rye 
has been extensively cultivated on uplands in all the towns once 
included in Hadley. The pine plains yield moderate crops of 
the best rye.f 

Meslin. — Not long after 1700, and perhaps before, some farm- 
ers in these towns sowed a mixture of wheat and rye, probably 
on land that would no longer produce wheat alone. This mixed 
grain, named meslin, was long used for bread, and was raised 
in Hadley as late as 1800. Meslin was a common crop in Eng- 
land, 200 years ago. 

Barley. — This was raised and converted into malt from early 
days; and many in Hadley and elsewhere raised a patch of 
barley down to 1800, and even after that time.$ 

Oats were raised here in the 17th century. They have always 
been more light and chaffy in New England than in Great Britain. 
Peas and oats were often sown together, and sometimes rye and 
oats in the last century, and these mixtures were called provender. 

Beans were seldom raised for market in Hampshire, for a cen- 
tury after the settlement of Hadley; many farmers planted a few 
French or Indian beans in their gardens and fields. As long as 

*Peas were harvested by "hooking" them, and some of the small peas-hooks of former 
days for cutting up peas, have been used in Hadley since 1800. 

•j-Most of the people of these and many other towns in Hampshire, though they con- 
sumed much corn, commonly had bread made of bolted rye-flour, for three-fourths of a 
century or longer, and rye bread is now used in considerable quantities. In the counties 
east of Hampshire, the common bread of the inhabitants was made of sifted rye flour, 
mixed with corn meal, and was, as Pres. Dwight says, "dark, glutinous and heavy." 

JOrange Warner was the last maltster in Hadley, and he continued tOl the latter part of 
the last century. Four Warners in succession carried on the malting business not far from 
130 years, viz., Andrew, Jacob, Jacob, Orange. 



356 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

field peas were plenty, beans were less valued than afterwards.* 

Buckwheat was not formerly much regarded. A little was 
raised in Massachusetts for animals a century ago. Some was 
sown in this vicinity after the revolution, and it was sold from 
IS. 8d. to 2s. per bushel. It has been grown more extensively in 
the present century.f 

Indian corn or maize. — The people of New England could 
hardly have been sustained without this American grain. It has 
furnished them with much of their food in all generations. $ 

Governor Winthrop of Connecticut, previous to 1676, sent to 
the Royal Society in London, a particular description of Indian 
corn, and of its cultivation and uses, which was published in the 
"Philosophical Transactions and Collections" of the Society. 
The length of the ear was then about 9 inches, and the colors of 
the corn were yellow, white, red, blue, olive, greenish, black, 
speckled, striped, &c. but yellow and white were the most com- 
mon. § The stalks grew to the height of 6 or 8 feet. The Virginia 
corn was much taller, and the Indians had some much shorter. 
Corn was planted in rows 5 or 6 feet apart each way, and 4 or 5 
grains in a hill. In Winthrop's days, corn was hoed three times, 
and at the third hoeing, a hill was made. Farmers had begun to 
plow between the rows. Some English, following the example of 
the Indians, planted beans in corn-hills and pumpkins and 
squashes in vacant places between the hills. They very early 
discovered that every ear of corn had an even number of rows. 

Doct. Douglass of Boston gave the New England method of 
cultivating Indian corn in 1750. The land was plowed twice, 
and furrows made for the rows, making the hills about 4 feet 
apart. The planting was done at the end of April and beginning 
of May. Two furrows were plowed between the rows at each 
hoeing, viz., weeding, half-hilling and hilling. Some hoed four 

*It is believed that our fathers were ignorant of baked beans in the 17th century, as the 
English still are. 

The field beans cultivated in England for centuries, have an erect, stiff stalk, and are 
sown like grain; they are mostly given to animals. The English have had the French 
kidney beans in their gardens for string-beans. 

-(■Buckwheat flour began to be sold for cakes in this vicinity in 1833. Some housewives 
had long before made cakes of it. In Pennsylvania and some parts of Europe, buckwheat 
cakes were eaten more than 100 years since. 

jMany could formerly say with Barlow, in the Hasty Pudding Song — "And all my bones 
were made of Indian corn.''' 

Indian corn was more plenty than English grain, but the price was so low in Boston that 
the producer could not afford to give is. 4d. a bushel to transport it. Corn was sent to 
market in pork and beef. 

§Sixty years ago, besides the common yellow corn, there were ears that were red, blue, 
pied, &c. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 357 

times. The stalks were cut for fodder. The ripe corn was gath- 
ered at the end of September and beginning of October, and 
yielded on an average 25 bushels to an acre. Douglass used 
old style.* 

From these and later accounts, it may be inferred that there 
was no great change in the mode of cultivating Indian corn, 
down to the end of the last century. On the intervals of Hadley 
and other river towns, 70 and 80 years ago, the crops of corn were 
light, except those manured, many yielding not over 15 or 20 
bushels to an acre.f The quantity of manure made was not 
large, and it was put on the homelots, and on the nearest parts of 
the meadows. In Hadley, seldom was a load of manure carried 
west of the bank of the plain in the Great meadow. Much land 
was planted and sowed to which no manure had ever been ap- 
plied. The rotation of crops did not extend beyond corn and 
rye, corn and oats, or corn, oats and rye. The hills of corn were 
5 or 6 feet apart. The homelots were manured and better man- 
aged, and they produced good crops of grass and grain. They 
were chiefly mowed. | 

*After making an addition of 1 1 days for new style, it will be found that corn was planted 
and ripe as early in 1750 as now. — Stalks were generally cut in Hadley 75 years ago, but 
were not highly valued. They were sold by some from is. to is. 6d. per acre. Those 
below the ear were not cut. — In Hadley, the corn harrow was used among corn soon after 
1700. 

■j-Some persons estimate that the average crop of Indian corn in Hadley, by the acre, is 
now nearly twice as much as it was 70 years ago. The assessors' return in 1855, which may 
be too high, was 1142 acres of corn, averaging 37 bushels to the acre. 

jHuskings. — Those who had a corn-house, husked their corn in that; others in the barn, 
and sometimes in the great kitchen. The evening husking party was generally composed 
of the family, sometimes a few neighbors were present. They were lively and cheerly, but 
not very noisy. There was a plain repast at the close. The boisterous husking frolics, and 
the kissing connected with red ears, which took place in some parts of New England, were 
not known in Hadley and the towns around. I never knew such huskings in my native 
town. 

The samp or nausamp of the New England Indians and the homony of the Virginia 
Indians, were nearly the same. The English used much samp, made of Indian corn 
coarsely beaten or ground. 

Hasty Pudding was made in Great Britain of flour and milk, and of oatmeal and water, 
before New England was settled. This name was very improperly given to our puddings 
of Indian meal and water, for every thing made of Indian meal requires to be thoroughly 
boiled or baked. Hasty pudding or mush is still much used in New England and the other 
states. It was the custom formerly in Hadley and other towns to make hasty pudding once 
a week or oftener. It was commonly made on Saturday, and eaten with milk at night and 
the next morning. The people of Northampton were noted for their love of hasty pudding. 

The New England hard Indian pudding, boiled many hours in a linen bag, was long a 
part of the dinner, in most families in farming towns. Some are still made. They were 
common in all this region. It was reported that one or two families in Hadley had 365 
such puddings in a year. 

Succotash. — This seems not to have been originally the name of boiled green corn and 
beans. According to Roger Williams, m'sickquatash was corn boiled whole. Gov. Win- 



358 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Potatoes. — The culture of potatoes was introduced into New 
England by the Scotch-Irish,* who came over in 1718. Few, if 
any, were raised in Hampshire, until the Scotch-Irish settled in 
Palmer, Pelham, Coleraine and Blandford. The people of North- 
ampton, Hadley and some other towns were indebted to the plant- 
ers of Pelham for their knowledge of potatoes, and of the manner 
of cultivating them. A few potatoes were planted in these towns 
as early as 1750, but not many until several years later. Josiah 
Pierce of Hadley raised 8 bushels in 1763, 60 bushels in 1766, 
and 130 bushels in 1769. Very few, if any, had so many. Most 
farmers were satisfied with a few bushels. They had in Hadley 
65 years ago, the cragged Spanish or hog potato, fit only for hogs, 
and a red potato used for the table. A good white potato followed. 
The potato disease began in some places in 1843, in Hadley in 
1844. 

After potatoes became plenty, the women of Hadley and other 
places made their starch of potatoes. 

Turnips. — The early settlers of New England sowed turnips, 
and in succeeding generations, they becam.e an important article 
of food. The price in Hampshire from 1700 to 1775 was com- 
monly equal to 1 1 cents, or 8 pence lawful, per bushel. Previous 
to 1775, more turnips than potatoes weie consumed in families 
in Hadley and other towns. They were raised on patches of new 
land, and in Hadley were often sowed on good land where barley 
had just been harvested, making two crops in one season. 

Pumpkins. — Those ripened under the suns of New England 
were much more dry and sweet than those produced in England. 
They were in some respects a substitute for apples. Josselyn 
calls stewed pumpkin with a little butter, spice and vinegar, 
"the ancient New England standing dish." Johnson of Woburn 
says in 165 1, "let no man make a jest of pumpkins, for with this 

throp and other early writers do not notice an Indian or English dish, composed of green 
corn and beans. The English did not probably cook succotash as early as 1750. Fifty 
years later, many preferred to have the corn and beans in separate dishes. — Sweet corn was 
hardly known here 60 years ago, and the boiled ears and the roasted ears were of the common 
corn. 

Nookhick, or nokehick, the Indian name of the meal of parched corn, was pronounced 
nocake, by the English, who sometimes hired Indian women to prepare it for them. Win- 
throp says the parched corn was "turned almost inside outward, and was white and floury." 
It must have resembled our parched pop-corn. Eliot in his Indian Bible, translated flour 
and meal by the word nookhick. 

*These Scotch-Irish were descendants of Scotch people who settled in the north of Ire- 
land about 100 years before. They were truly Scotch. They settled in Pelham in 1740. 
They made finer linen and thread than our English women could make, and they brought 
in the foot wheel for spinning flas. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 359 

fruit the Lord was pleased to feed his people till corn and cattle 
were increased."* Pumpkins have been raised to feed animals, 
in the river towns, from early days. 

Flax was cultivated by the early settlers of New England and 
by succeeding generations, until the establishment of cotton 
factories. Sixty and fifty years ago, flax was an important crop 
in old Hampshire, and was made into cloth in most families. f 
But so complete has been the change that few persons under 
thirty years of age, have ever seen a woman hatchel flax or card 
tow, or heard the buzzing of the foot wheel, or seen bunches of 
flaxen yarn hanging in the kitchen, or linen cloth whitening on 
the grass. The flax dresser, with the shives, fibres and dirt of 
flax covering his garments, and his face begrimmed with dust, 
has disappeared; the noise of his brake and swingling-knife has 
ended, and the boys no longer make bonfires of his swingling-tow. 
The sound of the spinning wheel, the song of the spinster and the 
snapping of the clock-reel have all ceased; the warping-bars and 
quill-wheel are gone, and the thwack of the loom is heard only 
in the factory. The spinning woman of king Lemuel cannot be 
found. This revolution, and a similar, later one in the household 
manufacture of wool, have made a great change in domestic life. 

Hemp and Ropes. — Small pieces of hemp were sown in the 
river towns, and both hemp and flax were used for ropes and 
cords. ij: There were men in Hadley and other towns, who made 



*Pumpkin Pies were early made in New England, and are mentioned by Johnson and 
Vanderdonck. When Johnson wrote, the English made pies also of apples, pears and 
quinces. The delicious pumpkin pie at the annual Thanksgiving, may remind us of the 
straightened circumstances of our fathers. 

Dried Pumpkins. — The English learned of the Indians to dry pumpkins. Fifty or 
sixty years ago most of the kitchens of Hampshire farmers, late in autumn, had poles sus- 
pended from the joists, loaded with pumpkins, cut into circular slices, running round the 
pumpkin, and pared. These were dried for pies and sauce. Those used for beer were not 
pared. A pumpkin-paring sometimes made a merry evening, as well as an apple paring. 

•j-Flax was absolutely necessary to past generations. Almost all the linen and tow cloth 
used for garments, sheets and other bed furniture, table cloths, napkins, towels and bags, 
was made in families. The mdustrious females also made linsey-woolsey of flax and wool, 
and other cloth of flax and cotton. The price of flax in N. E. currency previous to 1775, 
was from 5 pence to 8 pence, commonly near 6 pence, and that of tow about half as much. 

Tow cloth made of tow and flax, was an article of traffic more fhan half a century; it 
was sold to the traders, and it was sent to Hartford, Newport, &c. Th e v ves and daughters 
of farmers exchanged tow cloth, checked linen and woolen, and other clo' v tli the traders, 
and obtained stuff for gowns, and various other articles. 

J After 1 8 10, large pieces of hemp were raised in Hadley, several seasons, and good 
prices obtained. 

The wild hemp, (Apocynum cannabinum,) from which the Indians made lines and nets, 
still grows among us. 



360 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

cart-ropes, bed-cords, draw-ropes, leading-lines, teddering-lines, 
halters, ropes about nets, &c. Lieut, Noah Cook of Hadley made 
ropes 80 and 100 years ago; and William Cook and his son 
David W. Cook afterwards made ropes. 

Broom Corn and Brooms. — Broom corn, the Sorghum sac- 
charatum of the botanists, a native of India, has long been culti- 
vated in the southern part of Europe, chiefly for the seed, but 
brooms and brushes were made of it in Italy more than a century 
since. In this country. Dr. Franklin is said to have raised broom 
corn from one or two seeds found on an imported brush. Mr. 
Jefferson in 1781 placed broom corn among the productions of 
Virginia. Rev. Enoch Hale of Westhampton, in his Diary, May 
19, 1785, records that he "sowed broom.-corn;" and a few hills 
may have been planted in several gardens before 1797. Levi 
Dickinson of Hadley is however entitled to the credit of conceiving 
the plan of raising broom corn abundantly, and of supplying the 
country with brooms. He introduced a lucrative and important 
branch of industry, and females have been furnished with better 
sweeping utensils than they ever had before.* 

Levi Dickinson, a native of Wethersfield, Conn, obtained a 
little broom-seed, and planted some hills in his garden, on the 
upper part of the old back-street of Hadley, in 1797. From the 
seed of this he planted half an acre of broom corn in 1798, — the 
first half acre cultivated for brooms in America. In 1799 he 
planted an acre, and more in succeeding years. Strangers who 
were passing after the tall broom corn had put forth its panicles, 
wondered what it was, and many stopped to make inquiries. 
Mr. Dickinson made 20 or 30 brooms in 1797 and between 100 
and 200 in 1798. Heber, a colored man, began to tie on brooms 
for him, but Mr. D. contrived a better way; he sat in his chair, 
with the string round a roll under his feet, and wound it round 
the brush in his lap. The seed at first was scraped from the brush 
by a knife; afterwards by the edge of a hoe with a short handle, 

*The brooms of New England in early days resembled those of Old England. The best 
were made of hair or bristles and imported ; most were made here of twigs of birch and hem- 
lock, of rushes, husks, &c. In the last century, those called Indian brooms became the 
common brooms of the country. They were made of sticks of birch, ash, &c. long enough 
for the broom and handle; the broom being formed of two lengths of thin, tough splints or 
filaments, the upper doubling over the lower, and both at one end adhering to the handle. 
They were named splinter brooms. In 1762, a Northampton m.erchant had 761 brooms, 
valued at 6 pence each. Brooms were retailed at 8d. or 9d. People were supplied with 
Indian brooms till after 1800. Indians and squaws peddled brooms and baskets and 
begged for cider, in Hadley and other towns. In many families in the country, the fathers 
or boys made the brooms. The writer made a few Indian brooms when a boy. Oven- 
brooms were made of husks. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 361 

fastened to a bench. Upright teeth were used later. Mr. D. 
peddled brooms and reeds in a horse-cart, in Williamsburgh, 
Ashfield and Conway, in 1798, and some say in 1797. He re- 
marked that the day when he first sold a few brooms was the 
happiest day of his life; he had ascertained that some women 
liked his brooms and would buy them. In 1799, he went to Pitts- 
field with brooms, and about 1800 to New London. From the 
beginning, most people in Hadley thought he was visionary and 
his projects fanciful, and sneers and sarcasms were frequent. 
His friends at Wethersfield said to him tauntingly, "the Indians 
hereabouts make brooms." These things were very unpleasant, 
and he found obstacles and up-hill work, but he was not diverted 
from his course at all. He was a man of energy and perseverance, 
though of small estate and infirm in health, and he boldly predicted 
to the scoffers as early as 1801, that the broom business would be 
the greatest in the county. Such men have a little of the seer. 
His neighbors at length began to think he was doing well, and 
William Shipman, Solomon Cook and Levi Gale began to raise 
broom corn and make brooms about 1801. Cato, a negro, first 
planted broom corn in the meadow, perhaps in 1800. Mr. Dick- 
inson carried brooms to Boston and Albany, not far from 1805. 
He and others at first made their own handles, and the twine 
was spun from their own flax. After Hadley had commenced, 
some in Hatfield and Whately began to grow broom-corn and 
make brooms; Northampton followed some years later. The 
return of corn brooms made in Hampshire in 1810 was 70,000. 
Levi Dickinson died in 1843, aged 88. Long before his death, 
the broom business had been widely extended. 

The following returns of brooms and broom-corn in Hadley are not free from errors. 
Some of the aggregates may be too high. Much of the seed is sometimes destroyed by early 
frosts, as in this season, 1859. 

In 1850, the assistant marshal, Eleazar Porter, who took the census of Hadley, returned 
the Products of Industry for a year, which included 769,700 brooms, valued at $118,478, 
and 76,000 brushes, valued at $5970, all made at 41 places in Hadley. These were estimated 
to have taken 496 tons of broom brush, (not all raised in Hadley,) which cost $72,745, or 
about 7 J cents per pound. The handles, wire, twine, paint and varnish cost $15,274, or 
near two cents for each broom. 

In 1855, the assessors of Hadley returned 906 acres of broom corn, producing 700 lbs. 
per acre, worth at 10 cents per pound, 63,420 dollars; and 60 bushels of seed per acre, 
worth at 40 cents per bushel, 21,744 dollars. They returned brooms made in Hadley, 
641,120, valued at 118,550 dollars, and 35,000 brushes worth 2625 dollars. 

Hay Grasses, native and foreign. — The New England planters 
selected for mowing grounds, the low lands of the brook and river 
valleys, swampy uplands and salt marshes. Most of the native 
grasses were marsh and sedge grasses, and others of low value. 



362 HISTORY OF HADLEY ■ 

English grasses* were not named among our plants for some years, 
and it is believed that red clover, herdsgrass, English spear or 
June grass, sweet vernal grass, redtop grass, fescue grass and 
others have been introduced since New England was planted. 
Whether white clover is a native or an exotic, is an unsettled 
question. Among the native grasses which were found on the 
intervals of Northampton, Hadley and Hatfield, were three species 
of andropogon,t which are named thatch-grass, and two of them 
are valued by farmers, and have ever formed an important portion 
of the hay cut on the permanent grass grounds, which are often 
overflowed. These lands have been mowed once or twice every 
year for about two hundred years. 

Much of the higher parts of these intervals, that were not fre- 
quently flooded, were plowed from the beginning, and were sowed 
or planted almost every year, more than lOO years. Seldom was 
there a change from tillage to grass, or from grass to tillage. 

It has been erroneously asserted that grass seed was not sowed 
in this country previous to ijgo.l^ But the farmers of Rhode 
Island sowed hay-seed with chaff" before 1647. Edward Stebbins 
of Hartford had 100 bushels of hay-seed in chaflFfor sale, in May, 
1654, at two shillings a bushel. In 1650, William Pynchon of 
Springfield had "30 bushels of hay-seed," brought up the river. 
John Pynchon bought and sold hay-seed by the bushel several 
times, between 1655 and 1672; and he also sold "Flanders grass 
seed," at 4s. and 5s. per pound, which must have been clean 
clover seed. In 1658, he had a number of acres of "English 
grass." The General Court of Massachusetts in 1670 noticed 
three sorts of mowing, viz.. Salt marsh, fresh meadow, and English 
grass. Before 1670, there were spacious meadows of English 
grass on Long Island. Clover and other hay-seeds were sowed 
about Philadelphia in 1685. § 

*When our fathers emigrated from England, about 1630, the English had some good 
grasses, hut the clean seeds of clover and grasses were not sold so early in England. Chaff 
from haymows, and what Markham calls, "the sweepings of hay barns," were sowed before 
1630. 

■[•The three species are Andropogon furcatus, nutans and scoparius. They are all seen 
on sandy plains, and the latter, which is not of much worth, is scattered over some grave 
yards. These tall grasses were cut for thatched roofs, in early days — hence the Northamp- 
ton name, thatch-grass. They do not grow in the intervals on land that is swampy or very 
wet. 

jBy Livingston, in the American edition of Edinburgh Encyclopedia, Vol. I., p. 395. 

§White Clover diffused itself widely in America, as previously in Europe. It appeared 
far distant from the places where it had been sowed, after the land was plowed or broken 
up. It was abundant in New Jersey in 1684, in New York in 1738 as reported by C. Colden, 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 363 

Rev. Jared Eliot* of Killingworth, Conn, sowed the seed of 
red clover, fowl meadow,f English spear and herdsgrass in 1747. 
Clover seed was advertised in Boston and Philadelphia in 1730, 
and frequently in Boston from 25 to 45 years later. Fowl meadow 
and herdsgrass were advertised in 1756, and redtop in 1765. 
Women imported and sold seeds. In 1773, of ten persons that 
advertised grass and garden seeds in Boston, seven were females. $ 

Clover and Grass Seed in Hadley, &c. — When hay-seed could 
be procured at Springfield and Hartford, it may be supposed that 
some was scattered on the homelots of Hadley, and that English 
grass grev/ there before 1700. During most of the last century, 
good hay from homelots, and some from other uplands in Hadley 
and elsewhere, was often denominated English hay. 

In 1757, Israel Clark of South Hadley, Simeon Clark of East 
Hadley and Col. Seth Pomeroy of Northampton, sent to Boston 
for clover seed, by William Clark of Northampton. This is the 
first record found of clover seed being brought to these towns. 
In 1762, Eliakim. Smith bought clover seed in Hadley at is. 4d, 
per pound; and in 1764 it was sold in Northampton, at is. 3d. 
In 1765, Oliver Smith of Hadley sold fowl meadow seed at 7d. 
per quart, and herdsgrass at lod. per pound. Josiah Pierce of 
Hadley bought fowl meadow, herdsgrass and clover seed in 1765. 
Enos Smith bought clover seed in 1775 and 1779. Undoubtedly 
a few others in Hadley, Amherst, South Hadley and Granby sowed 
grass seed, clean or in chaff, before the peace of 1783, but the 
number was not large. The clover of the last century was long 
and trailing, and less valuable than that of the present day. 
Oliver Smith sold clover hay in 1783, '84 and '85. In those days, 
grass seeds and chaff were sowed principally in the upland towns, 

and was observed by farmers in the new towns of Hampshire, and of other parts of Massa- 
chusetts. Hutchinson remarked about 1760, that white clover seed was supposed to be in 
the earth in all parts of the country. White clover grew on lands in the western states after 
(hey were plowed, where it had not been sowed by men. 

*Mr. Eliot began to publish his "Essays upon Field Husbandry'' in 1748, the first agri- 
cultural publication in America. He was encouraged by Doct. Franklin. 

•j-More than one species of grass has been named fowl meadow. In this vicinity, many 
believe that poa serotina is the true fowl meadow, though poa nervata is so named by some 
botanists. I have noticed more of the poa serotina in Fort meadow in Hadley, than else- 
where in that town. 

jMuch mercantile business was done in Boston by women in the last century. They 
dealt in millinery and most kinds of dry goods, in grass, garden and flower seeds, in crock- 
ery, groceries, &c. 



364 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

and on uplands in the river towns. The grasses found in late 
years on the lower intervals are added in a note.* 

Apples and Cider. — The second Henry Wolcott of Windsor 
early set an orchard, and began to sell apples and cider in 1648. 
See page 66. He sold some quinces. For some years, he had no 
mill, and his apples were pounded by hand. He planted a nursery, 
and it may be inferred from his accounts, that he sold near 2000 
trees from 1647 to 1654, from Springfield to Stratford. Among 
his trees were engrafted apple trees and many pear trees. 

The settlers of Northampton and Hadley planted apple trees 
and a few other fruit trees, and apples, cider and boiled cider 
appear as early as 1677, and some quinces, pears and vinegar 
were sold in Northampton. At first they crushed their apples with 
pounders in troughs, as was often done in England; and cider 
millsf are not found in our records previous to 1700. For many 
years after 1700, beer was more generally drank than cider,J 
but the use of the latter was increasing. Orchards were numerous 
in Hampshire before the revolution, and they seem to have been 
much more extensive after 1783. The demand for cider to drink 
and to distill induced farmers to set out large orchards. There 



*The Grasses that grow in Aquavitae, a permanent river-meadow in Hadley, 
from examinations made in 1851 and 1852. They are numbered according to their product. 
The thatch grasses yield the most and are No. i. The redtop is the nest in quantity and is 
No. 2, and so on. The botanical names are added. 

1. Thatch grass. [Andropogon furcatus, nutans and scoparious. 

2. Redtop and a little whitetop. [Agrostis vulgaris and alba. 

3. English spear grass. [Poa pratensis and trivialis. 

4. Quack or Couch grass. [Triticum repens. 

5. Clover, red and white. [Trifolium pratense and repens. 

These form more than seven-eighths of the grasses in the first crop of hay. The rest are 
panicum virgatum and other panicums; four wet poas, viz., aquatica, serotina, nervata and 
canadensis; calamagrostis, aira, carex, or sedges of several species, and others. The field 
horse-tail is common, and there are herbs and flowers. 

The rowen or second crop contains the same species of grass as the first crop, but the 
proportion is different. 

The grasses numbered from i to 5 and the others named form almost all the crop in 
Indian Hollow in Hatfield, and Old Rainbow in Northampton, and other permanent river 
meadows in the three towns. 

The grasses in old homelots that have been long in grass, not including wet places, are 
chiefly of seven sorts, viz., vernal, herd's, English spear, fescue and redtop grass, and red 
and white clover. 

+In 1762 and after, Samuel Gaylord had a cider mOl near where the Academy now stands, 
and made cider at 6 shillings a barrel, old tenor, near 10 pence. Sometimes it was made for 
8 pence. — Cider mills so numerous in Hampshire, 50 years ago, are rarely seen now. 

Children were always fond of sucking cider through straws from barrels at cider mUls. 
In France, children are said to suck wine in the same manner. 

Jit was estimated in Boston in 1728, that a family of 9 persons, ''of middle figure," con- 
sumed in a year, 12 barrels of beer, 4 barrels of cider and 6 gallons of wine. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 365 

was a small distillery* in Northampton, 1 762-1 770, but none on 
the east side of the river. According to the returns of assessors 
in 1 77 1, the cider made in Hadley, South Hadley, Amherst and 
Granby averaged 4J barrels to a house. In later years, when a 
great quantity of cider was distilled, much more was brought up 
from the cellars of these towns yearly, by the mug-ful, than all 
that was made in 1771. Pelham made more cider in 1 77 1 than 
either of the four towns. 

Hadley has not been distinguished for its fruit trees and fruits. 
The late Col. Moses Porter told me that he thought there was 
not an engrafted apple tree in Hadley in 1791, nor for some years 
after. I find others who do not differ from him. Yet there was 
in 1 79 1, and probably had been for a century, a moderate supply 
of pretty good natural fruit, for eating in summer and winter, for 
sauce, drying, &c. In Granby and other towns there were native 
trees that produced very good apples. In Hadley and the ad- 
joining towns, most of the old apple trees are gone, and there are 
many trees that have been engrafted or budded within 25 years, 
and some families had such trees lone before. 

Fifty and sixty years ago, there were in Hadley but few peaches, 
plums and quinces, some pears, and many of the sourish cherries. 
There are now better cherries and more plums, quinces and 
pears. Most of the peach trees have perished in late years, 
though many small trees remain. More attention is given to fruit. 

Apple Molasses. — In Hadley and other towns, 50 and 60 years 
ago, were many trees of luscious sweet apples, from which apple 
molasses was made, by boiling the apples or boiling the cider. 
This molasses was used on puddings, in pies, &c. There were 
apples named by some "skunk sweetings." — May have been of 
the same kind as those referred to by Dudley in the note.f 

*The old village of Hadley never had a distillery, but it has been cursed by intoxicating 
drinks, like other places. There was a distillery at Hockanum, after 1800, and much cider 
was carted from the old village to a distillery in Amherst. Every distillery made drunkards. 
— There were 65 distilleries of cider and grain in old Hampshire in 18 10. 

The price of cider in this neighborhood during most of the last century was from four 
to six shillings per barrel; sometimes only 3s. or 3s. 4d. 

Some poetry in the Hampshire Gazette, in May, 1792, gives to lovers of cider, a rosy 
countenance, ruddy nose and running eyes. 

■j-Paul Dudley of Rosbury, in communications to the Royal Society, in 1722 and 1724, 
represented that our apples and pears were as good as those of England, and our peaches 
better than the English, and that peach trees commonly bore in three years from the stone. 
Most of our cherries were the red, sourish ones. One town made near 10,000 barrels of 
cider in 1721. The people planted many "summer sweetings," and fattened swine with 
the apples, and made apple molasses from the cider. 



366 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Beer. — Household beer was made in most families in these river 
towns more than 150 years, and some strong beer was brewed. 
Malt was used more freely in early than in later times. When 
cider became plenty, beer was still drank. In Hadley, 60 years 
ago, beer was generally brewed once a week; malt, hops, dried 
pumpkin, dried apple parings, and sometimes rye bran, birch 
twigs and other things, were put into the brewing kettle, and the 
liquor was strained through a sieve. This beer was used at home 
and was carried into the meadows by the farmers.* 

Gardens. — The inhabitants of this valley have always ' had 
gardens, and cultivated some common garden vegetables,f the 
women often aiding formerly. Our fore-mothers had, as in 
England, medicinal herbs| in the garden. Many females had a 
small plat of flowers. § 

Many in Old and New England imported garden seeds, deem- 
ing foreign seeds the best. Our own seeds were advertised in 
Boston in 1773, as "suitable for the West Indies." "All sorts of 
Garden seeds from London" were advertised in Boston in 1719, 
and in most years down to 1 800. Many of the sellers were women || 
before 1775. Farmers in the country generally sowed their own 
seeds. — Charles Phelps of Hadley had a fine fruit and flower 
garden 50 and 60 years ago, having a Scotch gardener. 

The price of apples in these towns after 1700, was from 8d. to is. per bushel. Oliver 
Smith of Hadley sold many winter apples and apples for paring, after 1760, at 8 pence per 
bushel and some at a shilling. 

There were apple-parings in the autumn, in almost all families, for apple sauce and 
dried apples. 

New Englanders liked baked and roasted apples. There were tin apple-roasters 150 
years ago, but in general, apples sputtered on the hearth while roasting. 

Edward Yeomans had a nursery of choice fruit trees at Westfield in 1789, and one at 
Northampton a few years later. David Tracy of Norwich, Mass. succeeded him after i8oo, 
and had nurseries in several towns. 

*Yeast to make dough light, was taken from the settlings of the beer barrel, and called 
''emptyings." The old leaven, sour dough, was formerly used by some. Yeast from dis- 
tilleries was first brought to houses in Northampton not far from 1830, and to Hadley about 
10 or 12 years later. 

Hops grew wild in the valley of the Connecticut but not in sufficient quantity; most 
farmers had a few hop vines and poles as long as family beer was brewed. The price of 
hops was commonly from 6 to 8 pence per pound from 1700 to 1800, in N. E. currency. 

j-A woman of Hadley informed me, that the new vegetables, rhubarb and tomatoes were 
used in one or two families in that town in 1821. 

jThe medicinal herbs from England were rue, tansy, wormwood, sage, balm, hyssop, 
peppermint, catnip, coltsfoot, comfrey, elecampane, gill-go-over-the-ground and many 
others. 

§A11 old ladies whom I have questioned, and some were born before 1760, told me that 
they and others had little flower beds when young. But there was nothing like the present 
fondness for flowers. 

||Women first advertised garden seeds in Northampton — Temperance Gibbs in 1790, 
and widow Esther Wright from 1791 to 1801. 



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CHAPTER XXXI I I 

Domestic Animals, &c. — Horses — Oxen — Fat Cattle — Butchers — Cows — Swine — Pork and 
Bacon — Puddings and Sausages — Sheep and Wool and Trade to Newport — Domestic 
Fowls — Geese — Bees and Honey — Tobacco — Butter and Cheese — Flax seed and Oil-^ 
Berries — Nuts — Maple Sugar — Soap — Lights — Time-pieces — Blue Dyeing — Cotton — 
Rags — Sleighs — Carriages — Wagon to and from Boston — Time of Planting, Harvesting, 
&c. — Statistics of four Towns, 1771. 

Horses, Oxen and Cows were not plenty in these towns for 
some years after the settlement of Hadley. When they became 
numerous, prices were reduced. 

Horses. — The horses which obtained most of their living upon 
the commons, were cheaply raised, and were often much neg- 
lected, yet there were always some good horses in Hampshire. 
In the last quarter of the 17th century, horses were valued at 
various prices, from 30 to 120 shillings each in provision pay. 
The money price was full one-third less. A few horses were worth 
from 15 to 25 dollars as money. In the next century, horses re- 
ceived more attention, and between 1750 and 1775, they were 
worth from 7 to 32 dollars each, and a few, 40 dollars or more. 
The most valuable horse noticed is that of Rev. Chester Williams 
of Hadley, apprized at 66§ dollars in 1754.* 

Horses were chiefly used under the saddle. Down to 1750, 
there were very few sleighs and no wheel-vehicles for horses to 
draw. Horses were used in some farming operations before oxen, 
and a horse drew the corn plow and harrow, and the wheel of 
the cider mill. The harness was very simple. f In the next 50 
years, horses did not take the place of oxen on the farm but a 
horse was often the leader of a team. Horses from Hampshire 
were shipped to the West Indies from Connecticut ports more 
than 150 years. I In a law of 1668, 14 hands were judged to be 

*Col. Eleazar Porter's best horse was valued at only 20 dollars in 1758, and Capt. Moses 
Porter's at 31 dollars in 1756. 

•j-The tackling consisted of a head-stall, collar, hames, rope-traces and lines, and for the 
sleigh, a holdback. The leather part of this gear was made by the shoemaker or tailor, and 
the rest by the carpenter and rope-maker. For a century, there was no such mechanic as 
a harness maker in the county. The stuffed part of the neck harness was the collar, and 
the two crooked pieces of wood, the hames, both so named in England. Dutch collars of 
leather were later. 

^Between 50 and 60 years ago, Chileab Smith & Co. and their successors in Hadley, 
occasionally gave notice that they wished to purchase 20 or 30 shipping horses, and had for 
sale, 15, 20 or more hhds. of rum. 

The colors of horses were the same 200 years ago as since — black, brown, bay, sorrel, 
white, gray, roan, &c. 

In Hadley, horses were often teddered, and could feed only to the extent of the rope, and 
many were restrained by fetters. 



368 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

a good height for horses, and most of the horses advertised in 
the last century were reported to be "about 14 hands high;" a 
few were 15 hands. There were ambling or pacing horses, and 
some were described as "natural pacers," and others were said 
to trot, or to trot and pace. The hire of horses in Northampton 
and Hadley, from 1700 to 1775, was commonly equal to one and 
a half penny lawful, per mile, and from 1783 to 1800, two pence, 
and a little more when a horse carried double. 

Oxen. — In Hampshire, oxen were the principal animals in 
the labors of husbandry, to the close of the last century, and some 
years later.* The oxen and cart conveyed loads on the highways, a 
few miles and many miles.f A few two horse wagons were em- 
ployed on the roads, the latter part of the century. — The price 
of working oxen in Hampshire, from 1680 to 17 15, reduced to 
our present currency, was from 17 to 28 dollars a yoke. From 
1750 to 1775, the price was from 23 to 37 dollars a pair, and a 
few were worth 40 dollars. For a few years after 1783, good 
cattle for the stall were bought from 40 to 45 dollars a yoke. 

Fat Cattle. — John Pynchon sent cattle in the fall, from Spring- 
field to Boston, before 1655; and he sent winter-fattened cattle 
in the spring before 1670, and many years after. It is not known 
when the farmers of Northampton, Hadley and Hatfield began 
to stall-feed oxen for market. It is manifest from the records of 
Hatfield, that a number of cattle were fattened there in the winter 
of 1696-7, and that this was not a new business. In April, 1701, 
23 fat oxen were purchased in Hampshire and Connecticut, for 
15^ dollars each on an average, in our present money, and they 
were sold at Boston for 17^^ dollars each. — William Clark of 
Northampton, drove fat cattle to Cambridge from 1753 to 1757, 
and his papers give the weight of 12 oxen, which was from 607 
to 970 pounds, and averaged 767 pounds. They were sold from 
i6s. 8d. to 20s. per 100 pounds. J Few if any cattle were sold 
above 20 shillings, down to 1775. 

There was some horse-stealing in New England, though less than in other colonies. 
Horse thieves were hanged in several colonies and in England, but not in New England. 

*A Hadley man estimates that half the farm-teams in that town were oxen, or oxen and 
horses together, as late as 1825. 

+The sick and wounded, and sometimes the slain, were moved by cattle and cart. Doc- 
tors Gardiner and Douglass of Boston extracted a stone from the bladder of Jonathan 
Atherton, at Hadley, June 9, 1743. ^^' Crouch took care of him in Hadley until Oct. 5, 
when, the account says, "he went home to East Hadley in Samuel Hawley's cart." There 
was no other way to remove the feeble sufferer. A cart was the only vehicle with wheels in 
Hadley, in 1743. 

jTwo of these oxen belonged to John Cook of Hadley, and weighed 747 and 803 pounds. 
They were sold in 1755 at is. jd. per lb. old tenor,equal to i8s. lod. per 100 lbs. lawful, 



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Grass-fed Cattle. — Before and after 1700, the price of steers, 
cows and other beeves in Hampshire, in October, November 
and December, was from five to six farthings per pound, or from 
IDS. 6d. to I2S. 6d. per hundred in money. A few were sold at 
one penny per pound. The price of fall beef in Hadley, when 
Mr. Hopkins was settled in 1754, (see page 324,) was 13s. 6d. 
per hundred. In 1789, it was from 15s. to i6s. 8d. per 
hundred.* 

Grass-fed cattle were driven to Boston from Hampshire in the 
17th and 1 8th centuries,! and great numbers after the grazing 
towns were settled. Many were barreled for market, in Hadley 
and other parts of the county. 

Cows. — Milk was formerly a much more important part of 
the food of families than now.| Children and many adults com- 
monly had milk with bread or hasty pudding for breakfast and 



and came to $48,79. One yoke belonging to Lt. Montague of South Hadley, weigb.ed 1622 
pounds, and were sold in 1757 at is. 4d. per lb. old tenor, and came to $48,06. 

The late Col. Moses Porter of Hadley went to Boston with fat cattle every year for 51 
years, beginning in 1791. Joseph Hooker went with him some years. The price in 1791 
was about four dollars per hundred, but the best brought a guinea. Many farmers in Hadley 
stall-fed a few cattle 50 and 60 years ago; more are fed now, probably about 300 yearly. 
Edxnund and Chester Smith, in the eastern part of the town, fatten above 80. 

*Butchers. — Oliver Thayer, who came from Braintree about 1783 and settled in Wil- 
liamsburgh, was the first man in this vicinity that bought and slaughtered animals for the 
fresh meat market. He commenced about 1787, and for many years, brought his meat to 
Northampton in panniers or baskets, one on each side of his horse. He came once or twice 
a week, during about four months, beginning in June. For four or five years, he sold veal, 
lamb and mutton at two pence, and two pence half penny per pound, and rarely at three 
pence. He did not bring beef. He sold butter at six pence. 

Before and after 1800, meat was occasionally brought to Hadley in panniers or baskets, 
from Pelham and other towns, and sold to innkeepers and a few others. Asahel Wright 
from Northampton sold meat in Hadley regularly about 1805, and he afterwards removed 
to Hadley and butchered there some years. The late Hiram Thayer, who carried on the 
business in Hadley about 15 years, was a grandson of Oliver Thayer, and Justin Thayer of 
Northampton, long engaged in the same and other employments, is another grandson. 

The people were not destitute of fresh meat, before there were regular butchers. When 
a man killed an animal, he sold some, and he lent some to his neighbors, who made a return 
when they killed. In the winter, fresh meat could be kept a long time. 

■j-The butchers about Boston bought cattle on credit the first half of the last century, and 
were often sued at the Hampshire courts. 

Jin a discussion in the Boston newspapers in 1728, respecting the expense of housekeep- 
ing in Boston, "of families of a middling figure," including ministers, three writers gave all 
persons in these families only bread and milk for breakfast and supper. A minister in 
1737, in calculating the expenses of his family, set down nothing but bread and milk for 
breakfast and supper. We may suppose however, that the adults in those families had 
some food besides bread and milk. 



370 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

supper.* Care was not taken by some however to have a supply 
of milk one or two months in the winter.f 

After cows became plenty, their value before and after 1700, 
reduced to dollars, was from 6h to 9 dollars. Previous to 1775, 
the price was from 7 to 1 1 dollars, and for some years after 1788, 
from 8 to 13 dollars. 

Eighty years ago, a large part of the milch cows and other neat 
cattle in Hadley obtained most of their food from the highways 
and woods, during several months until the meadows were opened. 
Towards night "the lowing herd wound slowly o'er the lea" and 
came home; some needed the aid of a driver. Many creatures 
wore bells, and their tinkling noise did not cease through the 
day. Sixty years ago, bells were heard in the roads and unfenced 
woods. J In old accounts and inventories are found cowbells, 
oxbells and sheepbells. 

Swine. — These prolific animals, which arrive so early at ma- 
turity, were very useful to the early planters of Massachusetts 
and other colonies. They became plenty much sooner than neat 
cattle. Our fathers in this valley had the English swine, which 
originally came from the wild hog. They had arched and narrow 
backs, were excellent runners, and good to fight bears and wolves in 
the woods, and are supposed to have preyed upon rattle snakes. 
In the forest counties of England, hogs were fattened on acorns, 
beech-nuts, and other mast, ending with peas. In New England, after 
the mast, here called shack, Indian corn was given instead of peas. 

John Pynchon purchased and barreled a great number of hogs 
between 1662 and 1683. The weight of 162 hogs amounted to 
27,409 pounds, averaging about 170 pounds each. 16 weighed 
less than 120 pounds each and 25 weighed above 200 pounds. 
The two heaviest were 270 and 282 pounds. Pynchon's prices 

*Other milk dishes were pumpkin and milk, berries and milk, and roasted and baked 
apples and milk, often with bread. 

•{•Those of us born in the last century, and some in the present, remember the short al- 
lowance of boiled skim-milk, a few weeks in the winter, and the cider used instead of milk. 
Many children were fond of bread and cider. The cider was not very sour and it was di- 
luted with water, sweetened with molasses and warmed in a basin, and the bread was toasted. 
Some poetry in the Hampshire Gazette, May, 1792, says people often make use of cider 
with bread, "for want of porridge, milk and tea." 

John Pynchon gave to his cows fanciful and flowery names, as Rose, Primrose, Straw- 
berry, Red Cherry, Black Cherry, Gentle, Pretty, Bosse, Hopewell, &c. His cows and 
other horned cattle were black, red and brown; — black was the most common color. A 
number had a white streak along the back. 

jHadley prohibited all cattle but cows from running at large on the commons in 1800, 
and cows were included in the prohibition in 1801. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 371 

were ihd., 2|d. and 3d. in his "town pay," — averaging about 
two pence in pine tree money.* 

The people of Hadley barreled pork in these years, and sold 
some to Pynchon and sent some to Hartford and Boston. f 

A century later, 1766-1768, Timothy Dwight of Northampton, 
bought 50 hogs, which averaged 201 pounds. The price then and 
down to 1 775, was from 2|d. to 3d. per lb. ; many were sold at 4 cop- 
pers or 2fd. Deac. E.Hunt of Northampton killed a hog that weigh- 
ed 335 lbs. in 1 774— the first one over 300 lbs. recorded in this vicinity. 

Salt Pork and Bacon. — The people of New England in the 17th 
century preserved meat for family use in a tub-shaped vessel, 
called a "powdering tub." To powder meat, was to salt or corn 
it. Some of the pork was kept in brine, but many sides were 
salted in large pieces, and then smoked in the great kitchen 
chimney. These smoked sides were the "flitches of bacon," of 
the old records. The people of Hadley, down to 1700, had pow- 
dering tubs with salt pork, and flitches of bacon; they had no 
pork hams prepared diff"erently from the sides. + 

Puddings and Sausages. — Of old, the word puddings denoted 
the bowels of an animal. "Pudding Lane" in London received 
its name from the puddings of hogs slaughtered there. The 
intestines of animals, cleansed and filled with eatables, were 
called puddings. When Markham published his "English House- 
wife," before 1631, puddings of many kinds were put into intes- 
tines and boiled. Links or sausages were puddings, and are 
named "Hogs-puddings" in the Spectator, No. 269. The bowel 
skins were not much used in New England except for sausages. 

*The lightness of swine when butchered, in former days, was owing in part to the frame 
and form of the breed. There were no choice breeds. The only colors of swine noticed by 
John Pynchon are black and sandy. 

•j-Barrels sent to market held 220 lbs. of pork, and sometimes 240 lbs. of beef. Massa- 
chusetts reduced the quantity in a barrel to 200 lbs. in 1782. Some pork was sent to mar- 
ket, even down to the revolution, that had four half heads and eight legs in a barrel of 220 
pounds. Connecticut pork, including that of Hampshire, was highly valued in Boston. 

Hogs, fat and lean, were driven from Connecticut River to Boston more than a century since. 

The younger part of the community never saw a hog in the highways with a yoke on his 
neck and a ring in his snout. The old laws of Massachusetts directed that hogs that went 
at large should wear a yoke as long up and down, as two and a half times the depth of his 
neck, with a bottom piece three times as long as the thickness of the neck. Ringing and 
yoking hogs were formerly common in England. 

JThe people of New England, in using powdering-tubs, and in smoking sides of pork, 
followed the practices of Old England. Sometime in the last century they had meat barrels 
and smoked only hams. Salt pork kept in brine has been the principal meat of New Eng- 
land farmers during most of the year, for several generations. In this, they have differed 
from the English. 

Lard. — The swine of former days did not yield lard abundantly, but there was no lack 
of that article, for the people required much less than the same number now. The old 
name was suet. The price was nearly the same as that of butter and tallow. 



372 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Sheep and Wool. — John Pynchon and others bought sheep at 
Rhode Island in 1655, and at Sudbury in 1656. There were 
sheep in the towns above the falls soon after 1660, and they were 
gradually increased. Though so much care was requisite to pre- 
serve them from beasts of prey, their value during a century after 
1690, was commonly only from 4 to 6 shillings each, in dollars 
at 6 shillings; some were worth 8 shillings. The price of live 
sheep in 1790 was one penny per pound. Merino sheep were 
first brought over in 1802.* 

The cash price of wool on Connecticut River, before 1700, 
was from 8 pence to one shilling per pound. Previous to the 
revolution in 1775, it had advanced about 50 per cent, and was 
from one shilling to is. 6d. Wool was bought at Newport at one 
shilling in 1709, and at is. 4d. in 1775. 

For three-fourths of a century, commencing about 1700, some 
families in these Norwottuck towns, occasionally sent to "the 
Island,"! as Newport, R. I. was called, for wool and other 
things. The diligent housewives made woolen cloth for garments 
and bed coverings, and they knit stockings. They "sought wool 
and flax," and cotton, "and worked willingly with their hands." 
They and their daughters were manufacturers, and a part of 
almost every house in our country towns was a factory, at times. { 

*The Hadley sheep run in the streets until 1790, and a part of two or three later seasons. 
Their pasture and that of the geese were the same. In warm days, many collected under 
the old meeting house. 

Between 600 and 1000 sheep are fattened in Hadley every winter. 

■j-Newport was a place of much business before the revolution; one branch of its trade 
was the infamous slave trade. Northampton men began to traffic at the island not far from 
1700. Men from Hadley and other towns traded at Newport, but few of their names can 
now be found. Jonathan Preston of South Hadley went to Newport in 1758, John Eastman 
of Hadley in 1762, Samuel Gaylord of Hadley in 1765, and Reuben Smith, supposed of 
South Hadley, in 1775. 

Those who went to the island from these towns did business for all who wished, often 
for twenty or thirty. They carried for them much tow cloth, some whitened cloth, many 
bags and a little cash, and obtained wool, molasses, sugar, indigo, tea, &c. The heavy 
articles were sent home by water by way of Hartford, and when they arrived, the purchaser 
went from house to house, and distributed the wool, molasses, &c. 

JCarding machines, which were built in many towns in a few years after 1802, relieved 
women who carded wool. One was erected in Northern Amherst in 1803, one at the Lower 
Mills (Smith's) in Hadley in 1805, and one at North Hadley, a few years later. In those 
days, before there were one horse wagons, girls sometimes carried behind them on a horse, 
a bundle of wool almost as high as their heads. 

Some of the best wool was combed and not carded, and worsted was spun from this. 

The household manufacture of wool continued in Hadley and elsewhere many years in 
the present century. It ceased in many families before 1822, and continued longer in some. 
In general the rising generation know not how their grandmothers made cloth. — (See the 
end of this chapter.) 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 373 

Domestic Fowls. — The dunghill cock and hen were brought to 
New England by the early settlers.* They were in Springfield 
before 1645; ^^^ ^^ "^^7 ^^ concluded that the crowing of cocks 
at day-break, and the cra-ing and cackling of hens, were heard 
in the towns above Springfield soon after they were settled. 
One hundred and fifty years ago, these fowls were sold from four 
pence to six pence each, and eggs at three pence per dozen; 
and their feathers were used for beds. Hens then caught grass- 
hoppers and scratched in gardens. A century later or about 1800, 
the price was from eight pence to one shilling each, and that of 
eggs sixpence per dozen. For some generations, the chicken pie 
has been a Thanksgiving dish, and the young people have some- 
times cracked the "wish-bone" at the Thanksgiving table. 

Tame Turkeys were not common when wild ones were plenty, 
and have never been numerous in Hadley. 60 years ago, some 
were barbarously set up as marks and shot at, and some were 
cooked for the Thanksgiving dinner. 

Geese. — Domestic Geese were rare in Massachusetts for a long 
time. Vast numbers of wild geese and other water fowl were 
shot on the seacoast, and great quantities of feathers were plucked 
from them and sold for beds. I have seen no evidence that there 
were geese in the Hampshire towns for more than sixty years 
after Hadley was settled. Many men who were fitting out a daugh- 
ter, purchased in Boston, feathers for at least one bed. Geese 
began to appear in inventories of estates in Hampshire, about 
1740. They were valued at is. and is. 4d. each. In 1776, Titus 
Pomeroy of South Hadley had 21 geese, valued at is. 8d. each. 
Some were 3s. each before 1800. — There were many geese in 
most towns, in the early part of this century. 

Hadley was as remarkable for geese perhaps as any town in 
New England, the latter part of the last, and early part of the 
present century. Most families had a flock of geese, and they 
abounded in the broad street and in other streets; their clanking 
noisef was almost incessant by day, and was often heard at night. 
They fed on the grass in the public ways and frequented the 
puddles and ponds that were formerly in the streets, and fouled 
the streets exceedingly. Some carried yokes, made from a 
crotched branch with a bottom piece, or from a shingle with a hole 

*According to Josselyn, New England wives were hostile to crowing hens and spurred 
hens. It was an old saying in England, that 

Whistling girls and crowing hens, 
Always come to some bad end. 
■{•The loud noise of geese was called "squawking," in this part of the country. White 
of Selhorne says: — "The voice of the goose is trumpet-like and clanking." 



374 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

in it. In the winter, they were kept in barnyards, and goslings 
when young were in yards near the house. Much of the year, 
each flock rested at night in the street, not far from the homestead 
of their owner, and often near the front gate. Geese were of old 
reputed to be vigilant, and a Hadley woman, some years since, 
gave me the following account. One goose in each flock appeared 
to watch in the night, and if a dog, or other animal, or a young 
man on his return from courting, disturbed the sentinel, he gave 
an alarm, which was repeated by the flock in loud notes, and the 
clamor was continued from flock to flock through the street and 
into other streets, until the village seemed in an uproar. 

The Hadley geese were commonly picked four times in a year, 
but some five times and a few only three times. About three- 
fourths of a pound of feathers were obtained at four pickings. 
The quills were pulled but once; many were shed in the streets. 
The women and girls of Hadley, of families that owned geese, 
knew how to pick them. This was cruel and most disagreeable 
work. They put on worn and faded garments, tied a handker- 
chief over the hair to keep it from the down, and drew a stocking 
over the head of each goose which they picked, to prevent its biting. 

"The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, 
The playful children just let loose from school," 

were both in Hadley street, as they had been in Goldsmith's De- 
serted Village, and both were noisy. — When the congregation 
left the meeting-house, on the Sabbath and other days, they made 
their way among flocks of geese, and were greeted by their clam- 
orous cries.* 

The geese furnished feathers for families, and for daughters 
about to be married, and for sale.f They were a great nuisance 
and were so esteemed by a number of families who did not keep 
geese, and by some men that did, and they had many enemies. 
Boys now and then killed a goose, and after the Academy was 
established in 1817, the scholars from other places united with 
the town boys against the geese, and some were missing, at times. 



*Giles C. Kellogg, Esq. says the geese sometimes made so much noise in the time of 
public service, that he lost many fine sentences of Dr. Woodbridge's sermons. Mr. Kellogg 
thinks that Chickopee street in the town of Springfield, was nearly as full of geese as Hadley, 
fifty or sixty years since. 

[^- -j-The price of geese feathers in this part of Hampshire, in old tenor, was i8 shillings per 
pound. This sum was changed to 2s. 5d. lawful in 1750, and 2s. 5d. continued to be the 
price in Hadley and other towns more than 40 years. Feathers afterwards rose to 4s. and 
4s. 6d. per pound. — The Suffield feather-peddlers are not yet forgotten. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 375 

The war became exterminating, about 1828. Flocks of geese 
were driven some distance in the night, killed, and left in a pile. 
Heaps of dead geese were found east, west and south of the vil- 
lage, and above 60 geese are said to have been collected in one 
heap. The Academy boys and others destroyed a large portion 
of the geese in the village, and those kept after 1828 required 
much care and attention. All have since disappeared. 

Bees and Honey. — The early settlers of Connecticut trans- 
ported bees from the towns about Boston, and they had many 
hives before 1648, especially at Windsor. There were hives or 
skeps of bees at Northampton and Hadley in early days. Many 
ministers formerly kept bees. Honey was sold in the last century, 
at about 8 pence per pound, beeswax at one shilling, and metheg- 
lin at 10 dollars per barrel. Many hives were made of straw. 
The bees were suffocated with fire and brimstone, as in England. 
Bees were never plenty in Hadley. 

Swarms of bees sometimes flew to the woods, and the racket 
made by beating pans and kettles did not check them. Bees have 
inhabited hollow trees in the woods of Hadley and other forests 
from time immemorial,* and many persons have hunted for bee 
trees. Those found were marked, and afterwards cut down and 
the honey taken out. There is still some bee hunting. 

Tobacco. — This nauseous and noxious plant, first used by the 
American Indians, was cultivated in Europe before 1570. It was 
smoked by men and women, and in after years was assailed in 
vain by European sovereigns, and the General Courts of New 
England. It was pretended in Europe and America, that tobacco 
had medicinal virtues. Smoking was so common in New England 
in 1676, that Mrs. Rowlandson says an invitation to smoke, "is 
a usual compliment nowadays among saints and sinners." She 
smoked before she was captured, and found the use of tobacco 
"bewitching." Soldiers in England and America loved liquor 
and tobacco, and in Philip's war, it was necessary many times 
to send tobacco to soldiers, who were to pay for it from their 
wages. Capt. Poole, who commanded at Hadley in the winter 
of 1675-76, sent to Hartford for 50 pounds of tobacco, for the 
soldiers in these towns. 

In the 17th and i8th centuries, merchants sold pipes in abun- 
dance, many tobacco tongs to light pipes, tobacco boxes before 
chewing commenced, as well as after, and tobacco. The chewing 

*Rev. J. Judd of Southampton says in his Diary, Oct. 20, 1746, — "went to hunt bees." 
Bees were doubtless hunted in this vicinity long before. 



376 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

of tobacco is noticed in 1704; it is not known when it began. 
The Boston Courant complained in 1724, of the enormous use 
of tobacco, in smoking, chewing and snufF-taking. The accounts 
of some traders in Hampshire in the last century, show that they 
sold many pipes as well as spices, a few days before Thanksgiving; 
and that innkeepers sometimes bought a gross or more of pipes 
at once.* Many of the clergy were smokers. Connecticut paid 
for pipes and tobacco for the General Court. Yet many men 
did not use tobacco. 

In Hadley, 60 and 70 years ago, many elderly men and women 
smoked, and some men chewed. These women seemed to have 
a pleasant time with their pipes when they came together. The 
plastering of some rooms is said to have been tarnished by tobacco 
smoke. The young did not smoke. Many men had little yards 
or patches of tobacco in Hadley, as in other towns and some was 
sold.f Tobacco for smoking was often cut on a block by a cutter 
or knife; and some had a little wooden box hanging against the 
wall, with pipes in the upper, open part, and tobacco in a draw 
at the bottom. A few of the old tobacco tongs remained. Some 
took snuff.| Cigars w^ere little known. § 

Butter and Cheese. — The dairies of New England were long 
quite ordinary, and much inferior to those of England and Ire- 
land; a few in Rhode Island excelled others. Butter was imported 
from Ireland and cheese from England, to supply the commercial 
places, dowm to the latter part of the last century. The price of 
butter in Hampshire was 4 pence per pound as money, until after 

*Taverns, especially those frequented by soldiers in the French and Revolutionary wars, 
were as Macauley says of the old London Coffee Houses, full of the "eternal fog and stench 
of tobacco." 

■j-The price of leaf tobacco during the last century, was from 2 to 6 pence per pound; 
commonly 3 or 4 pence. Twist and pigtail were higher. 

JSnuff was first advertised in Boston in 171 2, and there were silver snuff-boxes. To 
take snuff was accounted genteel. Farmers' families seldom took snuff, and it was not kept 
for sale in Hampshire until near 1760; and purchasers were few 20 years later. It was at 
first sold here in bottles. In Hadley, the second Samuel Porter had a snuff-bos in 1722, 
Doct. Squire in 1731, Rev. C. Williams in 1753, and John Dickinson's widow in 1762. 
These were of silver, except that of Mr. Williams. — After yellow snuff was brought here in 
bladders, about 1786, snuff taking was much extended. Maccoboy snuff was sold some 
years later. Snuff-takers are now less numerous than heretofore. 

§Cigars (or Segars) were used after the peace of 1783. A South Hadley trader bought* 
200 in 1795. They were first advertised here in 1802, by a Northampton trader and a Had- 
ley trader. Cigar-smoking has vastly increased, to the injury of many boys and young men 
and not a few older ones. 

A few in Hadley cultivated fields of tobacco some years before 1800. Packers of tobacco 
were chosen 1 787-1 794. 

The field culture of tobacco was commenced in Hadley again some years since, and has 
become extensive in that and some other towns. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 377 

1700; it rose to 5d. and 6d. before 1775; and was only 6d. and 7d. 
previous to 1790, and 8d. and gd. some years after 1800. 

The river tow^ns, for a long time, made their own butter and 
cheese; that is, they made all they ate and no more. The present 
population of Hadley, above 2000, are as well supplied with butter 
from their own cows as less than 600 were a century ago, though 
butter is now much more freely used. They make more than 
they consume. The return of butter with the census of 1850, 
gives 24 pounds yearly to each inhabitant. 

Cheese was 3|d. and 4d. per pound before 1700, and 4d. and 
5d. in the next century. Many of the cheeses made in Massa- 
chusetts and Connecticut for near 100 years were surprisingly 
small, weighing from 3 to 5 pounds* and valued from is. to is. 
8d. each. Some were heavier. Better cheeses were made in 
Rhode Island, and in the latter part of the last century, in 
many towns in New England. — Cheese is still made in Hadley 
by a few. 

Flax seed and Oil. — A mill for linseed oil was built at New 
Haven in 1718, probably the first in New England. In 1735, 
John Fitch of Hatfield erected an oil mill in that town, perhaps 
the first in Massachusetts. There was not much demand for oil 
in those days.f The price of flax seed formerly was from three 
to four shillings a bushel. ij! 

David Stockbridge of Hadley and a Riley of Wethersfield, 
built an oil mill at North Hadley, about 1795, which was in opera- 
tion 12 or 15 years. 

Berries. — The open woods of New England were full of straw- 
berries. In these Norwottuck towns, whortleberries (often 
spelled huckleberries) were formerly plenty, and were used in 
milk, pies and puddings. Small parties went to "huckleberry- 
ing," from Northampton and Hatfield, a century ago, and Hadley 
must have had such parties. Peter Domo sold huckleberries in 
1739. They were sold in Northampton at ih penny a quart 
in 1764. They grew in Hadley on the mountains and plains, 
and m some highways. Sixty years ago, much of the Back street, 
(now Middle street,) was covered with these bushes and persons 

*The mother of Major Hawley, a daughter of Rev. Solomon Stoddard, made many 
cheeses every season, and those sold weighed from 2^ to 6 pounds. I cannot account for 
these small cheeses. 

•j-A Chesterfield man, who passed through Hadley and Northampton when young in 
1762, told me that most of the buildings were old and dark colored, and he believed that 
no dwelling-house was painted on the outside. 

J Exchanging salt for flaxseed was an extensive business in many places in the last and 
early part of the present century. 



378 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

now living have picked berries in that street. Many whortle- 
berries are still gathered in Granby. For 20 or 30 years past, 
whortleberries have been sold in Hadley, as in Northampton,* 
by men from Pelham, Shutesbury and Leverett. — Many dew- 
berries or running berries are gathered in Hadley. Large black- 
berries, raspberries and thimbleberries are not plenty. The large 
grapes are generally stolen. Children pick the scarlet checker- 
berries, and eat the spicy leaves when tender. — Garden straw- 
berries are cultivated in Hadley by many. Almost all have cur- 
rants. 

Nuts and Nutting. — Chestnuts and shagbark walnuts were 
sold in Springfield in 1760, at two coppers a quart. Children 
gathered walnuts, chestnuts and some butternuts in Hadley 70 
and 80 years ago. Walnuts and chestnuts were sold at 62 and 
75 cents a bushel after 1800; they have been higher since. Wal- 
nuts have often been plundered, and the owners of the trees have 
sold many for timber. Chestnuts have always been free to all. 

Maple Sugar was first made by the Indians. The manufacture 
was described by Paul Dudley, in the publications of the Royal 
Society in 1720. Rev. Samuel Hopkins of West Springfield pub- 
lished an account of the Indian way of making maple sugar in 
1752. Previous to this, a little had been made in Northfield and 
Coleraine. Simeon Wait of Hatfield had a "Sugar Place" in 
what is now Williamsburgh, in 1754. The people of Chesterfield 
sold maple sugar in Northampton at 5d. and 6d. per pound for 
many years after 1763, and some molasses at 2s. 5d. per gallon. 
Sugar maples did not abound in Hadley. There was a sugar 
place many years, east of Plainville, near Amherst, and maple 
trees were tapped in a pleasant part of Fort River Valley. Am- 
herst had many trees and made sugar and molasses. 

Soap. — In Hampshire, families made soap from their own 
ashes and grease, in early and later days. Some had not a supply 
of grease, and John Pynchon bought in Connecticutf and sold, 
mostly to Springfield people, more than 100 firkins of soft soap 



*It is supposed that more than 300 bushels of wild berries were sold in Northampton in 
1859, from 6 to 12 cents a quart, averaging about 8 cents. — Parties sometimes go from the 
river towns to the whortleberry towns, and pick and bring home some bushels. 

Cranberries were sold in Northampton and Hadley in 1765, at 2d. a quart and 5s. 4d. 
a bushel; and after 1800, at one dollar. 

■(•Soft soap was made for sale, of whale oil from Long Island, at New Haven, Stratford, 
&c. Isaac Nichols of Stratford, (whose daughter Mary was the motherof Rev. Isaac Chaun- 
cey of Hadley,) was a soap-boiler and sold much soap in New York. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 379 

between 1658 and 1676. A family in the 17th century, did not 
use half as much soap as a similar family at the present day. 

Soap was usually made in the spring. Madam Porter was well 
supplied. She records in 1752 — "made soap three days, the first 
week in April," and in 1756 — "made three great kettles of soap 
the first week in April," and another in May. Soap-making was 
tedious and sometimes vexatious, and a woman who had good 
luck was congratulated by her neighbors.* Most families in 
Hadley still make their soap; many use potash instead of wood 
ashes. — A soap factory has been commenced at North Hadley 
the present year, 1859. 

Lights. — In these old towns, rooms were lighted in the evening 
more than 150 years by tallow-candles, candlewood (see page 294) 
and the blazing fire that warmed the room. Most housewives 
spun wicks of tow or Cotton, fastened them to little rods, dipped 
them in melted tallowf and made candles, which were very 
savingly used. Some families run candles in tin or pewter molds. 
Candlesticks were of tin, iron, pewter and brass. Oil and lamps 
were seldom seen until some years after 1800. A South Hadley 
trader purchased in Hartford in 1795, a junk bottle of oil and a 
tin lamp. — For singing schools, spelling schools, &c., cheap 
candlesticks were made of a piece of board four inches square, 
with three or four nails fastened to it for a socket. 

Time Pieces. — The early settlers of New England brought over 
hour-glasses and sun-dials, and a few clocks and watches. Clocks 
in those days had no pendulum, and watches no hair spring. 
They were more perfect the early part of the last century, and 
eight-day clocks and gold watches began to appear in Boston. 

It is not known that there was a clock or watch in Hadley in 
the 17th century, but as many ministers had one of these, it may 
be supposed that Mr. Russell and Mr. Chauncey had something 
better than a dial. The first watch in Hadley on record, is a gold 
one of Doct. Wm. Squire in 1731, valued at £^0 in bills, or about 

*So I am told by a woman who is a native of Hadley; and she says that making Thanks- 
giving cake was another operation that occasioned anxiety fifty years ago. 

•{"T allow bore the same price as butter. Candles were i^ to 2 pence per pound higher 
than tallow. — Candles are still made in many families. 

Where Bayberry bushes grew in New England, many candles were made of Bayberry 
tallow. — Many were made of spermaceti. 

Snuffers. — Many of the middle class in England used their fingers for snuffers 250 years 
ago and after. William Perkins notes the manner in 1635. He says — "if a man be to 
snuff a candle, he will first spit on his fingers." In New England metal snuffers and fingers 
were used, in early times, and some used fingers and old shears 60 years ago. 



380 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

50 dollars. The second is a silver watch of Col. Eleazar Porter, 
valued at 40 shillings in 1758. There w^ere not many clocks or 
watches in Northampton before 1783 nor in Hadley before 1795. 
A sun-dial was set on a post on the south side of a few houses, 
in both towns, and was consulted by the family and others. 
It was useless in a cloudy day. An hour-glass was used in some 
families and schools in Hadley.* 

Elijah Yeomans, a goldsmith and clock-maker, resided in 
Hadley from 1771 to 1783. He made gold beads, lockets, &c. 
An eight-day clock, which he made for Lt. Enos Smith, now 
keeps good time in the house of his son, Maj. Sylvester Smith. 
It has on the face, "Elijah Yeomans, Hadley, No. 40. "f John 
Hodge did some business as a goldsmith. 

Blue Dyeing. — Our fore-mothers began to dye blue with indigo 
before 1700, in order to make stripes and (Checks. Much more of 
this dyeing was done 25 years after 1700, and it was continued 
more than 80 years. The women made checks and stripes of 
wool, flax and cotton, for shirts, trowsers, aprons, gowns, bedticks, 
&c. Checked shirts were worn by men and boys on Connecticut 
River. When Benjamin Tappan first attended meeting in North- 
ampton in 1768, he was surprised to find that all the men in the 
meeting-house, except five or six, wore checked shirts. Hadley 
shirts were equally checkered. The people of Worcester county 
wore white shirts, and they said they could tell a Connecticut 
River man by his checkered shirt. 

To color blue there was a dye tub in most houses; it stood near 
the great kitchen fire-place, and made a seat for one child. When 
uncovered and stirred up, it sent forth a pungent, fetid odor. 
Daniel Webster, being annoyed by a dye-tub in an inn in 1802, 
called the innkeeper, "a knight of the blue dye pot." 

Indigo was bought of the traders, and there were indigo ped- 
dlers for half a century, usually on horseback. Some came from 
Sufi^eld. 

Cotton. — Owing to the scarcity of wool and flax, Massachusetts 
and Connecticut obtained cotton from the West Indies before 
1643, and the people began to manufacture cotton, some by 
itself, and more mingled with flax or wool. After flax and wool 

*Most houses had a "noon mark" on the bottom casing of a south window, which 
showed when noon had come. 

•j-Obadiah Frary of Southampton made some good brass clocks for families, and a few 
for meeting-houses, between 1745 ^^'^ I775' 

Wooden clocks were made in Connecticut before 1800, and became plenty some years 
after. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 381 

were more plenty, some in these old towns in Hampshire pur- 
chased cotton of the merchants,* and it was spun on the large 
wheel. During 130 years, cotton yarn was spun at times in many 
families. The people of New England had a larger share of cotton 
in their garments, napery and bedding, than those of Old England. 
They had many printed calicoes and other cottons from India, 
the use of which was restricted in England, because it interfered 
with their linen manufacture. New England ragsf had more 
cotton than those of Old England. 

Plain, white cottons from England or India were hardly known 
in New England before the revolution. Some years after the peace 
of 1783, great quantities of white cottons were imported from 
India, and the Hampshire traders began to sell them in 1794. 
The sales were extensive many years after 1800. Those India 
cottons, which sold for 25 cents per yard, were not as good as 
cottons now sold for 8 or 10 cents. 

Sleighs. — The Dutch at New York had sleighs before 1700. 
A few appear at Boston some years after 1700, but they were 
uncommon in 1720 and 1730. There were not many sleighs 
among the farmers in the vicinity of Boston in 1750. 

The first horse-sleds or sleighs found in Hampshire were in 
Hadley. In the inventory of Timothy Eastman, Jr. in 1733, are 
two hand sleds, 3s., an ox sled, los. and a "horse sled and seats, 
5s." Some early sleighs were like this horse sled, and had sled 
runners, a lumber box and seats. Doct. Crouch had a sleigh in 
1737! and 1740, and visited some patients in it in East Hadley 
and South Hadley. In 1746, he hired James Kellogg's sleigh. 
Westwood Cook's sleigh was valued at a few shillings in 1748. 
Capt. Moses Porter's sleigh and tackling were apprized at i8s. 
8d. in 1756. James Kellogg's sleigh and tackling were valued at 
27s. in 1759. Eliakim Smith made sleigh boxes from 1758 to 1770, 
and Samuel Gaylord, Jr. from 1766 to 1788. Most of the boxes were 
of four boards fastened together, and set on runners like those of 

*John Pynchon retailed much cotton from 1659 *° '^78> from is. to is. 4d. per pound. 
In the last century, the retail price in Hampshire advanced to is. 6d., 2S. and even to 3s. per 
pound. It was brought from the West Indies until a few years before 1800. 

•{■Rags. — The Boston papers advertised for rags many times, from 1724 to 1761, and 
offered about two thirds of a lawful penny per pound. They complained that people did 
not save their rags. The paper mill, when there was one, seemed to be at Milton. — The 
traders in this part of Hampshire bought rags in 1776 and 1777, at two pence per pound, 
for a new paper mill at East Hartford. The people appear to have had no market for rags 
before. The price was two pence per pound more than 20 years after 1783. 

Jin 1737, loaded sleighs came from ShefEeld to Westfield. This was published in the 
newspapers as something remarkable. 



382 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

a sled but lighter, and the making of the boxes was from 2s. to 
3s. 4d. Such were the greater part of the sleighs before the revo- 
lution. A few had a more expensive and handsome box, which 
cost 20 shillings, viz., Elisha Porter, in 1761, Stephen Goodman, 
1762, Eleazar Porter, 1765, Jonathan Warner, 1767, Moses 
Kellogg, 1769, WiUiam Cook, 1770, Benjamin Colt, 1770, Enos 
Smith, 1772, Thomas Arnold, 1773, John C. Williams, 1774. 
Some of these had well-framed runners which cost 20 shillings, 
making the expense of a decent sleigh 40 shillings, and a few 
cost more. From 1775 to 1788, the prices of boxes and framed 
runners were nearly the same, but some sleighs cost 50 shillings 
or more. The expense of shoeing is not given. Two or three 
were painted. Similar sleighs, a little improved, continued down 
to 1800. Sleigh-bells were advertised in Boston in 1755 and in 
Northampton in 1791. 

Sleigh rides. — Young people could not have had sleigh rides 
in comfortable sleighs until after 1762.* Small parties may have 
previously rid in the lumber boxes, which Gaylord names "load- 
ing boxes." Such boxes were much used long after 1800. 

It is not known when sleighs first went from Connecticut River 
to Boston; perhaps soon after 1760. Elisha Porter went in his 
sleigh to New London in 1763. Sleighs with pork, &c. went 
from Southampton to Boston in 1771. 

Pung was the name given to a small, cheap, one-horse sleigh 
with thills. The harness was equally cheap. The cheap collars 
noticed page 367, were many of them made of braided husks 
without any leather. — Good one horse sleighs with a neap were 
few before 1800. 

Carriages. — A coach is named in Boston several times before 
1700, and a calash soon after. Riding chairs which had a sort 
of chaise body without a top, appear in 17 13, a stage-coach to 
run between Boston and Newport in 1716, and chaises in 1724. 
There was a carriage tax in Massachusetts every year from 1753 
to 1757, and there were in the province in 1753, 6 coaches that 
were taxed ids. each, 18 chariots 5s. each, 339 chaises 3s. and 

*In Northampton, there were 6 or 8 large sleighs in 1772. When the young people had 
a sleigh ride, they filled as many of these sleighs as they could get. If a dance was connected 
with the ride, they took in Moidore, the negro of the first Caleb Strong, for a fiddler. 

There were pleasant sleigh rides 50 years ago, in cold nights, when the moon shone 
brightly, and the snow was of dazzling whiteness, and the bells jingled and the runners 
creaked and hissed. The girls were not incommoded with hoops, and their faces were pro- 
tected by bonnets, and their feet rested on warm stoves. There were no buffalo robes, but 
plenty of warm blankets. Now and then a load of young people were overturned into the 
snow, but this usually occasioned more mirth than injury. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 383 

992 chairs 2s. each. The only carriages in Hampshire, which 
then included Berkshire, were two chairs, one owned by Moses 
Porter of Hadley and one by Israel Williams of Hatfield, and 
these do not appear after 1753. 

Elisha Porter had a chair in 1763, and Doct. Kellogg in 1768, 
and before 1785, Elisha Porter, Eleazar Porter, Charles Phelps, 
Madam Crouch, Jonathan Warner, Oliver Warner and Rev. S. 
Hopkins had each a chaise. In 1791, the following Hadley car- 
riages were taxed, viz., 3 fall-back chaises belonging to Eleazar Por- 
ter, Elisha Porter and Azariah Dickinson los. each; 2 stand-top 
chaises belonging to Charles Phelps and Enos Smith 6s. each, 
and William Shipman had a riding chair and paid 4s. Simeon 
Strong of Amherst had a fall-back chaise, the only carriage in that 
town taxed in 1791. 

Two-Horse Wagons. — There were a few of these in Massachu- 
setts in the French war, 1755-1763. The Dutch of New York 
had used them for a century. There were only two in Hadley 
before the revolution, owned by Elisha Cook and Samuel Sheldon. 
When the Hadley troops marched to Cambridge after the battle 
of Lexington in 1775, Cook's wagon was hired to carry their 
baggage, provisions, &c. In 1800 there were about half a dozen 
wagons owned in Hadley, perhaps half of them at Hockanum. 

One-Horse Wagons. — Mason Abbe of Amherst is said to have 
first made one-horse wagons in this vicinity, except some lumber 
wagons. The first owned in Hadley was purchased of Abbe by 
Joseph Smith in 1808. In 1809, Joseph Marsh of Hadley, Calvin 
Marsh of North Hadley, and Cotton White of Hatfield began to 
make wagons, and Mason Abbe removed to Belchertown. A 
few years later, Ebenezer Harrington and Henry Seymour made 
wagons at Hadley, and David Jones at North Hadley. For 
some years, they were sold slowly, and they were not numerous 
until about 1820. The price was from 35 to 50 dollars. There 
have been many changes in them since 1820. 

The use of carriages with four wheels drawn by one horse, and 
the disuse of saddles and pillions, made a great change in travel- 
ing, and in the conveyance of various articles and small loads.* 
Previously, men and women had ridden on horseback, short and 
long distances, ever since the country was settled, except in later 

*Those of us born in the last century have often rid several miles to mill on the top of 
four bushels of grain, fastened to the saddle by the stirrup leathers. 



384 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

years, a few rode in chaises, stages, &c. Fifty years ago men and 
women were seen riding on horses almost every hour of the day.* 

Wagon to and from Boston. — There is no record of goods being 
brought from Boston to Connecticut River by land, except small 
quantities on horseback, before 1767. In that year and in suc- 
ceeding years, until the war began in 1775, Simeon Smith of 
Amherst went to Boston with a team, probably horses and wagon, 
and carried down produce and brought up goods for traders and 
others, in the towns on both sides of the river. His load was 
sometimes 2000 or 2100 pounds. He charged for most freight 
between Northampton and Boston 4s. per 100 pounds, for some, 
4s. 8d.; and at times he carried down at less than 4s. He went 
sometimes in the winter. He conveyed to Boston much potash 
and pork. He brought up great quantities of N. E. rum at 12s. 
to 13s. 4d. per barrel. — He died in 1777. He was a son of Moses 
Smith, who lived on the Bay road in Amherst. 

Time of Planting, Harvesting, &c. in Hadley and Northampton, 
from 1762 to 1785, derived from the records of Josiah Pierce, 
Esq. of Hadley, and Deac. Ebenezer Hunt of Northampton, 
and other sources. 

Plowing began in these towns from April 10 to April 25. 
Barley, flax, peas, peas and oats mixed, oats, rye and oats mixed, 
were sowed in April and the first week in May. Corn was planted 
from May 5 to May 23; hoed the first time from June i to June 
15, the second time from June 15 to July 5, the third time from 
July 6 to July 25. Stalks were cut from Sept. 5 to Sept. 14, and 
corn was picked from Sept. 24 to Oct. 14. Homelots were mowed 
the first time from June 14 to July 5, and the second time from 
July 15 to Aug. 10. Mowing began in the meadows from July 
I to July 10. Rye, meslin and wheat were reaped from July 19 
to Aug. 5. Barley was mowed the last week in July. Peas hooked 
from Aug. 23 to Sept. 5. Peas and oats mowed from Aug. 4 to 15. 
Oats and rye and oats cradled from Aug. I to 15. Flax pulled 
from Aug. i to 10, spread and turned in September, and taken 
up the last of October. Fall ploughing was done, and winter 
rye, meslin and wheat sowed in September. Potatoes were dug, 
beans gathered, turnips pulled, and pumpkins carted, in October. 
They had frosts that damaged their crops in those days. Pierce 
records some small crops — 6 bushels of peas on an acre, 8 bushels 
peas and oats, 7 bushels rye, 7 bushels meslin. — The seasons 
seem to have been as forward 80 or 90 years ago as in late years. 

*Females easily mounted and dismounted without aid, and had not the helpless appear- 
ance of those of the present day who wear fashionable riding dresses. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 



385 



Some Statistics of Hadley, South Hadley, Amhe 
of the Assessors to the General Court, in 1771. 
State House. 



Ratable Polls, 

Unratable Polls, 

Dwelling Houses, 

Barns, 

Shops, 

Gristmills, 

Sawmills, 

Potash Works, 

Money at Interest, 

Stock in Trade, 

Horses, 3 years and more, 

Oxen, 4 

Cows, 3 

Sheep, I 

Swine, i 

Barrels of cider made, 

Acres of Tillage land, 

Bushels of Grain raised, 

Acres of English and 

upland mowing, 
Tons of Hay from it. 
Acres of fresh meadow, 
Tons of Hay mowed, 
Acres of Pasturage, 

From other sources. 
Families, 1765, 
White People, 1765, 
White People in 1776, 
Polls in 1784, 



rst, and Granby, according to the returns 
Taken from the original papers in the 



Hadley. 


South 


Hadley. 


Amherst. 


Granby, 


147 




131 


196 


95 


10 




13 


9 


12 


88 




79 


120 


61 


82 






89 


47 


13 




8 


14 


2 



£1310 
£'252 

122 
124 
222 
603 
179 
367 
I42I 
II5I7 



249 
687 

376 

99 
553 
681 

203 



252 

304 

85 

126 

189 

556 

91 

369 

1034 

5865 

195 



473 
413 
265 



I3I2 


246 


73 


85 


153 


66 


187 


102 


319 


184 


697 


532 


214 


117 


524 


269 


1292 


751 


6596 


4744 


827 


98 


720 


III 


389 


504 


337 


428 


419 


123 



142 with G. 104 See S. H. 

817 with G. 639 See S. H. 

584 9^5 491 

184 276 135 



Additions and Explanations. 



Negroes. — According to returns, there were in Hadley in 1755, 18 negro slaves above 16 
years of age, and in 1765, 20 negroes in Hadley and 6 in Amherst. In 1771, Hadley had 4 
slaves for life between 14 and 45, viz., Doct. Kellogg had i, Charles Phelps, i, Jonathan 
Warner, i, and Oliver Warner, i. There were others under 14 and above 45. In Amherst, 
2 slaves between 14 and 45, belonged to Josiah Chauncey, i and John Adams, i ; and Eph- 
raim Kellogg had a slave. 

The Unratable Polls were those of old men and infirm men. 

The return of barns in South Hadley seems to be 47, but there must have been more. 

Hadley returned 39 Corn-houses; the other places returned none. 

Traders. — The shops were those of traders and mechanics. In Hadley in 1771 were 
three traders — Eleazar Porter, Jonathan Warner and John Chester Williams, and each had 
a shop and a warehouse. In South Hadley, Doct. Ruggles Woodbridge and John Marshall 
each had a shop, and may have sold goods. In Granby, Deac. William Eastman had a 
trading shop. In Amherst, the traders are not ascertained. 

Mills. — In Hadley in 1771, were the school gristmill and a sawmill at North Hadley, the 
latter owned in 7ths; and a gristmill owned in I3ths, and a sawmOl in loths, on Fort River, 
where the lower mills are. In South Hadley were three sawmills connected with the Falls, 
the upper one reported as belonging to Noah Goodman, the middle to William Taylor, and 
the lower to Titus Pomeroy, and Doct. Ruggles Woodbridge had a sawmill elsewhere. 
Samuel Preston had a gristmill on Stony brook, and Josiah Moody one on Bachelor's brook. 
In Granby, no sawmill was reported, and the gristmill returned as belonging to John Moody 
may be an error. In Amherst, John Adams had a mill, and Simeon Clark three fourths of 
a mill, and another was held in I4ths. The Kelloggs owned a part of the other two, per- 
haps the whole of one. 



386 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Fulling MOls. — The only one returned was that of Caleb Ely in South Hadley. Deac. 
Daniel Moody had long before been a clothier, in South Hadley. — A fulling mill was built 
in Hadley in 1775. 

Potash Works. — After various unsuccessful attempts, good potash was made in Massa- 
chusetts a few years before 1760. In 1761, there was a potash in Cold Spring, on Mas- 
carene's farm, not far from the line of South Hadley. In Hadley, Eleazar Porter and Elia- 
kim Smith put up a building for a potash on Porter's north homelot, in 1766; little or no 
potash was ever made in it. Hadley ashes were carried to Amherst. In South Hadley, 
Doct. Ruggles Woodbridge and John Marshall had each a potash in 177 1. It is not known 
where they stood. Many years later, Joseph White made potash in a building west of his 
inn. In Granby, Israel Clark had a potash, which is not recollected. In 1770, Israel Clark 
sold a ton, and Deac. Daniel Moody three tons, of potash to Northampton men. Potash 
was then worth 34 shillings per cwt. in Boston. — In Amherst, in 177 1, Martin Kellogg owned 
a potash, and Elisha Ingram, Moses Warner and John Billings had another. 

Money at Interest. — Those who had 100 pounds or more at Interest were in Hadley, 
Eleazar Porter, £800, Oliver Warner, 300, Elisha Porter, 100; in South Hadley, Deac. 
Daniel Moody, 120; in Amherst, Solomon Boltwood, 300, Nehemiah Strong, 200, Simeon 
Strong, 100, Nathaniel Smith, 100, and Nathaniel Dickinson, 100. 

Domestic Animals. — In the four towns and districts, a few men had 3 or 4 horses, most 
had 2 or I , and some had none. — Four men owned 6 oxen each, 28 had 4, 10 had 3 , the rest 2 
or none. — John Cook of Hadley had 9 cows, Solomon Boltwood and Daniel Kellogg of 
Amherst, and Josiah White of South Hadley, had 8 each, 7 men had 7, 5 had 6, 14 had 5, 
the rest 4, 3, 2, i or none. Wm. Eastman of Granby had 40 sheep, Solomon Boltwood of 
A., 35, Josiah White of S. H., 33, others not so many; few had above 20. 

Much of the green feed of these animals must have been derived from the highways and 
woods. The fenced pastures, and the after-feed of the mowings, fell far short of a supply. 

Cider. — The returns of cider in 1771 are noticed on page 365. Elderly men now resid- 
ing in these towns, say that 12 or 15 barrels of cider were brought out of many cellars in 
mugs in 12 months, 50 and 60 years ago. 

The canker-worm has never appeared on apple trees in this part of the country. The 
palmer worm was here in 1791, and again in 1853. 

Grain produced. — The assessors of the 4 towns, in their reports, gave an average of 5 
i-ioth to 8 i-ioth bushels of grain to an acre of tillage land. The lands yielded much more. 
The crops of mixed grain, flax, turnips, potatoes and some others were not returned, and 
there may have been other reasons for the seemingly small harvests reported. 

Those who raised the most grain in Hadley, were the Hadley School, 540 bushels, Noah 
Cook, 482, John Montague, 391, Charles Phelps, 369, Jonathan Warner, 350, Elisha Cook, 
280, Oliver Smith, 270, Eleazar Porter, 268, Jonathan Smith, 255, Elisha Porter, 248, Jon- 
athan Cook, 247. — In South Hadley, Josiah White, 210, Jonathan White and Nathaniel 
Ingram, 200 each, Luke Montague, 178, Moses Montague and Josiah Smith, 150 each, 
John Gaylord, 130, John Marshall, 128. — In Granby, William Eastman, 182, Jacob Taylor 
and Israel Clark, 175 each, Nathan Smith, 150, Asahel Smith, 144, John Ayres, 133, John 
Moody, 128.— The report of grain produced by Amherst men was not found. 

Hay. — Those who mowed the most hay were among those who raised the most grain 
with one or two exceptions. The Hadley School had 37 tons, Charles Phelps, 36, Benjamin 
Colt, 32. No others cut 30 tons. 

Hadley and Amherst. — The inhabitants of Amherst began to exceed those of Hadley 
about 1753. Hadley possessed the most property many years after. 

Sellers of Tea, Coffee and China Ware. — These articles were considered luxuries and 
an excise, or duty on the retail, was laid on them. In Hadley, Jonathan Warner and Elea- 
zar Porter were licensed to sell them most of the years from 1758 to 1765. In South Hadley, 
William Eastman was licensed in 1758, 1759 and 1760, Elijah Alvord in 1761, and John 
Marshall in 1764 and 1765. In Amherst, Josiah Chauncey and Elisha Ingram were 
licensed in some of the years, from 1759 to 1764. They all sold tea chiefly. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 3S7 

Weaving. — Our remarks regarding female household manufactures may need a little 
explanation. Women did not weave all that they spun. Before and after New England 
was settled, men performed much weaving. In the old towns in Hampshire, some men 
learned the trade of weaving and followed it a part of the year, in shops built for that pur- 
pose. The 2d Samuel Gaylord, of Hadley, who did much farming, was a weaver and had 
a shop. Jonathan Smith, a man of large estate, but of infirm health, was a weaver and had 
a shop. Women had long been gaining ground in this employment, and it is believed that 
men seldom, if ever, learned the trade after the revolution. The Pelham women were 
excellent weavers. 

The present inhabitants of Hadley may like to know some of the kinds of homespun 
cloth made in that town loo years ago. The following articles and the price of weaving, are 
taken from Samuel Gaylord's account book, from 1745 ^° i??^- The prices may be con- 
sidered barter prices. 

Tow Cloth and Tow and Linen Cloth, woven at 5 and 6 pence a yard, fine Linen, 9d. 
Cotton and Linen, 8d. and lod. Sacking, 3d. and 4d. Linsey-Woolsey, 8d., plain Woolen 
Cloth, 6 2-5d. and fine, 8d. Checked Linen and Checked Woolen, 8d., fine Check, lod. 
Checked Cotton, gd. Bedtick, 9d. and lod., fine Cotton Bedtick, is. id. Diaper, lod. 
and II d. Diamond Table Linen, 8d. and gd. Birdseye, 8d., fine Wale, yd. Striped or 
Streaked Cloth, 8d. (the stripes were made in the filling, and if there were three colors, 
three shuttles were used.) Crape, 8d., Blanketing, 8d., fine Crash, 9d., Coverlids, 6s. 8d. 
each. 



CHAPTER XXXIV 

South Hadley*^First Settlement — First Meeting House and Minister — Mr. Rawson forc- 
ibly ejected from the pulpit — Mr. Wood bridge settled — Contest about the second meet- 
ing house; one end cut down — the Parish divided — the first Parish — the Common — 
Schools— the Poor — Innkeepers and Retailers — the Revolutionary War — the Canal 
and Visitors — the second Parish and Granby — Various matters. 

There may have been a few settlers in South Hadley as early 
as I725.t Their first petition to the General Court was in Nov- 
ember, 1727. Twenty-one men represented that they were "resi- 
dents on a designed precinct in Hadley, south of Mount Holyoke," 
that they were about 8 miles from the place of public worship in 
Hadley, and the way mountainous and bad. They desired to 
be a precinct, and to have added, a tract of province land on the 
eastern border, 4 miles long and 2 miles wide. (Afterwards 
named the Crank.) The General Court granted their requests, 

*There is much relating to South Hadley in the preceding pages, and the first part of 
this chapter should have been given before. 

+The Indian war would have prevented the removal of families to the south side of Hol- 
yoke sooner than 1725. A number of persons were slain in Hampshire in 1723 and 1724, 
and several within a few miles of Hadley. — Falls Woods Field was to be fenced by May 31, 
1721, and the town chose fence viewers for this field in 1722, 1723 and 1725, but not in 
reference to settlers. 

The proprietors laid out a burial place March 26, 1728, upon the Sandy Hill, on the west 
side of the country road, 28 rods long on the road and 12 rods wide, leaving the road 10 rods 
wide. John Preston, the first person buried here, died March 4, 1728. 



388 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Nov. 28, provided they had 40 families in two years, and should 
settle a learned, orthodox minister in three years. 

A second petition of 26 persons, was presented July, 1728, 
requesting to be a precinct, from Mount Holyoke to Springfield 
bounds, and from Connecticut river W. to the equivalent lands, 
E. The petition was granted Aug. i, provided they built a meet- 
ing house and settled a minister in three years. Daniel Nash was 
empowered to notify the first meeting. 

In June, 1732, they sent a third petition, requesting that their 
precinct might be established, though they had not been able to 
settle a minister in the time limited. The Court July 4, gave them 
two years from Aug. L, 1732, to settle a minister. 

The first meeting of the South Precinct of Hadley, in the 
records preserved, was held March 12, 1733. There must have 
been previous meetings, the record of which is lost. They chose 
Ebenezer Moody, Moderator; Daniel Nash, 2d, Clerk; John 
Taylor, John Alvord, Samuel Smith, Assessors and Committee; 
John Smith, son of Ebenezer, Collector; Ephraim Nash, one of 
the committee to finish the meeting house. They had previously 
erected and covered the frame of their meeting house, and now 
voted to build a pulpit, and to ceil and plaster the house up to 
the plates. They had before invited Mr. Grindall Rawson to 
become their minister and now granted him some land, provided 
he settled in the ministry there. The settlement and salary which 
they offered him, and which he accepted, are not in the record 
that remains. He was to be provided with wood. The precmct 
were building Mr. Rawson's house in 1733 and 1734. 

It was agreed Aug, 10, 1733, that Mr. Rawson should be or- 
dained, on the 3d of October, and a committee was appointed to 
send for ministers and messengers. Nothing more is known 
respecting the ordination. It took place October 3, 1733.* 

Sept. 13, 1733, they voted to finish the body of the meeting 
house, (meaning the lower floor,) with seats and nine pews; and 
voted a broad alley from the east door to the deacons' seat. — 
In March, 1734, they again voted pews in the lower part, and to 
ceil and plaster up to the plates, and to provide window frames 
and glass for the galleries. — March 10, 1735, they voted a floor 
and front seats in the gallery, and to plaster the walls and over- 
head; these things were not all done until 1736 and 1737, and 
the gallery was not finished until 1744. There were pews in the 
gallery. 

*The church may have been formed previously, or on the same day. The records do 
not allude to the organization of the church. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 389 

Oct. 28, 1734, a committee was first chosen to seat the meeting 
house. Men were to be seated according to ratable estate, regard 
being had to age and ability. The dignity or rank of the pews 
and seats seems to have been estimated, but cannot now be under- 
stood.* Some of the front gallery was seated, 1746. 

Trouble with Mr. Rawson. — It appears from the "Life of 
President Edwards," pages 376 and 380, that a mutual council 
met in some place, May 3, 1737, of which Mr. E. was the scribe, 
and the question was, "whether Mr. Rawson was qualified for 
the work of the ministry as to his learning, his orthodoxy and his 
morals." Their decision is not given. The precinct records do 
not allude to the council nor to any difficulties with Mr. Rawson 
so early. 

The first vote of the precinct, expressing dissatisfaction with 
Mr. Rawson, is the following explicit one, Feb. 25, 1740 — "Voted 
that it is the desire of this precinct, that Rev. Mr. Rawson be 
dismissed from, and lay down the work of the ministry among 
us," and a committee was appointed to inform him of the vote, 
and to take measures to effect the matter. March 23, 1741, the 
precinct voted, that as Mr. Rawson had in a public manner 
withdrawn from 33 brethren of his church, and thereby gone 
contrary to the minds of the greater part of the church, and vir- 
tually withdrawn from the major part of the precinct, it was the 
mind of the precinct that he was no longer their minister. And 
they chose a committee "to acquaint him that we have no further 
service for him in the office of a gospel minister, and that we 
expect he will refrain from any public acts in that office among 
us."t On the 30th of March, they chose a committee "to take 
all regular methods to prevent Mr. Rawson's officiating for the 
future." 

In April, 1741, the parties agreed to call a council, which met 
in May, and advised a separation. The precinct, June i, con- 

*The pews were next to the walls. The great pew, in which lo were to be seated, was 
No. 1, and a pew at the east door was No. 2. A flank pew held 7, those on the east side 
5 each, and the seats 5 each. Samuel Taylor was to sweep the meeting house in 1734. He 
died in 1735, and his widow was paid 30 shillings. — Seaters were to make room for Madam 
Rawson, Jan. 1739. Madam Woodbridge was seated in the pew next to the pulpit, March, 

1743- 

In 1750, John Lane was paid for "blowing the cunk," (conch) on the Sabbath as a 
"sign for meeting." 

■j-Fifteen men dissented from this vote, viz., Ebenezer Moody, Nathaniel White, Joseph 
Kellogg, John Moody, Richard Church, Jonathan Selden, Noah Ferry, Nehemiah Dick- 
inson, Luke Montague, Timothy Nash, Deac. Joseph White, Wm. Montague, John HOlyer, 
Samuel Moody, Nathaniel Ingram. Some may have dissented because they thought the 
proceedings irregular, and others because they were friendly to Mr. Rawson. There were 
dissenters from other votes. 



390 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

curred with the advice; and informed Mr. Rawson that they 
expected he would refrain from ministerial work among them. 
They desired to know how much they owed him. They chose a 
committee to get some person to preach, and "to take all suita- 
ble measures to prevent Mr. Rawson from officiating in public." 
Yet Mr. Rawson sometimes contrived to get possession of the 
pulpit and to officiate as a minister, until the irritated parish, on 
the 30th of October, 1741, chose a committee of fifteen,* and gave 
to them the following plain directions: — 

"As Mr. Rawson has lately in an abrupt manner entered the meeting house and per- 
formed divine service, contrary to the mind of this precinct, the committee are directed and 
empowered to prevent Mr. Rawson from entering the meeting house on the Sabbath, by 
such. means as they shall think best, except he shall promise not to officiate or perform ser- 
vice as a minister, and if Mr. Rawson shall offer to perform service as a minister, the com- 
mittee shall put him forth out of the meeting house." 

In a few weeks, Mr. Rawson with foolish boldness again en- 
tered the pulpit and commenced a prayer. He was immediately 
seized by some of the committee, or by some young men employed 
by them, dragged from the pulpit, and led or carried out of the 
house, without bodily injury.f He did not again intrude. On the 
nth of January, 1742, the precinct voted 10 pounds "to defend 
those men that acted in behalf of the precinct, in keeping Mr. 
Rawson from officiating in public." They were not prosecuted 
and the money was not needed for their defense. 

The precinct paid to Mr. Rawson all that was due to him, for 
salary and wood, which seems to have been £,110 in bills, or above 
180 dollars. South Hadley was his usual residence until 1744. J 



*These 15 were Hezekiah Smith, Stephen Warner, William Gaylord, Ephraim Nash, 
William Smith, Samuel Preston, Sergt. John Smith, Chileab Smith, John Alvord, Peter 
Montague, Corp. John Smith, Moses Taylor, Samuel Smith, Jonathan Smith, and John 
Preston. 

•[•The story that he continued his prayer after he was forcibly taken, and that his mouth 
was stopped with a handkerchief, may be false. 

|There is a tradition, that the council of May, 1741, advised that Mr. Rawson should be 
dismissed, and that the parish should pay what they owed him; and that, from the language 
used, Mr. Rawson claimed to be the minister till he was paid. The parish judged differ- 
ently. They intended to pay him, but could not raise the money in a short time. 

For some reason, Mr. Rawson never attended a meeting of the Hampshire Association, 
after April 8, 1735. He was eccentric, free-spoken and rash, as was his relative at Ware. 
He graduated at Harvard College in 1728. He married Dorothy, daughter of Rev. Isaac 
Chauncey of Hadley, May 19, 1738. He was settled in the parish of Hadlyme, in Connec- 
ticut, in 1745, 'wriere he is said to have been a useful minister. He died in 1777. 

Mr. Rawson's homelot in South Hadley was that on which Col. Woodbridge erected 
his large house, and his shop; and Mr. Rawson's house was a few rods north of the ground- 
plot of Col. Ws. The first Moses White bought the place of Mr. Rawson, and it was after- 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 391 

Dec. 29, 1 741. A committee was appointed to seek after a 
minister. lO men dissented. Jan. ii, 1742, the precinct chose 
Rev. John Woodbridge of Suffield to be their minister, the church 
having previously invited him. At that and subsequent meetings, 
the precinct voted a settlement of ;^300 in land and buildings, 
;^I50 salary and after 4 years ;^i6o, in bills equal to old tenor. 
The salary was to rise and fall as bills of the old tenor, then 28 
shillings for an ounce of silver, rose and fell. He was to have 
50 loads of wood. He was installed at South Hadley, April 21, 1742. 

South Hadley was made a district in April, 1753, Hadley giving 
full consent. A district had the powers of a town, except that of 
sending a representative to the General Court. The first meeting 
of the district was warned by Daniel Nash, April 21, and was 
held in the meeting house, April 30, 1753. The following officers 
were chosen: — 

Deac. John Smith, Moderator; Samuel Smith, Thomas Good- 
man, Deac. John Smith, Deac. John Smith, Jr., Luke Montague, 
Selectmen; Daniel Nash, Clerk; Samuel Smith, Deac. John 
Smith, jr., Luke Montague, Assessors; Moses Montague, Asahel 
Judd, Constables; Deac. John Smith, Sr., Treasurer; Josiah 
Moody, Experience Smith, Joseph Cook, Hogreeves; Reuben 
Smith, Clerk of the Market, Sealer, Packer and Ganger; Thomas 
Goodman, Job Alvord, Fence Viewers; Stephen Warner, Jr., 
Josiah White, Surveyors of Highways. The next year, two 
Tithingmen and two Haywards were added. In a few years two 
Wardens and two Deer-reeves were chosen. — South Hadley united 
with Hadley and Amherst in the choice of representatives until 

^775- . . . ^ 

Controversy about the Meeting House.* — The inhabitants of 

the precinct, becoming too numerous for their meeting house of 

40 feet by 30, voted March 2, 1751, to build a new house, to be 

set near the old one, and in April they voted to set it in the center 

of travel. Jan. 13, 1755, the district voted to build a meeting 

house, if they could agree on a place to set it. Jan. 16, 1758, 

wards purchased by Major John Woodbridge, son of Rev. John W. who lived there until 
his death in 1782. Col. W. built his expensive and respectable dwelling about 1788. After 
the raising, there was a great wrestling match. 

*In this contest, those who may be reckoned as' inhabitants of the western part of the 
district were a majority, but several of them sometimes voted with the eastern men, and 
gave to them a majority. Thus they did and undid in the district meetings, expressing 
their wUl by votes, and soon after annulling those votes. The eastern people were deter- 
mined that the meeting house should be set as far east as Cold hill, or in some place not far 
distant from this hill. The western people, with some exceptions, were as fully determined 
that the new meeting house should stand not far from the old one. Most of the committees 
from abroad seem to have been in favor of Cold hill or some place in the vicinity. 



392 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

they voted to build a meeting house 60 feet long and 45 wide, and 
to set it where it would best suit the inhabitants; and they chose 
a committee from other towns to say where it should be set. In 
March and October, 1759, the district voted to set it in the street, 
between Nehemiah Dickinson's house and Waitstill Dickinson's 
barn, (on or near Cold Hill.) Dec. 5, they chose a committee 
from other places to select a place; they had agreed to abide their 
judgment; Dec. 17, they voted not to abide their judgment. At 
meetings Dec. 24 and 26, 1759, and Jan. 14, 1760, a majority voted 
to set the meeting house in five places; — ist, north of Benjamin 
Church's house; 2d, where the committee had fixed the spot; 3d, 
south of Reuben Smith's house; 4th, near Nehemiah Dickinson's 
barn; 5th, near the present house. Thus they voted and unvoted. 

In March, 1760, 47 persons of the eastern party petitioned the 
General Court to send a committee to fix and enjoin the place. 
The district voted to come into a lot where to set the meeting 
house. When the Court's committee came, they fixed upon a place 
near the old meeting house, and did it by lot. The western in- 
habitants desired to abide by the lot, but the eastern, in January, 
1761, requested the General Court to separate them from South 
Hadley, if the house must be erected in the place fixed jupon. 
They said, — "owing to the soil, the eastern parts of the district 
are likely to be much sooner filled with inhabitants than the 
western part; we think a large portion of the land in the western 
part is so poor, it never will be inhabited." In March, 1761, 
Phinehas Smith and Eleazar Nash, in behalf of the eastern people, 
prayed that the second committee appointed by the Court, might 
be sent on soon. They came to South Hadley, in April, and 
decided that the meeting house should be erected "at the head of 
the lane, on Cold hill." The two houses disagreed, and the 
report was not accepted. In June, 1 761, Wm. Eastman and 
Phinehas Smith, for the east inhabitants, prayed the General 
Court to accept the report, or separate them from South Hadley. 

The western inhabitants, having a majority, had voted in 
April, 1 76 1, not to abide the judgment of this committee, and 
not to pay them, but to go on with building the meeting house 
near the old one. August 31, they chose men to go to Boston 
and hinder the division of the district. V/hile they were framing 
the meeting house, a few eastern men secretly drew away three 
posts and hid them in Pichawamiche swamp.* After the frame 

*The story, that some women of Granby sat on these posts and sang songs of triumph, 
is entirely untrue. Possibly they sang such songs at home. — The first parish estimated 
these posts at ^^, The order of the Court did not include them. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 393 

was raised, a large number of the eastern inhabitants came, ap- 
parently in October, and cut off the plates near the end and the 
girding timbers below, and pushed or pulled over the whole of the 
south end of the frame. Oct. 29, 1761, the district by a majority 
of nine voted "to prosecute the men that cut down part of our 
meeting house, and drew away three posts."* 

Dec. 21, 1761, the district voted to call five ministers to judge 
whether the lot be binding; if they should esteem it so, the district 
would po on in building the meeting house where it is now raised. 
Four ministers came in March, 1762, and agreed that the lot was 
of a sacred nature, and did not see how it could be departed from, 
according to the Old and New Testament. f 

Feb. 18, 1762, the General Court set off the eastern part of 
South Hadley, as the second parish in the district :| and the first 
parish was ordered to pay to the second, all the monies raised 
in the second and expended on the meeting house, deducting so 
much as the frame was damaged by cutting down part thereof 
by inhabitants of the second parish. In July, three Hampshire 
men were appointed to determine this damage, and they estimated 
it at ;^26, IDS. (about 88 dollars.) The two parishes could not 
agree respecting the sum to be paid by the first, and the second 
sued the first for £i6j, los., after taking out ;{^26, los., claiming 
half of all that had been expended in controversy. The parties 
at length agreed to refer the matter to Wm. Pitkin, Jr. of Hart- 
ford, Ebenezer Hunt of Northampton and William Wolcott of 
Windsor. The arbitrators decided about December, 1762, that 
the first parish should pay to the second £io.\\.']. This ended 
the matter. 

The first parish again erected the south end, spliced the plates, 
and made all strong with iron. July 22, 1762, they voted to cover, 
glaze and color the meeting house and lay the floor. In 1763 
and 1764, they finished the lower part and the front and fore 
seats of the gallery. The meeting house was first seated in 1764. 
The galleries were finished in 1771. The building, 60 by 45 feet, 
was larger than they needed. 

The first meeting-house stood north and west of the second. 
It was so far west that the front and principal entrance were on 

*Twenty-five eastern and three western men were bound before magistrates, to appear 
at the November court in Northampton. They appeared and were all discharged, per- 
haps with the consent of the prosecutors. 

j-The eastern people did not regard the lot, nor did the second Court's committee. This 
is not the only instance in which the lot was disregarded by those to whose wishes it was 
adverse. 

jThe district was divided and Granby incorporated in 1768. 



394 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

the east side, and the pulpit was on the west side. It stood perhaps 
6 or 8 rods southerly of its present site. It was sold, removed a 
few rods and converted into a dwelling-house.* 

Mr. Woodbridge continued to preach without aid until 1776; 
in that and subsequent years, he had assistance. f He died Sept. 
10, 1783, in his 8ist year. He was a son of Rev. John Wood- 
bridge of West Springfield, a graduate of Yale College in 1726, 
and was first settled as a minister at Poquonnoc in Windsor. 

His salary of ;^i6o, in bills that required 28 shillings to equal 
an ounce of silver, did not exceed £4.0, or 133 dollars. It was 
raised from time to time, until it amounted to ;^66.I3.4 ($222,22 
cents,) in 1761, and during most of the remainder of his life. 
One third was sometimes paid in wheat at 4s., rye at 3s. and corn 
at 2s. — the prices of grain before the revolution. His wood was 
increased to 65 or 70 loads. 

Mr. Joel Hayes, a graduate of Yale College in 1773, was invited 
to settle as colleague pastor in 1781. They voted to give him a 
settlement of ;^275 in hard money, a salary of ;^90, (300 dollars,) 
in hard money, and his firewood. He was ordained Oct. 23, 
1782, and having preached more than 40 years, was dismissed in 
1823. He died July 29, 1827, ^g^^ 74- 

In May, 1791, Col. Ruggles Woodbridge having offered the 
town a bell, they voted to build a steeple and belfry. The bell 
was broken three times. The town voted to purchase a clock for 
the meeting house, Nov. 1802. 

Early Deacons. — John Smith, who lived on the Springfield 
road, was called deacon in 1736, and Joseph White in 1738. 
John Smith, who lived on or near Cold Hill, was Deacon John 
Smith, 2d, in 1743. Daniel Moody and David Nash were deacons 
before 1763. 

The Common about the Meeting House. — This was- formerly 
larger than now, extending north and west nearly or quite to the 
dingle named Lubber's Hole. The western road from Hadley 
to Springfield, was west of the buildings now on the west side of 
the common. Previous to the revolution, there were only three 
dwelling houses near the borders of the common. These were 
the house of Daniel Nash, a little south of that of the late Doct. 
E. Dwight, the house of Rev. J. Woodbridge, where John W. 

*The first purchaser is not known. It was long in possession of the Goodmans. It 
has been owned and occupied many years by Alfred Judd and the widow of Salathiel Judd. 
It is 40 by 30 feet, of good height, and is a comely dwelling. The frame is 127 years old, 
and may yet last a century. 

j-Timothy Dwight preached some months in 1779. 



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HISTORY OF HADLEY 395 

Dunlap now resides, and the house which had been the first 
meeting house. A few rods east of the latter was the school 
house.* 

On the west side, the town built a house for the Rev. Joel Hayes, 
in 1783. Joseph White built the house which he occupied as an 
inn, and he had a trading shop north of it. A part of that house 
is now in the public house of George L. Smith. About 1785, a 
small house was removed from the place where Jonathan Burnet 
lives, and set on the corner where the road turns westerly. These 
three houses were the first on the west side of the common. 

Schools. — The means of education were quite limited in the 
South Precinct for many years. Probably there were some private 
schools, and most children were taught to read at home. They 
voted in 1738 to build a school house 23 by 18 feet and 7 feet 
between joints, and they voted to finish it in 1747 and again in 
1754. The first vote to provide a school master was in 1747. 
In 1755, a school was to be kept by one teacher in three places, 
two months in each place, viz., at the school house, near Cold 
Hill, and in Falls Woods. After 1762, there were two schools 
some months in the year, in the first parish, viz., at the school 
house near the meeting house, and in Falls Woods. A school 
house was to be built in the latter place in 1769. A third or south 
district was ordered in 1793, at the Falls. 

The yearly appropriation for schools, from 1754 to 1761, was 
from 8 to 20 pounds; from 1764 to 1777, in most years, 30 pounds; 
in January, 1780, £joo, when bills were 24 for i; 1782 to 1793, 
from 30 to 4oi^ yearly; in 1800, 300 dollars; in 1814, 450 dollars; 
in 18 15, 700 dollars. The town clerk informs me that they have 
9 districts, and raise in 1859, 2450 dollars for schools.f 

The Poor. — The expense of the South Precinct for the poor, 
was trifling for many years. The first pauper whom they support- 
ed was Mr. Samuel Mighill, a native of Scituate, and a graduate 
of Harvard College in 1704. He taught the Hopkins School in 
Hadley in 1705, and after living in Hartford and elsewhere, he 
returned to this vicinity in 1728. In 1759, styling himself, "Mas- 
ter of Arts," he petitioned the county court for aid, stating that 

*The late Gardner Preston born in 1749, told me that he could remember when there 
were only two dwelling houses, the old meeting house being used for public worship. 

Thirty years ago, some old men remembered when the common was mostly covered 
with whortleberry bushes. 

|Miss Abby Wright taught a private school for young ladies in South Hadley, a number 
of years, commencing about 1802; it was in good repute. 



396 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

he was infirm and poor, and that he was an inhabitant of South 
Hadley. The district denied that he belonged to them, but the 
court decided against them, and they were obhged to maintain 
him until his death, April ii, 1769, at the age of 84. His name 
is often Miles or Mials in their records. 

Comfort Domo, a daughter of Peter Domo, (page 289,) was 
warned out of town by South Hadley in 1790, and that town and 
Granby were contending in law about her support in 1797. She 
died in Granby, March 17, 1798. 

A man bearing the singular name of Peter Pendergrass, ap- 
peared in South Hadley in 1765. He is supposed to have been a 
British soldier in the French war. He became a pauper, and the 
record informs us that in November, 1800, "Peter Pendergrass 
was set up at vendue and struck ofFtoDeac.Enoch White at 50 cents 
a week." In later years, a few poor persons were set up at vendue 
and struck off to the lowest bidder. In almost all towns, some 
were disposed of in this improper manner. The annual expense 
of the poor in South Hadley, for some years after 1802, was from 
150 to 300 dollars. It is now about 450 dollars. 

French Neutrals. — South Hadley paid its proportion for the 
support of the family of French Neutrals at Hadley. (Page 343.) 
Their part in 1762 was ;^I3.4.7, in old tenor at 7 J for i. 

Innkeepers and Retailers. — Samuel Smith, who lived on the 
Springfield road, not a great distance north of Jonathan Burnet's, 
was the first innkeeper in South Hadley in 1729, '30 and '31. 
Samuel Kellogg, who lived on the same road, was the second, 
from 1733 to 1740. Wm. Eastman is said to have been an inn- 
keeper and trader in the same neighborhood, some years after 
1750, before he lived in Granby, and John Smith kept an inn 
from 1759 to 1 77 1. John Marshall was a retailer of liquors from 
1765 to 1772. Ruggles Woodbridge began to retail spirit in 1773.* 

The revolutionary war increased the number of innkeepers 
and retailers of spirits in most places. South Hadley had from 
4 to 8 innkeepers and retailers, 1778 to 1783, and from 8 to ii, 
about half of each, 1 785 to 1 800. After the canal was commenced 
in 1793, there were usually four innkeepers, near the canal. 

Timothy Nash was the first innkeeper in the eastern part of 

*The early innkeepers and retailers in Falls Woods and at the Falls are on pages 298 
and 299. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 397 

South Hadley, 1741 to 1749. Granby, having no river business, 
commonly had only one innkeeper and one or tw^o retailers.* 

The Revolution. — South Hadley bore its full share of the bur- 
dens of the revolutionary war. The people were united, active 
and unwavering in the cause of their country. The calls for men, 
clothing and provisions were answered. A pamphlet relative to 
the rights and grievances of the people, sent by the Boston Com- 
mittee of Correspondence, was read in a town meeting, and a 
patriotic reply was reported by a committee, and unanimously 
adopted, in January, 1773. 

A Committee of Correspondence was chosen June 14, 1774; 
a Committee of Inspection relative to the drinking of East India 
tea, Nov. 7, 1774; a Committee of Inspection respecting the con- 
sumption of British goods, Jan. 2, 1775; — more were added to 
the Committee of Inspection, Nov. 28, 1775; a Committee of 
Correspondence, Safety and Inspection, March 14, 1776, another 
March 17, 1777, and a third March 2, 1778. The men on these 
committees were the following, the figures denoting the number 
of committees to which each man belonged: — 

Ens. Daniel Nash, 2, Lt. Luke Montague, i, Deac. David Nash, 2, Major Josiah White, 
3, John Gaylord, 3, Philip Smith, i, Ens. Noah Goodman, 2, Capt. Moses Montague, 5, 
Joseph Cook, i, Jonathan White, i, Jonathan Preston, 2, Reuben Judd, 2, Nathan Alvord, 
I, Joseph Moody, 2, Silas Smith, 2, Nathaniel White, 2, Joseph Kellogg, i, John Chandler, 
I, Enoch White, i, David Mitchell, i, Josiah Moody, i, Charles Chapin, i, Deac. Daniel 
Moody, I, Ezra Day, i. 

Jan. 2, 1775, men were chosen to collect donations for the poor 
sufferers in Boston. March 2, 1775, a committee was chosen to 
promote peace and good order, and to prevent tumults and riots. 
June 20, 1776, the town voted that it was their mind that Inde- 
pendence should be declared. South Hadley united with others 
in their efforts to regulate the prices of labor, produce and mer- 
chandise, while the value of bills was constantly falling. This 
was a vain attempt. The town in its pecuniary affairs, estimated 
continental bills 3 for i in hard money, Dec. 1777; at 6 for i, 
Dec. 1778; at 24 for i, Jan. 1780; at 72 for i, or a dollar for a 
penny, Jan. 178 1. They soon fell lower, and ceased to circulate. 
In the latter part of the war, when men were required, a town 
meeting was held, and hard money was voted or grain at old 
prices, to pay them. The revolutionary taxes were heavy. In 

*Granby sometimes had town meetings at the tavern, especially in cold weather. There 
were a few such in South Hadley. 



398 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

1780, South Hadley paid two state taxes of 27,000 dollars each, 
in bills, after deducting large sums paid to soldiers for bounties. 
Paper money was plenty, and these taxes were paid more easily 
than small taxes in silver. 

Joseph Moody, Josiah White and Noah Goodman were 
chosen to attend a county convention, v/hich met at Northamp- 
ton, Sept. 22, 1774. Ens. Noah Goodman was elected to attend 
the Provincial Congresses at Concord, Cambridge and Water- 
town, in 1774 and 1775, and he was a representative to the Gen- 
eral Court, whenever one was sent, from 1776 to 1785. — He was 
a Justice of the Peace in 1775, and was the first South Hadley 
man that held that office. He was often employed in military 
aflFairs.* 

The Canal. — Preparations for the construction of a canal 
around the Falls at South Hadley were made in 1792, and about 
250 men were employed in 1793, and a larger number in I794.t 
Benjamin Prescott was superintendent. In December, 1794, the 
canal, inclined plane and dam were so nearly completed that 
people had a day of rejoicing, and a large number of men and 
women were let down and drawn up the inclined plane, in a 
boat, on the grand carriage. In April, 1795, they began to let 
down and draw up loaded boats. J This inclined plane and the 
machinery connected with it were used several years instead of 
locks. In the fall of 1801, the Company were obliged to take 
away a part of the dam, because it raised the water so much as 
to occasion diseases in Northampton and elsewhere. The works 
had then cost 81,375 dollars, exclusive of the tolls received. 
About half the shares were owned by Hollanders. In about three 
years, the canal was deepened, and locks substituted for the 
inclined plane. Ariel Cooley was engineer. 

The canal was an object of curiosity and attracted many visit- 
ors from the beginning. In 1795 and a few years after, great 
numbers of married men and women, and of young men and 
maidens, came to this place to see the works, and to have a ride 
down and up the inclined plane on the great car. Many parties 
came so far that they remained at the public house of John 

*Aged men in South Hadley, who remember Major Goodman, say that his education 
was quite limited. Col. R. Woodbridge seems not to have been inclined to civil ofEce in 
those days. He commanded a regiment in the revolutionary war. 

South Hadley was called a town instead of a district in 1775. South Hadley and Granby 
tried to unite and become one town several times, without success. 

•j-The men employed were chiefly Americans, and most of them belonged to the old 
county. 

jFor more than thirty years previous to 1795, many South Hadley farmers had trans- 
ported lumber and goods by the falls. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 399 

Bennet, or some, other, through the night. Almost all rode on 
horses. No other place in the old county of Hampshire drew so 
many people by novel and interesting sights. In shad-time, in 
May, there was a great accession. 

The second Parish and Granby. — The second or eastern parish 
of South Hadley was formed Feb. i8, 1762. A meeting house 
was erected on land given by Samuel Moody, a church organized, 
and Rev. Simon Backus settled as pastor, the same year. James 
Smith gave an acre of land for a burial place in 1769. The salary 
of Mr. Backus in 1772 was -^11, los. and in 1779, they voted to 
give him ;^75, equal to silver at 6s. 8d. per ounce — a higher salary 
than many towns gave. He had 60 loads of wood in 1773, which 
cost the town 2s. 8d. per load. Deacon John Smith, 2d. resided 
in the second parish, and may have been one of the first deacons. 
John Moody was a deacon before 1767. 

Granby was incorporated June ii, 1768, and called a "town," 
but it had not the privilege of sending a representative until the 
revolution. Granby was a part of South Hadley until 1768.* 
The division line was long a source of much trouble. The people 
of Granby, excepting a small number of tories, were patriotic 
and decided in the revolution, and furnished the men, money, 
clothing and provisions required of them.f The town voted 
Feb. 1775 to call Capt. Eastman, Lieut. Eleazar Nash and Ens. 
Experience Smith to account, for holding commissions received 
under Gov. Hutchinson and Gen. Gage. They refused to resign 
their commissions, but declared that they would not act under 
them, and would observe the resolves of Congress. The town 
were not satisfied. They voted June 20, 1776, to support Inde- 
pendence with their lives and fortunes. Their Committees of 
Correspondence, Inspection, &c. were vigilant. They sent Jona- 
than Selden to Northampton jail for breaches of the peace, Oct. 
1775. In January, 1776, they published in a newspaper at 
Watertown, that "William Eastman of Granby, is an enemy to 
his country." During the war, there were 30 or 40 requisitions 
upon the Hampshire towns for soldiers. The number required 
of South Hadley was from 4 to 23 men, and of Granby from 3 to 
17. Some calls may have been for more than 23 and 17 men. 
Granby and other towns paid in the eight years of war 16 or 17 
state taxes. 

Granby chose Phinehas Smith, Nathan Smith and Rowe 

to attend the revolutionary county convention at Northampton, 

*I have found no record of the doings of the parish or town previous to 1769. 
•j-In all towns, some men when drafted paid the fine. 



400 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Sept. 22, 1774. Captain Phinehas Smith attended two of the pro- 
vincial congresses in 1774 and 1775, and was a representative to 
the General Court with Nathan Smith in 1777, and alone in 1779, 
1780 and 1 78 1. John Ayres was representative in 1778 and 1783, 
and Benjamin Eastman in 1784 and 1785. 

Granby voted for schools ;^20 yearly before the revolution. In 
1788, £2^, and the districts might hire "dames" instead of 
masters; in 1800, 280 dollars for schools and 20 dollars for singing; 
in 1810, $330 for schools and ^90 for singing; in 1854, $850 for 
schools. 

Rev. Simon Backus was dismissed March 3, 1784, by a council 
that met at Granby, March 1st. Rev. Benjamin Chap- 
man was settled in February, 1790, dismissed in January, 1797, 
and Rev. Elijah Gridley succeeded him in May, 1798. Mr. 
Gridley's salary was 300 dollars. 

Baptists. — Ninety and a hundred years ago, there was a small 
society of Baptists, who had been "Separatists," in Granby and 
the vicinity. James Smith of Granby was their minister. Chileab 
Smith of South Hadley, was a brother of James. Chileab 
and his sons were among the first settlers of Ashfield, and were 
Baptists.* 

Draining Pichawamiche meadow. — Ten proprietors, in May, 
1744, represented to the General Court that this land was un- 
profitable by reason of wetness and sourness, and prayed for a 
commission of sewers to drain said meadow. The meadow was 
partially drained before 1748. In May, 1766, there was a similar 
petition from 12 proprietors; the meadow was still wet and sour. 
Hezekiah Smith, Daniel Moody and Aaron Nash were appointed 
commissioners of sewers. This meadow is in Granby. 

The Crack Road. — The way from Amherst to South Hadley 
and Springfield was over a low place in Holyoke, called the 
crack or notch. The first county road from the Bay road in 
Amherst, through the crack, to South Hadley meeting house, 
was laid in 1762. A way from the crack, by the meeting house of 
the second parish, to the Springfield road near Moses Taylor's, 
was laid in 1766. 

Making Whisky. — There was one whisky distillery in Granby 
in 1 8 10, and four more in a few years, whisky being very high, 
owing to the war, &c. The price fell, and many farmers concerned 
in the business lost money, and some were ruined. — There were 
two whisky distilleries in South Hadley. 

*James and Chileab were great grandsons of Rev. Henry Smith of Wethersfield. Miss 
Mary Lyon is said to have been a descendant of this Chileab. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 401 

Lining out the psalm. — South Hadley voted, March, 1776, 
that singing should be carried on in the afternoon of the Sabbath, 
without reading; that is, without reading the psalm line by line. 
The old way was not then changed in the forenoon, and it was 
continued when the sacrament was administered long after 1776. 
In many places, the practice of doling out the psalm a line or two 
at a time, was not given up, without much heat and contention.* 

The town gave to promote singing $13.33 ^^ ^792; $20 in 1796; 
$50 in 1799 and $So in 1807. The singers had a bass-viol in 1798. 

Small pox. — This dreadful disease was in two families in Falls 
Woods, in South Hadley, in 1757. Gideon Alvord, son of John 
A., had the small pox in the army, and came home with stockings 
not cleansed. His mother washed them and took the disease. 
When the small pox first appeared, many of her children, grand- 
children and others who had been exposed, were inoculated, and 
John Alvord's house became a pest-house. Doctors Crouch and 
Kellogg of Hadley had the care of the patients from Oct. 28 to 
Dec. 28. John Alvord's wife is said to have died of small pox, 
and he died of that or some other disease, Nov. 21, 1757. — In 
December, the family of Ephraim Smith, 7 or 8 persons, having 
been exposed, were inoculated. f They all recovered. — The red 
flag waved at these houses several weeks, to warn travelers of 
their danger.J 

Old Accidents. — Ebenezer Smith was killed at the raising of 
Ebenezer Moody's house, and one Montague was much hurt, in 
June, 1729. Smith left a family. He was a brother of Chileab 
and James. This same house of Ebenezer Moody was burnt, 
Feb. 23, 1744, and a man named Green and a mulatto child 6 
years old were burnt to death. Hugh Queen was killed by light- 
ning about 1759. He left seven children. He lived near Elmer's 
brook. Nov. 15, 1768, Samuel Ayres of Granby was drowned 

*John Stickney, born in Abingdon, in 1742 or 1743, came to this county about 1765, as a 
teacher of music. He taught singing schools in several towns in this vicinity and in Con- 
necticut, and did much to introduce a better style of church music and a greater variety of 
tunes. He settled in South Hadley, and continued to instruct in music in the winter until 
he was above 60 years old. 

Mr. Ayres, of Granby, son of the Samuel A. who was drowned, taught singing schools, 
in other towns in 1771, 1772, &c. 

•j-A woman of Pelham or Greenwich, who had had the disease, is said to have been im- 
pressed by authority to take care of John Alvord's family, and Ephraim Smith was con- 
cerned in the pressing. Such things were done in those days. The husband of the woman 
was indignant, and the tradition is, that he purposely left a small-pox garment at the house 
of Smith.^'g,;^^ 

JA province law required a red flag to be hung out from every house wherein was the 
small pos. 



402 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 



in Connecticut River, and his body was found below the falls 
almost entire in April, 1771, 2 years and 5 months after. 

Riding on a Rail. — In 1789, sixteen men of South Hadley were 
indicted for riding John Queen, (son of Hugh Queen, deceased,) 
on a rail from South Hadley to Granby. 8 were fined 20 
shillings each, and two los. each, and costs ;^8. 12.0. The offensive 
conduct of Queen is not recorded.* 

Slaves. — There was one slave in South Hadley, and probably 
more, March 6, 1778, David Mitchell of that town, gave to his 
negro man, Caesar Cambridge, his freedom, in consideration of 
85 pounds paid in cash, and of an order for his wages in a cruise 
in the brig Defence, supposed to be 40 pounds. The 125 pounds 
may have been equal to 100 silver dollars, which the negro had 
earned, partly, if not wholly, in the service of his country. The 
emancipating paper was recorded. 

Settlers and Heads of Families in South Hadley and Granby previous to 1763. 
Married men are accounted heads of families, and a few when unmarried. The 21 men 
named under 1727, (17 in S. H. and 4 in G.) are those who sent the first petition to the 
General Court in 1727. Of the 37 "South Inhabitants" in 1731, (see page 284,) 19 were 
there in 1727, the place of John Preston who died in 1728, being supplied by his heirs, and 
18 were new planters. Two of the 21 were missing, viz., Ebenezer Smith, accidently killed 
in 1729, and one of the John Smiths, who soon returned. 

South Hadley. 
In 1727. 
Daniel Nash, 2d 
Richard Church 
Samuel Taylor 
Samuel Smith 
Samuel Kellogg 
John Smith 
John Preston 
Nathaniel White 
Thomas Goodman, Jr. 
John Taylor 
Joshua Taylor 
Joseph Kellogg 
William Smith 
Jonathan Smith 
Luke Montague 
Joseph White 
Ebenezer Smith 



Additions 1727 to 1731. 
William Gaylord 
Nathaniel Ingram, Jr. 
Samuel Rugg 
Samuel Taylor, Jr. 
Moses Taylor 
Joseph Taylor 



Daniel Nash, ist 
William Montague 
Ebenezer Moody 
Ebenezer Moody, Jr. 
Peter Montague 
Chileab Smith, 2d 
Heirs of John Preston 
Timothy Hillyer 

Additions 1731 to 1740. 
John Smith, F. Woods 
Rev. Grindall Rawson 
Benjamin Church, Jr. 
Moses White 
John Alvord 
John Alvord, Jr. 
Joseph Moody 
Josiah Snow 
Eleazar Goodman 
Jabez Bellows 
James Ball 

Additions 1740 to 1750. 
Jonathan White 
John Gaylord 
Gad Alvord 
Daniel Crowfoot 



Josiah Moody 
Joseph White, Jr. 
Ebenezer Kellogg 
Jesse Bellows 
Reuben Smith 
Moses Montague 
John Stanley 
Hugh Queen 
Jonathan Preston 
Josiah White 
Joseph Cook 
Daniel Moody 
Thomas Judd 
Rev. John Woodbridge 
Silas Smith 
Philip Smith 
John Smith, 4th 
Thomas White 
Nathaniel White, Jr. 
Ephraim Smith 
Aaron Taylor 
Samuel Preston 
Elijah Alvord 
John Hillyer 
Timothy Hillyer, Jr. 



*The same year a man was carried on a rail in Northampton, for abusing his wife. The 
rioters settled with the man and paid cost £5.11.2. — "To ride the stang," was the name of 
this unlawful punishment in England. 



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403 



Additions 1750 to 1763. 
Phinehas Smith, 2d 
David Nash 
Noah Goodman 
Joseph Kellogg, Jr. 
Titus Pomeroy 
Josiah Smith 
John Rugg 
Asahel Judd 
Reuben Judd 
Martin Wait 
Josiah Snow, Jr. 

In 1727. 

Ebenezer Taylor 
John Smith 
Ephraim Nash 
John Lane 

Additions 1727 to 1731. 

Timothy Nash 
Joseph Nash 
William Dickinson, Jr. 
Nehemiah Dickinson 
Thomas Taylor 

Additions 173 1 to 1740. 

Stephen Warner, Sr. 
James Smith 
Noah Ferry 
Samuel Moody 
John Moody 
Hezekiah Smith 

Additions 1740 to 1750. 

William Eastman 
Aaron Nash 
Phinehas Smith, ist 
Seth Clark 
Noah Clark 



Gideon Alvord 
John Woodbridge, Jr. 
William Wait 
Jabez Kellogg 
David Eaton 
Israel Smith 
John Chandler 
Moses Alvord 
Ebenezer Snow 
Joseph Nash 
John French 
Benoni Preston 

Granby. 

John Preston 
Experience Smith 
Eleazar Nash 
Martin Nash 
Hezekiah Smith, Jr. 
Jonathan Selden 
Samuel Dickinson 

Additions 1750 to 1763. 

Eleazar Warner, Jr. 
Benjamin Eastman 
John Rowe 
John Lane, Jr. 
Stephen Warner, Jr. 
Samuel Ayres 
Eliphalet Green 
Timothy Burr 
Josiah Montague 
Joseph Montague 
Nathan Smith 
Israel Clark 
Jacob Taylor 
Ithamar Amidown 
Elisha Nash 
Seth Smith 
James Smith 
Waitstill Dickinson 
Ezekiel Barton 



James Henry 
Nathan Alvord 
John Marshall 
Elisha Church 
Nathaniel Bartlett 
Benjamin Pierce 
Josiah Smith, 2d 
William Taylor 
Elisha Taylor 
Job Alvord 
William Brace 
Reuben Taylor 

Rev. Simon Backus 
Asaph Stebbins 
Ebenezer Taylor, Jr. 
William Dickinson 
Timothy Smith 
Peter Domo 
Samuel Elmer 
Asahel Smith 
Thomas H. Moody 
Charles Ferry 
David Barton 
Experience Smith 
Ebenezer Bartlett 
Samuel Vinton 
John Giddings 
William Negus 
Elisha Barton 
James Giddings 
Stephen Chapin 
Samuel Moody, Jr. 
Benjamin Smith 
James Patrick 
Jeremiah Chapin 
John Moody, Jr. 
Elisha Moody 
Reuben Moody 
Joseph Hillyer 
Moses Smith 
John Camp 



These lists are not perfect, especially the latter part of the time; and there may be some 
errors in the residence, the two places being one parish before 1762, and one district until 1768. 

Of the early settlers of South Hadley, John Alvord, the three Judds, Titus Pomeroy and 
Nathaniel Bartlett were from Northampton. Of those of Granby, Noah, Seth and Israel 
Clark and Ebenezer Bartlett were from Northampton. Noah and Seth Clark were Baptists. 

Largest estates. — The men who had the largest valuations in South Hadley in 1 771, were 
Josiah White, Lt. Luke Montague, Josiah Smith, (son of Samuel,) Jonathan White, Nathan- 
iel White, Deac. Daniel Moody, Samuel Preston, Josiah Moody. In Granby, Deac. 
William Eastman, Jacob Taylor, John Moody, (son of Deac. John, dec'd,) Deac. Nathan 
Smith, Benjamin Eastman, Moses Moody, Phinehas Smith, Ebenezer Bartlett. 

It is ascertained that John Chandler lived in the dwelling house, made from the old 
meeting house in 1770. He appears to have been the first purchaser, about 1764. 

Phinehas Smith of Granby belongs with those on 386th page, who had 100 pounds at 
interest. 

It is mentioned on page 299, that females formerly rowed themselves in a skiff across the 
Connecticut, between Northampton and South Hadley. I find that some young females, 
on each side of the river, readily do the same in 1859. 



404 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Physicians in the last century. — Doctors Crouch and Kellogg 
of Hadley, were the physicians of South Hadley until after 1760.* 
Doct. Samuel Vinton was in the east parish or Granby in 1762, 
and was of 'South Hadley in 1784, and died in 1801. Ruggles 
Woodbridge was in practice in 1765; he seems not to have con- 
tinued many years. Doct. Ezekiel White died in 1789, a young 
man, Elihu Bissell was a physician in S. H. in 1784 and some 
years after. Elihu Dwight succeeded and was in practice thirty 
or forty years. He died in 1854.! Three doctors appear in Gran- 
by between 1774 and 1800, viz., Perez Chapin, Daniel Coit and 
Chester Cowles. 



CHAPTER XXXV 

The Third Precinct, or East HadleyJ — First Meeting House and Minister — Church Mem- 
bers — Minister's Wood — Deacons — Second Minister — East Parish — District of Amherst 
— Representatives and Justices — Plan to divide Amherst — The Revolution — Tories — 
Taxes — Minute men — Delegates and Representatives — Schools — The Poor — Innkeep- 
ers, &c. — Highways — Flat Hills — Physicians — Planters and householders — Insurrec- 
tion — School dames. 

It is not known when men began to plant themselves at East 
Hadley. Circumstances render it probable that the first perma- 
nent settlement was in 1727, or 1728. It was certainly later than 
that of South Hadley.§ The east inhabitants are not noticed in 
the town records until Jan. 5, 1730, when a committee was ap- 
pointed to lay out for them about an acre of land convenient 
for a burying place. || No town officer was chosen from the east 
inhabitants before 1730. In January, 1732, those of them that 
were at the charge of hiring a minister, were to be abated one-fifth 
of their tax for Mr. Chauncey's salary. Aug. 27, 1733, the town 

♦They charged for a visit south of the mountain 8 times as much as for one in the old 
village, or 5s. 4d. for the former when the latter was 8 pence, each mile being reckoned as 
much as a visit near home. They gave medicines excessively and blistered and bled ex- 
travagantly, and these things generally cost more than their visits, even in South Hadley. 

•j-E. Dwight began to study with Doct. Ebenezer Hunt of Northampton, Dec. 11, 1790. 
He was to pay 50 dollars a year, and not stay less than two years. Doct. Hunt's students 
took care of the shop. 

jThe laying out of these lands may be found on pages from 273 to 277. 

§South Hadley or the second precinct was in advance of East Hadley, and had twice as 
many settlers in 1731. After some years, the difference was much less. 

||The committee laid out the burying place, before March, 1730, in the west highway, 
in length 15 rods adjoining Nathaniel Church's lot on the west, and in width 12 rods east 
in the highway, making one acre and twenty rods. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 405 

voted that if the east inhabitants hired a minister six months, 
they should be abated half their rate to Mr. Chauncey. 

John Ingram and others of the east inhabitants,* believing 
they could support a minister, petitioned the General Court, 
June, 1734, to be a separate precinct. The first precinct thought 
their petition unreasonable, and'Capt. Luke Smith was sent to 
Boston to oppose it. In December, 1734, the eastern people again 
petitioned to be a precinct, and to include a tract 7 miles long 
and 2f miles wide,t having Hadley commons W., Boston road 
S., Equivalent land E. and Sunderland N. 

The petition was granted Dec. 3 1 , and the precinct was bounded 
as they desired. They were to build a meeting house and settle 
a learned orthodox minister in three years; and they might tax 
non-resident lands, not belonging to the old precinct, two pence 
an acre for six years, to support the ministry. 

The first meeting of the "third or east precinct" of Hadley, 
having been warned by Ebenezer Kellogg, was held at the house 
of Zechariah Field, Oct. 8, 1735. They chose Samuel Hawley, 
Moderator; John Nash, Clerk; John Ingram, Sr., Samuel Bolt- 
wood and Samuel Hawley, committee to call meetings; Ebenezer 
Dickinson, Aaron Smith and John Nash, Assessors; Ebenezer 
Kellogg, Collector. The precinct voted to hire a minister half a 
year; and to build a meeting house 45 by 35 feet, "to be covered 
with quarter-boards of spruce,":]: and to cover the roof with 
spruce shingles, 21 inches long and without sap; and to set the 
house up the hill, east of John Nash's house. 

Nov. 25, 1735, they voted to set the meeting house near the 
Hartling§ Stake, so called. In December, they altered the place 
again. Nov. 14, 1738, they voted to set the meeting house in 
the place first designated, viz., on the hill east of the house of 
John Nash. Dec. 15, 1738, they voted to Thomas Temple £i() 

*The petitions and names -were not found in the State House. It appeared that John 
Ingram was at the head of the first petition, and Zechariah Field, of the second. 

■j-The 2| miles in width must be intended for the average width. The north line was 
less, and the south line more than z\ mQes. 

JBy "quarter boards of spruce," they intended clapboards of white pine, probably split 
and shaved. Their spruce shingles were of white pine. 

§The Hartling Stake was noted in East Hadley, and is several times mentioned. The 
records state in 1795 that it stood about one rod east of the N. E. corner of Lt. Gideon Par- 
sons's house. That house was where Howe's public house now stands, near the N. W. 
corner of the common. There was formerly a school house not far from the Hartling Stake, 
and a pound. 



406 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

for framing the meeting house, and to Ebenezer Kellogg 77 
shillings for rum and sugar. The house must have been raised 
between Nov. 14 and Dec. 15, 1738. It was built upon the hill 
where the College Cabinet and Observatory stand. The work 
proceeded slowly, and the house was not finished until 1753. 
Meetings were held in it before 1742, and a person was chosen 
to sweep the meeting house, and to give a signal* when to go to 
meeting, in 1743. The house was first seated in 1749, and the 
seaters were directed to place "the males together and the females 
tegether," except in the two pews nearest to the east end of the 
pulpit. The seaters were to have the care of "deeming the seats," 
(estimating their dignity,) and in seating, were to regard age, 
estate and qualifications. The few pews then built, and those 
added for some years, were round the sides, next to the walls. 
There were galleries. 

The people of East Hadley had preaching a part of the year 
after 1732. David Parsons, Jr.,t a Harvard graduate of 1729, 
began to preach there in November, 1735. April 13, 1737, the 
third precinct voted to give him a call to settle, and offered to 
him two lots of land given by Hadley, and a salary of ;£"ioo, and 
to set up for him the frame of a house, of two stories, 21 by 40 
feet, and cover it and build a chimney and cellar. He did not 
accept then, nor in September when a salary of ;^I20 was voted. 
He preached at Southampton some months in 1737 and 1738.^ 
In July and September, 1739, the precinct again gave Mr. David 
Parsons, Jr. a call, and offered the two lots of land in the second 
and third divisions, £1"]$ towards building his house, his firewood, 
and a salary of ;^ioo, as polls and estates were January, 1739J 
to be increased to ;^i6o, as polls and estates increased — to be 
paid in province bills of the old tenor, or one-third as much in the 
new tenor, till 1741. The salary was to be paid after 1741, in 

*A man was chosen "to blow the kunk," (conch,) as a signal, for many years. The 
conch was blown and the meeting house swept some years, for less than three dollars a year. 

•j-His father, Rev. David Parsons, was a son of Joseph Parsons, Esq. of Northampton. 
He was first settled at Maiden and afterwards at Leicester. He was a man of strong passions, 
and the people of Leicester were unyielding, and after years of strife, he died and was buried 
by his special direction on his own land, being unwilling to be buried with his people. He 
did not die in 1737, as stated in Washburn's History of Leicester, for his son added " JunV' 
to his name in 1739. 

jEast Hadley and Southampton gave to young preachers in those years, their board and 
40 shillings a Sabbath, in the first old tenor, which was not far from one tiiird of tiiat sum 
in lawful money, or 13s. 4d. In 1741, this old tenor was 4 for I. 

§The number of polls was then 35 and of families 29. The names of the heads of fam- 
ilies will be given on another page. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 407 

bills of the old tenor at the rate of 26 shillings for an ounce of 
silver. He accepted in the following brief manner — -"Sept. 28. 
Comply'd with the request of the inhabitants of the third precinct 
in Hadley. Per me, David Parsons, Jun'r." The Boston News- 
Letter states that he was "ordained pastor of the church newly 
gathered at East Hadley," on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 1739.* The 
ordination cost the precinct i^ii. 

The salary of Mr. Parsons for some years seems to have been 
a little above 40 pounds lawful. In 1754, £^2, los. of the last old 
tenor, 7 J for i, equal to 41 dollars, were added to the salary, 
and additions were made until it amounted to £bo or 200 dollars 
in 1757, and to £bb.iT,.^ in 1759. It was raised to ;^8o in 1762, 
and was the highest salary in this vicinity, except Mr. Hooker's 
at Northampton. It was fixed at ;^8o in 1764, in lawful money, 
but if money became very scarce, he would receive wheat at 3s. 
7d. and rye at 2s. 5d. per bushel. He offered to provide his own 
firewood yearly for ;^i 3.6.8, and the district accepted the offer. 
Though he was inclined to toryism, the people paid his salary as 
long as he lived, but not without some delay. He died Jan. 1,1781, 
in his 69th year. 

Mr. Parsons's wood. — I never found in any records, a minister 
who consumed as much wood as Mr. Parsons. The precinct 
voted 60 loads in 1742, 80 loads in 1744, 90 loads in 1749, and 

*I am indebted to Mr. L. M. Boltwood of Amherst, for the names of the members of the 
church. I have added to the females, the names of their husbands, and may have made 
one or two errors. Mr. Boltwood says the church was formed Nov. 7, 1739, of the follow- 
ing 16 males:— 

David Parsons, Pastor, Pelatiah Smith, Jonathan Smith, 

Nathaniel Kellogg, Ebenezer Dickinson, Nathaniel Smith, 

John Ingram, John Cowls, Joseph Clary, 

Samuel Hawley, Aaron Smith, Jonathan Cowls, 

Eleazar Mattoon, Ebenezer Kellogg, Richard Chauncey, 

John Nash. 

One male and 27 females were added, Jan. I, 1740: — 
David Smith, (son of Luke, Wid. Sarah Field, (widow of Zechariah, 

Mehetabel Hawley, (wife of Samuel, Abigail Field, (wife of John, 

Wid. Abigail Smith, (mother of Jona., Rebecca Hawley, (wife of Joseph, 

Hannah Smith, (wife of Jona. or David, Mehetabel Smith, (wife of Aaron, 

Mary Cowls, (wife of John, Hannah Nash, (wife of John, 

Elizabeth Mattoon, (wife of Eleazar, Sarah Kellogg, (wife of Nathaniel, 

Sarah Cowls, (wife of Jonathan, Abigail Smith, (wife of Pelatiah, 

Wid. Hannah Boltwood, (wid. of Sam'l, Elizabeth Smith, (daughter of Pel.? 

Sarah Hawley, (wife of Samuel, Jr. Sarah Dickinson, (wife of Ebenezer, 

Martha Boltwood, (daughter of Sam'l, Elizabeth Chauncey, (wife of Richard, 

Wid. Lydia Ingram, (wid. of John, Jr., Ruth Boltwood, (daughter of Solomon, 

Elizabeth Kellogg, (wife of Ebenezer, Mary Boltwood, (wife of Solomon, 

Mehetabel Ingram, (wife of John, Sr. Hannah Murray, (wife of William, 

Sarah Clary, (wife of Joseph, AUIgJll' 'MOWiyrtwife of Nathan. 



408 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

100 "good" loads in 1751; they commonly voted 100 loads of 
wood, or ;^I5 for wood at 3 shillings for a good load, till 1760, 
but some years 93 loads, or £i/\. for wood at 3s. per load. In 1763, 
more than 120 "ordinary" loads were provided, at 2s. 5d. a load.* 

Deacons. — In the records of East Hadley, Eleazar Mattoon 
has the title of deacon in June, 1739, and after 1740. He may 
have been a deacon at Northfield. Ebenezer Dickinson is called 
deacon in 1740, John Nash in 1742, Jonathan Edwards in 1766, 
Simeon Clark in 1770, Eleazar Smith in 1782. 

Second Minister. — Mr. Parsons was succeeded by his son 
David Parsons, D.D. who was ordained Oct. 2, 1782. The town 
voted to give him a settlement of 300 pounds and a salary of 
100 pounds, to be equivalent to Spanish milled dollars at 6 shil- 
lings; and 25 cords of wood, to be increased to 40 cords, annually. 
He graduated at Harvard in 1771, was dismissed at his own 
request Sept. i, 1819, and died at Wethersfield, Conn., May 18, 
1823, aged 74. 

The East Parish. — Capt. Ebenezer Mattoon and other members 
of the first church were strongly opposed to the settlement of 
Mr. Parsons, and they obtained an advisory council from five 
churches west of the river, and this council met at Amherst, 
Oct. I, 2 and 3, 1782, before and after Mr. Parsons was ordained, 
and gave their advice to the aggrieved members, who, on the 
15th of October, 22 in number, agreed to organize a new church. 
Another council of ministers and delegates from five churches, 
viz., Southampton, Montague, Whately, Hatfield and West- 
hampton, (called by some Capt. Mattoon's council,) met at Am- 
herst Oct. 28 and 29, and again Nov. 11 and 12, and on the last 
day, judged that the offer of the other party, (Mr. Parsons and 
the church,) "was unequal and unjust;" and advised the ag- 
grieved, if the others would not unite in a mutual council in four 
weeks, to proceed to organize, and to settle a minister. Warm 
contentions and unfriendly dispositions, which were lasting, grew 
out of this division. f Rev. Ichabod Draper, the first pastor of 
the second church, was from Dedham and was a graduate of 

*For a long time, the value of wood was only the expense of cutting it for the sled or cart 
and drawing it. For some years, a sled load of hard wood was only 2 shillings lawful; it 
gradually advanced to 2S. 6d. and 3s. The loads were examined by a committee. In 
Amherst and South Hadley, the price did not exceed 3s. down to the revolution. These old 
sled loads may have contained from two-thirds to three-fourths of a cord. Cart loads were 
less. 

•[•My grandfather presided in this council and my father was a delegate, and I heard 
much about this strife when a boy. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 409 

Harvard in 1783. He was ordained Jan. 25, 1786, dismissed 
Oct. 12, 1809, and died Dec. 17, 1827, aged 72. 

District of Amherst. — This was incorporated, Feb. 13, 1759,* 
six years after South Hadley was made a district. During these 
years, East Hadley was the second precinct of Hadley. The first 
meeting of the district was held at the meeting house, March 19, 
1759, and the following officers were chosen: — 

Deac. Ebenezer Dickinson, Moderator; Josiah Chauncey, 
Clerk; Joseph Eastman, Treasurer; Deac. Ebenezer Dickinson, 
Jonathan Dickinson, Doct. Nathaniel Smith, Ens. John Dickinson, 
Moses Dickinson, Selectmen; Deac. Ebenezer Dickinson, Jonathan 
Dickinson, Moses Dickinson, Assessors; Pelatiah Smith, Isaac 
Goodale, Constables; Joseph Eastman, Jonathan Edwards, 
Tithingmen; Simeon Clark, Nathaniel Coleman, Fence Viewers; 
Joseph Church, John Petty, Reuben Ingram, Hogreeves; Gideon 
Dickinson, Daniel Dickinson, Ebenezer Mattoon, Nathaniel 
Dickinson, Jacob Warner, Surveyors; Alexander Smith, Clerk 
of the Market. In 1760, Elijah Baker and Moses Dickinson 
were Deer-reeves. In 1761, three Wardens were chosen. In 
1762, Isaac Goodale was Sealer of Leather, and there was a 
Surveyor of Timber. In 1763, three Surveyors of Wheat. — The 
officers of a district and of a town were the same. 

As long as South Hadley and East Hadley were only precincts 
or parishes, the men came to the old village to do town business, 
and many town officers were elected from these precincts. f After 
they became districts, they and Hadley met once a year for the 
choice of a representative to the General Court until the revolu- 
tion, and Granby, though called a town after 1768, met with them. 
These towns and districts commonly chose only one representa- 
tive, and he was generally from the old town, but Daniel Nash of 
South Hadley was the representative in 1764 and 1765, and 
Josiah Chauncey of Amherst in 1760 and 1762, and Simeon Strong 
of Amherst in 1767 and 1769.I 

*By the same act, five men of the first precinct of Hadley and their estates were annexed 
to Amherst. Hadley consented that East Hadley should be a district, but opposed the 
annexation of the five families, who seem to have resided on the road leading from Amherst 
to Sunderland. 

•{"South and East Hadley could have outvoted the old or first precinct many years, and 
have controlled the town, but the records show that a majority of the selectmen were always 
chosen from the old village, excepting 1751 and 1757. 

jThe four places united in the choice of a representative for the last time in May, 1774. 
Each of the four chose a delegate to the provincial congress in October, 1774. 



410 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Justices. — Josiah Chauncey was the first Justice of the Peace 
in Amherst in 1758, and Simeon Strong the second, in 1768. 
They lost their offices because they were opposed to the revolu- 
tion, and whigs were appointed, viz., Moses Dickinson in 1775, 
Nathaniel Dickinson, Jr. I78i,and Ebenezer Mattoon, Jr. 1783. 

Plan to divide Amherst. — When it was thought necessary to 
build a new meeting house, the inhabitants in the northern and 
southern parts, by uniting, formed a majority, and voted to 
divide the district into two parishes, Jan. 13, 1772; and they 
voted to build two meeting houses, April 14, 1773. Those 
residing in the central parts of the old parish were about to be 
placed on the outside of two new parishes, and to be taxed for 
building two meeting houses, and 70 men petitioned the General 
Court for relief, in May, 1773, and requested to be a parish in 
the middle of Amherst, if there must be a division. The majority 
voted in January, 1774, to divide the district by an east and west 
line from the center of the meeting house, and to send a reply to 
the notice from the Court. Both parties sent petitions, and the 
General Court appointed a committee, who visited Amherst in 
March, 1774. The revolution seems to have stopped the pro- 
ceedings of those in favor of a division. 

The Revolution. — A number of persons in Amherst, including 
several influential men, were unfriendly to the revolution,* and 
others were neutral. A majority however were ardent and active 
in the cause of their country, and they chose a Committee of 
Correspondence Jan. 26, 1774, to communicate with the Boston 
Committee of Correspondence. The reply of the Amherst Com- 
mittee to the Boston Committee was accepted by the district, 
March 14, 1774, and recorded. It is in strong and patriotic 
language, approving the proceedings of Boston and justifying 
the destruction of the tea; and the Boston Committee are assured 
that they will be "supported by a large majority in this district." 
A standing Committee of Correspondence was chosen Sept. 20, 
1774; a Committee of Inspection to carry out the resolves of the 
Continental Congress and Provincial Congress, Feb. 23, 1775; 
a Committee of Correspondence, Jan. 24, 1776, and another 

*Rev. David Parsons, Josiah Chauncey, Esq. and his son Isaac, Simeon Strong, Esq., 
Lieut. John Field, Ens. John Nash, Solomon, William and Ebenezer Boltwood, Deac. 
Simeon Clark, Isaac Goodale, Moses Cook, Charles Chauncey and others were among 
these opposers. In 1776, the Amherst Committee sent two of the men named to North- 
ampton jail, one because he was "notoriously inimical to American liberty" and the other 
because he was "an enemy to and acted in opposition to the just rights and privileges of 
America." 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 411 

March 25, 1776; and a Committee of Correspondence, Inspection 
and Safety, in 1777, 1778 and 1779. The names of the men of 
these eight committees follow, the figures signifying the number 
of committees of which each was a member: — 

Capt. Reuben Dickinson 5, Joseph Williams 4, Moses Dickinson, Esq. 4, Jacob McDan- 
iel 2, Nathaniel Dickinson i, Joseph Eastman 2, Nathaniel Dickinson, Jr. 4, John Dickin- 
son I, Noah Dickinson i, Nathan Dickinson i, Hezekiah Belding i, Isaac Hubbard i, 
Ebenezer Dickinson 2, Gideon Dickinson i, John Billings 4, Lt. Simeon Smith 3, Thomas 
Hastings i, Elijah Baker 4, Simon Fobes i, Ebenezer Mattoon i, Martin Kellogg I, James 
Merrick 2, Joseph Dickinson 2, Lt. Ebenezer Mattoon, Jr. 2, Josiah Warner i, Major 
Nathaniel Peck i, Timothy Green i, Henry J. Franklin i, Gideon Henderson i. 

Feb. 23, 1775, the Committee of Inspection were to get sub- 
scriptions for the rehef of the poor of Boston and Charlestown. 
May 4, 1775, a committee was chosen to provide stores for the 
army at Cambridge. The district voted that they were not satis- 
fied with the answers of Josiah Chauncey and John Nash to the 
charge against them; they must destroy their commissions from 
the king's governor.* March 25, 1776, Samuel Henry might 
take earth from under the meeting house to make salt-peter. 
June 13, 1776, if congress declare the United Colonies independ- 
ent, "we, the inhabitants of the town of Amherst, solemnly 
engage to support them in the measure." Jan. 20, 1777," voted that 
the conduct of the Rev. David Parsons is not friendly with regard 
to the common cause." Jan. 8, 1778 and Dec. 28, 1778, voted to 
pay Mr. Parsons's salary. March 11, 1778, "voted that persons 
not owning independence on the crown of Great Britain, agreeable 
to the declaration of congress, shall not vote." Amherst, as well as 
many other towns, made useless endeavors to regulate prices, 
with a disordered currency. July 12, 1779, Ebenezer Mattoon, 
Jr. was sent to the Congress at Concord, that attempted to fix 
prices. In January, 1780, it was voted that Rev. Abraham Hill 
of Shutesbury be prohibited from preaching in this town. He 
was a violent tory. Oct. 16, 1780, the town voted ;^io,ooo to buy 
the beef first sent for. Beef was then worth above 4 dollars per 
pound in bills. Dec. 28, 1780, rye was estimated at 50 dollars a 
bushel in bills. — Amherst had a greater population than Hadley, 
South Hadley or Granby, and was required to furnish more men, 

*The militia officers of Amherst, appointed by Gov. Hutchinson in 1773, ^'^''^ Captain 
Josiah Chauncey, Lieutenant John Field and Ensign John Nash. At a meeting of officers 
in Northampton, Nov. 10 and 11, 1774, these three and thirty others renounced in writing 
all authority they might have by a commission from Gov. Hutchinson. The three also 
disclaimed their commissions in Amherst, but Chauncey and Nash did not satisfy the whigs, 
who required that Chauncey "should burn all the commissions he had ever received from 
the king," and that Nash should destroy his. According to tradition, the whigs of Amherst 
burnt Capt. Chauncey 's commissions under a tree, with some display. 



412 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

money, clothing and beef. The number of men called for in 1777, 
to serve three years, was from Amherst 35, Hadley 30, South 
Hadley 23, Granby 17, and this was the proportion for some 
years. The numbers were commonly less, sometimes 10, 8, 6, 5. 
In 1780, two state taxes were laid upon Amherst, ;^i6.283 and 
;^i6.6i3, both amounting to 109,653 dollars, payable in continen- 
tal bills. The polls were taxed 20 pounds, in each of the two 
taxes. In the same year, a state tax was levied in Amherst, of 
768 dollars, in hard money.* 

Amherst chose three men to attend the county convention at 
Northampton, Sept. 22, 1774, viz., Moses Dickinson, Jacob Mc- 
Daniel, John Dickinson. After this convention, companies of 
minute men were formed and trained in the Hampshire towns, 
and many marched for Cambridge in two or three days after the 
battle of Lexington, in April, 1775. Capt. Reuben Dickinson 
commanded the Amherst company, and the men on his "alarm 
roll" were paid ;^89.i.5. Capt. James Hendrick of Amherst 
received ;{^i5.io.o, in connection with this alarm. Many Amherst 
men enlisted for 8 months at Cambridge, and these and some 
from other towns formed a company under Capt. Reuben Dick- 
inson. The pay of his company to Aug. i, 1775, was ;^289.i2.io.f 

Amherst chose Nathaniel Dickinson, Jr.J as delegate to the 
first Provincial Congress, which met at Concord, Oct. 11, 1774; 
to the second which met at Cambridge, Feb. i, 1775; and to the 
third which met at Watertown, May 31, 1775. — In July, 1775, 
Moses Dickinson was elected representative; in May, 1776, John 
Billings; in May, 1777, Moses Dickinson, Esq. and John Billings; 
in 1779, John Billings and Ebenezer Mattoon, Jr.;J in May, 1780, 
Ebenezer Mattoon, Jr.; in Oct. 1780, under the new Constitution, 

*The state and town taxes, levied to carry on the war, were heavy and oppressive, in all 
towns. Massachusetts assessed upon the people in two years, 1779 and 17S0, five taxes, 
payable in bills, amounting nominally to 17! millions of pounds. Of this sura, 11 1-5 mil- 
lions of pounds, or 37 millions of dollars, were assessed in two taxes in 1780, to call in con- 
tinental bills. When these bills were paid in, 100 dollars may have averaged in value about 
I dollar in silver. In April, 1 781, i dollar in silver was equal to 200 dollars in bills. It was 
in these days that the old soldiers, as they used to relate, sometimes paid 50 dollars for a 
meal of victuals, or a mug of flip. They had received the bills as of little value. 

•[The late John Dickinson of Amherst, informed me in 1847, that he belonged to this 
company, and that a part of it was in the battle of Bunker Hill, but not in the hot fight. 
Capt. Dickinson was then at Amherst. The Lieutenant was Zaccheus Crocker of Shutes- 
bury, and the Ensign, Daniel Shays. R. Woodbridge of South Hadley was Colonel of the 
Regiment. 

jNathaniel Dickinson, Jr. and Ebenezer Mattoon, Jr. were men of collegiate education. 
The former was only 24 years of age, when first elected a delegate, and the latter was of 
the same age, when first chosen a representative. They drew up revolutionary papers, 
when needed. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 413 

and in May, 1781 and 1783, Nathaniel Dickinson, Jr. Esq.; in 
1784 and 1785, Capt. Eli Parker; in 1787 and 1788, Daniel 
Cooley. 

Schools. — The first vote of East Hadley relating to schools was 
March 13, 1749. A committee was to hire three school dames for 
3 or 4 months, in the summer season, to teach children to read. 
Undoubtedly there were private schools before 1749, and some 
boys were sent to the Hopkins school. Samuel Mighill, an old 
schoolmaster, resided in East Hadley in 1739. In 1753 there 
were to be three schools in the precinct — in the north, middle 
and south parts. The schools were long kept in private rooms. 
The first vote to build school houses was in 1761, and they could 
not agree where to set them. In 1764, the precinct voted to build 
four school houses, named north, south, west-middle, east-middle. 
One was built near the Hartling Stake.* In 1780, there were to 
be six schools, and each was to be kept 3 months. There were 
six districts in 1809. 

Amherst voted £?i, lawful, for schooling in 1752, and the sum 
was increased in succeeding years, to ;^io.i3.4, ;^I3.6.8, ;{^20, 
;^27, and in 1771 to ;^30, or 100 dollars. In 1783, '84 and '85 it 
was ;^3o; in 1787, ;^5o; in 1790, £60; in 1793, ;^72; in 1796, t,^^ 
dollars; in 1803,400 dollars; in 181 1, 550 dollars. In 1853, there 
were 8 districts and $2500 were raised for schools. 

The Poor. — The expense of Amherst in the last century, for 
the poor, was small, very few persons needing aid.f Jonathan 
Atherton, troubled with a stone in the bladder, which weighed 
three ounces when extracted by surgeons in 1743, (see page 368,) 
was aided by the precinct and individuals. He died in 1744, 
after great suffering.! 

Daniel Smith, a brother of Capt. Jonathan Smith, was long 

*Oct. 27, 1766, Josiah Pierce, the Hadley schoolmaster, began to teach school in Am- 
herst, and he taught 6 months or more in a year for three years, half the time in each of 
the middle school houses, which were then new. His pay was 32 shillings, or $5,33 a month, 
and his board. In winter evenings, he kept ciphering schools a few weeks, at one shilling 
an evening. In the cold months, from 30 to 42 scholars attended his day school in Amherst, 
and in warmer months, from 15 to 30. His family resided in Hadley. He sometimes 
preached in vacant pulpits gratis, or at 18 or 20 shillings a Sabbath. — March 29, 1769, he 
dismissed the school for want of wood. Such things happened in other towns. In 1769, 
he lent 3 volumes of Dryden, to Ebenezer Williams, a farmer in A. — He probably taught 
Latin, if any desired, and in 1722, Wm. G. Ballantine taught Latin and English, and read 
theology with Mr. Parsons. 

•j-Amherst paid its share for the support of the family of French Neutrals at Hadley, and 
appropriated 50 shillings in 1767 to send them to Canada. 

JContributions were made for him and his family in other places, and Springfield sent up 
fjio, equal to 8 dollars or more. The people readily assisted those in distress. 



414 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

insane, and was partly supported by the town of Hadley some 
years, and by the district of Amherst a year or two. He died 
Nov. 1 6, 1760. 

In 1779 and after, Moses Hawley and wife, and in 1789, widow 
Mehetabel Smith, received some help fromthetown. In 1807, Aaron 
Kellogg, a deranged man, and Caesar Prutt, a negro aged 80 
years, were set up at vendue to the lowest bidder, and the former 
was bid off for a year at 50 dollars, and the latter at 65 dollars. 
£6 were voted for the poor in 1789, i^20 in 1793, 75 dollars in 
1801, and 150 dollars in 1809. 

Innkeepers, Retailers and Traders, before the Revolution. — 
Ebenezer Kellogg was the first innholder in East Hadley, from 
1 734 to 1 737 ; and he again kept an inn from 1 752 to 1 757. Ephra- 
im Kellogg was an innkeeper from 1744 to 1756, and Martin 
Kellogg from 1771 to 1773. The Kelloggs were traders at times. 
Ephraim had mills on Mill river. Moses Smith kept a tavern on 
the Boston Road, from 1758 to 1766, Alexander Smith on the 
west street, south of the meeting house, from 1758 to 1783, and 
Moses Warner, north of the meeting house, from 1757 to 1771. 
Josiah Chauncey was a retailer of spirit many years from 1759, and 
Elisha Ingram from 1766, and others one or two years. Chauncey 
and Ingram sold other goods. The second Solomon Boltwood 
and his son Ebenezer, and Jacob McDaniel traded. 

From 1780 to 1793, 3, 4 or 5 tavern keepers were yearly licensed 
in Amherst, and 4, 5 or 6 retailers of liquors. In 1783, there were 
5 taverners and 8 rum-sellers.* 

Highways. — The broad highways of East Hadley, originally 40 
rods wide, occasioned much trouble and contention. The lines 
were not straight, many of the monuments were gone, and some 
men encroached on the highv/ays ignorantly, and others perhaps 
designedly. The town of Hadley began a controversy with John 
Morton, for obstructing the highway, in 1746, and afterwards 
with Nathan Dickinson, and it was carried on at times before 
county courts, referees and the general court until 1762. The 
district of Amherst aided the town. Morton and Dickinson seem 
to have been defeated. f The committee of the district stated in 

*The rum-taxes of many in most towns were heavier than their revolutionary taxes. 

Town meetings in Amherst were commonly held in the meeting house, or in the school 
house near the Hartling stake, but sometimes in a tavern, in cold weather. 

j-John Morton and Nathan Dickinson were from Hatfield. They were resolute men, 
and tenacious of what they considered their rights. Their lots were in the eastern division, 
north of the Pelham road. Morton was the first settler on that division. Many others 
trespassed but not so largely, nor were they so firm and unyielding as M. and D. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 415 

1759, that Morton claimed almost all the broad highway at the 
west end of his lot. Dickinson's demand was less, but took in 
much of the highway. In 1754, Hadley reduced the west high- 
way to 20 rods in width, and the east to 12 rods, and narrowed 
the cross w^ays,* and gave to the east precinct the land taken 
from the highways. Encroachments did not cease. Amherst 
sold many pieces of highway land and gave away some. In 1788, 
a committee of the town reduced the ways to 6 rods in breadth, 
and some to 4 rods, but left the whole width in certain places for 
public uses. They apprized the rest of the highway land against 
each man's lot, that the town might sell it. They valued it at 
;^533.9.n, or 1778 dollars. 

Repairs of Highv/ays. — Amherst voted for repairs, (in labor,) 
£t^o in 1765, ;^40 in 1777, £60 in 1783, ;^70 in 1784, ;^ioo in 1791, 
400 dollars in 1801. — The price of labor on the roads before 1775 
was usually 2s. a day in May and the summer; in some years a 
few pence higher. In the fall, it was from is. 6d. to is. 8d. After 
1783, labor for some years was 3s. before September, 2s. in Sep- 
tember and IS. 6d. after October i. In 1796, it was 67 cents 
before Sept. i, and 34 cents after. The same in 1809. 

Flat Hills, &c. — The land north of the second and third di- 
visions was laid out in 1740, to those who had lost land in the 
third division by the town line against Pelham, &c. except 220 
acres to the south precinct. The east line of this land was about 
560 rods in length, and chiefly against Shutesbury. This laying 
out did not include the land north of Mill river, nor do the records 
disclose how that was disposed of. 

Physicians in the last century. — Nathaniel Smith, one of the 
first settlers of East Hadley, was a physician, but Doct. Crouch 
of Hadley was often employed in that parish, and later, Doct. 
Kellogg.f Seth Coleman commenced practice in Amherst in 
1767 and died in 18 16. William Kittridge, who was a physician 
there in 1784, remained but a few years. Robert Cutler, who 

*In measuring these roads, most of the trees marked are recorded as white, black or red 
oak. There are a few pine, maple, walnut and chestnut trees. Amherst had a greater 
proportion of hard wood trees than Hadley and South Hadley, and less sandy land covered 
with pines. 

■[•Doctors Crouch and Kellogg, in East Hadley as elsewhere, dealt profusely in medi- 
cines including mercurials, and in bleedings, blisters, issues, &c. In those days, physicians 
derived their profits mainly from medicines and external applications — a pernicious custom. 
According to Doct. Douglass, "the patient frequently suffered more from the physician 
than from the distemper." The charge for visits within a mile was trifling; only 6 pence 
lawful in Hadley village in 1730, and it had advanced only to 8 pence in Northampton and 
Hadley in 1775. Visits in East Hadley by Crouch and Kellogg, were 5 times as much as 
in Hadley street, but were much exceeded in amount by the medicines. 



416 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 



began to practice in Pelham in 1770, established himself in 
Amherst before 1787, and died in 1835. Doct. Samuel Gamwell 
exercised his profession in A. as early as 1793, and died in 18 14. 
Names. — East Hadley was sometimes named "New Swamp" 
in deeds and other writings. The New Swamp of the Hadley 
records was almost all west of East Hadley. Some denominated 
the 3d precinct "Hadley Farms," or "East Farms." A tract sold 
in the first division in 1735, is said to be "at our East Farms or 
New Swamp as it is called." 

Planters and Householders of Amherst, before 1763, with a few who had not the 
care of a family. -The names of i8 men who had established themselves at East Hadley 
previous to 1731, are on page 284. Of these, John Wells removed, EbenezerScovil died in 
1731 and Ebenezer Ingram in 1735, leaving 15 whose names are in a list taken in 1738, and 
I4''had been added to them, making 29 in that year. Three of them died before January, 
1739, viz., John Ingram, Jr., Zechariah Field and Samuel Boltwood, but their famOies re- 
mained, and the names of the three were retained among the 29 settlers in 1739. The 
names of the 29 follow: — 

Samuel Hawley, Jr. — Ht. Stephen Smith — Ht. 

Ebenezer Dickinson William Murray 

Joseph Wells — Ht. Nathan Moody 

Jonathan Atherton Pelatiah Smith 

Solomon Boltwood John Perry 

John Nash Nathaniel Church 

Aaron Smith — Ht. Ebenezer Williams 

Nathaniel Smith John Morton — Ht. 

Richard Chauncey Moses Smith 

Charles Chauncey 
Those from Hatfield are marked Ht. Samuel Hawley, Sr. who had 3 sons, was orig- 
inally from Northampton. Ebenezer Williams was from Deerfield. 

In 1738, these 29 inhabitants had 35 taxable polls, 49 horses, 39 oxen, 52 cows, some hogs, 
and 350 acres of improved land, and 6 non-residents had 43 acres of improved land. Such 
was Amherst 121 years ago, having only 393 acres of cleared land. Ebenezer Kellogg had 
48 acres, or more than twice as much as any other person. Mr. Parsons's salary of 100 
pounds was at first to be raised in this manner: — 

35 polls, as in 1738, to pay 25s. 6d. each, £44.12.6 
Ratable estate, £1101. ii. 6, to pay is. per pound, 55.1.7 
Jonathan Atherton died in 1744, and Joseph Wells, Aaron Smith, Nathaniel Church 
and John Perry removed. 

34 added 1739 to 1745. — N. H. stand for Northampton. 



Joseph Clary 
John Ingram, Sr. 
John Ingram, Jr. 
Ebenezer Kellogg 
John Cowls— Ht. 
Jonathan Cowls — Ht. 
Zechariah Field— Ht. 
Samuel Boltwood 
Samuel Hawley, Sr. — Ht 
Joseph Hawley. — Ht. 



Moses Dickinson 
Nathan Dickinson — Ht. 
Jonathan Dickinson— Ht. 
Jonathan Smith — Ht. 
Nehemiah Strong — N. H. 
Noah Baker— N. H. 
Charles Wright— N. H. 
Preserved Clapp — N. H. 
Westwood Cook, Jr. 
Joseph Eastman, Jr. 
Deac. Eleazar Mattoon 



Samuel Ingram 
John Field— Ht. 
David Nash 
Moses Hawley^Ht. 
Moses Warner 
Aaron Warner 
Jonathan Nash 
Nathaniel Coleman — Ht. 
Jonathan Moody 
Samuel Church 
Daniel Dickinson 
John Dickinson 

David Nash removed to South Hadley, Phinehas Smith to Granby, and David Smith 
returned to Hadley. Noah Baker removed to Sunderland; he was a Baptist preacher. 
Joseph Morton and Seth Kibbe died. Daniel Smith was crazy. 



Rev. David Parsons 
Peter Smith 
Nathaniel Kellogg 
Ephraim Kellogg 
Alexander Porter 
Elisha Ingram 
Phinehas Smith 
David Smith 
Joseph Morton — Ht, 
Daniel Smith— Ht. 
Seth Kibbe 



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417 



Daniel Kellogg 
Abraham Kellogg 
Ebenezer Kellogg, Jr. 
Joseph Church 
Isaac Hubbard 
Moses Cook 
Jacob Warner 
Gideon Dickinson 
Reuben Dickinson 
Joseph Dickinson 
Ebenezer Dickinson, Jr. 
Nathan Dickinson, Jr. 
Ebenezer Dickinson, 3d 
Simeon Dickinson 
Noah Dickinson 
Jonathan Dickinson, Jr. 
Jonathan Dickinson 
Azariah Dickinsoh 
Nathaniel Dickinson 
Nehemiah Dickinson 
David Dickinson 
Thomas Hastings — Ht. 
Simeon Strong 



Added to East Hadley and Amherst, 1745 *° ^7^3 



Ens. Josiah Chauncey 
Isaac Goodale 
Elijah Baker— N. H. 
Simeon Pomeroy 
John Keet— N. H. 
Jonathan Edwards — N. 
Alexander Smith 
Edward Smith 
Pelatiah Smith, Jr. 
Simeon Smith 
Jonathan Smith, Jr. 
David Smith 
Noah Smith 
Martin Smith 
Eleazar Smith 
John Petty or Pettis 
John Cowls, Jr. 
Oliver Cowls 
Thomas Morton 
Benjamin Harwood 
Samuel Elmer 
Eli Colton 



Solomon Boltwood, Jr. 
William Boltwood 
Ebenezer Mattoon 
Simeon Clark — N. H. 
John Nash, Jr. 
H. Noadiah Lewis 
John Ingram, 3d 
Philip Ingram 
Reuben Ingram 
Hezekiah Balding— Ht. 
William Murray, Jr. 
John Field, Jr. 
John Allis— Ht. 
John Billing— Ht. 
Preserved Clapp, Jr. 
David Blodget 
Jonathan Moody, Jr. 
Asahel Moody 
Benjamin Rhodes 
Justus Williams 
Thomas Bascom 
Gideon Henderson 
Abner Adams 



James Merrick 

The preceding roll is not quite complete. — Simeon Pomeroy was from Southampton . 
Gideon Henderson had lived in Northampton and Sunderland. 

The Dickinsons. — These were more numerous in Amherst than 
in Hadley. Six are named on the preceding page. Of the 14 on 
this page, Gideon, Reuben, Joseph and Ebenezer, Jr. were sons 
of Deac. Ebenezer D. Nathan, Jr. and Ebenezer, 3d, were sons 
of Nathan D. Simeon, Noah and Jonathan, Jr. were sons of 
Jonathan D. Jonathan, Azariah, Nathaniel and Nehemiah were 
sons of Deac. Samuel D. who removed from Hadley to Shutesbury. 
These sons left Shutesbury, and settled in Amherst; Nehemiah 
died in the N. E. part of Hadley. David was the son of Israel D. of 
Hadley. John and Moses Dickinson had sons, but they werenot old 
enough for householders ini 763. Daniel Dickinsonhadnochildren. 

Largest estates. — Amherst valuations in 1770, were sent to Bos- 
ton, and the highest in pounds, omitting shillings and pence, were 
the following: — Solomon Boltwood ;^228, Moses Warner 146, 
Simeon Clark 145, John Billings 131, John Field 128, John 
Dickinson 123, Daniel Kellogg 119, Nathan Dickinson 118, 
Aaron Warner 112, Nathaniel Coleman in, Moses Dickinson 
108, Simeon Strong 108, Alexander Smith 104, Jonathan Cowls 102. 

The Insurrection. — Many persons in Amherst were inclined to 
favor the Insurrection, and a few bore arms under Shays. The 
rising in arms is not to be justified, but there were ample causes 
for agitation and noise, for meetings and conventions. The 
attempts to force people to pay taxes and debts, who could get 
no money, were oppressive; suits were multiplied, and lands, 



418 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Stock and other property were sacrificed on sale, and there was 
much distress. For several years after the close of the war, the 
times were gloomy and calamitous. A few lawyers and moneyed 
men may have prospered. 

In this vicinity, most of those who opposed the revolution, and 
of those who encouraged the insurrection, became good citizens. 

U. S. Constitution. — Amherst sent Daniel Cooley, an educated 
man, to the convention that met at Boston, Jan. 9, 1788, to consider 
the proposed U. S. Constitution, and he voted against it, as directed 
by the town. Benj. Eastman from Granby also voted against it, as 
did a majority of the delegates from Hampshire. Elisha Porter of 
Hadley and Noah Goodman of South Hadley voted for it. 

Annexation. — Amherst sought in 1778 to have annexed to them 
a part of Hadley commons, adjoining Amherst on the west, and 
continued their efforts many years. In 1789, Silas Wright and 
three Dickinsons, living in Hadley on the road from Amherst to 
Sunderland, were joined to Amherst. In 18 12, the mountain 
division south of Amherst was annexed. In 1814, a tract in the 
north-eastern part of Hadley, containing perhaps 700 or 800 
acres, was annexed to Amherst. — In 1795, Amherst refused to 
have any part of Belchertown annexed, and recently have refused 
to receive a part of Pelham. 

Wolves. — "Wolf-pit brook" is named in Amherst records in 
1767, showing that wolves were formerly caught in pits there as 
in other places. In 1787, Amherst paid Isaac Hubbard 6 pounds 
for killing a wolf. Amherst had not been troubled with wolves 
for many years. 

School dames. — Females taught private schools, but were not often employed and paid 
by towns, previous to the revolution. They were commonly married women or elderly 
maids, and rarely young women, and they taught in their own rooms. Amherst hired 
school dames to teach children to read, and perhaps girls to sew, in 1749 and 1752. The 
late John Dickinson, born in 1757, said that females seldom taught a public school in Am- 
herst when he was a young man. Their wages must have been small. Farmers often taught 
English schools in the winter in Northampton, a century ago, at from 4 to 5 dollars a month, 
and boarded themselves at home. Farmers' board, when paid for, was about 3s. 4d. a week. 

Militia company. — This was organized after 1740 and the first officers were Jonathan 
Smith, Lieutenant, and Ebenezer Kellogg, Ensign. Jonathan Smith was the first Captain 
at East Hadley about 1749, ^^^ Ebenezer Kellogg then became Lieutenant. 

Slaves. — Three owners of slaves in Amherst in 1771 are named on page 385. There 
were other slaveholders, some years before. Zechariah Field had a slave, who was valued 
at 130 pounds, (about 140 dollars) in 1738. Ebenezer Kellogg had slaves. Richard 
Chauncey, John Ingram, Sr. and Daniel Kellogg had each a negro, probably a slave. 

Amherst was a district in August, 1775, and a town in January, 1776. The date of its 
incorporation as a town is not known. 

The population of Amherst exceeded that of Hadley in 1756 or 1758, but not so early, I 
think, as 1753, as stated on 385th page. 

Correction of a remark on 41 5th page, under "Flat Hills." — The land records show the 
lands north of Mill river were distributed in the 3d Division of the Inner Commons of Hadley. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 419 



CHAPTER XXXVI 

Hadley Broad Street — Wearing of the banks by the river — New North Lane — Injury to 
Hadley by the river^Floods — Middle Street — Side Walks— Shade Trees— Inhabitants 
in 1770 — North Hadley — Trees of Hadley — Mount Holyoke — Logs and Boards^Fences 
— Clearing Land. 

The spacious street of Hadley is one of the most pleasant and 
handsome country streets in New England.* Most of the natural 
irregularities of the surface have been removed, and no perma- 
nent obstructions or deformities have been added. The width, 
at first 20 rods, has been diminished a little, and in 1791, was 
16 rods wanting 3 links at the north end, and 17 rods and 1 1 links 
at the south end; and the course of the sides was from one to two 
degrees east of north or west of south. The street, now so level, 
had in the last century many knolls, ridges and hollows, and 
some ponds and puddles where the geese sported. The first 
meeting house which stood opposite the original homelot of John 
Dickinson, was on an elevation,f which some judged to be 8 feet 
high; the ascent was steep from the north but very gradual from 
the south: North of this ridge was agoose-pondin which waterstood 
almost all the year, and which was sometimes offensive in hot 
weather. The hill was removed into the hollow and elsewhere, 
mostly since 1800. There was another similar pond near the west 
side of the street, against a part of the old houselots of John 
Webster and William Goodwin, which was sometimes crossed 
by a foot bridge. In the lower and eastern part of the street was 



*John Adams was in Wethersfield in 1 77 1, and a gentleman told him, "there was not 
another such street as this at Wethersfield in America, excepting one at Hadley." Diary 
of John Adams. 

The greatest number of people that were ever in Hadley street, assembled in it Sept. 28, 
1808, Major General Mattoon having ordered all the militia of Old Hampshire to parade 
there, viz., 10 regiments of infantry, 2 battallions of cavalry and two battallions of artillery. 
Many people thought it was wrong to subject the soldiers of distant towns to so much 
fatigue and expense. 

•j-In the early part of the revolution, a liberty pole was erected on this hill. The bottom 
was dug up many years after, and was of yellow pine. 

There were ridges and other rises in the homelots, and some of the early houses were 
built on these, from 8 to 12 rods from the street, the front being too wet. When tiie late 
Col. Moses Porter, born in 1768, was young, the house of Lt. Philip Smith, in which he was 
S'lpposed to be bewitched by Mary Webster in 1685, was standing on a ridge, some distance 
from the street. Some ridges extended obliquely from the lots into the street; and this in 
Philip Smith's lot crossed a part of the Montague lot and was connected with the meeting 
house hill. Boys slid down hill on it in the street, and loads were sometimes set in ascending 
it in the road. 



420 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

a long and deep guUey, in which water flowed in rains and thaws, 
and into which the water of the river set back in freshets. The 
town long maintained a cart bridge over this ravine; one was 
built in 1747, and another "18 feet in breadth" in 1770. It is 
now nearly filled with earth. 

Wearing of the street, &c. by the river. — The west side of the 
street, from the river on the south to the river on the north, was 
at first about a mile or 320 rods. The east^side, from the south 
highway into the woods to the river on the north, was not far from 
340 rods. The west side may have lost in 200 years 30 rods in 
length at the north end, and has gained 50 rods in the meadow 
at the south end. The east line may have lost at the north end 
between 40 and 45 rods in length.* At the south end of the east 
side, the river carried away the west part of the south highway, 
and of the houselot south of it, a part of the west end of the house- 
lot north of it, and the highway leading from the lower end of the 
street to Fort meadow. Since the river has been receding, in 
about 60 years, a meadow 50 rods in width or more has been formed 
at the lower end of the street. 

The wearing of the bank commenced at the south end, and 
is first noticed in the records, June, 1689, when the water had worn 
away the west end of the south road, and a part of Nehemiah 
Dickinson's homelot north of it. Dickinson agreed to let the pub- 
lic cross his lot for a time, if the town would help him move his 
barn. The greatest flood in the river previous to the Jeff"erson 
flood of 1801, began Feb. 24, 1692, and did great damage. The 
county and town appointed men to secure a highway, and a road 
was laid on the lower side of Thomas Hovey's lot as far east as 
the palisade, and it then turned south and crossed Nehemiah 
Dickinson's lot to the old road, taking 49 rods of land from 
Hovey and 50 from Dickinson. This zigzag road was a part of 
the road to Boston until some time in the present century, when 
the road was turned to the south side of the buildings. The first 
direct notice of the wearing of the bank at the north end was in 
May, 1730, when the town voted "to do something to preserve 
the bank from wearing," and chose a committee to call out every 

*On the west side at the north end, near half of the front of the homelot of Chileab Smith 
remains. (See page 24.) On the east side, a narrow strip is gone from the north side of 
the western part of Thomas Coleman's lot; and all the western part of William Partrigg's 
lot, but not the eastern end. Adam Nichols's three cornered lot came to a point westerly, 
and added very little to the length of the west side of the street. The shape of this lot is not 
correct on page 24. In 1738. there were 13 acres of land between Partrigg's lot and the 
river. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 421 

man to work one day at the bank, and be paid for it. In 1734, 
the selectmen were to do what was needful to prevent the wearing 
of the bank. 

New North Lane. — The river having worn off the whole of the 
north highway in some places, and Hadley having applied to 
the county court, Benjamin Sheldon, Deputy Sheriff, was sent 
with a jury to lay a new North Lane, in May, 1737. They began 
about 25 rods south of the bank of the river, at the front of the 
lot formerly Thomas Coleman's, and laid a road two rods wide 
near the middle of the lot to the Back street, and laid the latter 
20 rods wide northerly to the old country road. This lane remains; 
the western part is only 3 or 4 rods from the top of the bank of the 
river. 

The tov.'n passed many votes in the last and present century, 
"to prevent the river from wearing the bank" at the north end 
of the village: they built wharves of stone and timber, and retarded 
the progress of the wearing off, but did not stop it. In 1801, 
they began to defend the bank against Fort meadow. In 1846, 
2750 dollars granted by the legislature, and as much more raised 
by the town and individuals, were expended in defending the north 
bank, and the wearing was arrested. 

The river has made extensive inroads above Northampton 
bridge, upon the western and northern sides of the Great meadow; 
also upon the uplands above and below Hadley village, opposite 
Hatfield and Northampton meadows, and at Fort meadow. The 
roads have been removed eastward several times. At Hockanum 
meadow, the river wore through the neck of the peninsula, Feb. 
25, 1840, and the island that was cut off has been annexed to 
Northampton. Hadley has lost much land by the river, and has 
gained some south of Aquavitae meadow, of the west homelots 
and of the street, and elsewhere. 

Floods. — There have been many heavy floods in the river be- 
sides the great ones of 1692 and 1801. The lower half of the west 
street has been mostly covered with water several times in the 
present century. The flood of April 30 and May i, 1854, was 
judged to be a few inches higher in Northampton and Hadley 
than the Jefferson flood of 1801.* The water at the north end of 

*In this flood of iSoi, March 20 or 21, a large company from Northampton, in a river 
boat and a fishing boat, rowed from Pleasant street across the meadows and river into 
Hadley street. One boat stopped at Warner's tavern, and the other was rowed up the street 
almost half a mile, to the bar-room door of Cook's tavern, the second house below Russell 
street, and the rope was at first fastened to his bar-room table. After having a merry time, 
one boat was drawn by oxen to the river at the north end, where the men embarked for 
Northampton; those in the other boat returned as they went over. 



422 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

Hadley street and farther east, was in some places about as high 
as the bank, and a dike was raised to prevent its overflowing. 

Middle Street. — This, formerly named Back Street, is a fine, 
commodious street. It was at first 20 rods wide, but was narrowed 
in 1773, the town selling at £if per acre, the west side of the street 
to the owners of the adjoining houselots, most of which extended 
from the west street to the west side of this street, on the top of 
the bank. There was then no house on the west side below the 
north lane. 

Side Walks. — Conveniences for foot passengers were not provided 
in our country villages until the present century. Those who 
walked went where they could find a place, often in the same paths 
with the horses and cattle. In the broad and narrow streets of 
Hadley, no place was appropriated for foot paths. Those on 
foot sometimes found in their way when it was not winter, a steep 
bank, a gutter, a puddle, a muddy or splashy place, or a pound. 
The middle street was covered with bushes, and descents in high- 
ways were gullies. The geese were however the greatest annoyance 
in the street.* 

Shade Trees. — A few elms were set out in these villages 130 
years ago or more, but people in general neglected ornamental 
trees until the present century. There were some large elms and 
yellow willows and a few smaller butternuts and button woods, 
in the west street of Hadley, 60 or 70 years ago. After 1800, 
Lombardy poplars were brought in, but were disliked in a few 
years and cut down. The beauty of the sugar maple was disre- 
garded in all our villages until after 1800; there were but few in 
1 8 10. Now they are in all streets, and some red maples are seen. 
The present shade trees of Hadley are principally elms and 
maples; there are some ash trees, buttonwoods, evergreens, &c. 

*In Northampton, there were no side walks in the last century, and the streets were more 
obstructed than those of Hadley with piles of wood, boards and rubbish. Some of their 
stables were next to the street, and in the winter, manure was thrown from them into piles 
where the side walks now are, and remained until spring. The travelled way down their 
hills was a gully, as in other towns. — A man in Hadley says huge piles of manure were thrown 
from the stables of Oliver Smith, and lay in the street of Hatfield, opposite the meeting house. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 



423 



Inhabitants of Hadley in 1770, 
and the parts of the village and town in which they resided; and their polls and valuations. 
From a valuation made in 1770, and sent to Boston. 

West side of Main Street, beginning at the Below the Middle Highway. 

South end. 

Polls. Estate. 

John Kellogg, i £174- 4s 

Timothy Stockwell, 2 19. o 

Oliver Smith, 2 177-7 
Wid. Sarah Eastman, 45-1° 

Mr. John Chester Williams, I 64. o 

Benjamin Eddy, I 

Hezekiah Gaylord, i 21.10 

Timothy Eastman, I 82. o 

Josiah Dickinson, 2 

John Dickinson, I 

Joshua Ballard, i 
Daniel Noble's wife, 

Joseph Smith, 2 

John Smith, ist, I 

Ebenezer Marsh, "Jr. 2 
And for his aged father, &c, 

Mr. Jonathan Smith, 3 

Oliver Warner, 3 

Orange Warner, i 

Nathan Goodman, I 

Aaron Cook, 3d, i 

John Cook, 2 

Above the Middle Highway. 

Enos Nash, 2 

Jonathan Ingram, i 

Noah Smith, 1 

Azariah Dickinson, i 

Aaron Cook, 2d, 2 

William Cook, i 

Samuel Cook, I 

Noah Cook, , i 

Windsor Smith, 2 

Joseph Wright, 2 



no. 5 

42. o 

10. o 

69. o 

29. u 

116. 7 

34- o 

I5I-I3 

1 40 . 1 6 

124. 6 

92.10 

27. o 

134. 6 



118. 5 

82.16 

118. I 

115. 6 

61. 3 

35- 8 

54- 16 

168. 3 

100. 12 

8.10 





PoUs. 


Estate. 


Ens. Elisha Cook, 


3 


£127- 


6 


Capt. Moses Marsh, 


2 


135- 


16 


Wid. Phebe Marsh, 




25. 


18 


Samuel Marsh, 


I 






Daniel Marsh, 


I 


69. 


9 


Ebenezer White, 


I 


60. 


3 


John Eastman, 


I 


125. 





Benjamin Colt, 


4 


197. 


10 


Jonathan Hall, 


I 


12. 





Phinehas Lyman, 


3 


77- 


4 


Lt. Jonathan Cook, 


2 


169. 


6 


Deac. David Smith, 


I 


106. 


8 


Jonathan Warner, 


3 


239. 


16 


Back Street, beginning at 


the North end. 


Francis Trainer, 


I 


10. 


10 


John Clark, Jr. 


I 


3- 


18 


Tom Appe, 


I 


0. 


8 


On the east side. 






Thomas Smith, 


I 


35- 


8 


Nehemiah Gaylord, 


2 


49. 


3 


Nehemiah Gaylord, Jr. 


I 


49. 


II 


Gardner Kellogg, 


I 


105. 


.0 


Moses Kellogg, 


I 


99. 


14 


WUliam White, 


2 


78. 





Daniel White, 


I 


44- 


5 


Doct. Giles C. Kellogg, 


2 


191. 


10 


Samuel Sheldon, 


I 


2. 






Below the middle Highway. 



East side of Main Street, beginning at the 

north end. 

Francis Newton, I 29. 8 

Warham Smith, i 120.14 

Hezekiah Hubbard, 3 91. o 

James Meacham, i 38-4 

Nathaniel Montague, I 7S-i8 

John Montague, 2 119. o 

Eliakim Smith, 3 94- 18 

Eleazar Porter, i 266. 5 

Elisha Porter, I 168. 4 

Joshua Boston, i 

Edmund Hubbard, I 138. is. 

Wid. Ruth Hubbard, 38.16 
Rev. Samuel Hopkins. 

Samuel Gaylord, Jr. 2 45- 10 

Samuel Gaylord, I 99-4 



Mr. Josiah Pierce, 
Josiah Pierce, Jr. 
Simeon Rood, 
Asa Wood, 
Thomas Selden, 
Jabez Selden, 
Ralph Way, 
Ralph Way, Jr. 
Hammon Way, 
Oliver White, 



Residence uncertain. 



Oliver Bartlett, 
Gideon Warner, 
Colman Cook, 



51. II 

20.10 

14.18 

9. 8 

1 .10 

48.14 



42.12 



2.18 



On or near the Boston Road. 



Dan West, 
Enos Smith, 
Gideon Smith, 



28. o 
52. o 
21. 5 



424 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 



Polls. 


Estate. 


Elisha Smith, ist, I 


3°- 


6 


Stephen Goodman, i 
Nathaniel White, i 


95- 
41- 


7 
7 


At Hockanum. 






Capt. John Lyman, i 
Caleb Lyman, i 
Gideon Lyman, of N. H. i 


55- 
76. 
103. 


6 

'3 
6 


Israel Lyman, i 
Azariah Lyman, i 
Luke Lyman's Guardian, 


33- 
18. 

3- 


19 





John Wright's wife, 
Ebenezer Pomeroy, Jr. 2 
Wid. of Stephen Pomeroy, 
Stephen Coats, i 


9- 
115. 

41- 




7 
II 


Charles Coats, I 






Joseph Coats, i 







At 40 Acres, Upper Mills and School Mead- 
ows. 



Polls 



Estate. 

250. o 

43. 2 



Charles Phelps, 

John Acres, 

Timothy Hammond, 

Daniel Leonard, i 

Daniel Worthington, i 2.0 

Joseph Alexander, 2 8. 4 

Benjamin Smith, 3 loi . 10 

Faxon Dean, 2 18. o 

Caleb Bartlett, 2 52-3 

Elisha Smith, 2d, i i.io 

Elisha Smith, 3d, i 7.13 

John Smith, 2d, 1 3 -'3 

Wid. and Aaron Goodrich, i 18.10 

In N. E. part of Hadley now Amherst. 

Samuel Wright, i 70. o 

The following names appear with one poll and no estate; they did not become permanent 
inhabitants; Beriah Smith, John Hulet, Isaac Clark, Thomas Elwell, Edward Rice, John 
Harkness, Jonathan Dickinson, Isaac Blanchard, Joseph Hubbard. 

The names of a number of non-resident proprietors are in the valuation, most of whom 
lived in Amherst. 

The largest estates in 1770 were those of Eleazar Porter, Charles Phelps, Jonathan War- 
ner, Benjamin Colt, Doct. Kellogg, Oliver Smith, John Kellogg, Jonathan Cook, Elisha 
Porter, Noah Cook, Jonathan Smith. 

Hadley in 1770. — The progress of the town was slow. There 
may have been in 1770 about 108 or no families and 600 inhab- 
itants. Only a small portion of the 13,000 acres of inner commons, 
distributed long before, had been cleared, and not more than 6 or 
8 houses had been built on the commons. Some of these were 
at North Hadley. A few men began to build on the Boston road 
about this time.* There were no inhabitants at Plainville, nor 
further south in the eastern part of Hadley, nor on the Sunder- 
land road north of Caleb Bartlett, nor between Charles Phelps 
and the Back Street. Samuel Wrightf from Northampton had 
settled in the northeastern part of Hadley, where his son Silas, 
and his grandson Silas, the late senator and governor of New 
York, were born.| 



*Lt. Enos Smith erected the house, in which his son Deac. Sylvester S. now lives, and 
finished one room in 1770. Most of the region around was covered with small pitch pines, 
as were many other tracts, and people told him that he could not get a living there. There 
was no house between his and Back street. Gideon Smith had a house northeast of him, 
Stephen Goodman had built a house a little beyond the mill, and Nathaniel White farther 
east, where he long kept a tavern. There was a house near the mill for the miller. 

+Samuel Wright is said to have been a Baptist exhorter. Many of these early Baptists 
were in the habit of exhorting, and did not lack words. I once asked a Northampton 
nephew of Noah Baker, a Baptist, if he ever heard his uncle preach. "Preach!'" said he: 
"you could not hear him talk five minutes without hearing him preach." 

jThe first Silas was annexed to Amherst in 1789, before his son Silas was born. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 425 

North Hadley. — This thriving village is mainly the growth of 
the present century. In the latter part of the 17th century, on the 
lower part of Mill river, were a grist-mill belonging to the school, 
and a saw-mill, and at no great distance were the School meadows 
adjoining the Connecticut, and smaller intervals above and below. 
Men took care of the mills and cultivated the lands, and it is 
remarkable that the Indians never harmed them after burning 
the grist-mill in 1677. Sergt. Joseph Smith, the cooper, miller, 
sealer, &c. began to have the care of the grist-mill in 1687, (see 
page 40,) and he hired a part of the school land many years. He 
or his sons tended the mill most of the time during the Indian 
wars, and until his death. It does not appear that his family re- 
sided at Mill river, or that he, or his sons, or other tenants of the 
school farm, usually spent the night there, previous to the peace 
with the Indians in 1726. The house over the mill had a room 
with a chimney, and this was apparently the only house for a 
long period. There was a barn in 1716. Two tenants who had 
taken the school farm for 21 years appear to have built each a 
small house and barn after 1726, the school committee engaging 
to pay the value of the buildings when the lease expired. Joseph 
Smith and his son Benjamin built a house also, and three families 
resided at Mill river in 1731. Joseph Smith died in 1733, and 
his son Benjamin, who had a good estate, died in 1780. The 
latter, having no children, adopted Benjamin Smith, a grandson 
of his brother John. This Benjamin had three sons, Caleb, Eras- 
tus and Benjamin. 

The names of those who lived near Mill river in 1770 are on 
page 424. The residence of Charles Phelps was some distance 
south, and he did not belong to the hamlet. Two or three of 
those named may have been his hired men or tenants. Caleb 
Bartlett came from Amherst in 1755, and had the care of the farm 
of the widow of Capt. Moses Porter a few years. He afterwards 
built the house which is still standing, a little north of that of 
Deac. Jason Stockbridge. Faxon Dean came in 1765, and tended 
the mill many years. Joseph Alexander seems to have lived south 
of Mill river. David Stockbridge, an enterprising man, came in 
1779, and lived in the house of his father-in-law, Caleb Bartlett. 
George Hibbard and sons came from Windham, about 1780. 
Before 1790, John Russell, Daniel Russel and William Montague 
had settled on the Sunderland road. In 1790, 20 men were taxed 
who lived north of Charles Phelps, and in 1800, about the same 
number. Oliver Dickinson lived in Hadley, on the road from 
Amherst to Sunderland, and kept a tavern there in 1783 and 



426 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

many years after. Josiah Nash and Nehemiah Gaylord, Jr. 
were at Partrigg's swamp, now Plainville, in 1790. 

Deac. Jason Stockbridge, born in 1780, in the house built by 
Caleb Bartlett, informed me that when he was young, some land 
on the pine plains in that vicinity was sold at one, two and three 
dollars an acre, and some for half the first crop. There were but 
few large trees, and on the ground was much fat candlewood, — 
the heart, knots and roots of old trees. They made log fences 
of pine trees, and when the logs rotted, there was a new crop of 
candlewood. Some pines had marks of the old boxes cut in them. 

The School meadows contained 90 acres of tillage land and 32 
acres of mowing in 1770, according to the return of the assessors. 
This land was leased from 1778 to 1784, at 34 pounds a year, 
payable in wheat at 4s. rye 3s. corn 2s. oats is. 4d. &c. This was 
about 5s. 6d. per acre. 

Trees of Hadley. — There is no reason to suppose that there is 
any tree growing in Hadley that is 200 years old. I have visited 
several peaks and elevations of Holyoke, where no tree had ever 
been felled by the axe, but the trees were not apparently very 
old. The largest trees cut in Hadley within 50 years were 
chestnuts and white pines. The tallest were white pines. Very 
few if any exceeded four feet in diameter, and not many were 
more than three feet. The sorts of trees that grew in Hadley two 
centuries ago cannot be certainly known, but it may be concluded 
that the same species of trees may still be found there, though in dif- 
ferent proportions. Evergreens must always have been predominant 
in a large portion of Hadley, exclusive of mountains and intervals. 

Trees of Hadley north of Holyoke. — Fifteen and ten years ago,* 
the trees that were the most numerous and covered the most land, 
were white and other oaks, yellow or pitch pine, white pine and 
maples, chiefly red. Trees less plenty were chestnut, shagbark 
and other walnut, birch of four species, hemlock, butternut, bass, 
ash, elm,, buttonwood, poplar, ironwood, wildcherry, willow, 
hornbeam, pepperidge, beech, sassafras, nettle tree, hackmatack, 
spruce, red cedar, dogwood, alder, shad bush or tree, viburnum, 
sumach, thorn bush or tree, witch hazel, &c. 

The oaks were extensively distributed in Hadley, and many were stately trees. Besides 
two species of shrub oak, there are seven species of oak in Hadley, named white, red, black or 
yellow, scarlet, swamp white, rock chestnut and pin. I have seen the pin oak, (quercus 
palustris,) only on the banks of Fort river, and the rock oak only on a ridge of Holyoke. 

*My remarks about trees in Hadley refer to examinations made from 1845 to 1850. I 
spent many days in those years in rambling over mountains and low-lands, in Hadley and 
elsewhere, partly to improve health. Forests were then fast falling before the axe, and the 
work of destruction has since gone on rapidly. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 427 

Botanists make but one species of the tall yellow pine and the shorter pitch pine. The 
pitch pine commonly grows on more dry and sandy land than the white pine, but the two 
species are mingled in many places. — The red maple grows on low, moist ground, and it 
occurs on the rocky summits of Holyoke. It crimsons many spots in Hadley in April. Ink 
was formerly made of the bark, and I have used such ink when a school boy. The white 
maple grows only near streams. — The chestnut grows on but a small part of Hadley, besides 
the mountains Holyoke and Warner, where it is with the oak. 

Beech trees are not common in Hadley. In 1846, there were in Fort River Valley, above 
Spruce Hill, two wide spreading beeches, the handsomest that I ever saw. Some of the 
Amherst students had cut their initials in the smooth bark. Perhaps they were reminded 
of the "patulse fagi," in the first line of Virgil's Eclogues. On this tract of land were fine 
sugar maples, and iron-wood trees from 12 to 15 inches in diameter. It was a pleasant 
valley in 1846. 

I have seen the nettle tree, (celtis occidentalis,) on the bank of the Connecticut, below 
the mouth of Mill river. There was a small tree on the summit of Holyoke, a few rods N. 
E. of the house. — I never saw the tulip tree in Hadley. — The poison sumach is rare in Hadley. 
It is sometimes named dogwood. The common dogwoods of the cornus tribe are not poi- 
sonous. — The shad bush continues to blossom about the time shad come up the river. 

The large river poplar of the intervals, (populus lasvigata,) is different from the large 
poplar on the mountain, (populus grandidentata.) In 1783, a Hadley shoemaker bought 
of Oliver Smith a log of the latter for 5 shillings, to make heels for women's shoes. 

A PERPENDICULAR SECTION OF MoUNT HoLYOKE, FROM NORTH 

TO SOUTH. 




This figure is intended to represent the shape of the mountain 
from side to side, in a cross direction, with its slopes both gentle 
and steep, between the deep valleys called cracks. The slopes 
are numbered, and the species of trees, that are the most numerous 
on each, are given. Other trees are intermingled. The mountain 
has many irregularities and the form varies, but in general there 
is some resemblance to these outlines. The higher part of the 
mountain is greenstone, resting on sandstone. 

No. I. This long and gradual slope on the north side is the chestnut region with many 
oaks. There are other trees, but most are chestnuts and oaks. Few chestnuts are found 
above this ascent; they are rarely seen on greenstone rocks. There are many clearings on 
this slope. The soil in many places seems not very fertile. There are very few rocks. 
Hollows extend across the chestnut region, and small streams run in some of them. 

No. 2. This steep part is irregularly and variously inclined, and in some places pre- 
sents a mural or perpendicular face or front, and the angular fragments of greenstone which 



428 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

have fallen from above, slope up against it, and form high heaps. Above the chestnuts, 
among the fragments, are birches and oaks, and they grow on the higher parts of the steep 
and on the brow. 

No. 3, is the brow of the mountain, and is usually covered mostly with evergreens, viz., 
hemlocks and white pines, which extend down upon slope No. 2. Birches and oaks are 
mingled with these evergreens, on both slopes. 

No. 4, is the top rock of the mountain, and walnuts, oaks and red cedars grow on it, 
many of them stunted. The trees on the rocky summits are neither large nor tall. 

No. 5. The trees on this rocky descent are chiefly walnuts and oaks. There are other 
kinds of trees, which increase on the lower part. 

The cross valleys of the mountain between the top peaks or 
ridges, when not deep, have their precipices, piles of greenstone 
fragments, and evergreen brows. There are two deep valleys 
across the mountain, formerly called cracks and notches, one 
about half a mile northeast of the mountain house, and the other 
near three miles east of this, where is the road between Amherst 
and South Hadley and Granby. Between these cracks, more 
than halfway from the western one, is the "Low Place" of the 
old records, where men and animals, hunters and their game, 
used to cross the mountain, as well as through the cracks. This 
low summit is of some extent and there is a good team-road to 
it on the Hadley side, partly on a chestnut hill near the mountain. 
There are two such hills. There are nine distinct peaks or eleva- 
tions between the western crack and the low place. The highest 
part of the mountain was the boundary between towns. 

Trees on Mount Holyoke.* — Those most plenty are the oak, 
walnut, chestnut, birch and hemlock. The walnut is more abun- 
dant than any other tree on much of the rocky top and southern 
descent. The hemlock and white pine are in the steep places, 
and are scattered elsewhere, and there is some yellow pine. The 
Norway pine grows on Mount Tom, but not on Holyoke. In 
the winter, one might imagine that a large part of the forest on 
Holyoke was composed of evergreens. Other trees are sugar and 
red maple, ash, bass, butternut, iron-wood, poplar, red cedar, wild 
cherry, beech, sassafras, flowering dogwood and other species, 
striped or moose maple, spiked maple, witch hazel, sumach, 
shad-bush, &c. A few of the mountain ash grow in crevices of 
the rocks. 

Many shrubs, herbs and flowers are on the mountain, for whose 
names I have not room. Some of these flourish on the high, 
greenstone summits, where flowers "waste their fragrance in the 
desert air." Usually all is silent in these elevated solitudes; rarely 

*"Thanks be to God for mountains! There is a powerful charm connected with moun- 
tains." "What can be more beautiful than trees?" — Howitt. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 429 

a chicadee, or squirrel, or distant crow is heard. Sometimes a 
butterfly shows its gay or dusky wings. Birds sing on the lower 
part of the mountain, and there katadids repeat the notes of their 
taborets, in the daytime. In my rambles on the mountain, I 
never saw a rattlesnake. On many tops, "the aged oak, ne'er 
echoed with the woodman's stroke," and no mark of the axe is 
seen; on others and on lower heights, the axe has been freely used, 
and the wood and timber have been cast or thrust down, the 
precipice. No. 2, to places where teams could come. Teams have 
conveyed much wood from the "Low place." Sprouts spring up 
abundantly from the stumps of deciduous trees on the rocky parts 
of the mountain, not from those of evergreens. There are pleasant 
paths in the woods in the chestnut region. 

It is interesting in the spring to notice at some distance, the 
frequent changes of color, in the woods of Holyoke. After the 
buds begin to swell, before green leaves appear, the trees exhibit 
hues of brown, grey, silvery, leaden, purplish, reddish-brown, &c. 
The hues are much affected by the position of the sun. They con- 
tinue after some leaves are visible. To an observer who is north 
or northwest of the mountain, the birches first show green leaves, 
between April 28 and May 12; and their green, very different 
from the darker color of the evergreens, rises in two or three days 
from the broken greenstone, to the rocky steep above and to the 
brow. The hard maple, in lower places, is in leaf soon after the 
birch, and in a few days, some species of oak, and the chestnut. 
The white oak is a little later. The north side of the mountain 
becomes mostly green, before the walnuts and oaks on the south 
side put forth leaves. 

Autumnal colors. — These gorgeous colors on the mountain do 
not differ much from those on the lowland. Trees and shrubs 
exhibit crimson, scarlet, purple, russet, yellow, orange, buff, 
brown, &c. mingled with green, in September and October. 
Perhaps the brighter colors are as fully displayed between Sept. 
25 and Oct. 10, as at any time. Many oaks are later. The colors 
do not depend on frost, though affected by it. When leaves have 
become yellow, red or brown, they begin to fall. The sumach is 
one of the first to turn red. The butternut is almost the first to 
shed its leaves, and the oak is nearly the last. The autumnal 
foliage of the elm has no beauty. 

Ascending Mount Holyoke. — That part of the mountain, which 
has been commonly ascended to view the prospect, from time im- 
memorial, extends southwesterly from the western crack, and not 
in the direction of the range east of that opening. The summit for 



•430 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

sight-seeing has not been far from the present mountain-house. 
The crack is the northern part of a valley, which continues down 
on the back side of this ridge, and which may be entered by teams 
from the north and south. The ascent to the frequented eminence 
is gradual from the back side, but very steep in front, towards 
Northampton, and previous to about 1822, almost all who visited 
the mountain, went up from the crack-valley. 

I have seen no description of the prospect from this summit, 
that was printed in the last century.* Doct. Douglass of Boston 
ascended the mountain about 1743, and noticed the fact in his 
History, but said not a word about any thing that he saw. Paul 
Coffin, a graduate of Harvard in 1759, visited the mountain with 
others, July 29, 1760. He said in his Journal, — "we rode halfway 
up, and then walked to the summit." He noticed some moun- 
tains, and the villages of Northampton, Hadley and Hatfield. He 
was delighted, especially with the crops on the intervals, which 
"looked like a beautiful garden. "f Timothy Dwight, afterwards 
President D. was a lover of nature and ascended the mountain 
many times. It was not a place of much resort in the last century, 
nor in the early part of the present. The first building was erected 
June 17, 1821, by men from Northampton and Hadley. They 
had a jovial day, and E. H. Mills, Esq. gave an address. The 
first way up the steep front, on the northwest side, was made a 
year or two after, partly in the form of steps. After this passage 
was made, the number that climbed the mountain was greatly 
increased, though a less number went up on the back side. A 
better path was made farther south in 1845. I" i^54> stairs were 
made up the steep ascent, and on each side planks were fastened 
on which the wheels of a car could run, and a car has since been 
drawn up and let down on this railway, by horse or steam power. 
A convenient house was built in 1851, and John W. French, the 
proprietor, has passed some winters on this summit. 

Logs and Boards. — Most of the logs sawed in Hadley since 
the first saw-mill was built, have been pine and oak, and the pine 
have vastly exceeded the oak.J From 70 to 100 years ago, yellow 

♦President Dwight's description of the landscape was published in his Travels in 1821. 
President Hitchcock's first description was published in his small Geology, in 1823. 

+Rev. Paul Coffin's short account was printed in the Historical and Genealogical Reg- 
ister in 1855. He found on the mountain in 1760, strawberries in plenty, and the feathers 
of wild turkeys. He says the prospect was surprisingly beautiful, when one stooped down 
and looked backwards. A singular posture. 

Jin the first grant of timber to saw at a saw-mill in Hadley, in 1662, pine and oak are 
named, and there is no allusion to any other. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 431 

and pitch pine logs were much more plenty than white pine, and 
other species of oak more common than white oak. Some trees 
of other kinds were sawed. The price of sawing boards was from 
I2S. to 13s. 4d. per thousand feet; more was charged for sawing 
old plank and slitwork. Ordinary pine boards were sold from 
26s. 8d. to 32s. per thousand.* The best clear boards from the 
river, or from logs that came down the river, were worth about 
double those prices. Some Hadley pine logs were sold at the 
rate of is. to is. 6d. per hundred, for the boards they made. 
Slabs were from is. to is. 6d. per load. Not many chestnuts 
and hemlocks were sawed in Hadley in the last century. From 
45 to 50 years ago, common pine boards were worth from 7 to 
10 dollars per thousand, and clear boards from river pine, 15 or 
16 dollars. 

For 30 or 40 years after 1800, yellow and pitch pine logs were 
the most abundant, though there was an increase of white pine, 
white oak, chestnut and hemlock. f A great number of logs of 
river pine were sawed at two Hadley mills. Sometimes a whole 
raft was purchased for the North Hadley mill. A few logs of 
birch, maple, butternut, buttonwood, bass, ash, poplar and wal- 
nut were sawed, and plank have been sawed from the toughest 
of all trees, the pepperidge. The prices of sawing for many years 
was $2.50 per thousand, and more recently 3 dollars. The 
circular saw, which has been used in sawmills a few years, saws 
small trees, and greater havoc is made in the forests than before. 

Fences. I — The people of Hadley fenced the common fields, 
school meadow and homelots, and for a century not many other 
lots. The fences were chiefly of two sorts, (see page 33.) ist, 
a fence was made of 5 rails with posts, about 4 feet high. 2d, a 
sufficient ditch was dug, (perhaps some were 3 feet wide and more 
than 2 feet deep,) and the earth was thrown upon one bank, and 

*The price of boards about 1700, reduced to money, did not differ much from that of 1770. 
The charge for sawing was higher in 1700. See page loi. In 1726, the town granted a 
saw-mill at Mill river falls, on condition that the owners should saw logs at the halves. 

■|-I examined the logs at three saw-mills in Hadley, in April, 1846. White pine logs were 
the most numerous; many of yellow pine, chestnut and oak, and some of hemlock, maple, 
&c. 

Jjohn Pynchon had four kinds of fence at Springfield and SufEeld in the 17th century. 
The greater part was made of posts and five rails; other kinds were made of pales, of a ditch 
and dead hedge, and of a dead hedge alone. His rails, posts and pales were of white oak, 
and some of chestnut. His rails were 11^ feet long and posts 6 or 6^ feet. Carting rails 
from the woods in Springfield cost 4 or 5 shillings per hundred. Some of his ditches ex- 
ceeded 4 feet in width and 3 feet in depth, with a dead hedge on the bank. Dead hedges 
were made by setting stakes in the ground 2 or 3 feet apart, and interweaving bushes, limbs 
and young trees. These wattled fences were very different from common brush fences. 



432 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

a line of posts with 2 or 3 rails was set upon this bank. 
This fence, from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the rails, 
may have been near 6 feet high. It is believed that oak and 
chestnut posts and rails were used; and probably some rails were 
pine. A few made stone wall for common fence, getting stones 
from Mount Holyoke and Mount Warner; and in 1747, a com- 
plaint was made that fence viewers passed brush hedge for common 
fence. Some private lots were fenced with logs in the last century. 
The post and rail fence continues. The ditch fence was used 
many years after 1800, and some had brush fence. 

Rails in the 17th century, were about 10 shillings per hundred. 
Very few were sold in Hadley. The carting was expensive; the 
trees grew on the commons and cost nothing. Rails rose to 12s. 
14s. i6s. and i8s. before 1790. Posts with holes, rose from 3d. 
to 4d. and 5d. Men made good 5 rail fence about the school lot 
and found posts and rails, for 2s. 6d. a rod, or is. 8d. as money, 
in 1683 and 1699.* Ditches were dug in the last century at 8 
pence per rod, when labor was 2s. a day. Three rods were a day's 
work. 

The crooked Virginia fence was observed by Kalm in Penn- 
sylvania and New York in 1749, and called worm fence. It was 
made in some towns in New England where rails were plenty not 
long after that date. It was not very extensive in Hadley in the 
last century; has been more used since. The rails are of chestnut. 

Clearing Land. — The farmers of New England and other 
colonies long believed that a crop could not be raised on new 
land until it was plovved or broken up. To fit it for plowing, 
they stubbed, that is, grubbed up the roots of small trees and 
shrubs. These things are noticed by several writers. John 
Pynchon has recorded many agreements made with men, "to 
stub, clear and plow" new land at Springfield and Suflfteld, 
between 1668 and 1680. They were to girdle large trees, cut 
down and clear off smaller trees, and grub up the roots of little 
trees and bushes. He paid for stubbing, clearing and plowing, 
from 33 to 53 shillings an acre. It is not known how long it was 
before the people of this Norwottuck valley found out that a 
crop of corn or wheat could be raised among the stumps, without 
grubbing and plowing. 

*About 1708, a fence of pales was built on a part of the School lot. There was doubt- 
less other pale fence in Hadley. It was similar to a rough fence of stout pickets. The 
lower ends of the pales were sometimes set in the ground. 



APPENDIX 



APPENDIX TO ORIGINAL EDITION 



FIRST RELIGIOUS SOCIETY. 

Fifth Pastor. — Rev. John Woodbridge, D. D., born Dec. 2, 1784, a 
native of Southampton, and a graduate of WilUams College in 1804, was 
ordained as colleague of Dr. Hopkins June 20, 18 10, and remained pastor 
of the chvirch until Sept. 15, 1830, when he was dismissed to take charge of 
the Bowery Presbyterian church in New York city. During Dr. W's min- 
istry, the church enjoyed several revivals. The most remarkable occurred 
in 1816. It is still spoken of as "the great revival." During that year, 187 
persons were received into the church. 

Rev. John Brown, D. D., the sixth pastor, was born 1786, in Brooklyn, 
Ct., graduated at Dartmouth College in 1809, and before coming here was 
settled first at Cazenovia, N. Y., and then over the Pine Street church in 
Boston. He was installed over this church March 2, 183 1, and retained the 
pastoral relation until his death, March 22, 1839. 

Rev. Francis Danforth, the seventh pastor, was born 1793, in Hillsborough, 
N. H., graduated at Dartmouth College, 18 19, at Andover Theological Semi- 
nary in 1822, was ordained July 11, 1823, over the Congregational church at 
Greenfield, N. H., and dismissed April, 1831. His second pastorate was at 
Winchester, N. H. where he was installed Aug. 18, 183 1, and whence he was 
dismissed Nov. 26, 1839. He was installed here Dec. 11, 1839, and dismissed 
Feb. 2, 1842. He afterwards preached for a time in the western part of 
Massachusetts, and then removed to Clarence, N. Y., and d. Jan. 29, 1844, 
while pastor of the Presbyterian church in that place. During the period of 
his ministry, the house of worship erected in 1806, was removed from its 
location in the middle of the West street, a quarter of a mile eastward to 
Middle street. 

Rev. Benjamin Nicholas Martin, a graduate of Yale College in 1837, suc- 
ceeded Mr. Danforth, as the eighth pastor. He was ordained Jan. 19, 1843, 
and dismissed June 9, 1847. He is now Professor of Rhetoric and Intellec- 
tual Philosophy in the University of the City of New York. 

Rev. Rowland Ayres, the ninth and present pastor, a native of Granby, 
graduated at Amherst College in 1841, and was ordained Jan. 12, 1848. 

RELIGIOUS SOCIETY AT NORTH HADLEY. 

The above Society was organized Oct. 26, 183 1, with 24 inembers. Its 
house of worship is located between three and four miles from that of the 
First Church, to which its members had previously belonged. Rev. Samuel 
M. Worcester, D. D., of Salem, then Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in 
Amherst College, became the first supply, and preached in a hall fitted up for 
that purpose. Rev. Philip Payson succeeded Dr. Worcester, and preached 
about three years. The meeting house was built and dedicated in 1834. 
The first settled pastor was Rev. Ebenezer Brown, a native of Brimfield and 
a graduate of Yale College in 18 13. He had been from Oct. 27, 1827, to 
March 25, 1835 pastor of the church in Prescott. He was installed over the 
church in North Hadley April 8, 1835, and left town in 1838, although he 
was not formally dismissed until the day of Mr. Beaman's ordination. For 
about two years after the dismissal of Mr. Brown, the pulpit was supplied by 
Rev. David L. Hunn. The second pastor is Rev. Warren H. BeaiTian, of 
Wendell, a graduate of Amherst College in 1837. He commenced preaching 
May 10, 1840, and was settled Sept. 15, 1841. During 1854, a spire was 
put upon the meeting house, the pulpit re-modeled, the walls of the chvirch 
painted in fresco, and the house re-painted. 



436 APPENDIX TO ORIGINAL EDITION 

RUSSELL SOCIETY. 
This Society was organized in 1841, with about one hundred members. 
The meeting house is located on the east side of West street, near the site of 
the residence of Rev. John Russell, the first minister, from whom the Society 
takes its name. Rev. John Woodbridge, D. D. (who had previously been 
settled over the First church) was installed as first pastor Feb. 16, 1842, and 
dismissed July 15, 1857. The second pastor, Franklin Tuxbury, was ordained 
July 15, 1857, and dismissed Oct. 23, 1862. 

BI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. 

At a Town Meeting held March 30th, 1857, it was voted, in response to an 
article in the warrant calling the meeting, having reference to that subject, 
that a committee be appointed to carry the subject of the tenth article into 
effect, by employing some one of its emigrant sons to give a public address, 
and to take and adopt such measures as the case may require for a public 
celebration — 

Voted, That the town choose a committee of thirteen to carry the above 
vote into efi'ect. 

The following persons were chosen to act upon that committee: — Giles C. 
Kellogg, Sylvester Smith, Theodore G. Huntington, Eleazer Porter, George 
Dickinson, Jeriah S. Smith, Franklin Bonney, Thaddeus Smith, Royal W. 
Montague, E. H. Bartlett, Levi Adams, Edmund Smith, John A. Morton. 

At a town meeting held March 28th, 1859, it was voted that the town 
appropriate the sum of seven hundred dollars to defray the contingent expen- 
ses of the celebration of the Two Hundredth anniversary of the settlement of 
the town ; and that the money be placed in the hands of the Treasurer of the 
town's committee of thirteen, to be used by them in furtherance of said 
appropriation. 

The committee of thirteen appointed by the town, met June ist, 1857, and 
organized by the choice of Giles C. Kellogg as Chairman, and F. Bonney as 
Secretary. 

At a subsequent meeting the following officers and committees were chosen to 
assist the general committee in carrying out the objects of their appointment : — 
President of the Day — Erastus Hopkins, Esq., of Northampton. 
Vice Presidents — Rev. Dan Huntington, Giles C. Kellogg, Esq., Dea. Jason 
Stockbridge, Dea. Svlvester Smith, Rev. John Woodbridge, D. D., Dea. 
Ashley Williams, Chester Gaylord, Cotton Smith. 
Treasurer — Eleazer Porter. 
Chief Marshal — William P. Dickinson. 

Assistant Marshals — P. Smith Williams, Benjamin Adams, Charles H. 
Smith, Levi Stockbridge, Rodney Smith. 
Toast Al aster — Erastus Hopkins, Esq. 

Assistant Toast Masters — Arthur D. Phelps, Oliver E. Bonney. 
Committee of Finance — T. G. Huntington, Eleazer Porter, Geo. Dickinson. 
Committee on Invitations — C. P. Hitchcock, James B. Porter, Lorenzo N. 
Granger, Rev. Rowland Ayres, Rev. Franklin Tuxbury, Rev. Warren H. 
Beaman, Hon. Joseph Smith, Parsons West. 

Committee on Music — Ezra Thayer, Charles Cook, 2d, Francis Smith, 
Frederick Bell, Edward Stebbins, A. H. Cook. 

Committee on Printing — William S. Shipman, C. E. Lamson, J. E. Porter. 
Committee on Receptions — Hon. Joseph Smith, Eleazer Porter, Jesse R. 
Davenport, S. C. Wilder, T. P. Huntington. 

Executive Committee — The Committee of Arrangements. 
It was voted that the celebration be held on the eighth of June, and that 
there should be an Address, a Poem and a Dinner. Rev. Frederic Dan 
Huntington, D. D., of Cambridge, and Edward Clarke Porter, both natives 
of the town, were invited to deliver the Address and Poem. It was decided 
to have the exercises as nearly upon the sight of the first meeting house, as 
circumstances would permit. 



APPENDIX TO ORIGINAL EDITION 437 

By advertisements and circulars the invitation was extended as widely as 
possible to all persons related to Hadley, by descent, marriage, or otherwise, 
to participate with the inhabitants in the exercises of the occasion. 

The day was opened by the discharge of one hundred guns, the roll of the 
drum, and the ringing of the church bells atdawn. At an early hour, although 
the weather was unpromising, a large concourse of people began to gather 
and continued in unabated numbers, till the exercises were closed. Soon 
after lo o'clock in the morning, a procession was formed at the Town Hall, 
in the following order, and marched to the ground towards the upper end of 
the West street, where the exercises of the day were to be held. 

Aid. Chief Marshal. Aid. 

A volunteer corps of Horsemen, 50 in number, Capt. A. H. Cook. 

Belchertown Citizen Cavalry, Capt. T. R. Green. 

Northampton Infantry, Capt. Wm. R. Marsh. 

Colt's Armory Band. 

President of the day and His Excellency Gov. Banks. 

Lieut. Gov. Trask, Hon. Oliver Warner, Secretary of State, members of 

the Council, Sergeant-at-Arms and Clerks of the Legislature. 

Chaplain. 

Orator and Poet. 

Invited Guests. 

Vice Presidents. 

Marshal. 

Committee of Arrangements. 

Clergymen. 

Representatives of the Press. 

Members of the Bar. 

Physicians. 

Marshal. 

Soldiers of 1812 with the National Flag. 

Sheriff. 

County Officers. 

Selectmen and Town Clerks of the five Towns. 

Representation of the olden time, 

consisting of four gentlemen, and as many ladies on pillions, dressed in 

antique costume, and others dressed in the same manner, riding 

in old carriages. 

Marshal. 

Citizens of Hadley. 

Representation of the Trades, 

consisting of a wagon from North Hadley, drawn by a four ox team, with a 

banner inscribed : — 

"Then the red man scoured the roofless room. 
Which now we sweei> with the Hadley broom." 

Within the wagon were old-fashioned spinning wheels, kitchen utensils, 
farm implements, guns, cow-bells, a large wooden mortar and pounder, a 
warming pan, a cobbler at work, and much else, representing the past, that 
was novel and attractive. In direct contrast came representations of manu- 
factures of the present day, comprising two large wagons, filled with mechan- 
ics at work, from Plainville and North Hadley. In the first of these were 
brooms in the course of manufacture, silver wire for piano strings, a card 
setting machine, sewing machines, and, not least important, a specimen of 
soap from the manufactory of W. A. Govern. In the second of these wagons 
were represented the celebrated wheel manufacturers of North Hadley, speci- 
mens of hubs, felloes, wheels, &c., with mechanics at work, from the estab- 
lishment of J. Adams & Sons, W. E. & C. P. Clark, and D. S. Cowles; at 
the head of this wagon was a banner with the inscription — 

"He who by the plow would thrive, 
Must either hold the plow or drive." 



438 APPENDIX TO ORIGINAL EDITION 

In the centre appeared the word " Plain ville," the present name of the 
district, and at the end "Patrick Swamp," its former cognomen. 

Marshal. 

Hatfield Brass Band. 

Citizens of Hatfield. 

Haydenville Cornet Band. 

Citizens of South Hadley. 

Citizens of Amherst. 

Citizens of Granby. 

Marshal. 

Students of Amherst College. 

Teachers and Students of Hopkins Academy. 

Scholars of the several School Districts with their Teachers. 

Citizens of other Towns. 

After reaching the stand, the exercises were as follows: 

I. Singing. 

II. Invocation by the Chaplain, Rev. John Woodbridge, D. D. 

III. Prayer. 

IV. Anthem by the Choir. 

V. Address by Prof. F. D. Huntington, D. D. 

VI. Singing. 

VII. Poem by E. C. Porter. 

VIII. Anthem. 

IX. Benediction. 

After these exercises were closed, a procession was formed of those holding 
tickets to the dinner, which marched to the ample tent, located in front of 
the church in West street, in which plates had been set for sixteen hundred 
people, by John Johnson of Boston. Although there had been much rain 
during the day, nearly all the seats at the table were occupied, and the 
interest which had been manifested from the commencement of the day, 
seemed in no wise abated. At the close of the dinner, speeches were made 
by Governor Banks, Giles C. Kellogg, Esq., Rev. John M. Greene of Hat- 
field, Dr. Kittedge of South Hadley, Hon. Edward Dickinson of Amherst, 
Rev. Henry Mills of Granby, President Stearns of Amherst College, Judge 
Russell of Boston, Prof. F. D. Huntington, D. D., Rev. Gordon Hall of 
Northampton, Prof. W. C. Fowler of Durham, Ct., Hon. James B. Colt of 
Hartford, Ct., Rev. Jeremiah Porter of Chicago, 111., Rev. Warren D. Poor, 
D. D. of Newark, N. J., Hon. John Porter of Auburn, N. Y., Rev. John 
Woodbridge, D. D., and Dr. Smith of Newark, N. J., and at the hour of 
seven the great company quietly dispersed apparently well satisfied to have 
spent one day in commemorating the virtues of their ancestors, and reviving 
the friendships of earlier years. 

MEDICINES, AND PHYSICIANS. 
Medical writers of the present day manifest no respect for the theory and 
practice of medicine which prevailed in England and other countries of 
Europe when our ancestors came to New England, or in any part of the 17th 
century. There were ingenious and learned men among European physi- 
cians of several schools or sects, but they were misguided by false theories, 
indulged in fanciful speculations, and supported many doctrines which had 
no foundation in truth.* Though they made some important improvements, 
they were generally better adapted to expose the false opinions of their pred- 
ecessors and of their rivals, than to establish true doctrines. The practice of 
medicine was not less erroneous and absurd than the theory. Much super- 
stition was connected with it, and virtues altogether imaginary were ascribed 
to most of the vegetable, mineral and animal substances that were used as 

♦Some of the physicians were able writers on other subjects. Many of the papers in the 
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society were written by physicians. 



APPENDIX TO ORIGINAL EDITION 439 

medicines. The greatest folly and credulity prevailed in regard to medicines. 
Among the parts of animals employed in the healing art were the fat of a 
dog and of a wildcat, blood of a goat and of an ass, tongue and lungs of a 
fox, feathers of a partridge, liver of an eel and of a wolf, horns of a horned- 
bug, teeth of a seahorse, dung of a peacock, horns of a stag, jaw of a pike, 
urine of a cow, claws of a crab, bone from the heart of a stag, the left foot of 
a tortoise, blood from under the wing of a white pigeon, and many more 
equally absurd, most of which were employed on the authority of learned 
physicians. 

Among the imported articles in the English "Book of Rates," 1660, on 
which a duty was to be paid, are about 250 kinds of drugs, vegetable, animal 
and mineral, including several just noted. Many more, the produce of 
England, do not appear in this list. There was no lack of substances deemed 
medicinal, and physicians were not slow "to pour drugs of which they knew 
little, into bodies of which they knew less."* 

Whoever investigates the domestic life and manners of the English in the 
I 7th century, will be convinced that many of the people had but little to do 
with professed physicians, and that the mother, or some other member of the 
family, or some experienced friend, was the physician of the family. Gervase 
Markham who wrote "the English Husbandman" and the "English House- 
wife" some 3'ears before our ancestors left that country, calls a knowledge of 
physic "a principal virtue of a housewife," and says she should know how to 
administer medicines to her family. He gives to the housewife, directions 
how to cure all kinds of diseases and professes to have derived these prescrip- 
tions from two or three doctors. Most of the medicines are vegetables. He 
suggests that some fevers ma}^ surpass the housewife's capacity. Some of 
the prescriptions are ridiculous, many may have been inert and powerless, 
and others were beneficial. None perhaps were injurious. Remedies are 
prescribed as if they were infallible; no doubt of their efficacy is intimated; 
they are "sovereign." The following are among the most absurd of these 
remedies. 

Poultice for ague Sores— to be made of elder leaves boiled in milk. 

To produce Sweat. Take posset ale with bruised aniseseeds. 

For Frenzy. Squirt juice of beets into the nostrils, and drink posset ale 
in which violet leaves and lettuce have been boiled. 

To produce Sleep. Beat to powder saffron, lettuce seed and poppy seed, 
mix them with woman's milk and bind them to the temples. 

For Apoplexy or Palsy. "The strong smell of a fox is exceeding sov- 
ereign." Drink a decoction of lavender, &c. 

For a new Cold or Cough. Take sugar and aquavitas in going to bed. 
[This medicine was used 200 years after Markham wrote. People loved the 
aquavitae. Sugar candy and licorice, he prescribed for colds, and they are 
still in vogue.] 

For the falling Evil. Take a female mole for a man, or a male mole for a 
woman, and dry it to powder in an oven; take the powder. 

For Canker in the mouth. A wash of chervil, ale and alum water. [Alum 
is still used.] 

For Quinsy. Use a drink of mouseear steeped in ale, and rub a stone, 
where a hog has rubbed, and then rub with it the swelling. 

For spitting Blood, from inward bruises. Take pitch and spermaceti in 
old ale for a drink. t 

For the Itch. Quicksilver beaten with other substances for an ointment. 
[This quicksilver unguentum was used for itch near 200 years later.] 

Salve for old sores, was made of poplar buds, elder buds, Venice turpentine, 
wax and rosin, boiled. [Poplar buds are still used by some.] 

*A writer in the London Quarterly Review, No. 58, says physicians have continued to do 
this. 

t"The sovreign'st thing on earth was pannaceti, [.spermaceti] for an inward bruise." Shaks- 
peare. This was a common opinion, in that age. 



440 APPENDIX TO ORIGINAL EDITION 

To make Oil of swallows. He directs about 20 kinds of vegetables and 
" 20 quick swallows" to be beaten together in a mortar, and butter and wax 
to be added. This is exceeding sovereign for pains in the bones. 

The housewife is directed to make sage, radish, angelica, celadine, rose and 
rosemary water, by distilling the plants. These waters are said to be good 
for various diseases. 

Other books were published in England in the 17th century for Farmers 
and Housekeepers, which contained directions about Physic, Herbs, Medi- 
cines and Salves. Some of them were entitled "Closet." Hugh Piatt pub- 
lished his Closet in 165 1. 

Surgery received less attention in England than medicine, perhaps because 
it is much more certain, and furnishes less room for theories, fancies, and 
impostures: Montaigne says : — ' ' Surgery sees and feels what it does ; physic 
goes much more upon conjecture." The barbers practised surgery. Young 
w^omen were sometimes initiated into the art of surgery. Chirurgery was 
the term used for surgery in the 17th century. 

In England many medicinal plants were cultivated in gardens, and others 
grew in the forests and fields. They were kept by families and by apotheca- 
ries, and their supposed healing virtues were given in books, as in Markham's 
English Housewife, Parkinson's Flower Garden and Kitchen Garden, and in 
other publications. Parkinson was a London apothecary, and his book was 
published in 1629. 

The seeds of many of these plants were sown in New England,* and the 
housewives on the banks of the Connecticut preserved a variety of dried 
herbs for those hurt or diseased. Among the plants from England esteemed 
medicinal, were sage, hyssop, rue, tansey, wormwood, celandine, comfrey, 
saffron, mallows, chamomile, mayweed, yarrow, shepherd's purse, dandelion, 
patience, bloody dock, elecampane, mother wort, burdock, plaintain, catnip, 
mint, fennel, and dill. Some of these are naturalized, and are quite too 
plenty by road-sides and in fields. Others were cultivated in gardens 40 
years ago, and some still are. The New England housewives and physicians, 
in addition to European plants, had a large number of native herbs and 
shrubs of a medicinal character. 

Josselyn, a careless writer, about 1672, mentions the reputed virtues of 
som.e New England plants, and other substances in medicine. He was no 
wiser than others of that age, and some of his notions are false or ridiculous. 
He notices the diseases of New England in his loose way; — griping of the 
bowels, bloody flux, small pox, quinsy, "great distempers of cold," pleurisy, 
the stone, sciatica, dropsy, palsy, pestilent fevers, &c. 

The phvsicians of Europe for about two centuries were divided into two 
sects, denominated Galenists and chemists, the former prescribing chiefly 
vegetable preparations, and the latter employing mineral preparations and a 
few of the most active vegetable substances. If the accusations they brought 
against each other are founded in truth, their patients could not have been 
much benefited by them. They seem to have united in the 17th century, 
and the use of chemical medicines became much more common. 
■ The physicians of New England in the 17th century seem to have used 
medicines from the vegetable, mineral and animal kingdoms. Little is 
known respecting their practice. Doct. William Douglas from Scotland, who 
practiced in Boston in the first half of the i8th century, or from 17 16 to 1752, 
says the practice was so bad in the British colonies, that excepting surgery 
and som.e acute diseases, it was better to let nature take her course; that 
frequently there was more danger from the physician than from the disease. 
The practitioners generally fell into the same routine, such as repeated bleed- 
ings, opiates, emetics, cathartics, mercurials and peruvian bark. They prac- 
ticed from European authorities, and too much neglected experience and 
observation. Doct. D. accused them of quackery, and was himself charged 

*John Dunton, in 1686, alludes to these garden medicines. He says of Doct. BuUivant, an 
English physician in Boston; — "he does not direct his patients to the East Indies to look for 
drugs, when they may have far better out of their gardens." 



APPENDIX TO ORIGINAL EDITION 441 

with conceitedness, prejudice and unfairness. He was violent in his opposi- 
tion to the introduction of inoculation of small pox into Boston in 1721, and 
his conduct on that occasion was mean and despicable. 

Drugs and medicines were imported from England into Boston, and kept 
for sale, soon after the beginning of that town. The demand gradually 
increased, but could not have been very extensive in the 1 7th century, except 
in the Indian wars. Where a professed physician was not employed, imported 
medicines were not much used. Soon after 1700, and perhaps before, coun- 
try traders began to purchase medicines in Boston, from ten to twenty 
kinds. Traders in Westfield, Springfield, Hadley and Northampton kept 
them, and undoubtedly those in some other towns. They were saffron, mith- 
ridate, diascordium, hierapicra, rhubarb, aloes, senna, aniseseed, licorice, 
blistering salve, pills, jalap, turmeric, &c. After domestic prescriptions 
became less common and those of physicians were more relied on, the sale of 
foreign drugs and medicines was greatly increased. They were now sold, 
not by the trader, but by the physician, at an enormous profit, and were the 
principal source of his income. The wholesale demand being vastly enlarged, 
Doct. Sylvester Gardiner of Boston, a sagacious man, began to import drugs 
in such quantities as would have astonished, if not frightened the people a 
few years before. His first advertisement of "all sorts of Drugs and Medi- 
cines, both chemical and Galenical" appears in the Boston Gazette in June, 
1744. Many still used plants which grew in New England, and "dried 
herbs of all sorts" were advertised in Boston. In May, 1757, Doct. Gardiner, 
in company with Doct. William Jepson, established a drug store in Hartford, 
which was the first or second* establishment of this kind in Connecticut. 
They also kept groceries. The copartnership continued seven years and 
eight months and in this time, the net profits, according to a statement of 
Doct. Gardiner, were 5175 pounds, or 2250 dollars a year. 

Levi Shepherd from Hartford, opened an apothecary's shop in Northamp- 
ton in November, 1765, the first in this part of the country. In July, 1769, 
he formed a partnership with Doct. Ebenezer Hunt. They imported their 
drugs and medicines with some spices, paints, surgical instruments, &c. from 
London, and some things from Bristol. They sold great quantities of drugs 
to physicians far and near, their trade extending westward and northwest- 
ward to Great Barrington, Pittsfield, Williamstown, Bennington and Rupert, 
northward to Keene, Charlestown and Hanover, and eastward to Ware and 
Hardwick. They had a drug store in Worcester also, established in 1769, 
(or perhaps previously commenced by L. Shepherd) and in 1773, Doct. 
William Paine became a partner. He was afterwards a tory and left the 
country, and the partnership was dissolved in 1776. The amount of medi- 
cines sold at Worcester was nearly as large as at Northampton. 

Hunt & Shepherd sold their medicines by the quantity to physicians, on 
an average, at about two and a half for one, or two and a half New England 
shillings for what cost one shilling sterling. All the charges of importation 
were about 17 per cent. Their nominal profit was therefore equal to 60 per 
cent, on the cost and charges. Ebenezer Hunt's prices in 1784, '85 and '86, 
still averaged about two and a half for one, but the charges were a little 
higher. In 1802, E. Hunt and Son sold to physicians, drugs and medicines 
bought in this country at from 50 to 75 per cent, advance. It may be as well 
to omit the prices at which medicines were dealt out to patients. 

The early planters of New England had as much wisdom and perhaps as 
much folly, in regard to the art of healing, as those they had left in the 
mother country. Among them were physicians and surgeons of ability and 
learning, but imbued with the hypotheses and errors of the age. I do not 
find in that part of the country to which my inquiries have extended, any 
evidence that the people of agricultural villages felt the need of the services 
of mere physicians, or held them in estimation. Like some in England, who 

*Miss Cautkins says Dr. Daniel Lathrop's druggist's shop in Norwich was the first in Con- 
necticut. He imported largely and made a fortune. Lathrop & Smith had a druggist store 
in Hartford, 1765. 



442 APPENDIX TO ORIGINAL EDITION 

have been referred to, they usually seem to have been satisfied with domestic 
prescriptions, and the advice of experienced persons in the neighborhood. 
They highly valued the services of a chirurgeon, or bonesetter, and some 
towns in Hampshire County voted pecuniary rewards to induce one to settle 
among or near them. 

The first chirurgeon and physician on Connecticut river was. Bray Rosseter 
of Windsor, a capable man. He removed to Guilford. In 1652, the General 
Court gave Thomas Lord of Hartford 15 pounds to use his skill "for setting 
of bones and otherwise" in the river towns one year, and his price was fixed. 
He was to have one shilling for visiting any house in Hartford, and this 
manifestly included the setting of a bone or other performance. In 1655, 
and many years after, they paid Daniel Porter of Farmington, 6 pounds a 
year, "to exercise his art of chirurgerie." In 1670, they raised the salary of 
Daniel Porter, "Bonesetter," to 12 pounds, and advised him to instruct 
some person in his art. Lord and Porter were probably physicians, but it 
was not on this account that they were encouraged by the colony. 

At the Hampshire March Court, 1665, George Filer of Northampton, 
"being presented as one reasonably well fitted and qualified for a chirurgeon, 
was allowed" by the Court. He removed to Westfield in 1667, and left the 
colony a few years after. From 1667 to 1730, a space of 63 years, no phj^si- 
cian nor surgeon resided in Northampton, the most wealthy and populous 
town in the county, except Springfield, (which included West Springfield.) 
They had made some attempts to obtain a bonesetter, but apparently had 
not sought for a physician. 

Lieut. Thomas Cooper of Springfield was a bonesetter, but was not licensed , 
and received but little for his labor. In March, 1675, he petitioned the 
court that he might be paid for setting bones, as he often had to go to and 
fro on this business. His request was referred to the next court, and in the 
mean time, he was slain. In January, 1677, Mr. Daniel Denton, on appli- 
cation, was allowed in the employment of chirurgery at Springfield. He 
remained there but a few years. I observe no indications of a resident phy- 
sician in Springfield for forty years after the place was settled. 

In April, 1679, Thomas Hastings of Hatfield, petitioned for license to prac- 
tice physic and chirurgery. The subject was referred to the next court. No 
license is recorded , bvit he was subsequently without doubt allowed to prac- 
tice. For many years he was the physician and surgeon for Hadley, North- 
ampton, Hatfield and Deerfield, was sometimes called to Springfield and 
Suffield, and probably to Westfield, Enfield, and Brookfield. Yet his time 
was but partially occupied with his professional business, his bills were small, 
and his income could not have been great. He kept the town school several 
years. After his death, which took place in 171 2, the amount due to the 
estate was only 39 pounds, and his whole estate was valued at only 235 
pounds. His son, Thomas Hastings, succeeded him, and practiced in Hat- 
field, Deerfield and Northampton and sometimes in other places, yet he kept 
the Hatfield school many years. He died in 1728. 

Deerfield was without a resident physician and surgeon above 40 years, 
and Westfield nearly as long. 

For half a century after the settlement of Hadley, the average annual 
expense to the inhabitants of four towns, Northampton, Hadley, Hatfield and 
Deerfield, for physicians and surgeons, cannot be fairly estimated at more 
than 200 dollars, excluding charges for those who were wovmded by Indians. 
The professed physician was rarely sent for. The domestic practice contin- 
ued, though perhaps it was gradually yielding, in the early part of the i8th 
century. During these fifty years, when the people of these towns, amidst 
their toils and hardships, had so little aid from the physician, they suffered 
less from disease than their descendants, and a larger portion of them attained 
to advanced age. But they had vigorous constitvitions, lived on plain food, 
and almost all were temperate. Intoxicating liquors, though productive of 
mischief in that age, had not then become the general curse and scourge. 



APPENDIX TO ORIGINAL EDITION 443 

Some of the clergyman that came to this colony, having studied medicine 
in England, sometimes performed the duties of a physician as well as those 
of a religious teacher. Those who were educated in this country, and settled 
in the Hampshire towns, in the 17th century, do not appear to have given 
much attention to physic or surgery. They may have read some medical 
books, and perhaps they occasionally prescribed for their families, and gave 
advice to their neighbors. Rev. Edward Taylor, of Westfield, who came 
from England, had in his library a book on Chirurgery and a Dispensatory, 
but I find no trace of him as a practising ph3'sician. Rev. Benjamin Doo- 
little, who settled in Northfield in 17 18, was a regular physician and surgeon, 
and was furnished with books, instruments and medicines. 

Some women in New England possessed skill in physic and surgery. The 
wife of Rev. John Eliot was one of these, and attended to the sick and 
maimed withovit reward. At the close of Philip's war, the Council of Con- 
necticut allowed Mrs. Allyn 20 pounds for attending and curing sick and 
wounded soldiers. Other women are mentioned who made salves and healed 
wounds and bruises. The wife of William Miller of Northampton sometimes 
acted as a surgeon, and perhaps as a physician. Clayton, in his account of 
Virginia, 1688, mentions "a gentlewoman, a noted female doctress," who 
cured those bitten by mad dogs. 

John Westcarr came to Hadley in 1666. The record of the March court 
1673 contains the following: — "Mr. John Westcarr of Hadley, having made 
use of his skill for some years past in physic and chirurgery with good suc- 
cess, through the good hand of God upon his endeavors, he is by this court 
allowed to go on in his practice of physic and chirurgery." He died in 1675, 
and the town remained without a physician, for a period of thirty two years, 
or vmtil 1707. 

John Barnard established himself in Hadley in 1708, and died in 1726. 
His son Thomas, who became a physician, removed to Connecticut. 

In January, 1727, a few months after the death of Doct. Barnard, the town 
voted to give 50 pounds towards the settling of a good bonesetter in Hadley 
or one of the adjacent towns, if other towns would join with them. 
Doct. Hastings of Hatfield may have been infirm. 

William Squire, called a chirurgeon, settled in Hadley after 1727. It is 
believed that he was an Englishman or Scotchman. He died in 1731. He 
had a gold headed cane like the physicians of England, a gold watch, a silver 
hilted sword, and a plaid gown. 

Richard Crouch, from Great Britain, settled in Hadley in 1731 or before. 
He administered on the estate of Doct. Squire. He was a physician and not 
a surgeon, and was often in public business. He died childless in 1761, and 
gave most of his estate to a nephew of his wife, Giles Crouch Kellogg. He 
had two brothers in the Isle of Wight, England. 

In 1738, Hadley voted to give Mr. Hezekiah Porter of Farmington, bone- 
setter, 62 pounds, if he would settle in Hadley, and 52 pounds, if he would 
settle in Northampton or Hatfield. He settled in Northampton. 

Giles Crouch Kellogg graduated at Harvard College i 75 1 , began to practice 
medicine in Hadley before the death of his uncle Crouch, and^continued the 
same until his death, Aug. 28, 1793. 

William Porter, born 1763, devoted much of his time to mercantile pur- 
sviits, traded in the same store for sixty 3'ears, and died in 1847. Seth H. 
Rogers came in 1796, practiced about ten years, and died in Connecticut 
about 1808. Reuben Bell, a native of Warren, came to Hadley about 1804, 
accumulated a large estate in the practice of his profession, and died Feb. 
1851, ae. 72. Josiah Goodhue, a native of Dunstable, practiced until some- 
what advanced in life in Vermont, was eminent in his profession, especially 
as a surgeon, and was at one time President of the Pittsfield Medical Insti- 
tution. Edward Dickinson was for a time in partnership with Dr. Goodhue, 



444 APPENDIX TO ORIGINAL EDITION 

but about 1833 left town and is believed to have died in Peoria, 111. Watson 
Loud came about 1833, practiced five or six years, and then removed to the 
West. Philemon Stacy practiced about nine years. William C. Bailey, 
Warren McCray, Moses Porter, William Huntington, Stephen G. Hubbard, 
and Addison Peck practiced for a time. Elam C. Knight came in 1849, ^^^ 
practiced about a year. William Lester came in 1846, and practiced about 
three years. Benjamin F. Smith, a native of East Lyme, Ct., practiced from 
1843-5, when he removed to Amherst. Franklin Bonney, son of Oliver, 
studied medicine at Dartmouth Medical College, com:nenced practice in 1847, 
and is the only practicing physician now in town. 

I know not what the charges of physicians were one hundred or one 
hundred and fifty years ago. I have seen bills from many physicians in 
Connecticut from 1768 to 1776, and the charge for a visit in Hartford, New 
Haven, and some other large villages was one shilling. In other towns, the 
charge was generally eight or nine pence for each visit; and if they rode 
two, three or four miles, they charged for a visit eight or nine pence for 
each mile. Commonly more was charged for medicines than for the visit, 
often two or three times as much. 

Doct. Ebenezer Hunt began to practice in Northampton in April, 1768, 
and until 1776, charged for a visit in the village, eight pence; in other 
towns, at the rate of eight pence for each mile. A cathartic, an emetic, 
bleeding, pulling a tooth, and dressing a wound were eight pence each. In 
1776, the price of a visit in the village was advanced to one shilling; and 
afterwards was raised still higher, as money depreciated. After a specie 
currency was restored, the charge for a visit was one shilling until 1794, 
when it was advanced to one shilling and sixpence; in 1803, it was two 
shillings, and in 1814, forty cents. The charge for visits in other towns was 
nearl}^ as mvich per mile as that for a visit in the village; the former being 
raised with the latter, except in 18 14. His charges were higher than those of 
most physicians in the county. For accouchments, which he commenced 
about 1796, he charged at first eighteen shillings; in 1807, twenty-four 
shillings; in 18 13, thirty shillings. He gave much medicine, though less 
than some others. Until the price of a visit was raised to one shilling and 
six pence, the charge for the medicine left at the house of the patient (ex- 
clusive of much delivered at the shop) exceeded that of the visit. When 
the visit was one shilling and six pence, the medicine which he carried with 
him, averaged about the same sum, making three shillings for a visit and 
medicine. The result was the same, if ten or twenty visits were made to 
one patient in as many days. 

Doct. Giles C. Kellogg of Hadley bought of Shepherd and Hunt in 14 
years, from 1769 to 1783, drugs and medicines to the amount of 473 pounds 
or 1576 dollars, most of them, the first eight years, before there was much 
rise in such articles. These were distributed among the people of Hadley, 
and cost them some thousands of dollars. The doctor's profit on the medi- 
cines must have amounted to a larger sum than all his charges for visits. 

HADLEY COUNSELLORS. 

1755-7, . . . Eleazar Porter. 

1 82 1-3, . . . Samuel Porter. 

HADLEY STATE SENATORS. 

181 7, . . . Samuel Porter. 

1826-7, • • ■ Charles Porter Phelps. 

1853-4, . . . Joseph Smith. 



APPENDIX TO ORIGINAL EDITION 



445 



HADLEY DEPUTIES AND REPRESENTATIVES.* 



1 66 1, Samuel Smith. 

1662, William Lewis. 

1663, Samuel Smith, Wm. Lewis. 

1664, Samuel Smith, John White. 

1665, Samuel Smith, Peter Tilton. 

1666, Peter Tilton. 

1667, Samuel Smith. 

1668, Samuel Smith, Peter Tilton. 

1669, William Holton, John White. 

1670, Henry Bridgham.PeterTilton. 

1671, Samuel Smith, Peter Tilton. 

1672, Henry Phillips, Peter Tilton. 
1673, May. Sam'l Smith, Peter Tilton. 
1673, Sept. Peter Tilton, H.Phillips. 

1674, Peter Tilton. 

1675, John Richards, Peter Tilton. 

1676, Peter Tilton. 

1677, Philip Smith, Peter Tilton. 

1678, Peter Tilton. 

1679, Peter Tilton. 

1680, Philip Smith. 

1 68 1, Philip Smith. 

1682, Philip Smith. 

1683, Philip Smith. 

1684, Philip Smith. 

1685, Samuel Partrigg. 

1686, Samuel Partrigg, Thos. West. 
1756, Josiah Pierce. 

1757' Josiah Pierce. 

1758, Eleazar Porter. 

1759, Moses Marsh. 

1760, Josiah Chauncey, of Amh.f 

1761, Eleazar Porter. 

1762, Josiah Chauncey, of Amh. 

1763, Eleazar Porter. 

1764, Daniel Nash, of So. Had. 

1765, Daniel Nash, of So. Had. 

1766, Enos Nash. 

1767, Simicon Strong, of Amh. 

1768, Enos Nash. 

1769, Simeon Strong, of Amh., 
Elisha Porter. 

1770, Elisha Porter. 

1 77 1, Josiah Pierce. 

1772, Josiah Pierce , Eleazar Porter. 
1 7 73' Josiah Pierce. 

1774, Josiah Pierce, Delegate to Pro- 
vincial Congress at Concord. 

i775,Jan. Josiah Pierce, Delegate to 
Prov. Congress at Cambridge. 
John Chester Williams. 



1776 
May 
1777 
1778 
1779 



28, 



ElishaPorter.JonathanSmith. 
ElishaPorter.JonathanSinith. 
Phinehas Lyrnan. 



780 
781 
782 

783 
784 

785 
786 

787 
788 

789 
790 
791 
792 
793 
794 
795 
796 

797 
798 
799 
800 
801 
802 
803 
804 
80s 
806 
807 
808 
809 
810 
811 
812 

813 

814 

815 
816 
817 
818 
819 
820 
820 



I«2I, 
1822, 
1823, 
1824, 
1825, 
1826, 
1827, 
1828, 
1829, 



Jonathan Sinith. 
Phinehas Lyman. 
Oliver Smith. 
Oliver Smith. 
Oliver Smith. 
Oliver Smith. 
Oliver Smith. 
Oliver Smith. 
Oliver Smith. 
None. 
None. 

Charles Phelps. 
Charles Phelps. 
Charles Phelps. 
Jonathan E. Porter. 
Charles Phelps. 
Charles Phelps. 
Jonathan E. Porter. 
Charles Phelps. 
Charles Phelps. 
Samuel Porter. 
Samuel Porter. 
Samuel Porter. 
Samuel Porter. 
Samuel Porter. 
Samuel Porter. 
Samuel Porter. 
Charles Phelps. 
Charles Phelps. 
Giles Crouch Kellogg. 
Giles Crouch Kellogg. 
Samuel Porter. 
Samuel Porter. 
Samuel Porter. 
Giles C. Kellogg. 
Samuel Porter. 
Samuel Porter. 
Giles Crouch Kellogg. 
Samuel Porter. 
Samuel Porter. 
Charles Porter Phelps. 
Samuel Porter, 
Moses Porter, Esq., 

Members of Constitutional 

Convention. 
Charles Porter Phelps. 
Charles Porter Phelps. 
Moses Porter. 
Charles Porter Phelps. 
None. 

Moses Porter. 
Giles Crouch Kellogg. 
Nathaniel Cooledge, Jr. 
Giles Crouch Kellogg, 
Charles Porter Phelps. 



*The town records prior to 1800 seldom giving the name of the Deputy or Representative, 
this imperfect record obtained from the State records at Boston is in.serted. 

fFrom the date of Amherst becoming a District, 1759, up to 1774, the towns of Hadley, 
South Hadley, Amherst and Granby united in the choice of Representatives. 



446 



APPENDIX TO ORIGINAL EDITION 



1830, 


Moses Porter. 


1845. 


John A. Morton. 


I83I, 


Moses Porter. 


1846, 


John A. Morton. 


1832, 


Charles Porter Phelps. 


1847, 


Giles Crouch Kellogg. 


1833. 


Oliver Bonney, 


1848, 


Giles Crouch Kellogg. 




Simeon Dickinson. 


1849, 


Giles Crouch Kellogg. 


1834, 


Oliver Bonney, 


1850, 


Dudley Smith. 




Ephraim Smith. 


1851, 


Dudley Smith. 


183s. 


William Smith, 


1852, 


Lorenzo Noble Granger. 




Jason Stockbridge. 


1853. 


Giles Crouch Kellogg. 


1836, 


WilHam Smith, 


1853. 


Giles Crouch Kellogg, 




Jason Stockbridge. 




Member of Constitutional 


1837. 


Walter Newton, 




Convention. 




Parsons West. 


1854, 


John Smith Bell. 


1838, 


Charles Porter Phelps. 


1855, 


Levi Stockbridge. 


1839. 


Charles Porter Phelps, 


1856, 


Perez Smith Williams. 




WilHam Smith. 


1857. 


Theodore Clark. 


1840, 


Charles Porter Phelps, 


1858, 


Leicester W. Porter.* 




John Shipman. 


1859. 


Peregrine Waters, of So. Had 


I84I, 


Charles Porter Phelps. 


i860. 


Thaddeus Smith. 


1842, 


Joseph Smith, 2d. 


1861, 


Thomas M. Nash, of So. Had 


1843, 


Samuel Nash. 


1862, 


Horace Cook. 


1844, 


Samuel Nash. 


1863, 


Stephen C. Weld, of So. Had. 



HADLEY TOWNSMEN OR SELECTMEN. f 

1660. Andrew Bacon, Andrew Warner, Nath. Dickinson, Samuel Smith, 
William Lewis. 

1662. Thomas Meekins, William Allis, Nath'l Ward, Richard Goodman, 
John White, Sen'r. 

1663. Mr. William Westwood, Thomas Meekins, Thomas Wells, Philip 
Smith, John White. 

1664. Gregory Winterton, John Dickinson, John Hubbard, William Allis, 
Nathaniel Dickinson, Jr. 

1665. John White, Sen., Joseph Kellogg, Nathaniel Standley, Thomas 
Meekins, Isaac Graves. 

1666. Nathaniel Dickinson, Sen., John Crow, Aaron Cooke, Zachary Field, 
John Coleman. 

1667. Thomas Coleman, Stephen Terry, Sainuel Porter, John Cole, Daniel 
Warner. 

1668. Lt. Samuel Smith, William Partrigg, Andrew Warner, Nathaniel 
Dickinson, Jr., Samuel Belding. 

1669. William Lewis, Francis Barnard, Jno. Dickinson, Thomas Meekins, 
WilHam Allis. 

1670. Mr. Henry Clarke, John Russell, Sen., Mr. Peter_Tilton, Isaac Graves, 
Daniel White. 

167 1. Philip Smith, Aaron Cooke, Edward Church, John Crow, Richard 
Montague. 

1672. Lt. Samuel Smith, Samuel Porter, Samuel Partrigg, Samuel Church, 
Samuel Moody. 

1673. Richard Goodman, Timothy Nash, John Dickinson, Francis Barnard, 
Thomas Dickinson. 

1674. Andrew Warner, Mr. Peter Tilton, Ens. Aaron Cooke, Joseph Kellogg, 
Noah Coleman. 

1675. Nehemiah Dickinson, John Marsh, Daniel Hovey, Philip Smith, 
Chileab Smith. 

1676. Lt. Samuel Smith, Ens. Aaron Cooke, John Hubbard, Sergt. John 
Dickinson, Francis Barnard. 



*Since 1858, Hadley and South Hadley have formed one Representative District. 
tU.sually called Townsmen until 1673. 



APPENDIX TO ORIGINAL EDITION 447 

1677. Philip Smith, Richard Montague, Samuel Porter, Joseph Kellogg, 
Peter Tilton. 

1678. Lt. Samuel Smith, Aaron Cooke, John Hubbard, Samuel Partrigg, 
Thomas Dickinson. 

1679. Lt. Philip Smith, Peter Tilton, Timothy Nash, Richard Montague, 
Ens. Joseph Kellogg. 

1680. Lt. Samuel Smith, Capt. Aaron Cooke, Nehemiah Dickinson, Samuel 
Partrigg, Joseph Baldwin, Sen. 

1 68 1. Dea. Philip Smith, Lt. Joseph Kellogg, Ens. Timothy Nash, Chileab 
Smith, Thomas Hovey. 

1682. Capt. Aaron Cooke, Samuel Partrigg, John Hubbard, Peter Montague, 
Daniel Marsh. 

1683. Dea. Philip Smith, Ens. Timothy Nash, Samuel Porter, Francis 
Barnard, Nehemiah Dickinson. 

1684. Capt. Aaron Cooke, Samuel Partrigg, Jonathan Marsh, Thomas 
Hovey, Nathaniel White. 

1685. Ens. Timothy Nash, Chileab Smith, Lt. Joseph Kellogg, Nehemiah 
Dickinson, Daniel Marsh. 

1686. Capt. Aaron Cooke, Mr. Samuel Partrigg, Francis Barnard, Thomas 
Hovey, Samuel Barnard. 

1687. Ens. Timothy Nash, Daniel Marsh, Nehemiah Dickinson, Peter Mon- 
tague, Peter Tilton. 

1688. Francis Barnard, Jonathan Marsh, Thomas Hovey, Samuel Moody, 
Thonias Selden. 

1689. Ens. Timothy Nash, Samuel Porter, Sen'r, Peter Montague, Nehemiah 
Dickinson, Lt. Jonathan Marsh. 

1690. Capt. Aaron Cooke, Thomas Hovey, Chileab Smith, Nathaniel White, 
Thomas Selden. 

1691. Nehemiah Dickinson, Ens. Timothy Nash, Samuel Porter, Jonathan 
Marsh, Corporal Samuel Smith. 

1692. Capt. Aaron Cooke, Lt. Joseph Kellogg, Samuel Barnard, George 
Stillman, Daniel Marsh. 

1693. None recorded. 

1694. Nehemiah Dickinson, Jonathan Marsh, Peter Montague, Nathaniel 
White, Samuel Smith, son of Chileab. 

Lt. Timothy Nash, Daniel Marsh, Thomas Hove}^ John Kellogg, 
Samuel Barnard. 

Mr. George Stillman, Ens. Chileab Smith, Nathaniel White, Joseph 
Smith, Daniel Hubbard. 

Jonathan Marsh, Mr. Samuel Porter, Nathaniel Warner, John Mon- 
tague, Timothy Eastman. 
None recorded. 

Thomas Selding, Daniel Marsh, Sergt. Samuel Smith, John Kellogg, 
Corp. Samuel Smith. 

Mr. Samuel Porter, Cornet Nehemiah Dickinson, Jonathan Marsh, 
Sami;el Boltwood, John Nash. 

Daniel Marsh, Dea. N. White, Peter Montague, Hezekiah Porter, 
Samuel Partrigg. 

Cornet Nehemiah Dickinson, Jonathan Marsh, Thomas Selding, John 
Smith, (tailor,) John Smith, (orphan.) 

Mr. Samuel Porter, Sergt. Daniel Marsh, Corporal Peter Montague, 
John Nash, Samuel Barnard. 

Cornet Nehemiah Dickinson, Jonathan Marsh, Sergeant Samuel 
Smith, Dea. Nath'l White, Hezekiah Porter. 

Thomas Selding, Lt. Thomas Hovey, Quartermaster Peter Montague, 
John Smith, (tailor,) Samuel Cooke. 

Mr. Samuel Porter, Jonathan Marsh, Daniel Marsh, Westwood Cook, 
Samuel Barnard. 



448 APPENDIX TO ORIGINAL EDITION 

1707. Sergt. Joseph Smith, Sergt. Samuel Smith, Sergt. John Nash, Dea. 
Nathaniel White, Luke Smith. 

1708. Quartermaster Peter Montague, Thomas Selding, John Kellogg, 
Samuel Barnard, Moses Cook. 

1709. Jonathan Marsh, Sergt. Daniel Marsh, Sergt. Samviel Smith, John 
Smith, (orphan,) Experience Porter. 

17 10. Mr. Samuel Porter, Dea. Nathaniel White, Dea. John Smith, Samuel 
Partridg, Sergt. Joseph Smith. 

1 71 1. Lt. Nehemiah Dickinson, Peter Montague, Daniel Marsh, Sergt. 
Samuel Smith, Samuel Barnard. 

171 2. Mr. Samuel Porter, Jonathan Marsh, Lt. Thomas Hovey, Dea. John 
Smith, Experience Porter. 

1713. Mr. Samuel Porter, Luke Smith, Sergt. Samuel Smith, Westwood 
Cook, Sergt. Daniel Marsh. 

1714. Mr. Jonathan Marsh, Dea. John Smith, Sergt. John Nash, Experience 
Porter, Lt. Nehemiah Dickinson. 

1 715. Mr. Daniel Marsh, Sergt. Samuel Smith, Mr. Peter Montague, Dea. 
Nathaniel White, John Smith, (orphan.) 

1 7 16. No Record, a leaf being gone. 

1 71 7. Nathaniel Kellogg, Lt. Westwood Cook, Experience Porter, John 
Smith, (son of Chileab,) Luke Smith. 

1 7 18. Mr. Peter Montague, John Nash, Dea. John Smith, Sergt. Samuel 
Smith, Sergt. John Marsh. 

1719. Samuel Porter, Esq., Experience Porter, William Dickinson, Samuel 
Partridg, Samuel Barnard. 

1720. Dea. John Smith, John Smith, (orphan,) Sergt. Samuel Smith, John 
Nash, Sergt. Samuel Moody. 

1 72 1. Samuel Porter, Esq., Luke Smith, Nathaniel Kellogg, Experience 
Porter, Lt. Samuel Cook. 

1722. Sergt. John Nash, Sergt. Samuel Smith, Lt. John Smith, Samuel 
Barnard. Moses Cook. 

1723. Dea. John Smith, Mr. Experience Porter, Mr. Luke Smith, John 
Smith, (orphan,) Sergt. William Dickinson. 

1724. Mr. John Nash, Moses Cook, Nathaniel Kellogg, Dr. John Barnard, 
Sergt. John Marsh. 

1725. Dea. John Smith, Mr. Eleazar Porter, Samuel Partridge, Samuel 
Moody, Sergt. William Dickinson. 

1726. Mr. John Nash, Mr. Luke Smith, Sergt. Samuel Dickinson, Ensign 
Moses Cook, Samuel Porter. 

1727. Eleazar Porter, Esq., Nathaniel Kellogg, Samuel Moody, Sergt. 
William Dickinson, Joseph Eastman. 

1728. Mr. John Nash, Lt. Samuel Cook, Mr. Samuel Porter, Mr. Luke 
Smith, Sergt. Chileab Smith. 

1729. Eleazar Porter, Esq., Lt. John Smith, Lt. Moses Cook, Ens. William 
Dickinson, Job Marsh. 

1730. Mr. John Nash, Capt. Luke Smith, Lt. Samuel Cook, Dea. Samuel 
Dickinson, Joseph Eastman. 

1 73 1. Eleazar Porter, Esq., Lt. John Smith, Lt. Moses Cook, Ens. Wm. 
Dickinson, Ichabod Smith. 

1732. Lt. Westwood Cook, Thomas Goodman, Samuel Moody, Joseph East- 
man, Samuel Barnard. 

1733. Eleazar Porter, Esq., Capt. Luke Smith, Lt. Jno. Nash, Lt. Samuel 
Cook, Dea. Samuel Dickinson. 

1734. Lt. Moses Cook, Lt. John Smith, Dea. Joseph Eastman, Samuel 
Moody. 

1735. Samuel Porter, Eleazar Porter, Ebenezer Marsh, Joseph Smith, 
Nathaniel Kellogg, Jr. 

1736. Moses Cook, Ens. Wm. Dickinson, Dea. Samuel Dickinson, Dea. 
Joseph Eastman, Chileab Smith, Ebenezer Moody, Samuel Boltwood. 



APPENDIX TO ORIGINAL EDITION 449 

1737. Samuel Porter, Eleazar Porter, Joseph Smith, Nathaniel Kellogg, 
Noah Cook. 

1738. Lt. Moses Cook, Ens. Wm. Dickinson, Dea. Joseph Eastinan, Chileab 
Smith, Dea. John Smith, John Nash, Jr., Job Marsh. 

1739. Col. Porter, Samuel Cook, Dr. Crouch, Dea. Dickinson, Nathaniel 
Kellogg, Jr., Ephraim Nash, Jonathan Smith. 

1740. Capt. Moses Cook, Lt. Dickinson, Ichabod Smith, Nathaniel White, 
Peletiah Smith, Samuel Porter, Dea. J. Eastman. 

I 741. Col. Porter, Capt. Luke Smith, Dea. Samuel Dickinson, Lt. Chileab 
Smith, Nathaniel Kellogg, Sam'l Smith, John Nash. 

1742. Capt. Moses Cook, Lt. Dickinson, Sam'l Porter, Ichabod Smith, 
Benjamin Church, William Montague, Ebenezer Kellogg. 

1743. Col. E. Porter, Dea. Eastman, Richard Church, Nath'l Smith, Lt. 
Chileab Smith, Edmund Hubbard, James Kellogg. 

1744. Capt. Moses Cook, Dea. Ichabod Smith, Samuel Porter, Nathaniel 
Kellogg, Jonathan Smith, Dea. Eleazar Mattoon, Sergt. John Smith. 

1745. Col. Porter, Chileab Smith, Joseph Eastman, Edmund Hubbard, 
James Kellogg, Luke Montague, Dea. Ebenezer Dickinson. 

1746. Capt. Moses Cook, Dea. Ichabod Smith, Samuel Porter, Noah Cook, 
Lt. Chileab Smith, Samuel Moody, Dea. John Nash. 

1747. Eleazar Porter, Esq., Dea. Joseph Eastman, James Kellogg, Edmund 
Hubbard, David Smith, ChilealD Smith, Lt. Jonathan Smith. 

1748. Capt. Moses Cook, Lt. Nathaniel Kellogg, Dea. John Nash, Dea. 
Enos Nash, William Smith, John Dickinson, Jonathan Smith, Jr. 

1749. Eleazar Porter, Esq., Lt. Jonathan Smith, Joseph White, James 
Kellogg, Edmund Hubbard, David Smith, Dea. Nathaniel Montague. 

1750. Capt. Moses Cook, Lt. Nathaniel Kellogg, Lt. Ebenezer Kellogg, 
Jonathan Smith, 3d; William White, Hezekiah Smith, Dea. Enos 
Nash. 

1 75 1. Dea. John Smith, Dea. John Nash,* Dea. Ebenezer Dickinson,* 
Lt. Ebenezer Kellogg,* Ens. William Montague, Samuel Smith, 
Thomas Goodman, Dea. Joseph Eastman,* Joseph Hubbard,* Ed- 
mund Hubbard,* Capt. Moses Marsh,* Daniel Nash,* John Moody,* 
Solomon Boltwood. 

1752. Eleazar Porter, Esq., David Smith, John Smith, Jr., John Nash, 
Ebenezer Kellogg, Edmund Hubbard, Daniel Nash, Moses Porter, 
Enos Nash. 

1753. Jonathan Smith, 2d, Nathaniel Kellogg, Moses Marsh, John Dickin- 
son, Jr., Thomas Goodman, Samiiel Smith, Ebenezer Dickinson, 
Samuel Marsh. 

1754. Hon. Eleazar Porter, John Nash, Ebenezer Kellogg, Enos Nash, 
Sam'l Smith. 

1755. Capt. Jona. Smith, Jonathan Smith, 2d, James Kellogg, Josiah 
Chauncey, Joseph Hubbard. 

1756. Capt. John Lj^man, David Smith, Enos Nash, Eleazar Porter, Jr., 
Jonathan Cooke, John Dickinson, Jos. Eastman, Jr. 

1757. Jonathan Smith, Nathaniel Kellogg, Jos. Hubbard, Charles Phelps, 
Jona. Dickinson, Josiah Chauncey, Jonathan Moody. 

1758. David Smith, Eleazar Porter, Giles Crouch Kellogg, Joseph Eastman, 
Jr., Peter Smith, Capt. Moses Marsh, Mr. Edmund Hubbard. 

1759. Nathaniel Kellogg, Enos Nash, Jonathan Smith, Samuel Gaylord, 
Jonathan Cook. 

1760. Mr. David Smith, Capt. Moses Marsh, Eleazar Porter, Esq., Jona. 
Warner, John Eastman. 

1 761. Enos Nash, Nathaniel Kellogg, Edmund Hubbard, Noah Smith, 
Samuel Gaylord. 

1762. Mr. Jonathan Smith, Eleazar Porter, Esq., Capt. Moses Marsh, Capt. 
John Lyman, Mr. Noah Cook. 

♦Refused to serve. 



450 APPENDIX TO ORIGINAL EDITION 

1763. Giles Crouch Kellogg, Enos Nash, John Eastman, Jonathan Warner, 
David Smith. 

1764. Eleazar Porter, Esq., Mr. Jonathan Smith, Capt. Moses Marsh, 
Mr. Jonathan Cook, Mr. Oliver Warner. 

1765. Dea. Enos Nash, Dea. David Smith, Mr. Edmund Hubbard, Mr. John 
Eastman, Mr. Jonathan Warner. 

1766. Mr. Jonathan Smith, Eleazar Porter, Esq., Oliver Warner, Nehemiah 
Gaylord, Capt. Moses Marsh. 

1767. Enos Nash, Samuel Gaylord, John Eastman, Oliver Smith, John 
Kellogg. 

1768. Mr. Jonathan Smith, Eleazar Porter, Esq., Mr. Noah Cooke, Mr. 
Nehemiah Gaylord, Mr. Elisha Porter. 

1769. David Smith, Jonathan Cooke, Oliver Warner, Josiah Peirce, Phin- 
ehas Lyman. 

1770. Eleazar Porter, Esq., John Eastman, Elisha Porter, Edmund Hub- 
bard, Capt. Moses Marsh. 

1 771. Jonathan Cooke, Jonathan Warner, Nehemiah Gaylord, Jonathan 
Smith, Benjamin Colt. 

1772. Elisha Porter, Esq., John Eastman, Warham Smith, Oliver Warner, 
Oliver Smith. 

1773. Eleazar Porter, Esq., Jonathan Warner, John Chester Williams, 
Capt. Moses Marsh, Jonathan Cooke. 

1774. Oliver Smith, Charles Phelps, Phinehas Lyman, Warham Smith, 
Eliakim Smith. 

1775. John Eastman, Nehemiah Gajdord, Stephen Goodman, Ebenezer 
Marsh,* Moses Kellogg, Oliver Smith. 

1776. Maj. Eleazar Porter, Caleb Lyman, Capt. Moses Marsh, Josiah Peirce, 
John Chester Williams. 

1777. Eleazar Porter, Esq., Capt. Oliver Smith, Lt. Moses Kellogg, Caleb 
Lyman, Nehem. Gaylord. 

1778. Charles Phelps, Phinehas Lyman, Enos Smith, Enos Nash, John 
Cooke. 

1779. Capt. Oliver Smith, Lt. Daniel White, Thomas Smith, Phinehas 
Lyman, Ebenezer Marsh. 

1780. Col. Elisha Porter, John Chester Williams, Esq., Ensign Edmund 
Hubbard, Warham Smith, Daniel White. 

1 78 1. Enos Nash, Stephen Goodman, Enos Smith, Noah Smith, Nathaniel 
Montague. 

1782. Eleazar Porter, Esq., Charles Phelps, Oliver Smith, Caleb Lyman, 
Edmund Hubbard. 

1783. Charles Phelps, Timothy Eastman, Warham Smith, Sam'l Gaylord,Jr., 
Capt. D. White. 

1784. Nathaniel White, Azariah Dickinson, Lemuel Warner, Stephen Good- 
man, Lt. Enos Smith. 

1785. Warham Smith, Samuel Gaylord, Seth Smith, Dan'l White, Enos 
Nash. 

1786. Warham Smith, Enos Nash, Caleb Lyman, Daniel White, Stephen 
Goodman. 

1787. John Cook, Warham Smith, Lt. Enos Nash, Lt. Enos Smith, Elisha 
Dickinson. 

1788. Ens. Edmund Hubbard, Capt. Charles Phelps, Lt. Enos Smith, 
Lt. Enos Nash, Ens. Jno. Montague. 

1789. Capt. Charles Phelps, Lt. Enos Nash, Lt. Enos Smith, Lt. Elisha 
Dickinson, Mr. Samuel Gaylord. 

1790. Capt. Charles Phelps, Capt. Elisha Dickinson, Ens. Caleb Lyman, 
Seth Smith, Maj. John Smith. 

1 79 1. Oliver Smith, Warham Smith, Charles Phelps, Eleazar Porter, Esq., 
Willard Smith. 

♦Refused to serve. 



APPENDIX TO ORIGINAL EDITION 451 

1792. Warham Smith, Elisha Dickinson, Enos Nash, Seth Smith, Eleazar 
Porter, Jr. 

1793. Charles Phelps, Elisha Dickinson, Enos Nash, John Smith, 3d, Chil- 
eab Smith. 

1794. Enos Nash, Enos Smith, Elisha Dickinson, Samuel Porter, Daniel 
White. 

1795. Elisha Dickinson, Warham Smith, Charles Phelps, Enos Smith, 
Eleazar Porter, Jr. 

1796. Charles Phelps, Esq., Elisha Dickinson, Eleazar Porter, Jr., Seth 
Smith, Samuel Porter. 

1797. Enos Smith, Seth Smith, Samuel Porter, Eleazar Porter, Jr., William 
Dickinson. 

1798. Charles Phelps, Esq., Col. Samuel Porter, Capt. Elisha Dickinson, 
Lt. Enos Smith, Elihu Smith, 2d. 

1799. Capt. Daniel White, Lt. Enos Smith, Maj. Eleazer Porter, William 
Dickinson, Col. Samuel Porter. 

1800. Capt. Elisha Dickinson, Charles Phelps, Esq., Col. Samuel Porter, 
Lt. Enos Smith, Ens. Caleb Smith. 

1 80 1. Lt. Enos Smith, Col. Samuel Porter, Maj. Eleazer Porter, Capt. Elisha 
Dickinson, David Stockbridge. 

1802. Lt. Enos Smith, Dea. Seth Smith, Capt. Elihu Dickinson, Col. Samuel 
Porter, David Stockbridge. 

1803. Enos Smith, Samuel Porter, Elisha Dickinson, David Stockbridge, 
John Hopkins. 

1804. Lt. Enos Smith, Col. Samuel Porter, Charles Phelps, Esq., Lt. Wind- 
sor Smith, Timothy Hopkins. 

1805. Samviel Porter, Charles Phelps, Elisha Dickinson, Windsor Smith, 
William Dickinson, 2d. 

1806. Charles Phelps, Esq., Samuel Porter, Esq., Lt. Enos Smith, Windsor 
Smith, Oliver Smith, Jr. 

1807. Capt. Elisha Dickinson, Lt. Enos Smith, Charles Phelps, Esq., Lt. 
Windsor Smith, Samuel Porter, Esq. 

1808. Capt. Elisha Dickinson, Lt. Enos Smith, Charles Phelps, Samuel 
Porter, Esq., Capt. Caleb Smith. 

1809. Charles Phelps, Elisha Dickinson, Enos Smith, Windsor Smith, 
Stephen Johnson. 

1810. Charles Phelps, Esq., Enos Smith, Elisha Dickinson, Windsor Smith, 
Samuel Porter, Esq. 

181 1. Dea. William Dickinson, Timothy Hopkins, Stephen Johnson, Capt. 
Caleb Smith, Giles C. Kellogg. 

181 2. Dea. William Dickinson, Lt. Enos Smith, Samuel Porter, Esq., Charles 
Phelps, Esq., Lt. Windsor Smith. 

1813. Dea. William Dickinson, Samuel Porter, Esq., Charles Phelps, Esq., 
Jacob Smith, Windsor Smith. 

18 14. Dea. William Dickinson, John Hodge, Capt. Eli Smith. 

1815. Samuel Porter, Esq., Lt. Sylvester Goodman, Chester Hawley. 

1816. Gen. Samuel Porter, Dea. William Dickinson, Moses Porter, Esq., 
John Hodge, Lt. Sylvester Goodman. 

181 7. Doct. Reuben Bell, Ens. William Smith, Capt. Ephraim Smith. 

18 1 8. Doct. Reuben Bell, Lt. William Smith, Capt. Ephraim Smith. 

iSiQ. Hon. Sainuel Porter, Capt. Ephraim Smith, Lt. Sylvester Smith. 

1820. Hon. Samuel Porter, Charles P. Phelps, Esq., Capt. Eli Smith. 

1S2T. Hon. Samuel Porter, Charles P. Phelps, Esq., Capt. Eli Smith. 

1822. Charles P. Phelps, Esq., Col. Sylvester Goodman, Moses Porter, Esq. 

1823. Charles P. Phelps, Esq., Dea. William Dickinson, Capt. Eli Smith. 

1824. Dea. Wm. Dickinson, Charles P. Phelps, Esq., Capt. Eli Dickinson. 

1825. Charles P. Phelps, Esq., Samuel Porter, Esq., Capt. Amos Pasco. 

1826. Capt. William Dickinson, Joseph Marsh, Moses Porter, Esq. 

1827. Dea. William Dickinson, Moses Porter, Esq., Joseph Marsh. 



452 



APPENDIX TO ORIGINAL EDITION 



1828. 
1829. 
1830. 
1831. 
1832. 
1833- 
1834- 
1835- 
1836. 

1837- 
1838. 
1839. 
1840. 
1841. 
1842. 
1843. 
1844. 
1845. 
1846. 

1847. 
1848. 
1849. 
1850. 
1851. 
1852. 

1853- 
1854. 

1855- 
1856. 

1857- 
1858. 
1859. 
i860. 
1861. 
1862. 

1660— 
1661- 
1693- 
1727- 
1747- 
1781— 
1790- 
1796- 



John Hibbard, Zadock Lyman, Sylvanus Dickinson. 

Col. Ephraim Smith, Zadock Lyman, John Hibbard. 

Hon. Charles P. Phelps, Capt. Amos Pasco, Dr. Reuben Bell. 

Hon. Charles P. Phelps, Simeon Dickinson, Oliver Bonney. 

Hon. Charles P. Phelps, Simeon Dickinson, Oliver Bonney. 

Jason Stockbridge, Col. Ephraim Smith, John Shipman. 

Jason Stockbridge, Col. Ephraim Smith, John Shipman. 

Simeon Dickinson, Cotton Smith, Elijah Smith. 

Walter Newton, Simeon Dickinson, Joseph Smith. 

Simeon Dickinson, E. W. Skerry, William Smith. 

Sylvester Smith, Levi Dickinson, Jr., Cotton Smith. 

John Shipman, Charles P. Phelps, Esq., Wm. Smith, Esq. 

Simeon Dickinson, Hiram Thayer, Erastus Smith, Jr. 

Sereno Smith, Hiram Thayer, Nathan Clark. 

Sereno Smith, Nathan Clark, Parsons West. 

Hiram Thayer, Zenas Cook, Horace Smith. 

Horace Smith, Hiram Thayer, Zenas Cook. 

Leicester W. Porter, William S. Shipman, Calvin Russell. 

Leicester W. Porter, William S. Shipman, Calvin Russell. 

Caleb D. Dickinson, Wyman Smith, Joseph Smith, Esq. 

Oliver Bonney, John A. Morton, Isaac Hawley. 

William S. Shipman, Alfred H. Cook, Thaddeus Smith. 

William S. Shipman, Alfred H. Cook, Thaddeus Smith. 

Lorenzo N. Granger, Rodney Smith, Martin F. Cook. 

Rodney Smith, Martin F. Cook, Lorenzo N. Granger. 

Charles P. Hitchcock, Linus Green, Perez S. Williams. 

Charles P. Hitchcock, Linus Green, Levi Stockbridge. 

H. C. Hurd, John S. Bell, Perez S. Williams. 

John S. Bell, H. C. Hurd, Jeriah S. Smith. 

William P. Dickinson, Jeriah S. Smith, David S. Cowles. 

William P. Dickinson, D. S. Cowles, Enos E. Cook. 

Thaddeus Smith, Samuel Bell, George Shipman. 

R. M. Montague, Samuel Bell, George Shipman. 

R. M. Montague, Enos E. Cook, Thomas Reynolds. 

John S. Bell, Lorenzo N. Granger, Jeriah S. Smith. 

HADLEY RECORDERS OR TOWN CLERKS. 



-1693 

-1727 

-1747 
-1781 
-1790 
-1796 

-7- 



[801 

[839—45, 
t853— 5- 

[846 — 7, 
[849 — 50, 

[792—3, 

C795— 6, 
[833—4, 
[842 — 3, 
[858, 
[860, 



Nathaniel Dickinson. 

Peter Tilton. 

Samtiel Barnard. 

Job Marsh. 

Josiah Peirce. 

Eleazar Porter. 

Enos Nash. 

Elisha Hubbard. 
AMHERST 
-3- 



1797 — 1802. John Hopkins. 

1802 — 1803. William Porter. 

1803 — 1806. Seth Herbert Rogers. 

1806 — 1834. Giles Crouch Kellogg. 

1834 — 1841. Dudley Smith. 

1841 — 1842. Simeon Dickinson. 

1842 — 1854. Orlando Smith. 

1854 — 1862. William S. Shipman. 

REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS. 

Ebenezer Mattoon, Jr. 

Osmyn Baker. 

Edward Dickinson. 
AMHERST STATE COUNSELLORS. 

Edward Dickinson. 

Timothy J. Gridley. 

STATE SENATORS FROM AMHERST. 

Simeon Strong. 

Ebenezer Mattoon, Jr. 

John Leland. 

Edward Dickinson. 

James Woodbury Boyden. 

Lucius Manlius Boltwood. 



APPENDIX TO ORIGINAL EDITION 



453 



AMHERST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTOR. 
Ebenezer Mattoon. 



AMHERST. DELEGATES AND REPRESENTATIVES. 



1774, Nathaniel Dickinson, Jr., 

Delegate to Prov. Congress 
at Concord. 

1775, Jan. Nathaniel Dickinson, Jr., 

Delegate to Prov. Congress 
at Water town. 

1775, July. Moses Dickinson. 

1776, May. John Billings. 

1776, May. Ebenezer Mattoon, Jr., 

Delegate to State Conven- 
tion at Concord. 

1777, May. John Billings, 

Moses Dickinson. 

1778, Nathaniel Dickinson, Jr., 
Joseph Eastman. 

1 779, July. Ebenezer Mattoon, Jr., 

Delegate to Convention 
at Concord which formed 
State Constitution. 

1780, Nathaniel Dickinson. 

I 781, Ebenezer Mattoon, Jr. 

1782, None. 

1783, Nathaniel Dickinson. 

1784, Eli Parker. 

1785, Eli Parker. 

1786, None. 

1787, Daniel Cooley. 

1788, Daniel Cooley. 

1789, None. 

1790, Simeon Strong. 

1 79 1, Simeon Strong. 

1792, Moses Cook. 

1793, Moses Cook. 

^794, Ebenezer Mattoon, Jr. 

1795, None. 

1796, Zebina Montague. 

1797, Zebina Montague. 

1798, Zebina Montague. 

1799, Zebina Montague. 

1800, Zebina Montague. 

1 80 1, Zebina Montague. 

1802, Zebina Montague. 

1803, Zebina Montague. 

1804, Zebina Montague. 

1805, Samuel Fowler Dickinson. 

1806, Samuel Fowler Dickinson. 

1807, Samuel Fowler Dickinson. 

1808, Samuel Fowler Dickinson, 
Zebina Montague. 

1809, Samuel Fowler Dickinson, 
Simeon Strong. 

1810, Medad Dickinson, 
Elisha Smith. 



181 1, Medad Dickinson, 
Elisha Smith. 

1812, Ebenezer Mattoon, 
Simeon Strong. 

1813, Samuel Fowler Dickinson, 
Simeon Strong. 

1814, Simeon Strong, 
Noah Webster. 

1815, Noah Webster. 

1 816, Samuel Fowler Dickinson. 
181 7, Samuel Fowler Dickinson. 

1818, Samuel Fowler Dickinson. 

1 8 1 9 , Noah Webster. 

1820, Timothy Jones Gridley. 

1820, Ebenezer Mattoon, 1 
Israel Scott, j 

Delegates to Constitutional 
Convention. 

182 1, Nathan Franklin 

1822, Aaron Merrick. 

1823, Isaac Robbins. 

1824, Isaac Robbins. 

1825, No representative. 

1826, Timothy Jones Gridley. 

1827, Chester Dickinson, 
Samuel Fowler Dickinson. 

1828, Enos Dickinson, 
Samuel Fowler Dickinson. 

1829, Elijah Boltwood, 
Daniel Dickinson, 
Samuel Fowler Dickinson. 

1830, Isaac Guernsey Cutler, 
Zebina Dickinson. 

1 83 1, Zebina Dickinson, 
John Leland. 

1832, Oliver Dickinson, 2d. 
John Leland. 

1833, Osmyn Baker, 
Daniel Dickinson, 
George Nutting. 

1834, Osmyn Baker, 
Elijah Boltwood, 
Zebina Dickinson. 

1835, Elijah Boltwood. 
Reuben Roberts, 
Ebenezer Williams. 

1836, Martin Baker, 
Osmyn Baker, 
George Nutting. 

1837, Osmyn Baker, 
Enos Dickinson, 2d, 
Ebenezer Mattoon, Jr. 



454 



APPENDIX TO ORIGINAL EDITION 



1838, 

1839. 
1840, 

1841. 
1842. 
1843. 
1844. 
184s, 
1846, 

1847. 
1848. 

1849- 
1850, 



Edward Dickinson, 
Eleazer Kellogg. 
Edward Dickinson, 
Oliver Dickinson. 
Charles Adams, 
Ebenezer Mattoon, Jr. 
Samuel Cutts Carter 
Samuel Cutts Carter. 
Ezra Ingram. 
Timothy Jones Gridley. 
Thomas Jones. 
Timothy Jones Gridley. 
John Leland. 
Alfred Baker. 
Luke Sweetser. 
Waitstill Dickinson. 



1852, 
1853- 



1853- 
1854, 
1855, 
i8=;6, 

1857. 
1858, 

1859. 
i860, 
1861, 
1862, 
1863, 



William Chauncey Fowler. 
Oliver Watson. 
Ithamar Conkey, 

Delegate to Constitutional 

Convention. 
Moses Billings Greene. 
Ithamar Francis Conkey. 
Benjamin Franklin Smith. 
Baxter Eastman. 
Enos Dickinson Williams. 
George Warner, j 
Lorenzo S. Xash, of Granb}*. 
Josiah Ayres. 

Marcus C. Grout, of Pelhara. 
John R. Cushman. 
Samuel Smith, Jr., of Granby, 



COLLEGE GRADUATES, NATIVES OF AMHERST. 



1771 
1771 
1773 
1775 
1776 
1778 

1785 
1786 
1792 
1795 
1795 
1796 
1798 
1798 
1800 
1800 
1800 
1800 
1802 
1803 
1810 
1811 
1811 
1812 
1813 
1813 
1814 
181; 
1S15 
181:; 
1816 
1816 
1817 
1821 
1822 
1822 
1822 
1822 
1823 



Har\'ard, 



Dartmouth, 

Yale, 

Dartmouth, 
Yale, 
Dartmouth, 



Williams, 



Dartmouth, 

Williams, 

Yale, 
Williams, 

Dartmouth, 

Williams, 

Yale. 

Williams. 

Middlebury, 

Williams, 

Yale. 



Middleburv, 



Yale, 



*Xathaniel Dickinson, Jr. 

*Rev. David Parsons, D.D. 

* Ebenezer Boltwood. 

*Rev. David Kellogg, D.D. 

*Hon. Ebenezer Mattoon. 

*Aaron Kellogg. 

*Rev. Timothy Dickinson. 

*Simeon Strong. Esq. 

*Dr. Rufus Cowles. 

*Hon. Samuel Fowler Dickinson. 

*Eli Emmons. 

*Rev. Tilton Eastman. 

*John Strong. 

*Hon. Solomon Strong. 

Hon. John Dickinson. 
*Moses Dickinson. 
*Rev. Eliphalet Beecher Coleman. 
*Rev. Bela Kellogg. 

Hon. Samuel Eastman. 

Noah Dickinson Mattoon. 

Hon. Daniel Kellogg, LL.D. 
*Moses Smith. 
*Jonathan Eastman. Esq. 
*01iver Smith. 
*Hon. Chester Ashley. 
*Rev. Austin Dickinson. 

Lucius Boltwood, Esq. 

Henry Kellogg. Esq. 
*Lucius Smith. Esq. 
*Hon. Silas Wright, LL.D. 
*Horace Smith, Esq. 
*Hon. Francis Parsons. 

Rev. Baxter Dickinson, D.D. 

Rev. Oman Eastman. 

Hon. Osmyn Baker. 
*Rev. Aaron Billings Church. 

Rev. Moses Billings Church. 

Rev. Erie Prince. 

Hon. Edward Dickinson. 



tSince 1S58, Amherst, Granby and Pelham have constituted one Representative District. 
♦Deceased. 



APPENDIX TO ORIGINAL EDITION 



455 



1825, 


Amherst 


1825, 






1826 






1826, 






1826, 






1828, 






1829, 






1829, 






1830, 






I83I, 






I83I, 






1832, 






^^33^ 


Union, 


183s. 


Amherst 


1837. 






1839. 






1840, 






1841, 






1842, 






1843, 






1843. 






1847, 






1849, 






1850, 






1851, 






1852, 






1853. 






1853. 






1853. 






1855. 






1856, 


Yale, 


1856, 


Amherst 


1857. 


" 


1858, 


" 


1858, 


" 


i860, 


Yale, 


i860, 


Amherst 


1861, 


" 


1862, 


" 


1862, 


' 


' 



*Appleton Dickinson. 
*George White, M.D. 

Robert Cutler. 
*Joseph Peck. 
*Charles Lee Strong. 

William Barre Stetson. 

Moses Billings Greene. 
*Stillman Moody. 
*James Parsons. 

Chester William Cowles, M. D. 
*Rev. Solomon Boltwood Ingram. 

Zebina Clinton Montague. 

John Dickinson. 

Rev. David Eastman. 

Frederick Dickinson. 
*Albert Ripley Palmer, Esq. 

Rev. John Henry Martyn Leland. 

Rev. Noadiah Smith Dickinson. 
*Rev. James Granger Bridgman. 

Hon. Lucius Manlius Boltwood. 

Rev. Zephaniah Moore Humphrey. 

Samuel Worcester Dana, Esq. 

Prof. Edward Hitchcock, Jr. 

William Austin Dickinson, Esq. 

William Parsons Washburn. 

William Horatio Adams. 

Henry Leonidas Boltwood. 

Rev. Joseph Leroy Atwell Fish. 

Richard Salter Storrs. 

Rev. William Eastman Dickinson. 

Francis Fellowes, Esq. 

Charles Henry Hitchcock. 

Rev. Asahel Lewis Clark. 

Roj^al Washburn Clark. 

Rufus Bela Kellogg. 

Edward Boltwood, Esq. 

Justin Perkins Kellogg, Esq. 

Marshall Blair Cushman. 

Marquis Fayette Dickinson, Jr. 

Mason Whiting Tvler. 



♦Deceased. 



APPENDIX TO PRESENT EDITION 

Notes on the Recent History of the Town 

BRINGING THE RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS DOWN TO 1905 



North Hadley. From 1850 to 1875 there was scarcely a 
home in this part of the town that did not have one or more broom 
machines at work on the premises during the winter months. 
The largest individual manufacturers were Thaddeus Smith and 
his successor G. Myron Smith, who made a specialty of brooms 
for export. An allied business was the manufacturing of broom 
tools. This industry was originated by C. D. Dickinson, and 
conducted by J. C. and A. C. Howe. Even to this day the name 
of C. D. Dickinson & Sons is a standard for a well-made broom, 
needle or knife to the uttermost parts of the United States. 

A considerable lumbering business was done between i860 
and 1870 by L. M. Granger, who was also a building contractor. 

Another well-known industry was that of Benjamin and Levi 
Adams' wagon-making shop in Plainville. 

The financial stress of 1873 caught the northern section of 
the town unprepared, and the failure of some of the leading men 
dealt a blow which transformed a prosperous people into a dis- 
heartened community. Only one or two persons continued to 
make brooms, and most families turned to tilling the soil. To- 
bacco raising has since been the principal industry, and has proved 
a lottery, enriching some and impoverishing others. 

Memoranda. A steam ferry was installed at Hockanum in 
1865, but it was not profitable and was discontinued a few years 
later. 

In July, 1888, the Lyman Tavern at Hockanum, over a century 
old, burned. 

Early in 1891 a train on the Massachusetts Central ran into 
a sleighing party at Flaherty's Crossing and two young people 
of Florence were killed — Dr. Learned's son and Rev. Mr. Hinck- 
ley's daughter. 

In the fall of 1894 a section of state road was built in the town. 
Additions were made in the years following until in 1904 the 
entire distance from Northampton to Amherst had been mac- 
adamized. 



458 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

In 1899 the electric road was built from Northampton to Am- 
herst. For a time passengers crossed the long bridge on a barge; 
but the following year a bridge for the electric road was com- 
pleted. 

In 1 90 1 the town joined two other towns to engage a super- 
intendent of schools. 

In 1902 the St. John's Catholic Church was erected at a cost 
of about ^8000. 

Late in 1902 an acetylene gas plant was established by citizens 
of the town at a cost of about ^1000, and from this source the 
Library, Town Hall and First Church are now lighted. 

In 1902 a pipe organ was installed in the First Church at a 
cost of ^1200. 

In 1905 a reservoir was made at Hartsbrook and pipes were 
laid to supply the center of the town. The investment of this 
enterprise was about 1^40,000. 

Mt. Holyoke. In 1 85 1 Mr. J. W. French built a two-story 
"Prospect House" on the summit of the mountain, and in 1854 
constructed a rude railway up the last steep ridge. A horse in 
the basement of the house furnished the motive power. Two 
years later a small steam engine was substituted for the horse. 
In 1 86 1 the house was much enlarged, and in 1867 the railway 
track was covered as it is now. A rival house was started in 
1869 by Loren Pease, an old-fashioned Hockanum farmer who 
was not on the best of terms with Mr. French. His house stood 
on a spur of the mountain a little south of Mr. French's place; 
but it was never finished. Mr. Pease's money gave out and his 
farm was saddled with a mortgage he never was able to pay. 
His mountain house grew brown and weatherworn and shabby, 
and about 1880 was pulled to pieces. "Lord John," as Mr. 
French was sometimes called by local residents, had no other 
rivals. His house was again very much enlarged in 1894. 

Just after the war Mr. French had a steamer built to ply back 
and forth on the river and connect with the railroad at the Mt. 
Tom Station. It was a square-ended side-wheeler, called the 
"Wawhillowa," a name formerly borne by an Indian chief of 
the vicinity. Till 1876 it made its seven trips a day during the 
summer season. Then, for two years there was no boat, but in 
1878, the "Mt. Holyoke," a trim stern-wheeler, with a pointed 
bow, went into service and continued to run back and forth till 
1882. 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 459 

The Civil War. The number of men who went from Hadley 
to the Civil War was 214. There was hardly a family but had 
representatives on the distant battlefields. From Virginia to 
Louisiana they marched and fought, and many found graves under 
a southern sun. The most notable of Hadley's soldiers was 
"Fighting Joe" Hooker, born in an old hip-roofed mansion on 
West street, in 1814. He died at Garden City, Long Island, in 
1879. In 1895 the Third Army Corps Union held their Annual 
Meeting in Hadley and did honor to the memory of their old 
leader. This was one of the town's great days. The Hooker 
house was burned April 6th, 1898, by a fire started on an adjoin- 
ing estate. 

Floods. The greatest flood on record was that of April, 1862. 
It was caused entirely by melting snow. The weather was very 
warm for several days, touching at the highest point 82 in the 
shade. The water rose very fast and the meadows and West 
street were almost entirely covered. Not half a dozen houses in 
the old street escaped with dry cellars, and at the south end the 
lower floors were invaded. There were lively times night and 
day rescuing furniture, and wading and swimming the stock 
from the barns to certain knolls that were not submerged. It 
was feared the current would tear a channel through the street, 
and an attempt was made to shut out the water by filling a hollow 
at the north end with dirt, but this was ineffectual. At the post- 
office the water just missed coming in on the floor, and boats 
were rowed from there along the highway clear to Northampton. 

In October, 1869, there was another serious flood. For thirty- 
six hours the rain fell in sheets and streamed down the window- 
panes so that one could hardly see out. The storm cleared about 
noon, and by night the river was over the meadows. The husk- 
ing had begun, but much of the corn was still in the fields and 
great quantities were swept away. The river was full of stalks 
and pumpkins and wreckage of all sorts. Farther north, build- 
ings and manufactories had been overwhelmed, including the 
Esty Organ Works at Brattleboro. A good deal of wreckage 
lodged on the banks and low grounds, and the meadows 
between the town and Hockanum were covered. There were 
many black walnut boards from the organ works and boxes of 
boots and shoes, barrels of flour and no end of corn and pump- 
kins. More or less of value was rescued. Some of the corn, 
even, was taken home, but it was too wet to keep. 

Hopkins Academy. The first Academy building was erected 



460 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

in 1817 on what was then known as Middle Lane, now Russell 
street. It was of brick, and its height of three stories made it 
seem to the country boys of that day the biggest and most im- 
posing structure they had ever seen. Rev. Dan Huntington was 
the first principal at a salary of $500 a year. In the early morn- 
ing of February 18, i860, the building was destroyed by fire 
which started in some ashes in the basement. There was no 
insurance. For a few months the school was continued in two 
rooms of Lucius Crane's house, but by autumn a room for the 
purpose was made ready in the lower part of the First Church. 
A new building was not erected until 1865. It replaced the Blake 
and Stebbins houses on the southwest corner of Middle and 
Russell streets. Though a rather plain and unpretending two- 
story wooden structure, it cost with furnishings at that time of 
high prices nearly ^16,000. This building burned about noon 
December 14, 1893, the fire starting in the heating pipes, and 
the school was again transferred to the First Church. The year 
following, the present handsome building was put up. The cost 
when the plans were accepted was estimated to be ^12,000, but 
it exceeded $18,000. 

The Academy funds, after various vicissitudes, have increased 
to a total of about $100,000 and yield an income which will do 
much for the town's future. 

A Railroad Investment. In 1872, Hadley borrowed $70,- 
000 and invested it in Massachusetts Central Railroad stock. 
Many other towns along the line also bought stock in order that 
the railroad might be built, and with the idea that they would 
realize manifold benefits. But in spite of all this public fostering 
the enterprise went to pieces, and all Hadley had to show for its 
dream of railway connection with the rest of the world were some 
weedy embankments and cuts, a half-completed bridge across 
the Connecticut and a debt on which the people were paying six 
per cent, seven per cent and even more, interest. Years passed 
and the railroad that looked so dead came to life and was com- 
pleted. Trains began to run in 1887 and the stock was worth 
something. Its value was, however, only a small fraction of 
par and the prospect of income from it was remote. The towns 
were heartily sick of railroading, and within a few years they all 
sold out, some for less than ten per cent, a few for nearly thirty. 
For two or three years the Hadley station was in an old house 
on West street, because the two sections of the town were squab- 
bling as to where the permanent station should be. But at last 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 461 

that matter was settled. The millstone of a debt has been light- 
ened, too, yet the end is still a long way off. 

The Bridge Disaster. On the afternoon of June 14, 1876, 
a cyclone struck the region. It laid low various tobacco barns 
and many trees, and it lifted from its piers the great covered 
toll bridge connecting Hadley with Northampton and dropped it 
into the river beside them. Eleven persons and seven teams 
went down with the bridge. Mrs. Catharine Sullivan of Hadley 
was instantly killed and Sheriff Enos Cook of Hadley was struck 
on the head by a heavy timber and seriously injured. Some of 
the travelers would probably have been drowned had it not been 
that the water was very low at the time and the wreckage lay on 
the sandbars and in the shallows like a stranded raft. Most of 
those in the bridge soon either crawled out or were helped out. 
When the gale began Charles Cook of Hadley and his little son 
Fred sought shelter in the bridge, and then, fearful of danger, 
left it. No sooner had they stepped outside than the wind 
caught the boy and blew him into the top of a tree, whence he 
had to be taken down. The present iron bridge replaced the 
old one at a cost of ^20,000 and was ready for travel in Novem- 
ber, 1877. 

The Poor. In 1878, the town bought a farm at the upper 
end of East street, enlarged the house on it, and since then the 
place has been run as a poor farm. Before that the helpless poor 
were as a rule boarded out. There was, however, on the lane 
which runs east from the present Bardwell place, a low, long, 
shanty of a house known as "the poor house." It belonged to 
the town with an acre or so of land, and was occupied by "Dud" 
Till, a colored man, and his numerous progeny. One or two 
shiftless whites were included among the inmates, but the other 
color was so predominant that the byway was usually spoken of 
as "Nigger Lane." The pauper dwellers at the present poor 
farm are reasonably comfortable, and yet the place serves as a 
wholesome sort of a bugbear. The stigma of being an inmate 
there is not agreeable, liberty is curtailed, one is cut off from the 
life and surroundings to which he is accustomed, and most per- 
sons will contrive to do something for themselves and get along 
with a very slender dole of outside aid before they will go to the 
town farm. 

The Great Blizzard. This occurred in March, 1888. It 
began rather mildly early one morning, bur presently thickened 
into a blinding storm. A fierce gale blew and by afternoon 



462 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

travel was almost impossible. The schools closed early. Many 
children from the outlying districts had their teams at the Center 
and most of them attempted to go home. From Hockanum 
there were three sleighs, but the children after leaving the last 
house behind soon got off the road, one horse fell and could not 
be got on its feet. They unhitched the other two horses and 
laying hold of their tails struggled back to the town. The aban- 
doned horse was found the next day, but was so far gone with ex- 
posure it had to be killed. The North Hadley children fared 
much the same as those from Hockanum. On the outskirts of 
the central village they concluded it was a hopeless task to proceed 
with their teams and left them at one of the homes. They attempted 
to continue on foot, but a half-mile farther they, too, sought shelter 
for the night. 

There were many narrow escapes from death in the storm, and 
travel was almost suspended for several days. Three feet of 
snow had fallen and ten-foot drifts were common. Often win- 
dows and doorways were covered out of sight. 

The Threatening River. In 1888 the state appropriated 
$15,000 to protect the river bank north of the town. The current 
had been continually encroaching here until it threatened the 
homes. The bank was graded and completely covered, both 
above and below the water line, with mats of willow brush over 
which there was placed rubblestone and riprap. In each of the 
years 1889, 1900 and 1901 appropriations the same as the first 
were made, and a total of ^60,000 has been expended projecting 
a length of about a mile. 

The Library. Somewhat before the middle of the last century 
there was organized "The Hadley Young Men's Library Asso- 
ciation." This began a semi-public library and for many years 
the town turned over to this association two-thirds of the dog 
fund, the balance being paid to a similar organization in North 
Hadley. There was presently not much left to the Association 
in Hadley but the name, and Dr. Franklin Bonney took entire 
charge of the books and kept them in his house until his dwelling 
burned about 1878. Most of the books were rescued and they 
were thenceforth kept for a number of years at the home of Miss 
Julia Lawrence, and later at Mr. Dwight Marsh's. The fee for 
drawing books was twenty-five cents for three months, and the 
number of patrons in the later years was only about ten a week. 
In 1900 the library was made free and transferred to a basement 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 463 

room in the Academy building. Since then the number of books 
drawn weekly has been a hundred or more. 

In March, 1901, the suggestion was made by Mr. Clifton John- 
son to Bishop Huntington that there was a possibility Mr. John 
Dwight of New York, a summer resident of the vicinity and a 
wealthy descendant of the town, might be willing to supply the 
community with a library building. The suggestion appealed 
to Bishop Huntington as worthy to be acted on, and his personal 
interest in the matter had much to do with the final result. Mr. 
Dwight contributed a total of ^5,050, and citizens and friends of 
the town raised about $4,300 more. The Goodwin Memorial 
building was erected the following year, replacing the old Kellogg 
house just north of the town hall. The library was dedicated on 
August 19, 1903. The day was warm, the sky clouded and 
threatening, but the town hall, where the exercises were held, 
was crowded. This was Bishop Huntington's last public appear- 
ance in the town. At the close of the exercises the library was 
thrown open, and the building itself and the collection of rare 
historical relics gathered for the occasion in the assembly room 
of the upper story were viewed with general interest and satis- 
faction. 

Bishop Huntington. Gen. Hooker and Bishop Frederic 
Dan Huntington are the two most famous men Hadley has pro- 
duced. The latter was born in 18 19 in the fine old colonial 
mansion that was built by his ancestor Captain Moses Porter in 
1752. J[n early life he was a Unitarian pastor in Boston, later 
professor of morals in Harvard College, and still later he con- 
nected himself with the Episcopal church and became the Bishop 
of Central Nev/ York. He was always a man of liberal thought, 
high ideals and the w^idest sympathy. As a speaker his good 
sense and sincerity, his simplicity and humor and eloquence made 
him one of the great preachers of his time. He was the author 
of a number of books and of many articles in periodicals. His 
summers were spent at the family home in Hadley and his interest 
in the old farm and his delight in the region were unfailing. He 
died in the house where he was born, July 11, 1904. By a strange 
coincidence, his son. Rev. George P. Huntington, died the same 
day, and both were buried on the beautiful and gentle summer 
afternoon of July 14, in the Hadley cemetery. 

Hadley in Literature. The most famous book for which 
the town has furnished inspiration is J. Fenimore Cooper's 
"The Wept of Wish-ton-wish." This deals with the early life 



464 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

of the region. It is highly romantic and there is much of poetic 
Hcense in its handUng of facts. 

In Scott's "Peveril of the Peak" the story of Hadley's "Angel 
Deliverer" is incidentally told. 

Another notable book closely concerned with the town is J. G. 
Holland's "Kathrina," one of the most widely circulated volumes 
of verse that has been published in this country. 

Holland was born in Belchertown, in 1819. The family was 
poor and moved several times, and the boy was soon thrown on 
his own resources. When he was about eighteen he worked for 
a time on a Hockanum farm, the owner of which was the local 
ferryman. One of Holland's tasks was to pull the rude ferry- 
boat back and forth across his 

"Winding and willow-fringed Connecticut." 

It is remembered that when working in the meadow with some 
of the other village lads they got to talking of their future, and 
Holland said, "I tell you, boys, I'm going to be something when 
I grow up." 

The hero of "Kathrina" was a Northampton boy whose 
mother when he was a child took him across the river to where 

"At Holyoke's verdant base 

Like a slim hound, stretched at his master's feet — 
Lay the long, lazy hamlet, Hockanum." 

The mother had a woman friend in the village and with her spent 
the afternoon. Many years passed and the hero was now a 
young man. One summer Sunday he wandered across the long 
covered bridge and through the meadows to Hadley. The doors 
of the church on the common were open and he heard the con- 
gregation singing. A woman's voice rising above the others 
attracted him and he went in, and the owner of the voice proved 
to be Kathrina. This maiden, it happened, was living with her 
aunt in Hockanum, and the aunt was the friend of the hero's 
mother. The girl had so charmed him that he henceforth be- 
gan to go over the river pretty constantly to Hockanum to see 
her. His first visit was on a Thursday and that evening he escorted 
her to the weekly social worship at 

"the humble hut 

Which, for long years, had held the village school 

The room. 
Battered and black by wantonest abuse 
Of the rude youth, w'as lit by feeble lamps, 
Brought by the villagers; and scattered round 
Upon the high, hacked benches, hardly less 
Rude and rough-worn than they, the worshippers 
In silence sat." 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 465 

Autumn came and on one of their field walks, sitting near the 
foot of the mountain, the young man proposed, and in a few 
weeks the wedding followed. 

Mary P. Wells Smith has given great pleasure to a multitude 
of readers by her "Young Puritans of Old Hadley" and other 
books in the same series, dealing with incidents of the town's 
colonial period. 

The following of Clifton Johnson's books are concerned more 
or less closely with the town life past and present — "Old Time 
Schools and Schoolbooks," "The Farmer's Boy," "What They 
Say in New England," "Country Clouds and Sunshine" and 
"The Country School." 

Rev. Rowland Ayres wrote a detailed "History of Hopkins 
Academy;" Miss Aria Huntington tells the story of the beautiful 
old Huntington homestead in "Under a Colonial Rooftree"; 
and Mrs. Julia Taft Bayne has given us a little volume of "Hadley 
Ballads," which starts with a beautiful poem on "The Hadley 
Weathercock." The first verse is this: 

"On Hadley steeple proud I sit, 

Steadfast and true, I never flit; 

Summer and winter, night and day, 

The merry winds around me play, 

And far below my gilded feet 

The generations come, and go. 

In one unceasing ebb and flow, 

Year after year in Hadley street. 

I nothing care, I only know, 

God sits above. He wills it so; 
While roundabout and roundabout and 

roundabout I go. 
The way o' the wind, the changing wind, 

the way o' the changing wind." 

John Howard Jewett, poet and writer of children's book, is a 
Hadley boy, and Clarence Hawkes, the blind poet, makes the 
town his home, as does also George C. Marsh, author of several 
novels. 

The Feud of the Streets. For a long time West street was 
practically the whole town; but at length houses began to grow 
up along Middle street, and outlying villages developed. Thus 
it in time came about that Middle street was a more convenient 
center for public buildings than the older street. The town 
meeting-house stood on the common just north of the Northamp- 
ton road, and along the street walks on either side were lines of 
rails to which the worshippers hitched their teams. The residents 
in other parts of the town finally concluded the church ought to 



466 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

be moved to a more generally convenient location, and in 1840 
they outvoted the old street, and the church started on its journey. 
The old street vs^as no longer supreme, but it still had all the 
"crankiness and aristocracy and its residents felt warranted in 
putting on airs over everybody outside." A family on Middle 
street might be "rich as mud" and yet not hold a candle to the 
ancient families on the other street. Hockanum, Hartsbrook 
and North Hadley were "of no account anyw^ay." Nevertheless, 
such men as Gen. Parsons West and Maj. 'Vester Smith had to 
be reckoned w^ith. The former especially had the reputation of 
being "a bulldog of a fellow^," and he was always put in front 
when there was a fight. There is a legend that it had been agreed 
the church should stand half way between the two streets; but 
that when it had progressed that far. Gen. West got enthusiastic 
and swung his hat, shouting, "Come on, let's move it to Middle 
street. They'll all follow." He was backed up by his party 
and the building was hustled along to its present site; and to 
this day the West family are said to be proud of this episode 
in the life of their ancestor. 

The incident is probably exaggerated. The facts seem to be 
that the old street was willing to agree to the removal of the church 
halfway to Middle street, but their opponents would not compro- 
mise. The process of moving was very slow and services were 
held in the church for several Sundays while the church was on 
its travels. It is said that the West street people attended the 
services till the church passed the half-way point and then promptly 
seceded. For a time they held their religious meetings in the 
assembly hall in the third story of the Academy building, but in 
1842 they erected a church on the east side of the broad street, 
a little north of Russell street. Here worship was continued 
until about 1890. Meanwhile the old families had dwindled, 
and the wealth of the street was depleted, and finally the church 
was closed. Most of the attendants joined forces with the First 
Church on the other street. Their church property reverted to 
the heirs of the original owner of the land, and the basement 
of the edifice was for a time used as a grain store, but now the 
building is empty and shows melancholy marks of time and 
weather. 

One chief reason for the removal of the old church is reputed 
to have been the lack of shelter for the worshippers' horses. West 
street objected to having horse sheds erected there, and the other 
party took the church where they could put them up. But 
though they built a long triple line of them, not all the teams 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 467 

could find shelter in those good church-going days. Many were 
hitched to a convenient quarter-board fence that separated the 
church property from the Pierce homestead next to the south. 
Mr. Pierce was a rather silent and peculiar individual, commonly 
known as "Kapas." He objected to having his fence chewed up 
by the church-goers' horses, and he nursed his wrath until one 
day he took his hammer and some tenpenny nails and nailed 
every halter to his fence. Kapas did not take much stock in 
religion, and yet at long intervals he would attend service. On 
such an occasion his most noteworthy article of clothing was a 
pair of silk pants made out of an old dress of his wife's. He was 
commonly believed to be a miser. He certainly lived shabbily 
enough, and he would pick up old cigar stubs and smoke them. 
When he died, about 1890, it was rumored that the nearest of 
kin tore up floors and opened walls and ransacked the antiquated 
dwelling pretty thoroughly in a hunt for the miser's treasure. 

But to return to the feud of the streets. 

The two sections of the town never have established wholly 
amicable relations since those old days when the church traveled 
a quarter of a mile east from its ancient site. There is still bitter- 
ness. The two streets, West and Middle, are popularly known 
as Front and Back streets, and the boys of the former used to 
shame those of the latter by saying 

"Back-streeters 
Eat muskeeters." 

Then there would be a fight and the Front-streeter would try to 
convince the other with his fists that, "You stole our church." 

The elders were accustomed to battle for what they thought 
were their rights in tov/n-meeting, and the wrath and vehemence 
were sometimes very spectacular. 

Contrasts. At the time Sylvester Judd died, Hadley was a 
substantial and wealthy town. It contained many important 
families which were considered rich. Those were the old broom- 
corn and cattle-raising days, and the business of the residents was 
steady and methodical. Nearly all persons of mature years were 
"pretty strong on religion." Indeed, religion was their recrea- 
tion and a vital topic of social conversation. They would not 
have gone to a theater. In the first place, there was none to go 
to, and in the second place it was an amusement of the devil's 
own contriving. What the old deacons and elders of the church 
didn't know about sanctification and predestination and such 
like things wasn't worth knowing. They would talk over these 



468 HISTORY OF HADLEY 

topics soberly and profoundly as if they understood all about them, 
while the children listened in awed silence to the incomprehen- 
sible discussions. Times and seasons were observed with care 
and everybody went to church. A man would hardly have dared 
outrage the public sentiment of the town by staying away from 
divine service. The Sabbath began at sunset on Saturday, and 
the minute the sun was gone the ordinary week-day work stopped. 
"I can remember," says one of the older Hadley men, "that if 
I was husking on the meadow, the minute the sun was out of 
sight I'd drop the ear I had in my hand and start for home. 
After a while I got a position as a printer's apprentice in North- 
ampton, and there I had to work right along without regard to 
the Saturday sundown. I felt wicked enough." At sunset on 
Sunday the sacred period ended, the children could play and the 
men might whet their scythes and go out and mow, and the women 
would sew or knit, or perhaps do their weekly washing. 

The strictness of the elders and their rather colorless sobriety 
did not always have a salutary effect on the young people. 
The latter were inclined to resent so much theological constraint 
and to kick over the traces. Some of them were "raising Cain" 
all the time. Firstly, they probably learned to smoke. Often 
of an evening they would drive off "lickity cut" to Northampton, 
and you could hear their team rattling with an ominous celerity 
across the old covered bridge. After indulging in some more 
or less mild dissipation they would return. Again, they would 
attend some rowdy dance and be out all night, and come home 
and blow about what they had done as if it was the greatest per- 
formance ever heard of and reflected vast credit on them — "got 
the best of the old man that time." 

An immense amount of broom-corn was raised on the town 
meadows, and occasional lots were planted to it as late as 1875; but 
since then broom-corn has been a rarity. There are still a few broom- 
shops left; but the material is imported from the West. Just 
before the war tobacco began to take the place of the former 
staple. Hitherto the people had been conservative and frugal, 
and perhaps rather given to squeezing the dollar. The people 
all owned their homes and most of them had money laid away. 
Tobacco for the first few years was a bonanza. The profits were 
large and people thought they were now going to get rich in a 
year or two. It was a kind of intoxication. They were bewitched 
with the new crop, and with the money flowing in built big barns 
and bought recklessly many things they never thought of needing 
before. The children, too, imbibed extravagant notions and the 



HISTORY OF HADLEY 469 

yearly cost of living greatly increased. Then the high prices of 
tobacco took a drop and entanglements and a dismal aftermath 
of mortgages followed. The town has never recovered. 

Of course some citizens fought shy of tobacco. They thought 
the use of it was vicious and the raising of it scarcely less so. The 
business was like liquor selling — morally wrong. Besides it was 
nasty work handling the crop — picking off those big green worms 
and getting your hands covered with that gummy, bitter juice. 
So they staunchly held to their accustomed ways and when the 
smash came their view was that it served the tobacco raisers 
right. 

Most of the old families are gone now, and the spot which is 
the most eloquent of the past is the meadow cemetery. On the 
western side are the moss-grown stones of the early settlers, and 
on the eastern side the more modern marble and granite. Within 
a stone's throw the shriek of the locomotive is heard every day, 
and the railroad cuts the wide street in twain. If the first settlers 
should return to view the town, no doubt they would be frightened 
back to their graves by the monster engines which rush along the 
iron rails. If the ancestral citizens were to venture through the 
town that once was theirs, they would find few of their descend- 
ants in the village homes; and yet the change in population has 
been comparatively recent. Fifty years ago the Irish were begin- 
ning to acquire some of the little farms on the outskirts. Now 
they are an important part of the life of the town and are large 
property owners. In recent years many Poles have been buying 
land in the town. They spend little, they all work, men, women 
and children, and soon pay for their places; and they arebecom- 
ing more and more an important element in the community. 

In appearance the town has improved decidedly. The older 
people tell how the broad street, now the pride of all the citizens, 
was broken with hillocks and with shallow pools where great 
flocks of geese paddled in the mire. The home-lots between West 
street and Middle street were each fenced off from those adjoining, 
and thickets of wild cherry and ditch brush grew along the fences, 
and in the season became the haunts of armies of caterpillars. 
The cowsheds were often conspicuously near the streets and the 
manure heaps in full view. Frequently the farm wagons and litter 
took up pretty much all the premises about the front door. 
There was no effort to have an attractive yard — no aspiration 
to keep things looking nice. If the women wanted a few 
flowers they could tuck them in somewhere, but their doing so 
was likely to be regarded as nonsense. 



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Most of the fences that used to tightly hem in the home prem- 
ises have gone; lawns are kept mowed and there is constant care 
to have all the surroundings of the house neat and presentable. 
But the chief glory of the town is its trees, and nothing quite so 
adequate has ever been said of them as is found in Mrs. Bayne's 
poem. 

THE HADLEY ELMS 

The Hadley elms! in what forgotten year 

Men planted them to make our village fair 

We cannot know. The sun, the earth, and air 

Have fostered them, and those who set them here 

Have fled so far beyond, even history's ear 

Scarce knows their footfall. Lasting, precious, rare — 

This gift they left. What glory shalt thou wear, 

Oh Hadley — Hadley, that we hold so dear. 

From this our generation ? These gifts, these. 

Would we leave with thee for thy joy and praise. 

For the Republic's need in bitter days, 

True men, good women, beneath the Hadley trees — 

When danger thrusts, and sorrow overwhelms, 

To stand strong, beautiful, as Hadley elms! 



HISTORICAL INDEX 



HISTORICAL INDEX 



See also Table of Contents, p. xxxix 
See also Index to Genealogies. 



AACY, Thos., 206 

Abbe, Mason, 383 
Abbot, John, 76 
Acetylene gas plant, 458 
Acres, John, 424 

Adams, Abner, 417 

— , Benj., 436, 457 

— , Chas., 454 

— , John, *3^5 

— , Levi, 436, 457 

— Wm. H., 455 
Additions to town,i85ff 
Agawam Indians, 115 
Agriculture, 353^ 
Alarms, military, 223 
Albany (N. Y.), 

founded, 1; Dutch 
at, 272; road to, 

343- . 

— Indians, 251, 252, 254, 

255. 257- 
Ale. See Liquors. 
Ale-houses, 62 

Alexander, Jos .,340,424, 

425- 
— , Nath'l, 165 

— , Sam'l, 352 

— , Thos., 141 

Allen, Benj., 89 

— , Capt. (of Ct.), 267 
— , Eunice, 337 

Allen, John, 140 note, 

141 note, 267. 
— , Jonathan (Maj- 
or), 350 note 
— , Sam'l, 333, 337 
— , Saml., Jr., 337 
Alley, Solomon, 141 
Allice (Cp. Allis), 

Wm., 83 

Allis, Abigail, 176 

— , John, 31. 51, 54, 77, 

80, 176, 177, 218 417 
— . Jos., 77, 3SS 

— , Sam 1, 31, 77, 80, 

265. 



Allis, Wm., *i5, 31, 35, 
49, 70, 77, *8o, 81, 
149, 218, *2i9, *446. 
— , Wm., Jr., 164 

Allyn, Jno. (Capt.), 

XXIX, 166 
— , Mrs., 443 

Alvord, Azariah, 340 
— , Benj., 334 note, 341 

note. 
— , Elijah, 298, 299 note, 

386, 402. 
— , Gad, 402 

— , Gideon, 299 note, 

401, 403. 
— , Job, 300, 339, 391, 

403- 
— , John, 388, 390 note, 

401, 402, 403. 
— , John, Jr., 402 

— , Justin, 308 

— , Moses, 403 

— , Nathan, 397. 403 
Amherst (3d precinct 
in Hadley, 99; East 
Hadley,29i),settled 
102, 276, 291 ; divis- 
ion of lands, 2731! ; 
inhabitants (1731), 
284; meeting-house 
repaired, 314 note; 
named, 339; men 
from in 6th Indian 
War, 339flf; prov- 
ince tax, 341 note; 
statistics of (1771), 
385 ; dist. of incorpo- 
rated, 409; town 
officers, 409; plan 
to divide, 410; in 
the Revolution ,4 1 o ; 
town meetings, 414 
note; forest trees of, 
415 note; property 
in (1738), 416; sal- 
ary of first minister 
416; planters and 



householders of be- 
fore 1763, 416; lar- 
gest estates in 
(1770), 417; slaves 
in, 418; rejects U. 
S. Constitution, 4 1 8 ; 
annexations to, 
418; militia com- 
pany, 418; incor- 
poration of, 418; 
population (1753- 
8), 418; representa- 
tives in Congress, 
444; state coun- 
sellors, 444; state 
senators, 444; pres- 
idential elector, 
445 ; delegates and 
representatives, 
445; college grad- 
uates resident in, 
454- 
Amidoun, Ithamar, 340, 

403- 
Amponchus, 29 

Amsden, Oliver, 337 

— , Simeon, 337 

Andros, Sir Edmund 
(Gov. of N. Y. 1674 
-82, of New Eng- 
land 1686-9), XXIX, 

53. 54. 123, 153. 
214, 248-9, 262, 
263 note. 

Andrus, Sam'l, 270 

Angel of Hadley tra- 
dition, VIII, XV ; see 
also GoFFE, Gen. 
Wm. 

Animals, domestic, 
pasturing, 102 

Apequanas (John 
Sagamore), 174 

Apothecary Shop. 
See Drug Store. 

Appe, Tom, 423 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



Appendix to original 
edition, 435; to 
present edition, 457. 
Apple molasses, 365 

Apples, 364flf; price 

of, 366. 
Appleton, Sam'l 
(Capt.), 137. 142, 
143, 144, 146, 148, 
*i49. 174. 271. 
Aquavitae (meadow), 24, 

27, 28, 364 note. 
Aquavitas. See Liquors. 
Arms, John, 269 

Arnold, John, 11, 12, 13, 

27. 233. 
— , Thos., 382 

Ashfield (Hunts- 
town), 338 
Ashley, Chester, 454 
— , David, 160 
— , Noah, 333 
Ashuelot river, 254 note 
Aspinwall, Peter, 255 
Assessors, 70 
Atchisson , John , 176 
Atherton, Hope 
(Rev.),*3i,32,82,*84, 
163, 164. 

— , Humphrey(Gen.),i8, 

19, 82. 
— ^Jonathan, 284, 

note, 413, *4i6. 
Athol, 
Auditors, 
Austin, Anthony, 

note. 
— , Dr., 
Awassamaug, 
Awonusk, 106, 109, no, 

143- 
Ayres, John (Sergt.), 131 

and note, 132, 151, 

345- 
— , John, 386, 400 

— , Josiah, 454 

— , Rowland (Rev.), 

401,435.436,465 
— , bam 1, 401, 403 

BACHELOR'S brook, 
277, 280, 281 
Back street, 422 
Backus, Simon (Rev.), 
399, 400, 403. 



368 

132 

70 
259 

327 
174 



Bacon, Andrew, 6, 11, 

12, 15, 16, 17, 20, 24, 

26, 69, *7o, 76, 81, 87, 

89, 108, 205, 236, 446 

— land, 204, 205 

Bailey, Wm. C, 444 

Baker, Alfred, 454 

— , Edward, 240 

— , Elijah, 340, 409, 41 1 , 

417- 
— , Jos., 148 

— , Martin, 453 

— , Noah, *4i6, 424 note 
— , Osmyn, 452, *453, 

454- 
— , Thos. (Lieut.), 270 
Balch, Jos., 141 

Baldwin, John, 76 

— , Jos., 24, 26, 27, 76, 
82, 185, 201, 203, 234, 

447- 
— , Jos., Jr., daugh- 
ter of, 92; 185, 201, 234 
— , Jos. (3d), 204 

— , Widow, 203, 204, 234 
Ball, Jas., 340, 402 

— , Sam'l, 340 

Ballard, Joshua, 338, 

339, 423. 
Ballentine, Wm. G., 

413 note 
Bandoleers, 216 

Baptism of children, 

329, 330 and note 
Baptists, 400 

Barber, Josiah, 268 

Bardill. See Bard- 
well. 
Bardwell, Robt. 

(Sergt.), 165, 166 

Barley, 355 

Barnard, Francis, n, 
12, 24, 26, 32, 51, 65, 
66, 76, 90, 141, 185, 
203, 204, 205, 206, 254 
note, *446, *447. 
— , Goodwife, 203, 206 
— , John, II, 12, 24, 26, 
32, 42, 50, SI, 66, 67, 
70, 76, 88, 205, 241. 
— , John (son of 

Francis), *i4i note 
— , John (Dr.), 58, 278, 

443. 448. 
— , Jos., 91, wife of, 

*9i, 189, 203, 206, 254 
— , Mary (widow of 
Jno.), 50, 67, 68 



Barnard, Salah 

(Capt.), 340 note 

— , Sam'l (Capt.), 51, 
*7o, 90, 201, 203, 204, 
205, 25s, 256 note, 275, 
278, 283,310, 332, *447, 
*448, 452. 
— , Sarah, 91 

— , Thos. (Dr.), 283, 443 
Barrels, size and 
price of, 95, 354 
note, 371 note. 
Barron, Peter, 140 

Barsham, Philip, 140, 141 
Bartholomew, Abi- 
gail, 176 
— , Wm., 176 
Bartlett, Abijah, 177, 

268. 
— , Caleb, *424, 425, 426 
— , Ebenezer, *403 

- E. H., 436 

— , Henry, 338, 340 

— . John, 340 

— , Mary (wife of 

Sam'l), 227 

— , Nath'l, 340, *403 
— , Oliver, 340, 423 

— , Robt., 155 

— , Sam'l, *227, 228 

Barton, David, 403 

— , Elisha, 340, 403 

— , Ezekiel, 340, 403 
— , Gershom, 340 

Bascom, Thos., 417 

Bashan, 22 

Bass, 309 

Bassett, Goody, 225 

Bastardy, (see also 
Illegitimate Child) 
89, 90. 
Bates, Clement, 157 

— , Emerson, 277, 307 

note. 
Battis, Thos., 267 

Bayley, Thos., 141 

Bayne, Julia Taft, 465 - 
Bayonets, 222, 341 note 
Bay road, 36, 38, 285 
Beaman, Hannah, 

254 and note 
— , Simon, 203, 204, 205, 

254- 
— , Thos., *9o 

—.Warren H.(Rev.), 

435. 436 
Beans, 355, 356 note; 
baked, 356 note. 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



475 



Bears, *345 and note 
Beavers, 347 

Bedortha, Jno., 342 note 
Beebee, Jas., 206, 345 
Beer, 364, 366 

Beers, Richard (Capt.), 
132, 133. 135. 137 
Beers' Plain, 135 

Bees and honey, 374 

Belcher, Jno., 164 

Belchertown (Cold 

Spring), 1S7, 267, 276, 

284, 285, *29i, 320, 418 
Belden. See Belding. 
Belding (or Belden), 

Abigail, 255 

— , Ann (d. of Sam'l), 

228 note 
— , Dan'l, 31, 254 

— , Elizabeth, 254 

— , Esther, 254 

— , Hezekiah, 411, 417 
— , John, 254 

— , Mary (w. of 

Sam'l), 176 

— , Nath'l, 254 

— , Sam'l, 15, 31, 32, 80, 

83, 165, 176, 203, 204, 

205, 228 note, 256 note, 

446. 
— , Sam'l, Jr., 275, 279 
— , Sam'l (son of 

Dan'l), 255 

— , Stephen, 164 note, 

275, 279. 
Belknap, Jos., 256 note 
Bell, Fred'k, 436 

— , John S., 228 note, 

446, *452. 
— , Reuben (Dr.), 443, 

*45i. 452. 
— , Sam'l, 452 

Bell ringers, 71 

Bellows, Jabez, 402 

— , Jesse, 340, 402 

Bells, church and 

town, 44, 315 

Bement, John, 253 

Bennet, James, 142, 164 
— , John, 141. 399 

Benton, Edward, 11, 13, 

*i5. 31. 32 
— . — . 267 

Bernardston (Fall- 
town), 338 
Berries, 377 
Berry, Thos., 59 



Bi-centennial cele- 
bration, 436 
Billings (or Billing), 

Ebenezer, 275, 279 

— , Edward, 320 

— , John (s. of ist 

Sam'l), 257 

— , John (s. of Rich'd), 

386, 4ii,4i2,4i7,*453 
— , John, 417 

— , Rich'd, II, 13, *i5, 

31, 69, 77, 80, 88. 
— , Sam'l, 31, 77. 80, 

219. 
— '■, Silas, wid. of, 330 
note. 

Bills (see alsoMoNEY, 
Paper), loans of, 
304; of credit 301, 
304; province, 301, 
303; new, old and 
middle tenor, 302, 
303 ; last emission 
of, 302. 
Birge, Thaddeus, 350 
Bissell, Elihu, 404 

— , John, 35 

Blackbirds, bounty 

on, 346 

Blanchard, Isaac, 424 
Blan(d)ford, 335, 338, 

358. 
Bliss, Geo., 295 

— , Margaret, 227 note 
Blizzard, great, 461 

Blodget, David, 340, 

417. 
Bloody brook, 140 

Boardman, Dan'l, 59 
Boards (see Lumber), 

prices of, 10 1, 431 

Bodurtha, Thos., 333 
Boltwood, Ebenezer, 

410 note, 414, 454 
— , Edward, 455 

— , Elijah, *453 

— , Hannah, 407 

— , Henry L., 455 

— , Lucius M., VII, 242 
note, 407, 452, 454, 

455- 
— , Martha, 407 

— , Mary, 407 

— , Robt., II, 13, 16, 24, 

26, 40, 41, *so, 73, 76, 

no, 203, 205, *265, 

345 note. 



Boltwood, Ruth, 407 
— , Sam'l (Sergt.) 40, 

50. 5i.*53. 55. 76, 165, 
191, 193, 201, 203, 204, 
*265 and note, 271 
note, 275, 345 note, 

447- 
— , Sam'l, Jr., *265, 278, 
284, 405, *4i6, 448 
— , Solomon, 278, 283, 

*386, 410 note, 414, 

416, *4i7, 449. 
— , Wm., 271 note, 337, 

410 note, 417. 
Bonesetters, early, in 

Mass., 442 

Bonfire, great (1759), 

342 note 

Bonney, Franklin 

(Dr.), *436, 444, 462 
— , Oliver E., 436, 446, 

*452. 
Boreman (or Board- 
man), 59 
Boston, aid from to 
sufferers from In- 
dians, 181; taxes 
(1758), 305; com- 
munication with, 
384; road to, 424. 
Boston (negro), 239 
— , Joshua (son of 

Boston), 313, 423 

Bounties, for enlist- 
ment, Indians' 
scalps, wolves, etc. 
See under Enlist- 
ment, etc. 
Bowdoin, Jas. 

(Capt.), 281 

Boyden, Jas. W., 452 
Brace, Wm., 403 

Bracy, Thos., 31 

Bradstreet, Sam'l, igii 
— , Simon (Rev.), 18, 19, 

29, 42, no, 113, 318. 
Bradstreet's Interval, 22 
Branch, Goodman, 144 
Breck, Robt. (Rev.), 320 
Breedan, Capt., 208 

Bride, stealing the, 237 
Bridge disaster, 461 

Bridges, 35. 37 

Bridgham, Henry, 445 
Bridgman, Jas. G. 
(Rev.), 227, 455 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



Brimfield, 291, 334 
and note. 

British encroach- 
ments upon rights 
and privileges. See 
Petition 

Broad street, 14, 23, 
373; wearing of by 
river, 420, 421 ; 469. 

Brookfield (Qua- 
baug), *37, incor- 
porated , 8 6; des- 
troyed, 86, 128, 
132; attack on, 131 ; 
troops sent to, 132; 
in Hampshire Co., 
130; settlers killed 
(Aug. 2, 1675), 150; 
garrison re-estab- 
lished, 155; rates 
(1674-6), 199; re- 
settled, 248; mass- 
acre (1693), 252; 
garrison at, 254; 
taxes (1692-1702), 
259 note; in 3d In- 
dian war, 268-9; 
massacre ( i 7 i o ) , 
269; province tax 
(1708), 271; garri- 
son at (1722), 331; 
in Worcester Co., 
334; province tax 
(1726), 334 note. 

— pastures, 98 

— road, 285 
Brooks, Jno., 148, 340 
— , Wm., Jr., 148 
Broom corn and 

brooms, 360, 457, 468 
Broughton, Mary, 91 
— , Thos., 252 

Brown, Dr., 320 note 
— , Ebenezer (Rev.), 435 
— , James, 77, 292 

— , John, (Rev.), 435 
— , Wm., 275, 292 

Browne, Nath'l, 145 

Buckingham, Dan'l, 320 
Buckley, Thos., 141 

Buckly, Geo., 164 

Bucknam, Benj., 340 
— , Pelatiah, 340 

Buckwheat, 356 

Bugle, Geo., 164 



Bulkley, Gershom 
(Rev. and Dr.), 170 
note, 234, 266 note. 

Bull, Jonathan 
(Capt.), 249, 250 

— , Jos. (Capt.), 

XXIX, 214 

— , Thos. (Lieut.), 

*}5< 31. 32 
Bullets, molding, 352 
Burk, John (Capt.), 

339. 341 note 
Burnet, Jonathan, 395, 

396. 
Burning of land, 97, 98 
Burr, Timothy, 340, 403 
Burt, Eleazar, 297 

— , Hannah, xxxv 

— , John, 269 

— , Sam'l, xxxv, 349 note 
Burton, Jacob, 164 

Burying ground, Had- 

ley, 241 

Butchers, 369 note 

Butter, 376 

Button, Dan'l, 141 

By-laws and Orders, 

town, 7 1 

CALENDAR, old 
and new style, 

246ff 
Cambridge, Caesar, 402 
Cambridge, Mass. 
(Newtown), i, 2; 
grammar school, 48. 
Camp, John, 403 

— , John, Jr., 340 

Canada, babies born 
to white captives in, 
177; captives in 
slain, 178-9, 180; 
expeditions against 
in 3d Indian war, 
268; exped. against 
(17 11), 269; prison- 
ers taken to in 
Queen Anne's war, 
271; exped. against 
planned ( 1 746) , 336 ; 
taken (1759), 337. 
— Indians, 252, 334 

Canal, 298, 299 note 

Candles, tallow, 294,350, 

379- 
Candlewood, 294, 426 
Cannibalism of Indi- 
ans, 121 



Capawonk (meadow) 
3, II, *i4, 29, 30, *io6, 
108. 
Cape Breton, 335-6 

Cappowong brook, *io8 
Cappowonganick, 108 
Cappowoungomuck, 107 
Carding, 372 note 

Carriages, 382 

Carter, Joshua, 140, 141 
Cartridges, 222 

Carver, Jonathan 

(Capt.), 341 note 

Castreen, M., 253 

Catamounts or pan- 
thers, 346 
Catlin (Catling), John, 

II, 13, 206 
— , Jos., 265 

— , Sam'l, 283 

— , Sam'l, Jr., 340 

Cato (negro), 361 

Cattle, 72; branding 
of, 88; fear of In- 
dians, 135; 368. 
Cayuga Indians, 120 

Chabattan, 64 

Chamberlain, Jos., 204 
— , Nath'l, 333 

Chanagongum, 169 

Chandler, John, 186, 397, 

*403- 
Chapin, Chas., 397 

— , Japhet, 36 

— , Jeremiah, 403 

— , Perez (Dr.), 404 

— , Sam'l (Deac.) 3, 13, 

14, 16, 268. 
— , Stephen, 403 

Chapman, Benj. 

(Rev.), 400 

Charlemont, 338 

Charles I. See Judges. 
Charlestown, Mass., i 
Charlestown (No. 4), 335 
Charlestown, (N. H.) 

defense of, 337 

Charley — , 257 

Chauncey, Chas. 
(Rev., pres. of Har- 
vard), 320 
— , Chas. (Rev., bro. 

of Rev. Isaac), 320 
— , Chas. (son of 
Rev. Isaac), 340, 410 
note, 416. 
— , Dorothy, 390 note 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



477 



Chauncey, Eliza- 
beth, 407 

— , Isaac, Rev. (2d 
minister of Hadley) 
5 note, 32, 46, 59, 
94- 213, 234, 236, 
275, 277, 278, 282, 
283, 3i8fiF, 328, 378 
note, 405. 

— , Isaac (son of Jo- 
siah), 410 note 

— , Isaac (Commo- 
dore), 320 

— , Israel ( Rev. , 
father of Rev. 
Isaac), 320 

— , Israel (son of 
Rev. Isaac), *5q, 3 19 . 
notes, 340. 

— , Josiah, 213, 320, 385, 
386, *409, 410 and 
note, 411,414, 417,445, 

*449- 
— , Nath'l(Rev.),59,84, 

320. 
— , Nath'l (son of 

Rev. Nath'l), 59 

— , Rich'd, 284, 407, 416, 

418. 
Chaunceys, memo- 
rials, 320 note 
Cheese, 376 
Chenary, Jno., 135 
Chester, Penelope, 323 
Chickons (Indian 

planting ground), 108 
Chickwallop (-walopp 

-wollop), *io6, *io7, 

110, *i 16. 
Chicopee factories, 36 

— river, 36 
Child, Ephraim, 135 
Childs, Timothy 

(Lieut.), 332, 333 

Chileab's hill, 279, 281 

note. 
Christian Indians. 

See Praying Indians 

— names, 244-5 
Church (see also 

Meeting-House); 
Act (at Hadley), 
10; oldest churches 
in Hampshire, 47; 
churches before 
1700, 86; records, 
47, 318 note; seat- 



ing in, 389, 406; 
singing in, 43 ; titles 

47- 
— , Aaron B. (Rev.), 454 
— , Benj., 265, 278, 283, 

340, 392, 449. 
— , Benj., Jr., 402 

— , Edward, 24, 26, 71, 

76, 185, 203, 204, 206, 

275, 446. 
— , Elisha, 403 

— , Joel. 340 

— , John, 164, 340 

— -, Jos., 201, 275, 278, 

409, 417. 
— -, Josiah, 201, 275 

— , Mary, 201, 255 

— , Moses Billings 

(Rev.), 454 

— , Nath'l, 284, *4i6 
— , Nath'l, Jr., 337, 340 
— ■, Richard, 11, 12, 24, 

26, 108, 255, 279, 284, 

389 note, 402, 449. 
— , Richard (son of 

Sam'l), murdered, 255 
— , Richard, Jr., 340 

— , Sam'l, II, 12, *i5, 

23, 26, 27, 70, 76, 185, 

201, 203, 204, 255, 265, 

275, 278, 283, 416, 446 
— , Simeon, 340 

Church, Timothy, 340 
Chusick brook, 109 

Cider, 364ff, 386 

Cigars , 376 

Civil war, Hadley in, 459 
Clapboards, first, 41, 100 
Clapp, Preserved, 256 

note, 340, 416. 
— , Preserved, Jr., 417 
Clark (and Clarke), 

Adam, 141 

— , Asahel L. (Rev.), 455 
— , Ebenezer, 238 

— , Elisha, 337 

— , Henry, see Clarke. 
— , Isaac, 424 

— , Israel, 363, *386, 

*403- 
— , John, 256 note, 292, 

339. 340. 
— , John, Jr., 339, 340, 

423- 
— , Nathan, *452 

, Nath'l, 121, 122 



-, Noah, 

-, Royal W., 



'403 
455 



Clark, Sam'l, 148 

— , Setli, *403 

— , Simeon, 363, 385, 

408, 409, 410 note,*4i7 

— , Theodore, 446 

— , Wm., 51, 77, 92, 149, 

160, 218, 229, 261, 339, 

363. 368. 

Clark & Parsons, 101 

Clarke, Henry, 20, 24, 26 

27, 42, 43, 48, 50, 51, 

70, 76, 77, 81, 83, 87, 

92, 185, 203, 204, 206, 

219, 236, 243, 446. 

Clary, John, 40, 133, 205, 

269. 
— , John, Jr., 206 

— , Jos., 340, 407, 416 
— , Sarah, 407 

Clawson, Elizabeth, 227 
Cleaveland, Aaron, 340 
^-Clergymen. See Min- 
isters. 
Clerk, of the market, 
70; of the writs, 70; 
town, 70. 
Clesson, Jos., 269 

— , Matthew, 269 

Cloth, prices of vari- 
ous kinds of, (1771) 
387- 
Clough, Sain'l, 67 

Clover, 362fif 

Cluff, Wm., 134 

Co asset (Cowas- 

set), 146, 171, 291 

Coats, Charles, 424 

— , Joseph, 424 

— , Stephen, 288, 289, 

340, 353 note, 424. 
— , Widow, 235 

Coburn, Edward, 131 
Cochapesen, 174 

Coffin, Paul, 430 

Coins (see also 
Money); colonial, 
i95fif; silver, 126. 
Coit, Dan'l (Dr.), 404 
Cold Hill, 279, 281 

Cold Spring. See 

Belchertown 
Cole, see Cowles. 
Coleman, Bethiah, 176 
— , Eliphalet B., 454 
— , Hannah, 176 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



Coleman, John, ii, 13, 
15.31. 32, 65, 80, *l^6, 
219, 256 note, 446. 
— , Nath'l, 333 note, 409, 

416, 417. 
— , Noah, 76, 165, 
446; widow of, 205. 
— , Sam'l, 350 note 

— , Sarah, 176 

— , Thos., II, 13, 15, 16, 
24, 26, 50, 70, 76, 185, 
219, 420 note, 446. 
— land, 27s 

Coleraine, 335, 338, 358 
Collins, Nath'l, 148 

Colors. See Flags. 
Colt, Benj., 382, 386, 

423, 424, 450. 
Colton, Chas., 341 note 
— , Eli, 340, 417 

— , Geo., 35, 219 

— , Thos. (Capt.), 253, 
254, 256 note, 263, 333 
Commissioners to end 

small causes, 70 

Commons (see also 
under Land), 33, 273, 
282, 284, 285, 286, 287 
Communion, discuss- 
ions concerning, 322-3 
Complete Soldier , the, 2 2 1 
Conch, blowing the, 389 
Congregationalists in 

New Eng., 4 

Conkey, Ithamar, *454 
Connecticut (Que- 
necticut) ; aids other 
colonies, 181; share 
of cost of Philip's 
War, 181; loss in 
war, 181 note; 
troops in Hamp- 
shire, 168-9; ^^d 
Hampshire Co., 262; 
northern boundary, 
291; troops in 
Hampshire (1723- 
S), 331 note, 338. 
Connecticut river 
(Quenicticot, Quo- 
nicticot, etc.), early 
settlements on, i ; 

79. 91- 

Constables, 70 

Cook (or Cooke), 

Aaron, Sr. (Capt., 

of Northampton), 

35,52,215,218,219, 



Cook, (or Cooke) , 
Aaron, Jr., (Capt., 
of Hadley), *i5, 23, 

25. 49. 51. 52, 53. 
54, 60, 71, 76, 87, 
149, 166, 185, 191, 
196, 201, *203, 204, 

206, 2l5,*2l8,*2I9, 

236, 242, 256, 262, 

263, 274, 275, 310, 

*446, *447- 
— , Aaron (son of 

Westwood),2 83and 

note, 340. 
— , Aaron, 2d, 423 

— , Aaron, 3d, 423 

— , Alfred H., 436, 452 
— , Chas., 461 

— , Chas., 2d, 436 

— , Coleman, 423 

— , David W., 360 

— , Elisha, 342, 383, 386, 

423- 
— , Enos, *452, 461 

— , Horace, 446 

— , Jabez, 340 

— , John, 346, 368 note, 

386, 433, *45o. 
— , Jonathan, 339, 386, 

423, 424, *449, *45o 
— , Jos., 336 note, 391, 

397. 402. 
— , Martin P., *452 

— , Moses, 157, 201, 275, 

278, 283, 410 note, 417, 

*448, *449. 453- 
— , Mr. (Goffe's re- 
puted name) 214 
— , Noah, 278, 283, 360, 

386,423, 424,*449, 450 
— , Parsons (Rev.), 325, 

326. 
— , Sam'l (Lieut.), 275, 

278, 283, 340, 423, 447, 

*448, 449. 
— , Solomon, 361 

— , Westwood, (Lieut.) 

63, 278 *279 note, 

283, 293, 304, 333 

note. 349, 381, 416, 

447. *448. 
— , Westwood, Jr., 283 
— , Widow 275 

— , Wm., 275, 360, 382, 

423- 
— , Zenas, *452 

Cooledge, Nath'l, Jr. , 445 



229, 236, 344 

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Cooley, Ariel, 398 

— , Benj., 35 

— , Dan'l, 413, 418, 453 
Cooper, John, 176 

— , Thos. (Lieut.), 132, 

144, 145, 218, 442. 
Coos, Lower, 267 note 

See also Cowas. 
Coppowoung river, 108 
Corn, Indian, 356; 

sweet, 358 note, 

houses, 385. 
Cornberry, Nath'l, 136 
Cornish, James, 54, 87 
Cottingyakies. See 

Chickons. 
Cotton, 380 

Coules. See Cowles. 
Council of 1659, *7 

— of Safety, 262 
Couriers (see also Ex- 
presses), 341 note 

Court cases (Hadley), 88 

— expenses, 93; of- 
ficers, 93. 

Courts, See under 
Hampshire, North- 
ampton, etc. 
— , county, superior, 

etc., 16, 87 

Courtship, 239 

Covenant, "owning 

the," 5 

Cowachuch brook, 109 
Cowas or Cowasset, 267, 

268. 
Cowase brook, 109 

Cowherds, 71, 102 

Cowles (also Cowls, 
Cole, Coule, etc.,) 
Chester W. (Dr.), 

404. 455 
— , David S., 452 

— , Geo., *i4i 

— , John, Sr., 15.31. 77. 

80, 83, 156, 275, 446. 
— , John, Jr., 31, 77, 80, 

203, 204. 
— , John (son of Jon- 
athan), 284, 407, 416 
— , Jonathan, 279, 284, 

407, 416. 
— , Jonathan, Jr., *4i7 
— , Mary, 4° 7 

— , Oliver, 340. 4^7 

— , Rufus (Dr.), 454 
— , Sarah, 407 

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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



479 



Cows, 369 

Coy, Rich'd (Corp.), 87, 

131, 345. 
Coy's hill, 37. 87 

Crackbone, Benj., 135 
Crack road, 400 

Craft (see Croft) , 

widow, 275 

Crane, Lucius, 460 

Crank, the, 280, 287, 293 

note, 387. 
Croft, Thos., 90, 91, 203, 

204. 
Crops, 357. 384 

Crosby, David, 340 

Cross, Sam'l, 167 

Crouch, Rich'd (Dr.) , 284 
304, 352,353. 38i,404> 
415 note, 443, 449- 
— , Madam, 383 

Crow, John, 11, 12, 15, 
24, 26, 76, 82, 89, 185, 
*2o6, *446. 
— , Mary, 206 

— , R e b e k a h . See 

Noble, Rebekah. 
— , Sam'l, 76, 165, 206, 
235 note, 275, 278, 283 
— , Sam'l, Jr., 206 

Crowfoot, D an '1, 340, 402 
— , Sam'l, 265, 274 note, 

278, 283. 
Crown Point, expedi- 
tion agnst., 337 
Crows, bounty on, 346-7 
Crumpton, Sa.m'l, 141 
Cullick, Capt. John, 10, 

II, *i3, 26, 48. 
Curfew, 44 

Curtis, Ephraim, 130, 131 
— , Nath'l, 137 

Cushman, John R., 454 
— , Marshall B., 455 
Customs. See Peti- 
tion. 
Cutler, Isaac G., 453 
— , Robt. (Dr.), 415, 455 
Cyrus (negro servant), 90 

DANA, Sam'l W., 
455 
Danforth, Fran- 
cis (Rev.), 435 
Danks, Robt., 31 
Dates. See Calendar. 
Davenport, Jesse R., 436 
— , Jno. (Rev.), x, xi, 
48, 208. 



Davis, Jno.. 349 note 
— , Nathan, 340 

Day, Ezra, 397 

— , Nath'l, 300 

Dean, Faxon, 424, 425 
Debts, paid in pro- 
duce, 46, (see also 
Grain); town, 201. 
Deed, first recorded 

at Springfield, 106 

Deer, 348; protected, 
349; reeves, 349, 
409; skins and gar- 
ments, 350. 
Deerfield (Pocum- 
tuck), 14, 33, 86; 
church organized, 
86; massacre (1675) 
140, 150; aban- 
doned, 142; at- 
tacked (1677), 175; 
resettlement, 248; 
garrison at, 250-1, 
254, 266, 268, 331, 
332; massacre 
(1693), 252; attack 
on (1694), 253, 
(1695), 254; taxes 
(1692-1702), 259 
note, 260; palisade 
built, 260 note; re- 
inforced (1703), 
264; Fr. and Indian 
attack (1704), 264- 
5; province tax, 
334 note, 337 note; 
in Indian wars, see 
Wars; resident 
physician, 442. 
— Indians, 136, 150 

Denison, Dan'l (Maj.), 

18, 19, 21, 22, no 
Denslow, Henry, 156 
Denton, Dan'l, 442 

Dewey, Josiah, 160 

Dickinson , Appleton ,455 
— , Austin (Rev.), 454 
— , Azariah, 76, 134, 345, 

383, *4i7, 423, 450. 
— , Baxter (Rev.), 454 
— , Benj., 59, 320, 321 
— , Caleb D., 452, 457 
— , Chester, 453 

— , Daniel, 283, 409, 416, 

*453- 
— , David, 340, *4i7 



Dickinson, Ebenezer, 
284,337. 405. 407. 408, 
*409, 411, 416, *449. 
— , Ebenezer, Jr., *4i7 
— , Ebenezer, 3d, *4i7 
— , Edward, 443, *452, 

*4S4- 
— , Elihu (Capt.), 451 
— , Elisha (Capt.), 450, 

*45i- 
— , Enos, 453 

— , Enos, 2d, 453 

— , Fred'k, 455 

— , Geo., *436 

— , Gideon, 409, 41 i,*4i7 
— , Hezekiah, 31, 63, 76, 

90. 345- 
— , Israel, 278, 284 

— ,John (Hadiey 

1659), II, 13, 15, 24, ^ 

26, 76, 82, 163, 165, 

185, 190, 218, 4i9,*446 
— , John (son of 

above), 76, 201, 203^- 

204, 205. 
— , John (other than 

above), 283, 409, 411, . 

412, 416, 417, 418, 423, 

*449- 454. 455- 
— , Jonathan, 284, 409, 

416, *4i7, 424, 449. 
— , Jonathan, Jr., *4i7 
— , Jos., 135, 340, *4i7 
— , Josiah, 342, 348, 423 
— , Levi, 360 

— , Levi, Jr., 452 

— , Lieut., *449 

— , Marquis F., Jr., 455 
— , Medad, 453 

— , Mehetabel (wid- 
ow), 278, 283 
— , Moses, 409, 410, 411 
*4i2, 416, 417, *453 
454- 
— , Nathan, 411, *4i4 

416, 417. 
— , Nathan, Jr., 34c 

— , Nathaniel, 11, 12, 13 
15, 16, 20, 24, 26, 31 
*42, 47, 49, 59, 60, 68 
69, *7o, 76, 77, 82, 83, 
134 180, 185, 203, 204, 
219, 257, 275, 279, 340, 
386, 411, *4i7, *446, 

452, *453- 
— , Nath'l, Jr., 15,31,71, 
80, 257, 279, 410, 411, 
412, 413, *453, 454- 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



Dickinson, Nehe- 
miah, 51, 60, 71, 76, 90, 
91, 165, 191, 201, 203, 
204, 205, 256 note, 274, 
275, 278, 279, 284, 310, 
337.340,389 note, 392, 
403, *4i7, 420, 446, 
*447, *448. 
— , Nehemiah and 

sons, 275 

— , Noah, 411, *4i7 

— , NoadiahS.(Rev.),4S5 
— , Obadiah, 31, 77, 80, 

176-7. 
— , Oliver, 425, 454 

— , Oliver, 2d, 453 

— , Reuben (Capt.), 340, 

411, 412, *4i7. 

— , Sam'l, 15, 31, 77, 80, 

256 note, 257, 275, 278, 

279. 283, 332, 403, 

*448, 449 

— , Sam'l F., *453, 454 

— , Sarah, 407 

— , Simeon, *4i7, 446, 

*452. 

— , Sylvanus, 452 

— , Thos , II, 13, 15, 16, 

24, 26 76, 90, 1 10, 185, 

201, 203, 204, 205, 219, 

275. 277. 279- 345. 446, 

447- 

— , Timothy (Rev.), 454 

— , Waitstill, 340, 392, 

403. 454- 
— , Wm., 278, 283, 403, 

*448, 449, *45i- 
— , Wm., Jr., 284, 403 
— , Wm., 2d, 451 

— , Wm. A., 455 

— , Wm. E. (Rev.), 455 
— , Wm. P., 436, 452, 

453- 
— , Zebina, 453 

— families, 417 

Diet, 369 note, 37off 

Disorderly persons, 70 
Distilling and dis- 
tilleries, 66, 365 note, 
400. 
Divorce, 239 

Dixwell, John, xxi, xxii, 

209. 
Doctors. See Phy- 
sicians. 
Doctors, women, 443 
Dodge, Josiah, 141 



Dogs, used agnst. In- 
dians, 167, 272, 332 
note; hanging of, 
103. 

Dollars, 196 

Domestic animals, i02ff, 
367ff, 386. 

Domo (or Vomer) , 
Comfort, 396 

— , Peter, 278, 284, 289, 
377. 403. 

Doolittle, Benj. (Rev.), 

443 
Dorchester, Mass., i 

Draper, Ichabod 

(Rev.), 408 

Dress, Extravagan- 
cies in, punished, 91 
Drew, Wm., 166 

Drinker, Edward 

(Lieut.), 155, 158 

Drinks in the i7tli 

century, 65 

Drug Store, first in 

west. Mass., first in 

Conn., 441 

Drugs, sources and 

prices of, 440 

Dry brook, 277, 281 

Ducks, wild, 352 

Dudley, Gov., 52, 262, 

263 note. 
Dumbleton, Jno., 

Jr., 184 

Dunlap, Jno. W., 395 
Dunwich, Benj., 137 

Dupee, Silvine, 343 

Dutch, sell arms to 

Indians, 153; 333 

Duties, interstate, 75 
Duy, Wm., 141 

Dwight, Dan'l, 59 

— , Elihu (Dr.), 394, 404 
— , Henry (Capt.), 333 

note. 
— , John, 463 

— , Josiah, 238 note 

— , Nath'l, 59 

— , Timothy, *32, 241, 

280 note, 293 note, 332, 

371, 394 note, 430. 
Dyeing, 380 

EAMES, Thos., 162 

Earl, Robt. 230 

Earle, Mary, 155 

Eastman, Baxter, 454 



Eastman, Benj., 340, 

400, *403, 418. 
— , David (Rev.), 455 
— , John, 340, 372 note, 

423, 449, *45o. 
— , Jonathan, 454 

— , Jos. (Deacon), 211, 

265, 278, 283, 409, 411, 

*448, *449. 453- 
— , Jos., Jr., 416, *449 
— , Oman (Rev.), 454 
— , Sam'l, 454 

— , Sarah, 423 

— , Tilton (Rev.), 454 
— , Timothy, 275, 278, 

283, 423. 447. 450- 
— , Timothy, Jr., 381 
— , Wm., 385, *386, 392, 

396, *399, *403. 
East Hadley (East 
Farms, Hadley 
Farms, New Swamp. 
See also Amherst 
and Hadley), 78, 80, 
82, 281 note, 284, 291, 
404, 405, 408, 416. 
Eaton, David, 403 

— , Theophilus 48 

Eddy, Benj., 423 

Edwards, Hannah 

(French), 333 note 

— , Jonathan (Deac, 
of Amherst), 333 note, 
408, 409, 417. 
— , Jonathan (Rev., 
Northampton), 44,304, 
321, 322 note, 323, 326 
— , Nath'l, 333 

— , Noah, 300 

— , Thos., II. 13 

Eggleston, Jas., 135 

Electric road, North- 
ampton to Amherst, 458 
Elgarr, Thos., 203, 204, 

234- 
Eliot, Jared (Rev.), 363 
— , John (Rev.), wife, 

443 
— , Jos., 46 

Elmer (Cp. Elmore), 

Edward, 156 

— , Sam'l, 403, 417 

Elmore, Edwd., 107 

Elwell, Thos., 424 

Ely, Caleb, 386 

Ely, Jos., 308 

— , Nath'l, 63 

Emmons, Dr., 327 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



481 



Emmons, EH, 454 

— , Robt., 340 

Endicott, Gov., x 

Enfield, church or- 
ganized, 86; incor- 
porated, 86; 248; 
taxes (1692-1702), 
259 note, 260; 
province tax (1708), ' 
271, (1726), 334 
note. 
Enfield Falls, 93 

English blood, first 
shed in war in 
Mass., 130 

Enlistment, bounties, 

341: substitutes, 341 
Ensign, James, 11, 12, 

13- 
Episcopal church, 

first in Mass., 263 note 
Estabrook, Hobart, 320 
Estates, early, 72 

Etoomp, 108 

Etowomq, 108 

Executions, first in 

Hampshire county, 

257, 261 
Expresses between 

Boston and Albany, 

334 note; pay of, 

341 note. 

FAIRFIELD, 
Thos., 340 

Falls field, 298 

Falls fight (Turner's), 
above Deerfield, 
162; loss of Indians 
at, 166. 
Falls woods, 279, 281 

note, 299 and note. 
— woods field, 387 note 
Falltown (Bernards- 
ton), 335, 338 
Farah, Ephraim, 141 
Fargeson, Wm., 283 
Farley, Timothy, 131 
Farnell, Benj., 141 
Farrand, Wm., 340 
Fellowes, Francis, 455 
Fellows, Rich'd, 15, *3i, 

88, 134 note. 
— , Rich'd, 2d, 89, 134 
— , Ursula (wid. 

Rich'd), 31, 80, 82 

Females, instruction 
of, 56 



Fence viewers, 71 

Fences, 33, 38, 72, 430 
Fenwick, Lady Alice, 

xviii 
Ferries, 35, 38fT, 289, 299 
Ferry, Hadley, in 

Philip's war, 184 

— , Chas., 403 

— , Noah, 389 note, 403 
Feud of the streets, 465 
Field, Abigail, 407 

— , Ebenezer, 268 

— , John (son of Z.), 31, 

80, 416. 
— , John, Jr., 99, 268, 

*4i7- 
— , John (Lieut.), 410 

note, 411 note. 
— , Mary, 80. 
— , Sam'l, 31, 77, 257 
— , Sam'l, (Deac, of 

Deerfield), 333 

— , Sarah, 407 

— , Zechariah, 11, 12, 

*i5, 31, 72, 218, 405, 

*4i6, 418, 446. 
Field drivers, 71 

Fife , use of in armies ,222 
Filer, Geo., 608 

— , Walter (Lieut.), 171 
Fire-arms in 17th 

century, 220 

First church, pipe 

organ installed, 458, 

466. 
Fish, see Shad and 

Salmon. Other 

kinds, 306 note. 
Fish, Jos. L. A. 

(Rev.), 455 

Fisher, John, 90 

— , Joshua, 33 

Fisheries, salmon and 

shad, 305^ 

Fishing places, 307 

— laws, 306 

Fitch, James (Rev.), 170 
— , John, 377 

— , Jos., 106, 107 

Five Nations, 120, 124, 

249, 250, 272. 
Flags, 222 

Flat Hills, 276, 287, 415, 

418. 
Flax, 359 

Flax seed and oil, 377 
Fletcher, Gov. (N. 

Y.), 120, 252, 257 



Flint locks, 183 

Floods (1692), 40; 

Jefferson fid., 297, 

420, 421 ; 421 , 459. 
Flour, preparation of, 

40, fif; prices of, 95. 
Food. See Diet. 
Foote (Foot), Mary, 265 
— , Nath'l, 31 

— , Sam'l, 31, 76, 176, 

265. 
Foot's folly (swamp) 275, 

276 note. 
Foot stoves, 316 

Forbes, Simon, 411 

Forest fires, 37, 38, 98 
Forlorn, the, 27, 28, 30 
Fort Dummer, 332, 335 

— Hoosuck, 335 

— Massachusetts, 335, 

33^' 33^- 

— Pelham, 335 

— plain, 119 

— river, 28, 106, 118; 
bridge, 203; pas- 
tures, or swamp, 193. 

— Shirley, 335 

— Wm. Henry, 341 
Fortifications, 15 iff, 

179. 335- 
Forty Acres (see also 
Skirts), 27, 28, 34, 71, 
192. 
Foster, John, 164 

—, Judge, 131 

Foster's hill, 131 

Fowler, Jos., 164 

— , Wm. C, 454 

Fowls, domestic, 373 
Fox, Nath'l, 340 

Franklin, Henry J., 411 
— , Nathan, 453 

Frary, Eleazar, 31, 80, 

256 note. 
— , Obadiah, 380 note 
Freemen, 16, 69 

Freight. See Trans- 
portation, Grain, 
Produce, etc. 
French, John, 340, 403 
— , John W., 430, 458 
French neutrals, 343, 

396, 413 note. 
French and Indian 
war. See War, In- 
dian, 6th. 
Fresh River (=Conn. 
Riv.), I 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



Friende, Francis, 141 
Fruits and fruit 

trees, 3641?, 386 

Funerals and mourn- 
ing, 239ff, 326 
Fur trade, 72 
Furs and fur-bear- 
ing animals, 347^ 

GALE, Levi, 361 
Game. See 
Deer, Moose, 
etc., 251 note, 344ff, 

349- 
GamwellSam'l,(Dr.),4i6 

Gardens, 366 

Gardner, John, 203 

— , Sam'l, II, 13, 16, 24, 

26, 52, 76, 82, 185, 204, 

205, 206. 
— , Sam'l, Jr., 76, 185 
Garret, Jno., 8g 

Garrison, "the brave 

little," 337 

Garrisons, pay of, 183 
Gassek, 106 

Gatchell, Jno., 135 

Gates, 34, 72 

Gauger of casks, 71 

Gay, Ebenezer, 59 

Gaylord, Chester, xxi, 

213, 2M, 436- 
— , Cotton, 340 

— , Eliphalet, 340 

— , Hezekiah, 423 

— , John, 386, 397, 402 
— , Jos., wife, 92 

— , Nath'l, 340 

— , Nehemiah, 423, *45o 
— , Nehemiah, Jr., 423, 

426. 
— , Sam'l, XXI, 213, 275, 

278, 283, 316 note, 320, 

364 note, 372 note, 423, 

*449. *45o- 
— , Sam'l, Jr., 213, 381, 

387, 423, 450. 
— , Wm., 185, 189, 205, 

275, 281 note, 284, 390 

note, 402. 
— , Wm., Jr., 340 

Geese, 373 

Genealogies, with 

index, follow this 

index. 
General Court, 2; 

contest with royal 

commissioners, 73 



Gerrin, Peter, 164 

Gibbs, Temperance, 366 

note. 
Giddings, James, 403 
— , John, 403 

Gilbert, John, 161 

— , John, Jr., 90 

— , Thos., 161 

Gillam, Capt., 155, 158 
Gillet, Adonijah, 337 
— , John, 254 

— , Jos., 140. 141 

— , Sam'l, 31, 77, 80, 164 
Girls, instruction of, 56 
Glover, Peletiah (Rev.), 

68, no, 144, 145- 
Goffe, Wm. (Gen.), 
V, ff ; in traditional 
attack upon H ad- 
ley, VIII ; escape to 
America and subse- 
quent adventures, 
IX, ff. ; death of, 
xxxiii; 45, 137, 
182, 2o6fE, 210, 214. 
Golding, Peter, 90 

Goodale, Isaac, 409, 410 

note, 417. 
Goodhue, Josiah 

(Dr.), 443 

Goodman, Asa, 340 

— , Eleazar, 402 

— , John, 203, 204, 275, 

278, 283. 
— , John, Jr., 278 

— , Jos., 283 

— , Mary, 52 

— , Nathan, 423 

— , Noah, 299 note, 340, 
385. 397. 398. 403. 418 
— , Rich'd, II, *i2, 15, 
24, 26, *62, 63, 76, 88, 
157, 185, *2i8, *446. 
— , Rich'd (wid. of), 

*203, 206 
— Sam'l, 283, 337 

— , Simeon, 340 

— , Stephen, 39, 382, 424 

and note, *45o. 
— . Sylvester (Col.),*45i 
— , Thos., 275, 278, 283, 

*39i, 448, *449- 
— , Thos., Jr., 281 note, 

284, 402. 
Goodman's ferry, 39 

Goodrich. Aaron, 424 
— , widow, 424 



Goodwin, Nath'l, 204 
— , Ozias, II, 12, i3,*i5, 
31, 32. 

— Wm., 4, 10, II, 12, 
13, 15, 20, 24, 26, 39, 
42, 47', 48, *49, 75, 76, 
*8i, 88, 89, 203, 204 
206, 243, 419. 

— Memorial bldg., 463 
Gould, Jno., 340 
Government, change I 

of, in Mass., 262 ' 

Grafton (Hassa- 

namesit), 37 

Graham, Sam'l, 340 

Grain, transporta- 
tion of, 75, 93, 94; 
prices of, 94; used 
for taxes, debts, 
etc., 94, 198, 202; 
kinds and amts. 
raised in Hadley 
(1771), 386 
Grammar school. 
See under Hopkins 
and Hadley. 
— , teachers of 1666- 

1725. 58 

Granby, deed of, 109; 
division of lands in, 
277; lands in, 280; 
extent of, 287; men 
from in 6th Indian 
war, 339ff; statis- 
tics of in 1 77 1: 385; 
incorporated, 393 
note; 397, 399'. 
schools, 400; 409. 
Granger, Lancelot, 60 
— , Lorenzo N., 436, 446, 

*452, 457. 
— , Robt., 269 

Grannis, Edward, 90, 91, 

206. 
— , Jos., 91 

Grant of 1673, 185 

— of 1683, 186 

— of 1727, 187 
Grasses, 36ifE, 364 note 
Grave diggers, 71 
Grave-yard at Had- 
ley, 241 

Graves, Geo., 136 

— , Isaac, 15, 31. 42, 7°' 

77, *8o, 81, 82, 83, 149, 

162, 176, *446 
— , Isaac, Jr., 31- 77 



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483 



Graves, John, 15, 31, 77, 

80, 176, 275, 279. 
— , John, Jr., 31, 77 

— , Jonathan, 279 

Gray, Jas., 339 

Great Barrington, 342 

note. 
Great River, the, 14 

Green, Eliphalet, 403 
— , Francis, 340 

— , Linus, 452 

— , Timothy, 411 

Greene, Moses B., 454, 

455' 
Greenfield (Green's 

farms), 320, 335, 338 
Greensmith, Nath'l, 

wife of, 225 

Gridley, Elijah 

(Rev.), 400 

— , Timothy, Jr., 452, 

*4S3. 454- 
Griffin, Jno., 292 

Groton, 154 

Grout, Marcus C , 454 
Guard, Sabbath, 71 

Guilford, Paul, 340 

— , Micah, 340 

Gull, Wm., II, 13, 31, 77 

80. 
Guns. SeeFiRE-ARMS. 

HADLEY, (See 
also A M - 
HERST, East 
Side, West Side, 
nonotuck, nor- 
woTTucK, etc., and 
under separate 
headings; as,BiCEN- 
tennial. Lists 
and Tables, Meet- 
ING-HOUSE, etc., 
etc.), settled, 3; 
first settlers apply 
to Mass. for land, 
10; proceedings of 
first settlers, 143- 
namcs of, see Lists ; 
boundaries, 14, 
185, 186, 287; 
named, i7;gov't 17; 
first commsrs., 17, 
1 8 ; church organ- 
ized, 86; first minis- 
ters, see Minis- 
ters; first meeting- 
house, see Meet- 



ing-house; first 
deacons, 47, first 
religious society, 
43s; proprietors 
(1663), 24; changes 
in, 26, (1681), 203; 
plan of village, see 
Plans; gov't of E. 
and W. sides, 78; 
fire ( 1 706) , 99 ; deed 
of, 106; deed of W. 
side, 107, cost of 
lands, 113; tradi- 
tional attack on 

(1675), VIII, XV, 

137, 206; attack 
(June, 1676) 170; 
fortification of, 152, 
179; military laws 
(1676), 152; garri- 
son (1678) 179, 
(1705), 268; loss of 
property in Indian 
wars (1676-7), 181; 
headquarters in 
Philip's war, 182; 
colony expenses, 
182; rates and 
taxes (1675) 182, 
paid in produce, 
199, (1681) 203, 
(1687) 204, (1692- 
1702) 260, (1708) 
271, (1726) 334 
note, (1751) 337 
note, (1761) 341 
note; population of 
(1662, 1685) 190, 
(1690) 259 note, 
(1701) 274 note, 
(1770) 423, 424; 
changes in (1663- 
8 7), 205, recent, 46 7; 
vote of for colonial 
governor, etc., 262; 
list of real estate 
and res. of owners 
(1731). 283 and 
note ; officers and 
men in Fr. and In- 
dian war, 338-40; 
statistics of (1771), 
385; ratifies U. S. 
Constitution, 418; 
largest estates 
(1770), 424; first 
physicians, 443; 
counsellors, 444; 



state senators, 444; 
deputies and rep- 
resentatives, 445 ; 
townsmen and 
selectmen, 446; 
recorders or town 
clerks, 452; recent 
history of, 457; in 
Civil War, 459; old 
families, 46^; pres- 
ent inhabitants, 
469. 
Hadley Farm above 
Sunderland, 187 

— Farms, 416 

— Grammar School, 40, 
386. 

— Indians, 117, 150, 153 

— Intervals, 25 

— mill, attacked, 184 

— road, 37 

— street, 23. See 
Broad Street. 

— Young Men's Li- 
brary Asso., 462 

Hair, punishment for 

wearing long, 91 

Hale, Enoch (Rev.), 360 
— , Thos., 203, 204, 205 
Haley, John, 203, 204, 

205. 
Half-way brook, 106 
Half-way covenant, 

327. 330 
Hall, Aaron, xxxv 

— , Apphia, xxxv 

— , Jonathan, 423 

— , Rich'd, 168 

— , Sam'l, 2 

Hammond, Timothy, 

424 
Hampshire county 
(comprising up to 
p. 353 the present 
Hampshire, Hamp- 
den and Franklin. 
See p. 353), 8sff; 
towns in when in- 
corporated, 85; 
courts, 86; officials, 
87; court expen- 
ses, 93; first prison 
in, 95; towns and 
plantations in 
(1675), 130; in In- 
dian wars, see 
Wars, Indian; 
persons slain in 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



(1675), 131, 149, 

150; scheme to 
consolidate towns 
in, 159; persons 
slain in (1676-7), 
180; bldgs. isurnt 
(1676-7), 180; 
towns destroyed in 
Philip's war, 181 
note; colony ex- 
penses, 182; rates 
and taxes (1675) 
182, (1675-1680) 
199, method of 
paying, 200, (1690) 
259 note, 260 note, 
(1708) 271, (1746) 
337 note ; towns and 
plantations in, be- 
fore 1688, 248; first 
executions in, 257; 
first white person 
executed in, 261; 
number of soldiers 
in (1690), 259 note, 
aided by Conn. , 263 ; 
expenses in Queen 
Anne's war, 270 
note; new towns in 
(after 17 13), 291; 
war charges in 4th 
Indian war, 331; 
Conn. troops in 

(1723-S). 331; new 
towns and planta- 
tions in (after 1725) 

334- 
Hampshire Gazette, 

xxxvi 

— Regiment (1748), 334 
note. 

— Troop, 219 
Hapgood, Shadrach, 131 
Harbert, Benj., n, 13 
Harkness, Jno., 424 
Harriman, Jno., 141 
Harrington,Ebenez'r,383 
Harrison, Isaac, 76, 164, 

165, 185, 189, 205. 
— , Katherine, 225 

— , Martha ( wid. of 

Isaac), 164, 205 

Hartford (Conn.), 

settled, 2; church 

troubles, 3, 7; 

withdrawers from, 

10, 12, 13, 47; gram- 

inar school, 48. 



Hartling Stake, the, 405, 

413- 
Harvard College, 
contributions to , 48 , 
96; graduates of in 
Amherst, 454. 
Harwood, Benj. ,340, 417 
— , Eleazar, 340 

Hassanamesit (Graf- 
ton), 37 
Hastings, Thos. (Dr.), 

66, 84, 41 r, 417, 442 
Hastings, Thos., 2d, 442 
Hasty pudding, 357 note 
Hatfield, 3; land in, 
30; houselots, 31; 
encroachment of 
river, 49; inns, 63; 
incorporation of, 
83 ; source of name, 
84; population 
(1670), 84; first 
school, 84; town of- 
ficers, 84; bovxnd- 
ary disputes, 85; 
church organized, 
86; incorporated, 
86; contributions 
to Harvard College, 
96; deed of, 107; 
deed of north part, 
no; Indian attack 
on (1675), 147; per- 
sons killed at 
(167s), 148, 150; 
Indian attack on 
(1676), 167, (1677), 
175; list of killed 
and wounded 

(Sept. 1677), 176; 
contest with Had- 
ley, 187; fears 
caused by attack, 
179; garrison, 179; 
houses burnt (1676- 
7), 180; boundaries 
of, 188; rates and 
taxes (1674-6) 199, 
(167s) 182, (1692- 
1702) 260, (1708) 
27i,(i726)334note, 
(1751) 337 note, 
(1761) 341 note; 
population (1690), 
259 note; palisade 
built, 260 note; in 
3d Indian war. 



267-8; share of 

lands south of 

Hadley, 277. 
Hats, mfr. of, 347ff 

Hawes, Rev. Dr., 5 

Hawkes (Hawks), 

Clarence, 465 

— , Eliezer, 165, 201, 

203, 204, 206, 337. 

— , Gershom, *9o, 203, 

204, 206. 

— , Good wife, 88 

— , John, II, 13, 24, 26, 

27. 31. 32, 77. 82, 204, 

267. 

Hawley, Chester, 451 
— , Elijah, 339, 340 

— , Isaac, 452 

— , Joseph, 52, 54, 61, 

200, *256, 263, 289, 

291, 306, 314 note, 334 

note, 416. 
— , Mehetabel, 407 

— , Moses, 414, 416 

— , Rebecca, 407 

— , Sam'l, 284, 339, 405, 

407, *4i6. 
— , Sam'l, Jr., 340, 416 
— , Sarah, 407 

Hay, 361 

Hayes, Joel (Rev.), 394, 

395- 
Haywards, 71 

Heath hens, 349 note 
Heber (negro), 360, 361 
Helme, Thos., 88 

Hemp and rope, 359 

note. 
Henchman, Dan'l 

(Capt.), 169, 170, 171, 

172. 
Henderson, Gideon, 411, 



^417. 



James 

412 

403 

340 

340, 411 



Hendrick, 

(Capt.), 
Henry, Jas., 
— , Josiah, 
— , Sam'l, 
Herbs, medicinal, 

366 note 
Hibbard, Geo., 425 

— , John, *4S2 

Hibbins, Anne, 226 

Highways, 34ff, 193, 273 

note, 281, 282, 284, 288, 

414. 
— , surveyors of, 
Hill, The, 



71 
31 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



485 



Hill, Abr ah am 

(Rev.), 411 

Hillhouse, David, 238 
Hilliard (or Hillyer), 
John, 234, 275, 340, 
389 note, 402. 
— , Jos., 340, 403 

— , Timothy, 278, 284, 

402. 
— , Timothy, Jr., 340, 

402. 
Hills, Wm., 156 

Hinckley, Rev. Mr., 

daughter of, killed, 457 
Hinsdale (or Hins- 
dcll), Barnabas, 31, 32, 
77, 80, 141. 
— , Experience, 163 

— , John, 140, 141 

— , Mehuman, 269 

— , Robt., 140, 141 

— , Sam'l, 77, 140, 141 
Hitchcock, Chas. H., 455 
— -, Chas. P., 436, 452 
— , Edward, Jr., 455 

— , Elizabeth (wid. 

Luke), 26 

— , John, 144 

— , Luke, II, 13, 26 

Hobbs, Jno., 141 

— , Thos , 141 

Hockanum (mead- 
ows), 25, 28, 30, 33, 
71, 72, 109; deed of, 
109; 1 10, III, 113; 
three men slain at 
(1676), 157; 193, 
285, 288. 

— ferry, 457 
Hodge, Jno., 380, *4Si 
Hogreeves, 71 
Hog-ringers, 71 
Hogs. See Swine. 
Holidays and cele- 
brations, 263 note 

Holland, J. G., 464 

Hollister, John (Lt.), 9 
Holmes, Robt., 141 

— William, 2 
Holton, John, 345 
— , Thos., 155, 332 
— , Wm., 13, 14, 77, 256 

note, 445. 
Holyoke, Editha, 227 

note. 
— , Elizur, 3, 13, 14, 16, 

87, 92, 218. 



Holyoke, John, 54, 87, 

256 note. 
— , Sam'l (Capt.), 161, 

163. 
Homelots, 23, 188, 190 
Hominy, 357 note 

Honey pot=Forlorn, 

the, 27 

Hooker, H. T., xxxv 
— , Jos. (Gen.) v, 459, 

463- 

— Sam'l, 2, II, *i3, 27, 

46. 
— , Thos., 4, 13 

Hoosuck, West (Wil- 

liamstown), 338 

Hopkins, Edward, 48 
— , Erastus, *436 

— , Esther, 326 

— , John, 214,451,452 
— , John (Rev.), 325 

notes. 
— , Sam'l (Rev.), xii, 47, 

191,192, 210, 241, 32 4ff, 

378, 383, 423. 
— , Timothy, *45i 

Hopkins Academy 

(see also Hopkins 

School), 459 

— donation, 40 

— (Grammar) school 
(see also School), 40, 
45, 48, 50, 206. 

— trustees, 49, 50 
Hopkinsians, 326 
Hops, 366 note 
Horse blocks, 315; 

sheds, 315. 
Horses, 72, 367 

Horse stealing, 368 note 
Hospitals, in French 
and Indian war, 
342; rum used in, 
342. 
Housatonnuc, vari- 
ous spellings, 173 
Hovey, Dan'l, 90, 185, 

446. 
— , James, 131 

— , Jos., 201, 203, 204, 

205, 277. 

— , Thos., 51, 52, 60, 

191, 203, 204, 205, 256 

note, 265, 275, 278, 283, 

420, *447, 448. 

How, Abner, 340 

— , Nehemiah, 340 



Howard, Robt. (Dr.), 

XXIX 

— , Wm., 164 

Howe, J. C. & A. C.,457 
Hoyt, David, 165, 203, 

205, 277, 345. 
— , David, Jr., 265 

Hubbard, Dan'l, 204,205, 

275, 278, 283, 447. 
— , Edmund, 340, 423, 

*449. *45o- 
— , Elisha, 452 

— , Hezekiah, 340, 423 
— , Isaac, 279, 411, 417, 

418. 
— , John, II, 13, 16, 24, 
26, 39, *58, 76, 92, no, 
185, 190, 203, 205, 
*446, *447. 
— , Jos., 283, 424, *449 
— , Mercy, 92 

— , Ruth, 423 

— , Stephen G., 444 

Hudson, Sam'l, 141 

Hudson river In- 
dians, 250 
Huggins, Margaret, 266 

note. 
Hulbert, Benajah, 268 
— , Jas., 339 

Hulet, Jno., 424 

Humphrey, Michael, 292 
— , Zephaniah Moore 

(Rev.), 455 

"Hungry march," 169, 

173- 
Hunn, David L. 

(Rev.), 435 

Hunt, Ebenezer(Dr.), 
294, 295 note, 306 
and note, 327 note, 343, 

347. 348, 353. 371. 384. 

393, 404 note, 441, 444 
— , E. & Sons, 444 

— & Shepherd, 444 

Hunters, old time, 349 
Hunting, see Game, 

etc.; persons killed 

in, 349 note 

Huntington, Aria, 465 
— , Dan (Rev.), 193, 327, 

339 note, *436, 460. 
— , Frederic Dan 

(Rev.), 436, 463 

— , Elizabeth W., 339 

note. 
— , Geo. P. (Rev.), 463 
— , F. D. (Prof.), 35^ 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



Huntington , T h e o - 

dore G., *436 

— T. P., 436 

— , Wm., 444 

Huntstown (Ash- 
field, 338 
Kurd, H. C, 452 
Husbandry, 353^ 
Huskings, 357 note 
Hutchinson, Edward 

(Capt.), 130. 131 

— , Gov., 138 

— , Moses, 266 

ILLEGITIMATE 
children (white), 
(see also Bas- 
tardy), 261 
Impost or customs. 

See Petition. 
Indians (see also un- 
der Albany, Had- 

LEY, NiPMUCKS, 

etc.), characteris- 
tics of, 65, 104, 120- 
I, 125; trading with, 
72; settlements, 96; 
lands bought from, 
io4fT; paymt. for 
lands, 1 1 iff; tribes 
near Conn, river, 
114; number of, in 
New Eng. , 115, 
(1675) 127, in Mass. 
and N. H. (1674), 
128, in and near 
Hampshire Co. in 
Philip's war, 150; 
relations with 
whites, 117; sub- 
sistence of, 117; 
forts, 118; fort on 
Lawrence's plain, 
119; last forts of, 
119-20; entertain- 
ment of, 124; gifts 
to, 124; shell and 
bead ornaments of, 
126; sent to Mass. 
by Conn. ,146; cruel 
punishment of, 147 ; 
in winter (1675-6), 
152; dogs used 
against, 167 ; friend- 
liness of in Conn., 
183; guns and 
marksmanship of. 



183, 220; trouble 
with, 2 48ff; enter- 
tainment of, 272 ; 
rewards for scalps 

of. 333. 338. 
Indian deeds, rights, 
105-6; remarks on 
deeds, no; names, 
in; signatures ,111; 
sachems, 116, 160; 
names for wild ani- 
mals, 347 note. 
Indian Bottom, 29, 364 

note. 
Indian corn. See 

Maize. 
"Indian gifts," 123 

Indian Ho11ow=In- 

DiAN Bottom. 
Indian pudding, 35 7 note 
Indigo, 380 

Ingram, Ebenezer, 284, 

416. 

— , Elisha, *386, 414,416 

— , Ezra, 454 

— , John, 24, 25, 26, 27, 

39, 52, 165, 189, 203, 

204, *2o5, 206, 242, 

275, 277 note, 278, 284, 

405 and note, 407, 416, 

418. 

— , John, Jr., 275, 278, 

284, *4i6. 
— , John, 3d, 278, 417 
— , Jonathan, *265, 275, 

423- 
— , Lydia, 407 

— , Mehetabel, 407 

— , Nath'l, 27s, 278, 383 
and note, 386, 389 
note, 402. 
— , Nath'l, Jr., 284 

— , Philip, 340, 417 

— , Reuben, 409, 417 
— , Sam'l, 191, 275, 416 
— , Solomon B. (Rev.) 45 5 
Inner Commons, 194. 

See Commons. 
Inns and Innkeepers 
(see also under Am- 
herst, Hadley, 
etc.), 62, 63, 414 

Intemperance, 67 

Interest, in Eng. and 
in Mass., 304 (see 
note, 305). 



Island in Conn. R., 
bet. Northampton 
and Hadley, 300 

JACK (negro), 
execution of, 261 
Jackson, Jane, 90 
James, blind, (In- 
dian), 117 
James, John, 59 
Janes, Benj. and 

family, 2 66 and note 
— , Ebenezer, 137 

— , John, 137 

— , Sam'l and family, 266 
— , Wm., 137 

Jennings, Captivity, 177 
— , Hannah, 176 

— , Stephen, 176, 177 
Jesuits, 125 

Jewett,Jno. Howard, 465 
Job (Christian In- 
dian), 153 
John, one-eyed (sag- 
amore), 140 
Johnson, Clifton, 463 ,465 
— , Mary, 225 
— , Stephen, *45i 
Jokes, 307 note 
Jones, Benoni and 

family, 266 

— , David, 383 

— , Esther, 266 note 

— , Jonathan, 340 

— , Margaret, 226 

— , Thos., 454 

— , Wm., 208 

Joshua, son of Uncas, 

132, 134 
Judd, Alfred, 349 note 
— , Asahel, 339, 391, 

*403- 
— , Jonathan (Rev.), 

330. 337 
— , Reuben, 397, ^403 
— , Salathiel, 394 note 
— , Sylvester, xxxv 

— , Sylvester (Rev.), 

XXXVII 

— , Thos., 402 

Judges, early in 

Hampshire, 86 

— , of Charles I (see 
also Whalley, 
GoFFE, Dixwell), 

139, 209, 211, 214 
Judges' Cave, 21 1 

Juries, first, 87 



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487 



157 
157 
157 
417 
340 



KEEP, Jabez 
John, 
Sarah, 
Keet, Jno., 
— , Jno.,Jr., 
Kellogg, Aaron, 414, 454 
— , Abraham, 417 

— , Bela (Rev.), 4^4 
— , Dan'l,386,*4i7,4i8, 

454- 
— , David (Rev.), 454 
— , Ebenezer, 284, 402, 
*4o5, 406, 407, 414, 
*4i6, 417, *4i8, *449 
— , Edward, 204, 275 
— , Eleazer, 454 

— , Elizabeth, 407 

— , Ephraim, 385, 414, 

416. 

— , Ezekiel, 283, 292 

— ■, Gardner, 423 

— . Giles C. (Dr.), 373 

note, 383, 385, 404, 

415 note, 423, 424, 

*436, *443, 444, 445, 

446, 449, 450, 451, 452 

— , Henry, 454 

— , Jabez, 340, 403 

— , James, 39, 283, 289 

note, 381, *449. 

— > Joel. 235 

— , John, 27, 39, 191, 

203, 204, 206, 275, 278, 

423, 424, *447, 448, 

450. 

— , Jos., 24, 26, *27, 38, 

51, 52, 53, 60, 63, 76, 

82, 91, iio, 163, 165, 
176, 184, 193, 203, 204, 



218, 



^219, 275, 278, 



279, 284, 332, 389 note, 

397, 402, *446, *447. 
— , Jos., Jr., 90, 203, 403 
— , Justin P., 455 

— , Martin, 203, 204, 386, 

414. 
— , Martin, Jr., 268 

■ — ■, Moses, 382, 423, *45o 
— , Nath'l, 206, 275, 278, 

279 note, 280 note, 284, 

285 note, 314, 335, 407, 

*448, *449- 
— , Nath'l, Jr., 3S' 278, 

282, 284, 448, 449. 
— , Rufus Bela, 455 

— , Sam'l, 31, 77, 80, 176, 

177, 284, 396, 402. 
— , Sarah, 176, 407 



Kellogg, Stephen, 316 

note. 
Kellond, Thos., x, 208 
Kelsey, Matthias, 340 
Kennebec Indians, 121, 

123. 
Kibbe, Seth, *4i6 

Kidd, Capt., 343 

Kilborne, Jacob, 141 
Kilburn, Hezekiah, 59 
Kimball, Caleb, 141 

King, John, 160, 249, 

256 note, 263. 
— , Jos., 141, 349 note 
— , Wm., 31 

Kingsley, Enos, 256 note 
Kirby, Jno., Jr., 156 

Kirk, Thos., x, 208 

Knapp, Goodwife, 225 
Knight, Elam C, 610 
Knights, Benj., 340 

Kunckkiunk-qual- 

luck, 106 

Kunckquachu hills, 106 

LAMB, Dan'l, 298 
note, 309. 
— ,Jno., no 

Lambert, Rich'd, 141 
Lammon, John, 349 note 
Lainpaunchus, 106 

Lamprey eels, 309 

Lamson,C. E., 436 

Lancaster (Nashua), 
37; massacre, 129, 
132; destruction of, 
154; attacked 
(1704), 267. 
Land, divisions of. 
See Commons, divis. 
of; in New Eng., 22 
ff; equalizing, 28; 
measurement of, 32, 
71, 186, 274, 276; 
in New Eng., 96; 
purchased from In- 
dians, 104; early 
values, 104; equiv- 
alent, 276, 290; 
province, 276; 
prices of (i 713-31), 
276 note; distribu- 
tion of, 280; prices 
of (1722-1729), 281 
note; pine, 286; val- 
ues, 286; summary 
of grants and distri- 



butions, 287; specu- 
lation, 291; clearing 
of, 432. 
Landings, on Conn. 

river, 299 

Lane, John, 278, 284, 

389 note, 403. 
— , John, jr., 403 

— , Sam'l, 203, 205, 340 
Lanesboro, 338 

Langberry, John, 164 
Lard, 371 note 

Latimer, Jno., n, 13 
Lawrence, Dan'l, 252, 

253- 
— , John, 206, 277, 252, 

254- 

— , Julia, 462 

— , Thos., 252 

Lawrence's bridge, 38, 

254- 
— plain, 33, 118, 254, 

289. 
Learned, Dr., son of, 

killed, 457 

Leather, Sealer of, 409 
Leathern garments, 350 
Leavens, Andrew, 203, 

204. 
— , James. 134 

Lectures, 38, 330 

Leffingwell, Lieut., 170 
Leland, John, 452, 454 
— , John Henry M. 

(Rev.), 455 

Leonard, Dan'l, 424 

Levens. See Leav- 
ens. 
Leverett, Gov., 138; 

widow of, 139. 
Lewis, Noadiah, 340, 417 
— , Phihp, 76 

— , Wm., 6, II, *i2, 15, 

*i6, 24, 26, 42, 63, 69, 

72, 76, 81, 89, 185, 205, 

219, 445, *446. 
Lewis land, 204 

Library, 462 

Lights and Lighting, 379 
Lining out the psalm , 40 1 
Liquor, allowance of 

to soldiers, 270; 

sales of to Indians, 

63, 251 ; dealers, 62, 

70. 
Liquors, duties on, 199 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



Lists and Tables. — 
Names of engagers 
to remove from 
Conn, to Mass., ii; 
Property owners of 
Hadley in 1663, 24; 
Plan of Hadley in 
1663 , 24; Hadley 
proprietors in 1663, 
26; Teachers of 
Hadley Grammar 
school, 58; Town 
officers, 69; Peti- 
tioners against cus- 
toms (1669), 76; 
Hadley court cases, 
88; Men slain in 
Hampshire Co. 
(167s). 150; Per- 
sons slain in Hamp- 
shire Co. (1676-7), 
180; petitioners for 
additions to Had- 
ley, 185; Land 
grants next to riv- 
er (1672), 189; Rec- 
ord of lots on Pine 
Plain, 191; Hadley 
Ratepayers (1681), 
203; Ratepayers 
(1686-7), 204; offi- 
cers of Hadley com- 
pany before 1700, 
219; officers o f 
Hampshire cavalry 
before 1700, 220; 
Christian names 
of Hadley children 
(1660-1700), 244; 
Province taxes of 
Hampshire towns 
(1692, 1696, 1700), 
260; Assignment 
of Hadley woodlots 
(1703). 2 75 -.Assign- 
ment of lands on 
south side of Mt. 
Holyoke, 278, Real 
estate of each in- 
habitant of Hadley 
(1731), 283; sum- 
mary of land grants 
and distributions, 
287; Men from 
Hadley, So. Had- 
ley, Amherst and 
Granby in the 6th 
Indian war, 340; 



Statistics of Hadley , 
South Hadley, Am- 
herst and Granby 
(1771). 385; Set- 
tlers and Heads of 
Families in S. Had- 
ley and Granby be- 
fore 1763, 402; 
members of ist 
church, E. Hadley, 
407; ist town offi- 
cers of Amherst, 
409; Planters and 
householders of 
Amherst, before 
1763, and additions 
416; Inhabitants 
of Hadley in 1770, 
423 ; Hadley bi-cen- 
tennial committees, 
436; Order of the 
day, Hadley bi-cen- 
tennial, 437; Medi- 
cines and physici- 
ans, 438; Hadley 
counsellors, 444; 
State senators, 444, 
Deputies and rep- 
resentatives, 445; 
Townsmen or se- 
lectmen, 446; Re- 
corders or town 
clerks, 452; Am- 
herst representa- 
tives in Congress, 
452; state counsel- 
lors, 452, Presiden- 
tial elector, 452; 
Delegates and Rep- 
resentatives , 453; 
College graduates, 
natives of Amherst, 

454- 
Literature, Hadley 

contributions to, 463 
Littleale, Jno., 141 

Little River, 2 

Livingston, Robt., 124, 

250. 
Lobdell, Simon, x, 87, 

12 2. 

Locke, Wm. (Dr.), 184 
Long hill, 143 

Longmeadow, 86, 
130, 143; ambus- 
cade near (1676), 
156. 
Longmeadow gate, 35 



Loomis, Thos., 203 

Lord, Thos , 442 

Lord's supper (.see 

also Communion), 329 
Lothrop, Thos. 
.(Capt.), 132, 133; 
; slain with men, 139, 

141. 
Lots in Hadley, oc- 
cupation of (1681), 
203; (1687), 204. 
Loud, Watson, 444 

Louisburg, capture 
of, 335; Hadley 
men at, 336 note. 
Loveland, Eleazar, 340 
Low place, 428 

Lubber's hole, 281 

note, 394. 
Lumber. See also 
Timber, Wood, 294- 
300, 430. 
Lumber road, 298 

Lyman, Aaron, 291 

— , Asahel, 106 

— , Azariah, 288, 424 
— , Caleb, 267, 288, 340, 



424, *45o. 
— , Elias, 289, 299 

— , Elijah, 288, 297 

— , Gideon, 288, 424 

— , Gideon, Jr., 288, 289 

note. 
— , Hannah, 92 

— , Israel, 288, 289 note, 

424. 
— , John (Capt.), 160, 

162, 163, 218, 288, 424, 

*449- 
— , Luke, 288 

— , Phinehas, 423, *445. 

*45o- 
— , Rev. Dr., 326 

— , Richard, 13, 14. 7^. 

92, 253. 
— , Sam'l F., 92 

— , Seth, 350 note 

— , Thos., 256 note 

— , Zadock, 288, 289 

and note; widow of, 

289 note, *452. 
Lyman tavern, 457 

Lyon, Mary, 4°° 

— , Thos., 164 

Lyruss, Geo., 135 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



489 



McCRAY, War- 
ren, 444 
McDaniel, Ja- 
cob, 411, 412, 414. 
McNeill, Sam'l, 340 
Mackrannel, Jas., 155 
Magnaws, 122 
Mahquolous or Mo- 
quolas, 255,256;ex- 
ecution of, 257. 
Mahweness or Mow- 
enas, 255, 256; 
execution of, 257. 
Maine, officers and 
men from in Mass., 341 
note. 
Maine Indians, 123, 127 
Maize, 356 
Malt and malting, 355 

and note. 
Malt-houses, 66 

Manhan river, 36 

Manning, Thos., 141 

Manure, use of, 357 

Maple sugar, 378 

Maquas. See Mo- 
hawk Indians. 
Mardin, Jno., 88 

Margaret (negro ser- 
vant of Mr. Russell), 89 
Maria (negro), execu- 
tion of, 261 
Markham (Markum), 
Wm., II, 12, 15, 16, 
24, 26, 52, 76, 185, 203, 
204. 
— , Wm.,Jr., 135 
Marlborough, 154 
Marriages and Wed- 
dings, 235 
Marsh, Calvin, 383 
— , Dan'l, 52, 71, 76, 188, 
191, 203, 204, 205, 206, 
256 note, 275, 278, 279 
note, 283, *3io, 423, 
*447,_*448. 
— , Dwight, 462 
— , Ebenezer, 211, 278, 
283, 293 note, 448, 

*45o- 
— , Ebenezer, Jr., 423 
— , Geo. C, 46=; 

— , Job (Dr.), 238, 278, 

283, 304, 448, 449, 452 
— , John, II, 12, 15, 24, 

26, 59, 90, 203, 204, 

265, 278, 446, *448. 



Marsh, John, heirs 

of, 283 

— , Jonathan, 206, 256 
. note, 275, 278, 310, 

*447, 448. 
— , Jonathan, Jr., 59 
— , Jos., 383, *45i 

— , Moses (Capt.), 342, 

423. 445. *449. *4So 
— , Phebe, 423 

— , Sam'l, 31, 76, 275, 

279. 423. 449- 
— , Sarah, 283 

— , Wm., heirs of, 283 

Marshall, Eliakim, *i4i 

— , John, 340, 385, *386, 

396, 403- 
Martin, Benj. (Rev.), 435 

Mason, John (Capt.), 139 

— , Jos., 252; wife, 252, 

253- 
— , Sam'l, 134 

— , Thos. M., 134 

Massachusetts, col- 
ony, I ; share of cost 
of Philip's war and 
Maine war, 181 ; ex- 
pense of govern- 
ment (1650-75), 
198; change of gov- 
ernment in (1692), 
262; aid received 
from Conn., 263; 
first Episcopal 
church in, 263 note; 
expenses in Queen 
Anne's war, 270; 
south and north 
boundaries, 290, 
335; expenses in 
4th Indian war, 
^^ I ; cost of soldiers 
against Canada 
(1746), 336; cost 
Louisburg expedi- 
tion, 336; expenses 
1744-49). 336 note; 
general and war 
expenses (1755-63). 
province taxes 
(1755-63); monies 
reed. fr. Gt. Britain 
(1756-66), 341 note; 
poll tax, 341 note; 
garrisons in 5th In- 
dian war, 335; men 
supplied for Can- 



ada expeditions, 
337 ; in Fr. and In- 
dian war, 338. 

Massachusetts na- 
tion, 128 

— Central Railroad, 
built 460; accident 
on, 457. 

Massoamat, 116 

Masts, etc., for Brit- 
ish navy, 296 

Match locks ,183. See 
Flint Locks. 

Mather, Eleazer 
(Rev.), 58, 77 

— , Increase (Rev.), 

XVIII, XXIV, XX VII, XXXI 

— , Nath'l, 59 

— , Rich'd, 6 

— , Sam'l, xix, 142, 297 
— , Sam'l M. (Rev.), 59 
— , Warham, 58, 249 
Mattabaget, 106 

Mattaomet, 3 

Mattawan, 64 

Matthews, Jno., 145 

— , Pentecost, 145 

Mattoon, Ebenezer, 
(Capt.), 408, 409, 417, 

*453. 454- 
— , Ebenezer, Jr., 410, 
*4ii, 412, *452, *453, 

454- 
— , Eleazar (Deac), 407, 

408, 416, 449. 
— , Elizabeth, 407 

— , Noah Dickinson, 454 
Maudsley, John, 167, 218 
Meacham, Jas., 340, 423 
Meadow, Aquavitng 

(see Aquavit.^), 39, 67 
— , Chapin's, 280 

— , Fort, 27, 28, 30, 71, 

72, 285. 
— , — , skirts of, 118, 193 
— , Forty Acre, 27, 30 
— , Great (higher or 

north), 20, 27, 29,30,33, 

71,72,107,280,281 note 
— , Hockanuin. See 

HOCKANUM. 

— , Little, 29, 30, 280 
— , Long. See Long- 

MEADOW. 

— , North=:Great. 

— , Nut, 194 

— , Old Rainbow, 300 

— , Pichawamiche, 400 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



Meadow, Plymouth, 2 
— , School. See Mead- 
ows. 
— , South, 29, 30 

Meadow Plain, 24, 26, 

27, 30, 81. 
Meadows, 280 

— , Four, 28 

— , School, 27, 28, 49, 
50, 60, 71, 107, 119, 
426. 
Mechanics, 72 

Medfield, 154 

Medicines, early, 438ff 
Meekins, Thos., *i5, 31, 
32, 39, 41, 42, 77, 80, 
82, 83, 88, *446. 
— , Thos., Jr., 31, 77, 

*8o, 89, 148. 
Meer-stones, 34 

Meeting-house, first, 23, 

42, 419. 
— , second, 3ioff; 
belfry and spire, 
310; pulpit and 
sounding board, 
311; seats and 
pews, 311, 317; 
"swallow's nest," 
312; seating in, 3 1 2 ; 
christening basin, 
313; communion 
service, 313; bench- 
es for children, 
313; negroes, seats 
for, 313; repaired 
and colored , 314; 
steeple, clock and 
weathercock, 314; 
bell, 315; curtains, 
315; heating, 315; 
not dedicated, 316; 
used for civil pur- 
poses, 316; sweep- 
ing and bell-ringing, 
316; plan of, 317. 
Meeting-houses, not 
dedicated in New 
Eng., 316 

— , Janitors, 71 

Melyen, Jacob M., 58 
— , Sam'l, 58 

Memecho, Geo., 128 

Meminimisset, 130, 132, 

153- 

Mendon, 130, 132 

Menowniet, 134, 135 

Mentor, Thos., 141 



Merrick, Aaron, 453 

— , James, 417 

— , Noah, 320 

Merriman, Thos., 332 

Merrit, Jno., 141 

Meslin, 355 

Middle lane, 194 

Middle street, 422 

Mighill, Sam'l, 59, 283, 

395. 413- 
— , Thos. M. (Rev.), 59 

Military articles, cost 

of, 223 

— drill, 216-7 

Militia in Mass. and 
Conn., 215, 2i6ff; 
of Hadley, 2i8ff; 
arms of, 220-1; new 
law in Mass., 221; 
training, 221; In- 
dians and negroes 
exempt, 221. 
Mill brook, 34 

Mill river, 29, 35, 39 

Miller, Abraham, 333 
— , Jas., 135 

— , John, 164 

— , Thos., 144, 145 

— , Wm., wife of, 443 
Mills, 385-6; bolting, 
48; grist, 39,49. 50. 
Mills, E. H., 430 

— , John, 340 

Mincomonk, 107, 108 
Minister, first, 44, 
435; 2d-4th, 3i8ff; 
Sth-9th, 435; grave- 
stones of first four, 
328. 
Ministers, ordina- 
tions , 322; salaries , 
46, 198 note, 304, 
321 note, 406. 
— , woodfor,94,32i,33i, 

407. 
Mitchell, David, 397, 402 
Moccasins (mocca- 
sons, mogginsons), 267, 
338, 350- 
Mohawk brook, 106, no, 

192. 
Mohawk (or Maqua) 
Indians, 116, 120, ff; 
recompense from to 
Hadley citizens, 
122; war with New 
Eng. Indians, 121; 
league of Mass. 



with, 123; allies of 
Eng., 124; presents 
to, 124, 249; Conn, 
requests Andros to 
stirupagnst. Philip, 
153; attack Hadley 
Indians, 171; re- 
ports of prowess of, 
174; in Hampshire 
towns, 251; enter- 
tained by Mass., 
272; employed by 
Mass., 333. 

Mohegan Indians, 116, 
142, 169, 331 note. 

Moidore (negro) ,382 note 

Money, comparative 
values of, 95; colo- 
nial, values of, 195, 
303-4; at interest 
in Hadley (1771), 
386; metallic, see 
Coins; paper (see 
also Bills). 3oiff. 

Montague, John, 193, 

203, 27s, *278, 346, 
386, 423, 447. 

— , John (Corp.), 278, 

450- 
— , John, Jr., 191, 2615, 

*283. 
— , Jos., 403 

— , Josiah, 340, 403 

— , Luke, 284, 342, 386, 

389 note, 391,397,402, 

403, 449. 
— , Moses, 386, 391, 397, 

402. 
— , Nath'l (Deac), 283, 

423, 449, 450. 
— , Peter, 76, 165, 189, 

191, i93,*203, 204, 205, 

275, 278, 279 note*, 

283, 284, 310, 390 note, 

402, *447, *448. 
— , Peter, Jr., 278, 336 

note. 
— , Rich'd, II, 13, 15, 

24, 26, 40, 70, *7i, 73, 

76, 82, 108, 184, 185, 

204, 446, *447. 

— , Royal W., 436, 452 
— , Wm., 278, 284, 389 

note, 402, 425, *449. 
— , Zebina, 453, 455 
Moody, Abigail, 407 

— , Asahel, 340, 417 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



491 



Moody, Dan'l 

(Deac), *386.394.397. 

400, 402, 403. 
— , Ebenezer, 275, 278, 

284, 388, 389 note, 401, 

402, 448. 
— , Ebenezer, Jr., 284, 

402. 
— , Elisha, 403 

— , Gideon, 340 

— , H., 277 

— , John, 283, 386, 389 

note, 399, *403. 449- 
— , John, Jr., 340, 403 
— , Jonathan, 350, 416, 

417, 449. 
— , Jonathan, Jr., 340 
— , Jos., 342, *397, 398, 

402. 
— , Joshua (Rev.), 318 

note. 
— , Josiah, 385, 391, 402, 

403- 
— , Lemuel, 340, 350 
— , Levi, 349 note, 351 
— , Moses, 403 

— , Nathan, 283, 416 
— , Reuben, 403 

— , Sam'L 1 1, 12, 15, 24, 

26, 70, 185, 203, 204, 

262, 446, 447. 
— , Sam'l (son of 

above), 275, 278, 283, 

389 note, *448. 
— , Sam'l (Granby; 

son of 2d Sam'l), 283, 

399, 403, 449. 
— , Sam'l, son of 

above, 403 

—, Sam'l (Rev.), 318 
— , Stillman, 
— , Thos. H., 340 
Moore, Deacon, 
Moose, 348 note 

Morgan, Pelatiah, 157 
Morse, John, 58 

Morton, John, 414 and 

note, 416. 
— , John A 

452. 
— , Jos., *4i6 

— , Rich'd, 31 

— , Thos., 340, 417 

Mosely,Sam'l(Capt.),i32, 
136, 139, 140, 142, 146, 
155. 158. 



455 
403 
170 



436, 446, 



Mount Holyoke, 33, 35, 
106, no, 157, 295 note, 
427ff, 432, 458. 
Mount Toby, 106 

Mount Tom, 34, 295 note 
Mount Warner, 194, 284, 

287, 432. 
Mourning, 2 39ff 

Moxon, Geo. (Rev.), 226 
— , Martha, 226 

— , Rebecca, 226 

Muddy Brook, mass- 
acres, 140, 141, 150 
Mudge, James, 
— , Micah, 
Mun, James, 
Munhan, 
Munhan river, 
Murray, Hannah, 
— , Wm., 278, 283, 416 
— , Wm., Jr., 417 

Musket drill, or "pos- 
tures of ", 216 
Muskrats, 348 note 



141 

249 

165 
106 

35 
407 



N' 



AMERICK 35 

Namerick 
brook, 35 

Narragansett In- 
dians, war with, 
1 5 iff; attack Ply- 
mouth and R. I., 
158. 
Nash, Aaron, 342, 400, 

403- 
— , Dan'l, 284, *388, 

391. 394. 397. 402, 409, 
445, *449- 

— , Dan'l, 2d, 284, 402 
— , David (Deac), 394, 

397, 403, *4i6. 
— , Ebenezer, 275 

— , Eleazar, 280 note, 

392, 399, 403. 

— , Elisha, 403 

— , Enos, 314, 323, 423, 

445. *449. *45o. *45i- 

452- 
— , Ephraim, 275, 278, 

284, 388, 390 note, 403, 

449. 
— , Hannah, 407 

— , John, 194, 275, 278, 

283, 304, 349, *4o5, 

406, 407, 408, 410 note, 

411 and note, 416, 417, 
1 *447, *448, *449- 



Nash, John, Jr., 278, 

284, 449. 
— , Jonathan, 416 

— , Jos., 275, 278, 284, 

293. *403- 
— , Josiah, 426 

— , Lorenzo S., 454 

— , Martin, 403 

— , Sam'l, 89, 275, 278, 

283, 446. 
— , Sam'l, Jr., 284 

— , Sylvester (Rev.), 89 
— , Thos., 275, 279 

— , Thos. M., 446 

— , Timothy, 24, 26, 27, 
41, 51, 52, 70, 72, 76, 
89, 118, 184, 185, 191, 
201, 203, 204, *2I9, 
256 note, 263, 277, 284, 
340, 389 note, 396, 403, 
446. *447- 
Nashaway Path, 36 

Nashawelet river= 

ASHUELOT r. 

Nashua (Lancaster), 37 
Nattacows, 108 

Negroes (see also 
Slaves), executions 
of, 261; seats in 
meeting-house, 313; 
slaves, 313 note, 
320 note, 324 note, 

385. 
Negus, John, 340 

— , Wm., 340. 403 

— , Wm., Jr., 340 

Nepasoaneage brook, 13, 

14, *io6, 1 10. 
"Netop," 136 

Newberry (Vt.), _ 268 
Newberry, Benj. 

(Capt.), 165, 167, 168 
Newell, Abel, 324 

New England, early 

settlements in, iff; 

schools of, 48, 55 ; 

intemperance in, 67. 
New England Colo- 
nies, commsrs. of, 142 
New Framingham 

(Lanesboro), 338 

New Hampshire, 

south boundary of, 335 
Newport (R. L), 372 
New Salem, 335 

New street, 190 

New swamp, 194, 273, 

275, 276, 282 note, 416 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



Newton, Artemas, 340 
— , Francis, 423, 446 
— , Walter, 452 

Newtown (Cam- 
bridge), Mass., 2 
Newtown=Norwo- 

tuck, 16, 70 

Nianticks, 169 

Nicholls, Adam, 24, 26, 

82, 205, 420 note. 
— , Isaac, 378 note 

— , Mary, 378 note 

Nigger Lane, 461 

Night-walkers, 70 

Nims, John, 264 

Nine-o'clock bell (see 

also Curfew), 84 

Nipmuck (Nipnet) 
Indians, 114, 115, 127, 
128, 129, 130, 132, 137, 
142, 150, 153, 154, 158, 
169, 170. 
Nipnets=NiPMUCKS. 
Noble, Dan'l, 235, 423 
— , Rebekah (Crow), 229, 

235. 
Nocake, 358 note 

Noises in the air 

(1674). 183 

Nonotuck. See NoR- 

WOTTUCK. 

Noon marks, 380 note 
Northam, James, 11, 13, 

26, 27. 
— , Sam'l, 31, 201, 203, 

205. 
North Hadley, 425, 435, 

457- 
Northampton, set- 
tled, 3; grants land 
to Conn, withdraw- 
ers, 11; Capawonk 
meadow in, 14; not 
incorporated , 17; 
courts, 18; church, 
47) 77> 86; inns, 63; 
petition to general 
court, 73, 75; 
boundaries dispute, 
85 ; prison built, 87 ; 
March courts held 
at, 92; contribu- 
tions to Harvard 
col., 96; deed of, 
106 ; purchases Hat- 
field land, 106; and 
Mohawks, in Hamp- 
shire Co., 130; set- 



tlers killed (1675), 
*i5o; attacked 
(1676), 155, 156; 
settlers refuse to 
abandon, 159; 
houses burnt (1676- 
7), 180; colony ex- 
penses, 182; rates 
and taxes, 182, 199, 
260, 271, 334 note, 
337 note, 341 note; 
prison, 257 note; 
palisade built, 260 
note; in 3d Indian 
war, 267-8; men 
drowned, 333; men 
in Charlestown gar- 
rison, 337. 
Northampton Indi- 
ans, 117, 150, 153 
Northfield {Squa- 
keag), 86, 98, 130; 
destroyed, 137; 
massacres, 135, 150, 
249; 160 note; re- 
settled, 248; 2d 
abandonment of, 
249; permanent set- 
tlement begun, 291; 
garrison at (1722-), 
331-2, 335, 338; not 
taxed (1726), 334 
note. 
North Lane, New, 421 
Norton, Freegrace, 148 
Norwottuck (various 
spellings, see p. 114; 
also Hadley, New- 
town, see p. 17), 3, 
13, 16, 18, 69, 100, 106, 
108, 1 1 1, 1 14. 
Norwottuck (Nono- 
tuck) Indians, 104- 
5, no, 115, 116, 117, 
118, 121, 129, 136. 
Nowell, Sam'l, xxiv, 

XXVI, 158. 
Noycoy, 106 

Number 4 (Charles- 
town), 335 
Nuts, 378 
Nutting, George, *453 
Nuxco, 64 



o 



ATES, John, 140 
Oats, _ 355 

Occupations, 72 



Officers, town. See 
under Town; colo- 
nial, style of living, 
182 note; of Hadley 
militia before 1700, 
219; of Hampshire 
troop before 1700, 
220; regimental, in 
Mass. and Conn., 
220; arms of, 223; 
wages, 258. 
Old and new style. 

See Calendar. 
Oldham, John, 2 

Old rainbow, 364 note 
Old tenor currency 
(see also Bills), 302, 
303. 304- 
Olmstead, — , 267 

Olmsted, Eleazar, 340 
Olverton, Wm., 148 

Onandaga Indians, 120 
Oneida Indians, 120 

Orchards, 364 

Ordinaries, 62 

Ordinary keepers^ 

Inn-keepers. 
Osyer, Abel, 141 

Oxen, 368 

PACKERS, 71 

Pacomtuck. See 

POCUMTUCK. 

Paine, Wm. (Dr.), 441 
Palisades, 151, 260 and 

note, 335 note. 
Palmer, Scotch- Irish 

settlers at, 358 

Palmer, Albert Rip- 
ley, 455 
Pansett, Great (see 
also Meadow, 
South), 29, 30, 33 
— , Little, 29, 30, 33, 71 
Panthers, 346 
Papacontuckquash 

brook, no 

Paquayag, 132, 155 

Paquonckquamog 

Pond, 109 

Parker, Eli (Capt.), 131, 

413. 453- 
— , Josiah, 272 

Parsons, Aaron, 268 

— , David (Rev.), 99, 

329, 406 note, 407 and 

note, 408, 410 note, 

411. 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



493 



Parsons, David 
(Rev.,D.D.),4o6,4o8, 
416, 454. 
— , Ebenezer, 137 

— , Francis, 454 

— ■, Gideon (Lt.), 405 

note. 
— , Hugh, *226 

— , James, 455 

— , John, 228, 256 note, 

268. 
— , Jos. (of North- 
ampton), 106, 107, 109, 
no, 113, 227-8, *256, 
268, 294, 406 note. 
— , Joshua, 226 

— , Mary (wife of 

Hugh, Springfd.), *2 26 
— , Mary (wife of 

Jos.), 227-8 

— , Sam'l, 268 

Partridge (Partrigg), 

Cotton, 283 

— , John, 59 

— , OUver, 187 

— , Sam'l (Col.), 51, 52, 

53> 55. 58, 59. 60, 63, 

70, 71, 76, 85, *87, 90, 

108, 184, 185, 191, 200, 

201, *203, 204 and note 

218, 229, 232 note, 249, 

256, 257 note, *263, 

264, 266 and note, 270, 

275, 278, 279, 283, 332, 

445. 446, *447. *448. 

— , Sam'l, 2d, 204 note, 

279 note. 
— , Thos., 76 

— , Wm., II, 12, 24, 26, 
40, 44, *7o, 72, 73, 180, 
420 note, 446. 
Partridges, 352 

Partrigg's Swamp 
(Plainville), 194, 425, 
438. 
Pasco, Amos(Capt.), 451, 

452. 
Pascommuck, attack 

on (1704), 266 

Paskisukquopoh 

pond, 109 

Pasturage (see also 

Commons), 102, 285 
Patrick, James, 340, 403 
Patrick Swamp 
(Plainville). See 
Partrigg. 
Patucket falls, 307 



Pawtuckets, 128 

Payment, various 
means of in 17 th 
c, 202 

Payson, Philip ( Rev.), 

435 
Peas, 355 

Perry, John, *4i6 

Person, Jos., 134 

Petitions, 73, 75, 77 

Petowamachu hills, 

*io6, 109 
Pettis. See Petty. 
Petts, John, 148 

Petty {Pettis), John, 409, 

417. 

Phelps, Arthur D., 436 

— , Chas., 193. 289, 338 

note, 366. 383, 385, 

*386, *424, 425, 445, 

449. *45o. *45i- 
— , Chas. P., 192, 329 

note, 444, 445, 446, 

*45i. *452- 
— , Isaac, 160 

Philip (chief), 127, 128, 

129, 144, 146, 153, 15s, 

158, 174. 
Philip's War. See 

Wars. 
Phillis (slave), 324 note 
Pease, John, 333 

— , Loren, 458 

Peck, Addison, 444 

— , John, 76, 137 

— . Jos., 455 

— , Nath'l, 411 

Peirce. See Pierce. 
Pelham, 276, 291, 292 

note, 306, 358, 418. 
Pemequenoxet or Pa- 

meconoset, 255,256,257 
Pendergrass, Peter, 396 
Penn, Wm., 105 

Penobscot Indians, 125 
Pepper, Robt., *i35 

Pequot Indians, i, 2, 

105, 142, 169, 331 note 
Perkins, Elisha, 278 

Phillips, Henry, 445 

— , Zechariah, 131 

Phipps, Gov., 252 

Physicians, i8th cen- 
tury, 404; E. Had- 

ley, 415; early, 438 

ff; first on Conn. 

R., 442; charges in 

i8th c, 444. 



Pichawamiclie mead- 
ow, see Meadow; 
road, 282 

Pickering, Timothy, 222 
Pierce, Benj., 340, 403 
— , Josiah, 59, 297, 305, 
306, 307, 321 note, 324, 

350, 358, 363. 384. 413 
note, 423, 445, *45o, 
452. 
— , Josiah, Jr., 423 

— , "Kapas," 467 

Pies, 354 note, 359 note 
Pigeons, wild, 351 

Pigs. See Swine. 
Pike drill, or "postures 

of," 216 

Pikeinen, 223 

Pikes, 216, 221 

Pine lumber, 295, 297 
Pine Plain, 24, 190, 284 
Pine-tree laws, 296 

Pirates, 343 

Pitman, Mark, 134 

Pitkin, Wm., *i5 

— , Wm., Jr., 393 

Pittsfield, 338 

Pixley, Noah, 337 

— , Wm., 24, 25, 26, 27, 

88, 205. 
Plainville, 424, 426, 438 
Plans, Hadley 
(1663), 24, (correc- 
tion, 27); West 
Side (1668), 31; 
Indian fort, 119; 
Mr. Russell's house, 
212; second meet- 
ing-house Hadley, 
317; section Mt. 
Holyoke, 427. 
Planting, harvesting, 
plowing, etc., time 
of, 384 

Plowing, 353 

Plum, John, 141 

Plummer, John, 134 

Plymouth colony, i, 181 
Plympton , John ,141,177 
Pocock, Jno., 148 

Pocumtuck (Deer- 
field), 33, 86, 135, 136 

— Indians, 115, 116, 136 

— river, no 
Pokanokets, 127 
Poll tax, 72, 341 note 
Pomeroy, Ebenezer, 239, 

256 note, 269, 289 note 



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494 



HISTORICAL INDEX. 



Pomeroy, Ebenezer, 

Jr., 424 

— , Ebenezer, 3d, 288 
— , Elisha (Capt.). 34° 
note. 



— , Enos, 
— Ethan, 
— , Mary, 
— , Medad, 
— , Nath'l, 



352 
288 

309 
256 note 
258 



-, Seth (Col.), 336, 363 



— , Simeon, 
— , Stephen, 

424. 
-, Titus, 29I 

385, *403- 



^417 
288, 352, 

note, 340, 



Pomptuckset, 


106 


Pontius, Little, 


29 


Pontoosuck (Pitts- 


field), 


338 


Poole (Capt.), John, 


142, 


149, 156. 




Poor, care of, 233ff , 


396, 


413, 461. 




Pork and bacon. 


371 


Porter, Aaron, 59, 


236, 


237- 




— , Alex., 


416 


— , Dan'l, 


442 


— , Edward C, 


436 


— , Eleazer (Col.), 


246 


note, 283, 304, 


*3ii. 



3i2,3i3note, 314, 323, 
333 note, 334 note, 353, 
367 note, 380, 444, *448, 

*449- 
— , Eleazer (Hon. , 

son of above), 342, 382, 

383. 385. *386, 423. 

424, 445, *449' *45o. 

452. 
— , Eleazer, Jr., *45i 
— , Eleazer (Maj.), *45i 
— , Eleazer, 361, *436 
— , Elisha, 342 note, 

*382, 383, *386, 418, 

423, 424, 445. *45o. 
— , Experience, 191, 275, 

278, 279 note, 282, 304, 

*448. 
— , Hannah, 191, 275 
— , Hezekiah, 52, 73, 

204, 205, 27s, 443, 

*447- 



204, 



— , Ichabod, 


275. 279 


— , James B., 


436 


— , John, 


275 



Porter, Jonathan 
E., 436, 445 

— , Lester W., 446, 452 

— , Madam (wife of 
Col. E.), 246, 325, 329 
and note, 330, 379. 

— , Moses (Capt.), *338, 
339, 340 note, 367 note, 
381, 383, 425, 449. 

— , Moses (Col.), 369 
note, 419 note, 444, 
445, 446, *45i. 

— , Nath'l, *is 

— , Sam'l, Sr., 11, 12, 13, 
15, 24, 26, 38, 51, 52, 
53, 60, 63, 72, 73, 76, 

93, 184, 185, 190, *203, 

*2o5, 234, *446, 

447- 

— , Sam'l (Hon., son 
of above, d. 1722), 
59. 60, 61, 69, 71, 72, 
87, 191, 204, 205, 237, 
256 note, 257 note, 260 
note, 274, 275, 278, 279 
note, 282, 294, *3io, 
347, *447. *448. 

— , Sam'l (son of 2d 
Sam'l), 278, 283, *448, 

*449- 
— , Sam'l (Hon., son 
of Elisha, d. 1841), 

*444, *445. *4Si 
— , Sarah, 238 

— , widow, 205 

— , Wm., 452, 443 

Port Royal, exped. 
agnst., 268; cap- 
tured, 269. 
Potash works, 386 

Potatoes, 358 

Pound, Town, 71, 194 
Poundage, 72 

Powder, stored in 

meeting-house , 314 

Powdering meat, 371 
Powell, Thos., XXIX 

Praying Indians, 123, 

128, 183. 
Prescott, Benj., 398 

Preston, Benoni, 403 
— , Gardner, 280, 395 

note. 
— , John, 39, 52, 165, 
*i89, 203, 204, 206, 
275, 278; heirs of, 
284; 387 note, 390 
note, *40 2, 403. 



Preston, Jonathan, 372 

note, 397, 402. 
— •, Sam'l, 385, 390 note, 

402, 403. 
Prince, Erie, (Rev.), 454 
Pringridays,Edmund, 

145 
Pritchard, Goodman, 345 
— , Sam'l, 131 

— , Wm. (Sergt.), 131 
— , Wm. P., 131 

Provender, 355 

"Provision pay." 

See Debts. 
Provisions. See Prod- 
uce, etc. 
Produce, transporta- 
tion of, 93, 94 
Providence Hill, 209 
Prutt, Arthur, 320 note 
— , Caesar, 340, 414 
— , Joan, 320 note 
Pumpkins, 358 
Pynchon, John (Col., 
of Springfield), 3, 13, 
14, 16, 17, 40, 41, *5i, 
54, 61, 63, 64, 67, 72, 
86, 89, 92, *93, *94. 
95, 100, loi, 105, *io6, 
*io7, *io8, 109, *iio, 
III, 113, *i23, 126, 
*i32, 133. 137. 142, 
143, *i44, 145. 149. 

173, 186, 215, 2l8,*2I9, 

229, 248, 249, 250, 251, 
*252, 254, 256, 257 
note, 263; death, 264, 
279, 297, 305, 347, 
*35o,368, 370 and note, 
372, 378,381,431- 

— , John (3d, of 
Springfield), 256 note 

— , Wm., 2, 86, 93, *ii6, 
126, 186, 196 note, 
*35o. 362. 

SUABAUG, See 
Brookfield. 
— Indians, 115, 
129, 130. 
Quaquoonuntuck 

brook, 109 

Quails, 352 

Quannapohit, James, 

150. 153. 154 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



495 



Quebec, expedition 
agnst. (1711), 269; 
surrender celebrat- 
ed, 342 note. 

Queen, Hugh, 401, 
402 ; son of, 352. 

— , John, 402 

Quenecticut, etc.= 
Connecticut. 

Quiddington.Abrain, 148 

Quincey, Josiah 
(Capt.), 41 1 note 

Quinsigamond (Wor- 
cester), 37 

Quonquont (VVomp- 
shaw), *io6, *io7, no, 
119. 



R 



ACCOON hunt- 
ing, 348 note 
Rafts, on Conn, 
river, 297 
Rags, 381 note 
Rail, riding on, 402 
Rand, Wm. (Rev.), 319 
Randall, Mary, 231 
— , Wm., 231 
Randolph, Edward, 53 
Ransford, Sam'l, 164 
Rasles, Father, 331; 
war, see Indian 

WAR, 4TH. 

Raters=rate-makers, 70 
Rates, country, 
county, town, min- 
ister's, etc., distin- 
guished, 1 98; money, 
199; town, 200. 
Rattlesnakes, 352 

Rawson, Edward, 14 

— , Grindall (Rev.), 184, 
294 note, 388, 389, 390, 
402. 
— , Madam, 389 note 
Recorder, town, 70 

Reed, Thos., 157, 162 
Reeve, Mary, 228 

Remedies. See Medi- 
cines and Drugs. 
Removals, means of, 94 
Representatives, un- 
ion of Hadley, S. 
Hadley, Amherst 
and Granby, in 
choice of, 445 note; 
Amherst, Granby 
and Pelham united, 
454 note. 



Reynolds, John, Jr. ,156 
—, Thomas, 452 

Rhodes, Benj., 417 

Rice, Edward, 424 

Richards, James, xxix, 

123- 
— , John, 445 

— , Stephen (Capt.), 

334 note 
Riddel, Mr., 327 

Riot of 1676, 90 

Ritchell (Richall), 

Mr., *i5 

River, encroachment 

of, 29, 42, 49 

River, protection 

against, 462 

River Indians, 254 

Roads. See High- 
ways. 34ff; to Al- 
bany, 343; Bay, see 
Bay; Boston, 424; 
Crack, 400 
Robbins, Isaac, 453 

Roberts, Abel, 284 

— , John, 148. 203 

— , Reuben, 453 

— , Thos., 164 

Rock Ferry, 277, 281 
Rockwell, Jos., 156 

Rock wood, Thos., 340 
Rogers, Seth H.(Dr.),' 

214,452 
Roll, calling of, 223 

Rollo (Indian), 117 

Rood, Simeon, 423 

Rooker, Wm., 76, 90, 91, 
191, 201, 203, 204, 205, 
275, 278, 283. 
Root, John, 177 

— , Joseph, 88 

Roote, Sam'l (Lieut.), 263 
Roper, Benj., 141 

Ropes, Geo., 141 

Rosseter, Bray, 442 

Round Hill crack, 281 

note. 
Rowe, — , 399 

— , John, 403 

Rowlandson, Mrs., 
130, 153; captured 
by Indians. 154; 
155, 161, 162. 
Roxbury, Mass., i, 316 

note. 
Rugg, John, 403 

— , Sam'l, 284, 340, 349, 
402. 



Ruggles, Sam'l, 59 

Russell, Calvin, 452 

— , Dan'l, 425 

— , Dorothy (Mrs.), 204 
— , Elizabeth, 176 

— , John, Sr., 11, 13, 
16, 17, 24, 26, 70, 
72, 76, 77, 152; 
letter to Gov. Lev- 
erett, 156, 185; wid. 
of, 205, 218, 446. 
— , John, Rev. (son 
of above; minister 
at Wetherstield , 
later first minister 
a't Hadley), v, 
XI, xxv, 6, 8, II, 
12, 15, 20, 24, 26, 
40, 42, 44, 47, 49, 

50. 51. 53. 55. -SS, 
60, 73, 76, 77, *8o, 
*8i, 83, 89, 90, 108, 
131, 137; letter to 
governor and 
council, 144, 160; 
letter to Conn, 
council, 161, 165, 
181, 185, 190, 203, 
204, 205, 206, 208, 
209fif; plan of house, 
212; 236, 242, 243, 
249. 318, 328, 436. 
— , John, 425 

— , Jonathan (Rev.), 

xxv, 45, 206, 275 
— , Philip, 31, 32, 77, 80, 

176, 177, 203. 
— , Rebecca, 182, 242 
— , Sam'l (Rev., son 
of Rev. John), 46, 58, 
60, 213, 275, 289. 
— , Sam'l (son of 

Philip), 177 

— , Stephen, 176 

— , Thomas, 267 

Russell society, 436 

Rye ,355, bread ,355 note 

SABBATH-break- 
ers, 70 

Sabbath-day 
houses, 315 

Sabbath, observance 

of, 468 

Sachems, *ii6 

Sagamore, John (Ape- 
c^uanas), 174 



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496 



HISTORICAL INDEX. 



St. John's Catholic 

church, 458 

Sale, John, 125 

Salmon, 305 note, 3o6ff 
Salmon, Thos., 148 

Saltonstall, Richard, 209 
Samp, 357 note 

Sancumachu, 121, 143, 

152, 153, 174. 
Sandy Hill, 279, 281 

Sartwell, Solomon, 340 
Sausages, 371 

Savage, Thos. (Maj.), 

154, *i55. 158 
Savages, filth of, 121 
Sawier, Ezekiel, 141 

Saw-mills, 41; first 
in Spfd., 41 ; first in 
New Eng., 42 ; 10 1. 
Sawyer. See Saw- 
ier. 
Saybrook platform, 10 
Scales, Matthew, 134 
Scalps, bounty for, 335 
Scalping parties, 335,338 
Scanunganunk, 35, 36 
Scarecrows, 346 note 
School, grant of land 
for, 48 ; trvistees, 49 ; 
controversy, 5 iff; 
committee, 51, 60; 
laws, early, 55; 
houses, 58; books, 
81; lands, see 
Meadows, School. 
School masters, first, 57; 

58. 
School mill, 40 

Schools, dame, 56, 
418; of New Eng., 
48ff; free, 56, 57; 
grammar, 56; pri- 
vate, 56; and schol- 
ars, 5 7; of East Had- 
ley and Amherst. 
See also Grammar 
School and Hop- 
kins School. 
Schuyler, Jno., 271 note 
— , Peter (Col.), 120, 272 
Scontocks pond, 109 

Scosue (wampum), 126 
Scotch-Irish settlers, 358 
Scott, Edward, 185, 189, 

203. 
— , Israel, 453 

— , Thomas, 137 

— , Wm., 31 



Scouting parties 335 
Scovil, Ebenezer, 284, 

416. 
Searl, Elisha, 266 note, 

332 note. 
— , John and family, 266 
Secombe, Jos. (Rev.), 

309 note 
Seed business, 363, 366 

and note. 
Seger, Elizabeth, 225 
Selden (Selding), Az- 

ariah, 340, 349 note 
— , Ebenezer, 265, 278, 

283. 
— , Isaac, 284, 313 note 
— , Jabez, 235, 423 

— , John, 275, 278, 284 
— , Jonathan, 389 note, 

399. 403- 
— , Jos., *90, 91, 165, 

203, 204, 206, 345. 

— , Thos., 92, 191, 203, 

204, 206, 265, 275, 277, 
278, 279 note, 283, 340, 
423, *447, 448. 

Selding. See Selden. 
Selectmen, 69 

Seneca Indians, 120 

Separatists, 400 

Servants, Indian, 

mulatto, negro, 282 
Settlements, early on 

Conn. Riv., iff 

Severance, Dan'l, 253, 

254- 
— , Ebenezer, 332 

— Obed, 340 

Sewall, Sam'l 

(Judge), 236, 237 and 

note. 
— , Sam'l (Rev.),23 7 note 
— , Susanna, 236 

Seymour, Henry, 383 
Shackspeer, Uzack- 

aby, 143 

Shad, 3051? 

Shays' Rebellion, 417 
Sheep, 71, 72, 285, 372 
Sheffield, fight near, 173 

335. 338, 342. 
— , Upper or North. 

(Gt. Barrington), 342 

note, 343. 
Sheldon, Benj., 421 

— , Ebenezer, 333 

— , Isaac, 256 note 



Sheldon, John, 271 

— , Sam'l, 383, 423 

Shepherd, Levi, 300, 441 
Shepherds, 71, 102 

Shillings. See Coins. 
Shipman, George, 452 
— , John, 446, *452 

— , Wm., 361, 383 

— , Wm. S., 436, *4S2 
Shot, kinds and sizes, 352 
Shutesbury, 335 

Sickness (1689), 261; 
(1725). 332 note; 
(1756-7), 342. 
Side-records, 78 

Side-meetings, 78 

Sidewalks, 422 

Sikes, Richard, 44, no 
Silks, prosecutions 

for wearing, 91, 92 
Sill, Jos. (Capt.), 142, 144 
Simsbury, burned by 

Indians, 156 

Skejack^ Woassom- 

ehuc. 
Skerry, E. W., 452 

Skirts of Forty Acres, 192 
Skipmuck, 268 

Skunks, 347 

Slaves (See also Ne- 
groes), 46, 261, 402, 
418. 
Sleds and sleighs, 
first used, in New 
Eng., 94. 381 

Sleigh rides, 382 

Small-pox irr French 
and Indian war, 
342; in Hadley, 401. 
Smead, John, 265, 337 
— , Wm., Jr., 141 

Smead's island, 163 

Smedley, Sam'l, 131 

Smith, Aaron, 284, 405, 

407, *4i6. 
— , Abigail, *40 7 

— , Alexander, 340, 409, 

414, *4i7. 
— , Asahel, 340, 386, 403 
— , Benj., 278, 283,333, 

340, 403, 424, *425. 
— , Benj. F., 444, 454 
— , Beriah, 424 

— , Caleb, 425, *45i 

— , Chas. H., 436 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



497 



Smith, Chileab, 24, 26,27, 

52, 53, 60, 70, 71, 76, 

185, *203, 204, 219, 

242, 275, 277 note, 278, 

283, 310, 420 note, 446, 

*447, 448, 449. 
— , Chileab, 2d, 284, 390 

note, 400, 401, 402, 

448, *44Q. 451- 
— , Chileab & Co., 367 

note. 
- — , Cotton, *452, 436 
— , Dan'l, 235, 283, 413, 

*4r6. 
• — ■, David, 340, 407 note, 

*4i6, 417, 423, *449, 

*45o- 
— , Dudley, 446, 452 
— , Ebenezer, 191, 255, 

-75. 278, 401, *402. 
— , Edmund, 436 

— , Edward, 417 

— , Eleazar, 337 408, 

417. 
— , Eli (Capt.), *45i 
— , Eliakim, 305, 315, 

316 note, 340,363, 381, 

386, 423, 450. 
— , Elihu, 2d, 451 

— , Elijah (Capt.), 340 

note, 452. 
— , Elisha, 340, 424, 453 
— , Elisha, 2d, 424 

— , Elisha, 3d, 424 

— , Elizabeth, 238, 407 
— , Enos, 338 note, 363, 

380, 382, 383, 423, 424 

note, *45o, *45i. 
— , Ephraim, 340, 401, 

402, 446, *45i, 452. 
— , Erastus, 425 

— , Erastus, Jr., 452 

— -, Experience, 39 1, 399, 

*403- 
— , Francis, 436 

— , Geo. L., 395 

— , Gideon, 423, 424note 
— , G. Myron, 457 

— , Hannah, 407 

— , Henry, 8 

— , Henry (Rev.), 205, 

400. 
— , Hezekiah, 283, 338, 

390 note, 400, 403, 449 
— , Hezekiah, Jr., 403 
— , Horace, *452, 454 
— , Ichabod, 275, 278, 

283, 448, *449. 



Smith, Israel, 403 

— , Jacob, 451 

—, James, 275, 283, 399, 

400, 401, *403. 
— , Jeriah S., 436, *45 2 
— , Jobanna, 168 

— , John, (see p. 279 
note. For others 
of this name see 
Genealogies. Cp. 
also Smith, Jona- 
than), 191, 203,204,307 
note, *390 note; *402, 
403, 423, *448, *449. 
— , John (son of Lt. 
Sam'l, slain by In- 
dians 1676), 38, 40, 65, 
76, 90, 93, 165, 168 and 
note, 177, 185, 204,345 
note. 
— , John ("orphan," 
son of above), 193, 205, 
275, 278, 279 note, 447, 
*448. 
— , John (son of "or- 
phan"), 283 
— , John ("tailor"), 275, 

*447- 

— , John (deacon, son 
of Philip), 60, 205, 278, 
279 note, 310. 

— , John (son of 
above), 278, 279 note, 
283, 394- 

— , John (Lieut., son 
of Chileab), 275, 278, 
279 note, 282, 283, 
*448. 

— , John (deacon, son 
of Ebenezer), 279 note, 
388, 391, *448. 

— , John (deacon, son 
of above), 391, 394, 
399. 424- 

— , John (son of 
above), 451 

— , John (son of Jos.)425 

— , John (Major), 235, 
307 note, 353 note, 450 

— , Jonathan (For 
variovxs ones bear- 
ing this name see 
Genealogies), 278, 
279, 283, 284, 314, 386, 
387, 390 note, 402, 407, 
413, 416,417, *4i8, 423 
424. *445. *449. *45o 



Smith, Joseph (Sergt., 
cooper, miller, seal- 
er, etc.), 40, 60, 63, 70, 
71, 203, 204, 205, 260, 
275, 278,425,447,*448 
— , Jos. (s. of above), 70, 
71, 191, 265, 278, 284, 
336 note, 448, 449. 
— , Jos. (Rev., son of 

Lt. Philip), *58 

— , Jos. (s. of John — 
Hatfield, d. 1752), 177, 
275, 279, 283, 333. 
— , Jos. (s. of Deac. 

John), 283 

— , Jos. (s. of Luke), 423 
— , Jos. (s. of above), 

383. 446 
— ,Jos. (Hon.), 436,444, 

*452. 
— , Josiah, 340, 386, *403 
— , Josiah, 2d, 403 

— , Lucius, 454 

— , Luke, 63, 124, 191, 
275, 278, 279 note, 283, 
293.304.405.*448, 449 
— , Martin, 261, 417 

— , Mary (wid. Pre- 
served), 278 
— , Mary P. Wells, 465 
— , Mehetabel, 407, 414 
— , Moses, 384, 403, 414, 

416, 454. 
— , Nathan, 386, 399, 

400, *403. 
— , Nath'l (s. of Phil- 
ip — Hadley), 201, 203, 
204. 
— , Nath'l (Dr., Am- 
herst), 284, 386, 407, 
409, 415, 416, 449. 
— , Noah, 283, 417, 423, 

449. 450- 
— , Noah, Jr., 349 note 
— , Oliver (Deac, s. 

of Jonathan), 238, 306, 

363, 386, 422 note, 423, 

424, 445, *45o. 
— , Oliver (son of 

above), 168, 177, 451 
— , Oliver (Amherst) 454 
— , Orlando, 452 

— , Peletiah, 283, 407, 

409, 416, 417, 449. 
— , Peter, 416, 449 

— , Philip, II, 13, 15, 16, 

24, 26, 40, 42, 44, 48, 

58. 60, 63, 70, 72, 76, 



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498 



HISTORICAL INDEX. 



87, 90, 185, 196, 201, 
*203, *205, *2I9, *229, 
230, 242, 340, 345, 

397, 402, 419 note, 

445. *446, *447- 

— , Phinehas, 336 note, 

392, 399. 400, *403, 

*4i6. 

— , Phinehas, 2d, 403 

— , Preserved, 275 

— , Rebecca, 235 

— , Reuben, 336 note, 

342, 372 note, 391, 392, 

402. 

— , Rich'd, 141 

— , Rodney, 436, *452 

— , Sam'l (Lieut.), n, 

12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 21, 

24, 26, 32, 49, 60, 63, 

69, *7o, 71, 72, 76, 77, 

80, 83, 87, 106, 148, 

166, 168, 196, 201, 203, 

205, 211, *2i9, 236, 

445. *446, *447- 



— , Sam'l (s. of above), 
11,13 
— , Sam'l (s. of Rev. 

Henry), 204, *205, 275 
— , Sam'l (s. of above), 

275 
— , Sam'l (s. of Chil- 

eab), 204, 447 

— , Sam'l (Sergt.), 278, 

*447, *448. 
— , Sam'l (So. Had- 
ley), 284, 342, 388, 396, 
402. 
— , Sam'l (For vari- 
ous others of this 
name see Geneal- 
ogies), 191, 275, 314, 
390 note, *39i, *449, 
454- 
— , Sarah, 261 

— , Sereno, 452 

— , Seth, 340, 403, *45o, 

*45i- 
— , Silas, 340, 397, 402 
— , Simeon, 384, 411,417 
— , Simon, 204 

— , Stephen, 284, 416 
— , Sylvester, 380, 424, 

*436, 451. 452- 
— , Thaddeus, 436, 

*452, 457- 
— , Thos., 141, 352 

450- 
— , Timothy, 340 



446, 



423, 



403 



Smith, Titus, 340 

— , Warham, 340, 423, 

*4So, *45i 
— , Willard, 450 

— , Wm., 284, 390 note, 
402, 446, 449, *45i, 
*452._ 
— , Windsor, 423, *45i 
— , Wyman, 452 

Smith's ferry, 299 

Smith's mills, 38 

Snake balls, 353 

Snow, Ebenezer, 403 
— , Jabez, 340 

— , Josiah, 337, 340, 402 
— , Josiah, Jr., 403 

Snow shoes, 266, 267, 

332 note, 335, 338. 
Snuff, 376 

Soap, 378 

Soldiers (see Militia, 
Military), enter- 
tained in Hamp- 
shire (1675), 151; 
living of, 182 note; 
wages in Philip's 
war, 183; in King 
Wm.'s war, 258; in 
Queen Anne's war, 
270 note; rations, 
336 note, 341 note; 
pay, 342. 
Somers, 291 note 

Sounding-boards and 

canopies, 311 

Southampton, 335, 338 
Southfield. See Suf- 

FIELD. 

South Hadley, 3; 
settled, 102; deed 
of, 109; settlement 
of, 276, 387; divis- 
ion of lands, 277; 
settlers, 281 note; 
inhabitants (1731), 
284; extent, 287; in 
6th Indian war, 339 
ff; province tax 
(1761), 341 note; 
statistics (1771), 
385; first meeting- 
house and minister, 
388; district, 391; 
new meeting-house, 
391 ; church quarrel, 
392; common, 394; 
schools, 395; poor 
of, 395; inns, 396; 



in Revolution, 397; 
second parish form- 
ed, 393, 399; list of 
settlers, 402; 404 
note. 
South Hadley canal, 398 
South Hadley mills, 277 
South Precinct of 
Hadley = South 
Hadley. 
Spectacle pond, 248 

Spinning, 358, 372 

Spring, Dr., 327 

Springfield, 2; com- 
msr's, 16, 17; peti- 
tion agnst. impost, 
75; chvirch organ- 
ized, 86; prison, 87; 
gifts to Harvard, 
96; first book of 
deeds, 106; recom- 
pense fr. Mohawks, 
122; burnt, 128; 
Indian plot to de- 
stroy, 143; burnt 
by Indians, 144-6; 
settlers killed (Oct. 
5, 1675), 150; plan 
to consolidate with 
Westtield, 159; 
number of houses 
burnt (1676-7), 180; 
war taxes (1675), 
182; rates, 199, 260, 
271, 334 note; resi- 
dent physician, 442. 
Springfield Indians, 143, 

144, 150. 153- 

— squaw, 146; torn 
by dogs, 147. 

Spruce Hill, 36, 193 

Squakeag. See 

NORTHFIELD. 

Squire, Wm. (Dr.), 284, 

379. 443- 
Squirrel hunts, 352 

Squomp, 109 

Squiskeag, i ro 

Stacy, Philemon, 444 
Stanley (Standley) , 

Caleb, 32 

— , Isaac, 76 

— , John, 402 

— , Nath'l, II, 12, 24, 26, 

82, 205, 446. 
— , Thos., II, *i2, 14, 

15, 24, 26, 205, 340. 

— lot, 205 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



499 



State road in Hadley 457 
Stearnes, Ebenezer, 340 
Stebbins, Asaph, 340, 

403. 
— , Benoni, 176, 177 

— , Edward, 361, 436 
— , John, 228 

Steele, George, 11, 12, 13 
— , James, 59 

— , Stephen, 59 

Stetson, Wm. B., 455 
Stevens, Sam'l, *i4i 
Stewart, Goodman, 144 
Stickney, John, 307, 401 

note 
Stileman. See Still- 
man. 
Stiles, Ezra (Pres.), 

VIII, ff; history, 209 
Stillman (Stileman) , 
Geo., 191, 204, 205, 
256 note, 260, 262, 275, 

*447- 
Stockades, 335 note 

Stockbridge (Mass.), 335, 

338. 
Stockbridge, David, 377, 

425. *45i- 
— , Jason (Deac), 192, 

425, 426, 436, 446, 452 
— , Levi, 426, 446, 452 
Stockwell, Timothy, 353 

note, 423. 
— , Quintin, 175, 177, 

1787189. 
Stoddard, Ebenezer, 340 
— , John, 241, 265 note, 

268, 271, 332, 334. 
— , Margaret, 326 

— , Solomon (Rev.), 

XIX, 133, *i59, 263, 

300, 377 note. 
Stone, Rich'd, 148 

— , Sam'l, 2, 4 

Stone bridge, 285 

Stony brook, 277, 299 

note. 
Storrs, Rich'd S., 455 
Stoughton, Lt.Gov., 256, 

257- 
Stratton, Asa, 338, 339 
Streets, feud of, 465 

Strong, Caleb, 382 note 
— , Caleb, Jr., 342 note 
— . Chas. L., 455 

— , John, 92, 160, 269, 

454- 



Strong, Nehemiah, 
269 note, 333 note, 386, 
416. 
— , Simeon, 269 note, 
333 note, 383, 386,409, 
*4i7- 445. 452, *453. 
454- 
— , Simeon, 2d, 410 and 

note. 
— , Sam'l & son, 269 
— , Solomon, 454 

Sturgeon, 309 

Succotash, 357 note 

Suchaw, 106, 109 

Sudbury, 154 

Suffield, church or- 
ganized, 86; incorp- 
orated, 86, 130; 
houses burnt (1676- 
7), 180; resettled, 
248; rates, 259 note, 
260, 271, 334 note. 
Sugar Loaf brook, 
no; hill, 14; battle, 
136. 
Sullivan, Catherine, 461 
Sunckamachue,! 10,* 117, 

160. 
Sunderland {Swamp- 
field), 86; settled, 
102 ; deed, no, 130, 
180; destroyed, 181 
note ; boundary, 
187 ; 192, 248, 25 I, 
291 ; rates, 334_note, 
337 note. 
— road, 424 

Superintendent of 

schools, 458 

Surgeons, early, 442 

Survey of, 1739, 187 
Surveyor's compass, 

first used, 32 

Sutliflfe, Nath'l, 165 

Swain, Capt., 170, 174 
"Swallow's nest," 312 
Swamp, Foot's foll3^ 

See Foot's. 
— , Fort river, 285 

— , Great, 41, 194 

— , Hubbard's, 194 

— , Lawrence's, 276 

— , Maple, 28 

— , new. See New 

Swamp. 
— 1 old, 194 

— ■, Partrigg's, Sec 
Partrigg's. 



Swamp, si)ruce, 193, 284, 

285. 
— , Taylor's, 194 

Swampfield. See Sun- 
derland. 
Swan, Thos., 58 

Sweetser, Luke, 454 

Swine, 71, 72, 370, 371 

note. 
Symonds, Sam'l, 18, 19 

TABLES. See 
Lists. 
Talcott, John 

(Maj.), 132, 137, 168, 

169, 170, 172, 173. 
Tappan, Benj., 380 

Tar, first made in 

New Eng., 292 

Taverns, (see also 

Inns), 62 

Taxes (see also 

Rates), 17th c, 

198; 283 note; on 

rum, 414 note. 
Taylor, Aaron, 402 

— , Dan'l, 340 

— , Ebenezer, 278, 284, 

340, 403- 
— , Ebenezer, Jr., 403 
— , Edward (Rev.), 160, 

263, 443- 
— , Elisha, 298 note, 340, 

403- 
— , Jacob, 386, *403 

— , James, 1 10 

— , John, 24, 25, 26, 27, 

76, 103, 186, 191, 203, 

204, 205, 206, 256 note, 

266, 275, 278, 284, 336 

note, 388, 402. 
— , John, Jr., 27s, 278 
— , Jos., 284, 298 note, 

402. 
— , Jos., Jr., 298 note 
— , Joshua, 284, 340, 402 
— , Moses, 284, 340, 390 

note, 400, 402. 
— , Oliver, 340 

— , Reuben, 403 

— , Sam'l, 278, *284, 298 

note, 389 note, 402. 
— , Sam'l, Jr., 298 note, 

402. 
— , Stephen, 15, 31, 201 
— , Thos., 278, 284, 403 
— , Widow, 32 



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498 



HISTORICAL INDEX. 



57, 90, 185, 196 201, 
''203, *205, *2I9, *229, 



230, 
397. 



242, 
402, 



340, 
419 



445. *446, *447 



345. 
note, 



Phinehas, 336 note, 

392, 399. 400, *403, 

*4i6. 

— , Phinehas, 2d, 403 

— , Preserved, 275 

— , Rebecca, 235 

— , Reuben, 336 note, 

342, 372 note, 391, 392, 

402. 

— , Rich'd, 141 

— , Rodney, 436, ^452 

— , Sam'l (Lieut.), n, 

12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 21, 

24, 26, 32, 49, 60, 63, 

69, *7o, 71, 72, 76, 77, 

80, 83, 87, 106, 148, 

166, 168, 196, 201, 203, 

205, 211, *2I9, 236, 

445. *446, *447- 
— , Sam'l (s. of above), 
11,13 
— , Sam'l (s. of Rev. 

Henry), 204, *205, 275 
— , Sam'l (s. of above), 

275 
— , Sam'l (s. of Chil- 

eab), 204, 447 

— , Sam'l (Sergt.), 278, 

*447, *448. 
— , Sam'l (So. Had- 
ley), 284, 342, 388, 396, 
402. 
— , Sam'l (For vari- 
ous others of this 
name see Geneal- 
ogies), 191, 27s, 314, 
390 note, *39i, *449, 
454- 
— , Sarah, 261 

— , Sereno, 4152 

— , Seth, 340, 403, *4';o, 

*45i- 
— , Silas, 340, 397, 402 
— , Simeon, 384, 411,417 
— , Simon, 204 

— , Stephen, 284, 416 
— , Sylvester, 380, 424, 

*436, 451, 452. 
— , Thaddeus, 436, 446, 

*452. 457- 
— , Thos., 141, 352 423, 

45°-. 
— , Timothy, 340, 403 



Smith, Titus, 340 

— , Warham, 340, 423, 

*45o, *45i 
— , Willard, 450 

— , Wm., 284, 390 note, 
402, 446, 449, *45i, 
*452._ 
— , Windsor, 423, *4Si 
— , Wyman, 452 

Smith's ferry, 299 

Smith's mills, 38 

Snake balls, 353 

Snow, Ebenezer, 403 
— , Jabez, 340 

— , Josiah, 337, 340, 402 
— , Josiah, Jr., 403 

Snow shoes, 266, 267, 

332 note, 335, 338. 
Snuff, 376 

Soap, 378 

Soldiers (see Militia, 
Military), enter- 
tained in Hamp- 
shire (1675), 151; 
living of, 182 note; 
wages in Philip's 
war, 183; in King 
Win.'s war, 258; in 
Queen Anne's war, 
270 note; rations, 
336 note, 341 note; 
pay, 342. 
Somers, 291 note 

Sounding-boards and 

canopies, 311 

Southampton, 335, 338 
Southfield. See Suf- 

FIELD. 

South Hadley, 3; 
settled, 102; deed 
of, 109; settlement 
of, 276, 387; divis- 
ion of lands, 277; 
settlers, 281 note; 
inhabitants (1731), 
284; extent, 287; in 
6th Indian war, 339 
ff; province tax 
(1761), 341 note; 
statistics (1771), 
385; first meeting- 
house and minister, 
388; district, 391; 
new meeting-house, 
391 ; church quarrel, 
392; common, 394; 
schools, 395; poor 
of, 395; inns, 396; 



in Revolution, 397; 
second parish form- 
ed, 393. 399; list of 
settlers, 402; 404 
note. 
South Hadley canal, 398 
South Hadley mills, 277 
South Precinct of 
Hadley = South 
Hadley. 
Spectacle pond, 248 

Spinning, 358, 372 

Sprmg, Dr., 327 

Springfield, 2; com- 
msr's, 16, 17; peti- 
tion agnst. impost, 
7 5 ; church organ- 
ized, 86; prison, 87; 
gifts to Harvard, 
96; first book of 
deeds, 106; recom- 
pense fr. Mohawks, 
122; burnt, 128; 
Indian plot to de- 
stroy, 143; burnt 
by Indians, 144-6; 
settlers killed (Oct. 
5. 1675), 150; plan 
to consolidate with 
Westfield, 159; 
number of houses 
burnt (1676-7), 180; 
war taxes (1675), 
182; rates, 199, 260, 
271, 334 note; resi- 
dent physician, 442. 
Springfield Indians, 143, 

144, 150. 153- 

— squaw, 146; torn 
by dogs, 147. 

Spruce Hill, 36, 193 

Squakeag. See 

NORTHFIELD. 

Squire, Wm. (Dr.), 284, 

379. 443- 
Squirrel hunts, 352 

Squomp, 109 

Squiskeag, no 

Stacy, Philemon, 444 
Stanley {Standlcy) , 

Caleb, 32 

— , Isaac, 76 

— , John, 402 

— , Nath'l, II, 12, 24, 26, 

82, 205, 446. 
— , Thos., II, *i2, 14, 

15, 24, 26, 205, 340. 

— lot, 205 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



499 



State road in Hadley 45 7 
Stearnes, Ebenezer, 340 
Stebbins, Asaph, 340, 

403- 
— , Benoni, 176, 177 

— , Edward, 361, 436 
— , John, 228 

Steele, George, 11, 12, 13 
— , James, 59 

— , Stephen, 59 

Stetson, Wm. B., 455 
Stevens, Sam'l, *i4i 
Stewart, Goodman, 144 
Stickney, John, 307, 401 

note 
Stileman. See Still- 
man. 
Stiles, Ezra (Pres.), 

VIII, ff; history, 209 
Stillman (Stileman), 
Geo., 191, 204, 205, 
256 note, 260, 262, 275, 

*447- 
Stockades, 335 note 

Stockbridge (Mass.), 335, 

338. 
Stockbridge, David, 377, 

425. *45i- 
— , Jason (Deac), 192, 

425, 426, 436, 446, 452 
— , Levi, 426, 446, 452 
Stockwell, Timothy, 353 

note, 423. 
— , Quintin, 175, 177, 

1787 189. 
Stoddard, Ebenezer, 340 
— , John, 241, 265 note, 

268, 271, 332, 334. 
— , Margaret, 326 

— , Solomon (Rev.), 

XIX, 133, *i59. 263, 

300, 377 note. 
Stone, Rich'd, 148 

— , Sam'l, 2, 4 

Stone bridge, 285 

Stony brook, 277, 299 

note. 
Storrs, Rich'd S., 455 
Stoughton, Lt.Gov., 256, 

257- 
Stratton, Asa, 338, 339 
Streets, feud of, 465 

Strong, Caleb, 382 note 
— , Caleb, Jr., 342 note 
— , Chas. L., 455 

— , John, 92, 160, 269, 

454- 



Strong, Nehemiah, 
269 note, 333 note, 386, 
416. 
— , Simeon, 269 note, 
3SS note, 383, 386, 409, 
*4i7. 445. 452, *453. 
454- 
— , Simeon, 2d, 410 and 

note. 
— , Sam'l & son, 269 
— , Solomon, 454 

Sturgeon, 309 

Succotash, 357 note 

Suchaw, 106, 109 

Sudbury, 154 

Suffield, church or- 
ganized, 86; incorp- 
orated, 86, 130; 
houses burnt (1676- 
7), 180; resettled, 
248; rates, 259 note, 
260, 271, 334 note. 
Sugar Loaf brook, 
no; hill, 14; battle, 
136. 
Sullivan, Catherine, 461 
Sunckamachue,! io,*ii7, 

160. 
Sunderland {Swmnp- 
fleld), 86; settled, 
102 ; deed, no, 130, 
180; destroyed, 181 
note; boundary, 
187 ; 192, 248, 251, 
291; rates, 33 4_note, 
337 note. 
— road, 424 

Superintendent of 

schools, 458 

Surgeons, early, 442 

Survey of, 1739, 187 
Surveyor's compass, 

first used, 32 

SutlifiFe, Nath'l, 165 

Swain, Capt., 170, 174 
"Swallow's nest," 312 
Swamp, Foot's folly. 

See Foot's. 
— , Fort river, 285 

— , Great, 41, 194 

— , Hubbard's, 194 

— , Lawrence's, 276 

— , Maple, 28 

— , new. See New 

Swamp. 
— , old, 194 

— . Partrigg's, See 
Partrigg's. 



Swamp, spruce, 193, 284, 

285. 
— , Taylor's, 194 

Swampfield. See Sun- 
derland. 
Swan, Thos., 58 

Sweetser, Luke, 454 

Swine, 71, 72, 370, 371 

note. 
Symonds, Sam'l, 18, 19 

TABLES. See 
Lists. 
Talcott, John 

(Maj.), 132, 137, 168, 

169, 170, 172, 173. 
Tappan, Benj., 380 

Tar, first made in 

New Eng., 292 

Taverns, (see also 

Inns), 62 

Taxes (see also 

Rates), 17th c, 

198; 283 note; on 

rum, 414 note. 
Taylor, Aaron, 402 

— , Dan'l, 340 

— , Ebenezer, 278, 284, 

340, 403- 
— , Ebenezer, Jr., 403 
— , Edward (Rev.), 160, 

263, 443- 
— , Elisha, 298 note, 340, 

403- 
— , Jacob, 386, *403 

— , James, 1 10 

— , John, 24, 25, 26, 27, 

76, 103, 186, 191, 203, 

204, 205, 206, 256 note, 

266, 275, 278, 284, 336 

note, 388, 402. 
— , John, Jr., 275, 278 
— , Jos., 284, 298 note, 

402. 
— , Jos., Jr., 298 note 
— , Joshua, 284, 340, 402 
— , Moses, 284, 340, 390 

note, 400, 402. 
— , Oliver, 340 

— -, Reuben, 40^ 

— , Sam'l, 278, *284, 298 

note, 389 note, 402. 
— , Sam'l, Jr., 298 note, 

402. 
— , Stephen, 15, 31, 201 
— , Thos., 278, 284, 403 
— , Widow, 32 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



Taylor, Wm., 298 note, 

340, 385, 403. 
Taylor's brook, 280 

Taylor's field, 298 and 

note. 
Temple, Isaac, 340 

— , Thos., 284, 405 

Terry, Stephen, 24, 26, 

70, 82, 88, 203, 206, 446 
Thayer, Ezra, 436 

— , Hiram, 369 note, 

*452. 
— , Justin, 369 note 

— , Oliver, 369 note 
Thomas, Oliver, 340 

— , Rowland, 107 

Till, "Dud," 461 

Tilton, Peter, xiii, 11, 

13, 15, 16, 20, 24, 26, 

29. 32, 34. 47. *49. *5i. 
52, 55, 60, 68, *7o, 71, 
76, 77, 78, 80, 83, 86, 
*87, 90, 149, 185, 196, 
203, 204, *2io, 215, 
229, 236, 243, 249, 263, 
27s. 445. *446, *447. 
452. 
Timber (see also 
Saw-logs, Boards, 
Lumber), 99, 100, 282, 

295- 

— laws, 282 
— , surveyor of, 409 
Timepieces, 379 
Tinker, John, 292 
Tipplers, 70 
Tithing-men, 70, 313 
Titles, in Old and 

New England, 242 
ff; female, 244. 
Tobacco, 374, 468 

Tomkins, — , 208 

Torrey, Wm., 14 

Tosh (or Mackin- 
tosh), Mary, 268 
Toto, 143 
Town house, 189, 234, 
466. 

— land, 191 

— marks, 88 

— measvirers, first, 32 
Town-meetings. See 

also Side-meetings 14, 
68fT, 71, 316. 

— officers, 68ff 
Towns, before 1700, 

86; incorporation 
of, 17. 



Townsmen's accts., 69 
Towunucksett brook, 

*io6, 109 
Tracy, David, 366 note 
Trade, early condi- 
tions, 72 
Traders, 385 
Traditional attack on 
Hadley (1675), viiiff, 
XV, 137, 206. 
Trainer, Francis, 423 
Training, general, 63 
Transportation. See 
also under Grain, 
Produce, etc., 75, 93, 
94. 
Traske, Edward, 141 
Treat, James, 58 
— , Maj., 135, 137, 139, 
140, 144, 145, 146, 154 
— , Salmon, 58 
Trees of Hadley, 422,426 
Troopers. See Mil- 
itia. 
Trumbull, Judah, 268 
Tuenson, Garret, 90 
Tufts, Jas., 141 
Turkey pass, 281 note, 

351 note. 
Turkies, tame, 373 

— , wild, _ 348, 350 
Turner, Praise ver, 143 
— , Wm. (Capt.), 155, 
158, 160, 161, 162, 163, 
164, 170, 171, 174. 
— , Wm., Jr , 161 

Turner's falls, 163 

Turnips, 358 

Turpentine, 293 

Tuttle, Nathan, 349 note 
Tuxbury, Franklin 

(Rev.), *436 

Tyler, Mason W., 455 

UMPANCHALA 
{Womscom), 29, 
106-113. 
Uncas, 116, 121, 129, 140 
U. S. Constitution, 

vote on, 418 

Upham.Edw. (Rev.), 

son of, 350 note 

— , Phinehas, 142 

VAN C O R T- 
LAND, S., 120 
Varlete, Judith, 88 
Venison, 350 



Vermin, rewards for 
killing, 346 and notes 

Vermont, first build- 
ing by white men 
raised in, 332 

Vinton, Sam'l (Dr.), 403, 
404. 

WABAQUAS- 
SUCKS, 142 
Wachuset 

(Mt.), 158,169 

Wadanummin, no, 116, 

117. 
Wadsworth, Col., 173 
Wagons, 383 

Wainwright, Jacob, 141 
Wait, Benj., 31, 64, 80, 

88, 163, 176-7, 178, 179 

note, 265. 
— , Canada, 177 

— , Martha, 256 

— , Martin, 340, 403 

— , Mary, 176 

— , Reuben, *338 

— -, Simeon, 378 

— , Wm., 403 

Wake, Wm., 90 

Wales, Timothy, 203, 

205. 
Walker, John, 164 

— , Simeon, 340 

Wamequan, 64 

Wampanoags, 127, 128, 

129, 132, 137'. 
Wampuin, in, 125 

Wanchequit, 160 

Wannalancet, 184 note 
Waranoke (West- 
field), 34, 35. 36 
Waranoke Indians, 115, 

150. 
Ward, Isaac, Jr., 340 
— , Nath'l, *ii, *i2, 15, 

16, 24, 26, 50, 51, 58, 

203, 206, 446. 
Ware, 291 

Warham, Mr., 5 

Warner, Aaron, 416, 417 
— , Andrew, 11, 12, 14, 

15, 16, 24, 26, 35, 42, 

49, 66, 69, 76, 88, 92, 

106, 185, 203, 204, 219, 

355, *446. 
— , Dan'l, II, 15, 31, 77, 

80, 203, 204, *275, 278, 

279, -446. 
— , David, 235 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



501 



355 
284 

194. 
383, 



Warner, Ebenezer, 279 
— , Eleazar, 189, 203, 

275, 278, 332, 340. 
— , Eleazar, Jr., 403 

— , Elihu, 307 

— , Elizabeth, 278 

— , George, 454 

— , Gideon, 423 

— , Isaac, 76, 189, 203, 

204, 206, 275. 
— , Jacob, 66, 203, 204, 

275, 278, 283, 355,409, 

417. 
— , Jiicob, 2d, 
— , Joanna, 
— , John, 76, 13 

203, *205. 
— , Jonathan, 38 

*38s, *386, 423. 424, 

449, *450- 
— , Josiah, 411 

— , Lemuel, 450 

— , Mark, 92, 185, 189, 

194, 203, 205. 
— , Mary, 284 

— , Moses, 340, 386, 414, 

416, 417. 
— , Nath'l, 184, 191, 203, 

204, 205, 275, 447. 

— , Nath'l, Jr., *265 

— , Oliver, 348, 350, 383, 

385, 386, 423, *45o. 
— , Orange, 355, 423 
— , Ruth, 92 

— , Stephen, 278, 284, 

340, 390 note, 403. 
— , Stephen, Jr., 391, 403 
— , Thos., 148 

Warriner, Jos., 76. 165, 
185, 189, 203, 204, 205 
Wars: Pequot, 2; 
King Philip's War 
(1675), 40, 122, 
i2 7ff; beginning, 
129; events of, 
133; Hadley in, 145; 
cost of, 181, 199; 
headqrtrs in, 182. 
— , Second Indian 
(1688-99) = King 
William's war 248!?; 
beginning, 248 ; 
massacre at North- 
field, 249; war be- 
tween Fr. and 
Eng., 249; French 
unite with Indians 
against British col- 



onists, 249; expe- 
dition under Pyn- 
chon to Albany, 
249; Indians attack 
Schenectady, 250; 
expedition of Mass. 
troops against Que- 
bec, 250; war in 
Hampshire county, 
25off; new troub- 
les with Indians 
(1691), 251; gar- 
rison at Deerfield, 
250, 251; massacre 
at Deerfield (1693), 
252; massacre at 
Brookfield, 252; 
pursuit of Indians, 
253; conference with 
Indians at Albany, 
253; attack on 
Deerfield (1694), 
253; attack on 
Deerfield men, 254; 
murder of Richard 
Church, 255; trial 
and execution of 
Indians, 256; treaty 
of peace between 
England and 
France, 257; mass- 
acre at Hatfield, 
257; end of war, 
258; losses of Hamp- 
shire county in war, 
258; war taxes, 259; 
contributions of 
colonies to the dis- 
tressed, 260. 
— , Third Indian 
(i7o3-i7i3)=Queen 
Anne's war, 264- 
272; war begins be- 
tween Eng. and Fr., 
264; in Hampshire, 
264; French and In- 
dians attack Deer- 
field (1704), 264; 
Deerfield re-inforc- 
ed, 266; Indians at- 
tack Pascommuck, 
266; Northampton 
re-inforced, 266; 
French and Indians 
attack Lancaster, 
267; activity in 
Hampshire county, 
267; attack on Co- 



wasset, 267; events 
in Hampshire 
(1705-7), 268; loss 
of lives in Hamp- 
shire (1708), 268; 
excursions to Lake 
Champlain, etc., 
268; failure of Eng- 
land to send troops 
promised, 269 ; lives 
lost near Deerfield, 
269; at Brookfield, 
269; at Northamp- 
ton, 269; failure of 
expedition against 
Quebec, 269; Deer- 
field re-inforced, 
2 70 ; attack on Pem- 
igewasset, 270; sus- 
pension of arms, 
270; peace of U- 
trecht, 270; cost of 
war, in Mass., 270; 
in Hampshire, 270; 
war taxes in Hamp- 
shire, 271; number 
of Hampshire per- 
sons killed in war, 
271; captives from 
New England in 
Canada, 271; re- 
ward for Indian 
scalps given by 
Mass. in war, 271. 

— , Fourth Indian 
=:Father Rasles 'war 
(1722-6), 331-334; 
beginning, 331; war 
charges in Hamp- 
shire, 331; garris- 
ons, 331 ; Ft. Dum- 
mer built, 332; war 
in Hampshire, 332; 
pay of officers and 
men in, 332 note; 
attacks on North- 
field, 332; on Hat- 
field, Greenfield, 
Deerfield, North- 
ampton, Easthamp- 
ton. Westfield, 333; 
Hadley in, 333; 
Mohawks in, 333; 
treaty of peace, 334 

— , Fifth Indian := 
(i 744-48), KingGeo- 
rge's war; begun, 
334;Mass. garrisons, 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



Wars, — 
335; capture of 
Louisburg, 335; 
project for re- 
ducing Canada, 336; 
end of war, 336; list 
of killed from near 
Hadley, 337; list of 
Hadley men at fort 
No. 4, 337. 
— , Sixth Indian 
=French and Indian 
war(i754-63),337ff; 
begun, 337; exped. 
against Crown 
Point, 337; Mass. 
in Canada expedi- 
tions, 337; attacks 
on Mass. frontiers, 
338; soldiers fur- 
nished from Mass., 
338; men from Had- 
ley and vicinity in, 
338-340; bounties 
offered for enlist- 
ment, 341; surren- 
der of Fort William 
Henry, 341; Had- 
ley militia, 342; 
disease in, 342. 
— , Indian, losses of 
property in, 181; 
war taxes in Hamp- 
shire, 182; effect on 
men, 338 note. 
Washburn, Wm. Par- 
sons, 455 
Watches, military, 223 
Waters, Peregrine, 446 
Watson, Caleb, 57, 58, 

76, 185. 
— , Oliver, 454 

— , widow, II, 12, 13 
Watts, Thos.(Capt.), 

132. 133. 176 
Way, Hammon, 423 

— , Lois, 239 

— , Ralph, 239, 284, 423 
— , Ralph, Jr., 423 

Wealth, early ideas 

of, 196 note 

Weaving, 387 

Webb, John, 40, 106 
— , Patience, 266 

— , Rich'd, 256 note 

Webster, John, 11, 12, 
15, *i6, 24, 26, 82, 86, 
205, 206, 242, 243, 419 



Webster, Mary, 228-31 
— , Noah, 242, *453 

— , Rob't, II, 12, 13, 26 
— , Thos., 26, 27, 71, 189, 
203, 206, 228 note, 234 
— , Wm., 26, 27, 76, 189, 
201, 203, 206, 228 and 
note, *234. 
Weddings. See Mar- 
riages. 
Weights and Meas- 
ures, sealer of, 70 
Weld, Stephen C., 446 
Weller, Rich'd, 27 
Wells, Aaron, 235, 333 
— , Ebenezer, 275, 279 
— , Elizabeth, 176 
— , Hepzibah, 252 
— , John, 31, 80, 91, 164, 
*i65, 176, 269, 284, 416 
— , Jonathan, 218, 234, 

264. 

— , Joseph, 284, *4i6 

— , Stephen, 141 

— , Thos., II, 13, 15, 16, 

24, 26, 39, 76, *i4i, 

185, 190, 205, 249, 252, 

277. 333. 345. 446. 
— , Thos., Jr., 91, 92, 165 
Wenepuck, 255, 256, 257 
Wennimisset rr: Mem- 

iNiMissET, 153, 155 
Wentworth,Benning, 

296, 297 
Wequogon, *iio, 143, 

144, 174. 
Wequomps mt., = 

Sugar Loaf, 14 

West, Dan, 423 

— , Parsons, 436,446,452 
— , Thos., 445 

Westcarr, Hannah, 

Mrs., 92 

— , John (Dr.), 64, 72, 
76, 91, 92, 189, 190, 
*2o5, 242, 442. 
Westfield (Wara- 
noke), 34, 86; 
church organized, 
86; contributions to 
Harvard, 96; in 
Philip's war, 150; 
settlers killed at 
(1675), 150; settlers 
refuse to remove to 
Spfd., 160; remod- 
eled, 179; houses 
burnt(i676-7), 180; 



loss of lives (1676- 
7), 181; war taxes 
(1675), 182; rates, 
199; 260; in 3d In- 
dian war, 268; 
province tax (1708), 
271; (1726), 334 
note; hospital at, 
342; res. physician, 
442. 
Westfield Indians, 150 
West Indies, specu- 
lation in, 196; ex- 
pedition to, 334, 338. 
Westly, Widow, 11, 12, 

13. 233- 
West Rock, 209 

West Side (see also 
East Side, Had- 
ley), 15; first sett- 
lers, 31; petition to 
form separate 
church, 79; popula- 
tion, 81; separate 
from East Side, 82; 
first minister, 84; 
meeting-house built, 
84. 
West Springfield, 
church organized, 86; 
130. 
Westwood, Sarah, 236 
— , Wm., II, *i2, 15, 17, 
20, 23, 24, 26, 42, 50, 
70, 71, 76, 106, 236, 
446. 
Wethersfield, Conn., 
2; troubles in 
church, 3, 9; with- 
drawers from, 13. 
Whalley, Edw. 
(Gen.), V, ff, es- 
cape to America, 
and subsequent ad- 
ventures, IX, ff; 45, 
137, 182 note, 207 
ff; death, 210, 214. 
Wheat, price of after 
1702, 303; survey- 
or of, 409; flour, 
353ff. 
Wheeler, Eph., 340 

— , Sam'l, 340 

— , Thos. (Capt.), 130, 

131- 
Whelstone, Increase, 155 

Whipple, Capt., iss, 158 
White, Cotton, 383 



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HISTORICAL INDEX. 



503 



White, Dan'l, 15, 31, 47, 

77, 80, 256 note, 340, 

423, 446, *45o, *45i. 

— , Ebenezer, 283, 423 

— , Enoch (Deac.), 396, 

397- 
— , Ezekiel (Dr.), 404 
— , Geo. (Dr.), 455 

— , Henry, 189, 194, 203, 

205. 
— ■ Joel, 340 

— , John, II, *i2, 15, 16, 

24, 26, 70, 76, 82, 256 

note, 278, 283, 445, 

*446. 
— , John, Jr., 15, 31, 340 
— , Jonathan, 386, 397, 

402, 403. 
— , Joseph, 278, 284, 386, 

389 note, 394, 395, 402, 

449. 
—, Joseph, Jr., 402 

— , Josiah, *386, 391, 

397, 398, 402, 403. 
— , Moses, 390 note, 402 
— , Nath'l, 191, 203, 204, 

275, 278, *279 note, 

283,310,389 note, 397, 

402, 403, 424 and note, 

*447- *448, 449. 45°- 
— , Nath'l, Jr., 265, 278, 

284, 402. 
— , Oliver, 423 

— , Thos., 402 

—,Wm., 283,340,423,449 
Whitefield, Geo. 

(Rev.), 330 

Whiting, Jno., xxiv 

— , Wm. (Capt.), 251, 

252, *266. 
Whitney, Josiah D., 

354 note 
Whitridge, Jno., 164 

Whitteridge, Sam'l, 141 
Wigs, fashion of wear- 
ing, 136 
Wilbraham, first pas- 
tor, 320 
Wildcats, 345 
Wilder, S. C, 436 
Willard, Simon (Maj.), 

131. 132 

Williams, Arthur, 107 

— , Ashley (Deac), 436 

— , Chester (Rev.), 260 

note, 312,320,321,322, 

323. 324. 328, 329, 331, 

35°. 367- 



Williams, Chester, 

2d, 325 

— , Ebenezer, (Rev.), 323, 

413 note, 416, 453. 
— , Eleazar (Rev.), 271 

note. 
— , Elisha, 59 

— , Enos D., 454 

— , Ephraim, 335, 338, 

339- 
— , Eunice, 271 note 

— , Israel, xiv, 297, 334 

note, 338 note, 383. 
Williams, John 

(Rev.), 59, 261, 263, 

264 note, 271 and note, 

319, 320 note, 323. 
— , John Chester, 382, 

385, 423, 445, *45o. 
— , Jonathan, 269 

— , Joseph, 411 

— , Justus, 340, 417 

— , P. Smith, 436, 446, 

*452. 
— , Sarah, 325, 326 

— , Solomon, 59 

— , Stephen (Rev.), 59, 

325- 
— , Wm., *59, 85, 263, 

275. 323. 330 note. 
— , Wm. (Col.), 336 note 
— , Zebadiah, 140, 141, 

264, 339- 
Williamstown, 338 

Willimanset Falls, 94 
Wills, Joshua, 88 

Wilson, John (Rev.), 

135. 178 
— , Robt., 141 

Wilterton (or Win- 
terton) , Gregory , 11, 12, 
^3< *iS> i9i 20, 21, 446 
Wilton, David 

(Lieut.), 149, 160, 166, 
218, 219. 
Wine. See Liquors. 
Windsor, Conn., 2; 

withdrawers, 13. 
Winter of 1675, 150 

Witchcraft, 224-31; 
in Europe, 224; in 
New England, 225; 
in Conn., 225; in 
Mass., 226; in 
Hampshire county, 
226; m Salem, 232; 
in other colonies, 
232. 



Withdrawers from 

Conn., i8fT 

Wolcott, Hannah, 252 
— , Henry, *66 

— , Henry, 2d, 364 

— , Joanna, 2^2 

— , John, 268 

— , Joseph, 252 

— , Rebekah, 252 

— , Sam'l, 261 

— , Wm., 393 

Wolf-pit brook, 418 

Wolves, bounty on, 93; 

344ff, 418. 
Women, in business, 363, 

366 note. 
Wompshaw (Quon- 

quont), *io6-7 

Wood (see Timber, 
Boards), 99; value 
of, 408 note; fire 
wood, 99, 282, 321. 
Wood, Asa, 423 

— , Ezekiel, 350 note 
Woodberry, Peter, 141 
Woodbridge (Ephra- 
im or Sam'l), 59 
— , John (Rev.), 321, 
391, *394, 402, 435, 
*436. 
— , John (Maj.), 391 note 
— , John, Jr., 339, 403 
— , Madam, 389 note 
— , Ruggles, *385, 386, 
390 note, 394, 396,398, 
404. 
— , T. (Rev.), 334 note 
Woodchucks (wood- 
hatches), 346,347 
Woodcock, 352 
Woods, F., 402 
Woodstock Indians, 255 
Woodward, Henry, 35, 

92, 219. 
Wool, 372 

Worcester (Quin- 

sigamond), 37 

Worcester county 

formed, 334 

Worcester, Sam'l M. 

(Rev.), 327, 435 

Worms, canker and 

palmer, 386 

Worthington, Dan'l, 424 
— , John, 338 note, 349 

note. 
— , Nichols, 31.32 



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504 



HISTORICAL INDEX. 



Wright, Abby, 395 note 
— , Abel, 268 

— , Asahel, 369 note 

— , Benj., 258, 268, 270, 

332. 
— , Chas., 340, 416 

— , Ebenezer, 264, 265 
— , Esther, 366 note 

— , Hannah, 268 

— , Henry and fam- 
ily, 268 



Wright, James, 110 

— , John, 424 

— , Joseph, 340, 423 

— , Judah, no, 256 note 
— , Sam'l, 107, 137, 256 

note, 332, *424. 
— , Silas, 418, 424, 454 
— , Silas, 2d, 424 

Wuchuwin, 117 

Wulluther, 106, no 



Wunnaquickset, 106, 1 19 

YEAST, 366 note 
Yeomans, Ed- 
ward, 366 note 
— , Elijah, 380 

Young, Henry, 131 

Younglove, John, 57, 58, 
132, 206. 



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504 



HISTORICAL INDEX. 



Wright, Abby, 395 note 
— , Abel, 268 

— , Asahel, 369 note 

— , Benj., 258, 268, 270, 

332. 
— , Chas., 340, 416 

— , Ebenezer, 264, 265 
— , Esther, 366 note 

— , Hannah, 268 

— , Henry and fam- 
ily, 268 



Wright, James, 110 

— , John, 424 

— , Joseph, 340, 423 

— , Judah, no, 256 note 
— , Sam'l, 107, 137, 256 

note, 332, *424. 
— , Silas, 418, 424, 454 
— , Silas, 2d, 424 

Wuchuwin, 117 

WuUuther, 106, no 



Wunnaquickset, 106, 1 19 

YEAST, 366 note 
Ycomans, Ed- 
ward, 366 note 
— , Elijah, 380 

Young, Henry, 131 

Younglove, John, 57, 58, 
132, 206. 



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GENEALOGIES 



HADLEY FAMILIES 



EMBRACING THE 



EARLY SETTLERS 



OF THE TOWNS OF 



HATFIELD, SOUTH HADLEY, AMHERST 
AND GRANBY 



INTRODUCTION 



The material for the following pages has been drawn from 
every available source. Town, county, probate, church, and 
family records have been examined with the utmost care, and the 
moss-grown and crumbling tomb-stones of all the old burying 
yards within the limits of ancient Hadley, have been carefully de- 
ciphered. I may safely say, that prior to 1 700, the records of but 
few towns were more carefully kept than those of Hadley, and 
although since that time, until within about twenty years, the 
records are less complete, it is thought that in few works of this 
character are so many of the families traced back to the first 
settlers of the town, as in this. 

The plan adopted in the arrangement of the families, is so 
simple as to be readily understood by all familiar with genealogical 
tables. For the information of others, it is only necessar\' to 
explain, that the figures which precede the names of individuals 
denote their place in the series, and those which follow point 
back to the place in the series where the paternal ancestor is to 
be found. For example, in the family of Barnard, we read, "5. 
John, s. of Joseph, (4.J" The figure 5 denotes that this is the 
fifth family described; and the figure (4J refers back to the fourth 
family, on examining which we find that John was born Nov. ig, 
1696. By observing this rule, it will be easy to trace any family 
back to the first ancestor in the town. 

In justice to myself, and as an apology for the delay in putting 
these genealogies to press, I ought to remark, that Mr. Judd left 
his minutes of Hadley settlers in quite a confused state, not hav- 
ing taken the first step towards preparing them for the printer, 
and hence the labor of arranging them has been four-fold what I 
had anticipated. Having however, at length compared with the 
original records every date in regard to which I was at all in 
doubt, and arranged the same with care, I have the satisfaction 
of submitting the work to the public, with the feeling that it will 
be found, in the main, accurate and reliable. 

L. M. BOLTWOOD. 

Amherst, June, 1862. 



ABBREVIATIONS 



abt. 


about. 




m. 


. married. 


A. C. . 


Amherst College. 


mos. 


months. 


ae. 


aged. 




N. H. 


New Hampshire. 


Amh. . 


Amherst. 




Nh. 


Northampton. 


b. 


born. 




North. 


. Northfield. 


bapt. 


baptized. 




per. 


perhaps. 


Capt. . 


Captain. 




prob. 


probably. 


Ch. 


Church. 




pub. 


published. 


Cong. . 


Congregational . 


rem. 


removed. 


d. 


died. 




res. 


resided. 


D. C. 


Dartmouth 


College. 


s. 


son. 


dau. 


daughter. 




s. p. 


. without issue. 


Dea. 


Deacon. 




So. Had. 


. South Hadley. 


Deer. , 


Deerfield. 




Spr. 


Springfield. 


gr- 


graduated. 




Sund. 


Sunderland. 


Gr. 


Granby. 




tmm. 


unmarried. 


Green. , 


Greenfield. 




Weth. 


Wethersfield. 


Had. . 


, Hadley. 




wid. 


widow. 


Hart. . 


Hartford. 




W. C. 


. Williams College. 


Hat. , 


, Hatfield. 




Wind. 


. Windsor. 


H. C. , 


Harvard College. 


Y. C. 


Yale College. 



GENEALOGIES 



ABBOTT, Daniel. Children — Phila; Achsah; Moses Graves; Lucy Wil- 
lard; Ithream, bapt. Jan. 14, 1798; Son, b. 1800; Loi, b. 1802. 

ABBOTT, Jacob, Amherst, m. Mercy. Children — Daniel, h. July 25, 1764; 
Persis, b. Oct. 8, 1766; Amos, b. April 28, 1769; Eliab, b. Sept. 24, 1771. 

1. ALEXANDER, Joseph, s. of Joseph of Winchester, N. H., res. for a 
few yrs. in North, before coming abt. 1748 to Had.; d. Sept. 30, 1761, ae. 70 
or more, m (i) 1736. Mary Mighill. m. (2) Experience. Children — Miles, 
b. 1737, d. in Sund., April 10, 1806, ae. 69; Rachel, b. Mch. 18, 1742, d. in 
North., 1775, ae. 32; Alary, b. 1743; Aaron, b. May 13, 1748; Joseph, b. Apr. 
19, 1750; Experience, b. Feb. 5, 1753; Eunice, b. Aug. 25, 1757; Thankful, 
b. Jan. 6, 1761; Eliakim, b. Dec. 12, 1766. 

2. Joseph, s. of Joseph (i) m. Sarah. Children — Experience, b. July 
3i> 1775; Josiah, b. Mch. 8, 1779, d. Dec. 1779; Lydia, b. Mch. 3, 1781, d. 
Sept. 30, 1781; Thankful, b. Dec. 30, 1783; Polly, bapt. Apr. 9, 1786, d. 
Dec. I, 1786; Elizabeth, b. Jan. 11, 1794. 

Levi. Child — Lewis Porter, h. Mch. 5, 1837. 

Nathaniel, s. of George of Windsor, b. Dec. 29, 1652, d. Oct. 29, 1742. 

Eunice. Child — Paul, b. Oct. 28, 1790. 

1. ALLIS, William, freeman May 13, 1640, Braintree, rem. abt. 1661 to 
Hat., and d. Sept. 6, 1678. m. (i) Mary, who d. Aug. 10, 1677; m. (2) June 
25, 1678, Mary, dau. of John Brownson, and wid. of John Graves, of Had- 
dam, Ct. She m. (2) Mch. 16, 1681, Samuel Gaylord, Sen. Children — John, 
b. Mch. 5, 1642; Samuel, b. Feb. 24, 1647; Josiah, d. Oct. 15, 1651; Josiah, 
b. Oct. 20, 165 1 ; William, b. Jan. 10, 1653, d. ae. 9 mos. ; William, b. Jan. 10, 
1656, slain in Falls fight. May 19, 1676; Hannah, m. June 28, 1670, William 
Scott; Mary, d. unm. Jan. 25, 1690. 

2. John, s. of William, (i) carpenter in Hat., m. Dec. 14, 1669, Mary, 
wid. of Nathaniel Clark of Nh., and dau. of Thomas Meekins, d. Jan. 1691. 
She m. (3) abt. 1691, Samuel Belden. Children — Joseph; Abigail, b. Feb. 25;, 
1672, m. Jan. 23, 1696, Ephraim Wells; Hannah, b. Oct. 9, 167^; Ichabod, b. 
July 10, 1675; Eleazar, b. July 23, 1677, m. Jemima; Elizabeth, b. Apr. 4, 
1679, m. July 13, 1704, James Bridgman; Lydia, h. Aug. 15, 1680, d. Aug. 
31, 1691; John, b. May 10, 1682, m. (i) Jan. 29, 1708, Mary Lawrence, (2) 
Bethiah Field; Rebecca, b. April 16, 1683, m. April 30, 1702, Nathl. Graves; 
William, h. May 16, 1684; Mary, b. Aug. 25, 1687; d. Apr. 20, 1688; Nathan- 
iel, m. abt. 1705, Mercy Dudley, and rem. to East Guilford, Ct. 



6 ALLIS ARMS. 

3. Samuel, s. of William, (i) d. Mch. 9, 1691. m. Alice, who m. (2) 
Sergt. John Hawks, and was slain in Deer. Feb. 29, 1704. Children — 
Mehitable, b. July 2, 1677, m. Dec. 13, 1698, Benoni U.oore\ Samuel, b. Feb. 20, 
1679, slain Feb. 29, 1704; William, b. Oct. 19, 1680; Mary, b. July 6, 1682, 
m. Nathaniel Brooks; Thomas, b. Mch. 12, 1684, rem. to Guilford; Sarah, b. 
abt. 1685; Rebecca, b. Nov. 29, 1687. 

4. Joseph, s. of John, (2) Hat., was slain by Indians, June 19, 1724. m. 
Naomi. Children — Daniel, b. Apr. 11, 1703, drowned at the mill. May 20, 
1719; Mary, m. Sept. 26, 1723, John Smead; Thankful, b. Mch. 11, i7ii,m. 
Josiah Holmes, of Deerfield; Experience, b. Mch. 11, 171 1, m. 1736, Noah 
Ferry, of So. Had. 

5. IcHABOD,s. of John, (2) Hat., d. July 9, 1747. m. (i) abt. 1698, Mary, 
dau. of Samuel Belding. She d. Sept. 9, 1724, ae. 45; (2) Nov. 25, 1726, 
Sarah, wid. of John Belden. Children — Abigail, b. Feb. 28, 1700, m. Nathan- 
iel Smith; Lydia, b. Jan. 7, 1702, m. Jan. 13, 1736, Daniel Dickinson, and 

d. Oct. 16, 1737, ae. 35; Martha, b. Nov. 19, 1703, m. (i) Hammond, 

of Hardwick; (2) Nathaniel Kellogg, of Hadley, and d. Sept. 13, 1764; Sam- 
uel, b. Dec. 12, 1705, grad. H. C. 1724, was a clergyman in Somers, Ct.; 
Sarah, h.]a.n. 11, 1708, m. Nov. 14, 1734, Joseph Miller; J5a^/i5/i^6a, b. Jan; 12, 
1710, m. 1734, Jonathan Warner; Abel, b. July 21, 1714, m. Dec. 14, 1735, 
Miriam, dau. of Joseph Scott; Elisha, b. Dec. 3, 17 16. 

1. ALVORD, John. Children — John; Gideon, b. June 12, 1734. 

2. John, s. of John, (i) d. in S. H., July 8, 1758. m. July 17, 1734, Abi- 
gail White, dau. of Joseph. She d. Nov. 15, 1770, ae. 82. Children — Moses, 
b. Aug. 26, 173s; Azariah, h. Jan. 20, 1738, res. in Spr. and W. Spr., and d. 
Jan. II, 1819, ae. 89. m. (i) Jan. 5, 1768, Abigail Nash, who died Mch. 31, 
1782, ae. 42; m. (2) Mch. 5, 1789, Lucy Nash, of Gr.; Abigail, b. Sept. 23, 
1739; Jerusha, b. Sept. 27, 1741; Dorcas, b. Nov. 4, 1743; Rachel, b. Apr. 
15, 1747; Phineas, b. June 26, 1750; Luther, b. Mch. 4, 1753, d. 1784, ae. 31; 
Rebecca, b. Apr. 14, 1756. 

1. AMSDEN, John, rem. from Cambridge to Hat., and d. 1696. m. Eliz- 
abeth, who d. Aug. 13, 1689. Children — John, b. Nov. 24, 1686; Isaac, d. 
Aug. 8, 1692. 

2. John, s. of John, (i) Deerfield, was drowned 1742. m. Mch. 23, 1720, 
Mary, dau. of Samuel Cole. Children — John, b. Feb. 16, 1721, res. in Deer- 
field; Isaac, b. Sept. 27, 1722, Conway, 1770; Elizabeth, b. Sept. 27, 1724, 
d. unm.; Violet, b. Sept. 14, 1726, m. Jona. Bardwell; Oliver, b. 1728, slain 
by Indians, Aug. 26, 1746, Elisha, b. 1733, Conway, 1770; Mary, b. 1735, 
m. Aaron Phelps, of Belchertown; Simeon, b. 1737, slain by Indians, Aug. 

26, 1746; Eunice, b. 1739, m. Chamberlain of Sunderland; Asahel, 

res. in Ashfield, 1770. 

ARMS, William, rem. from Hatfield to Sund., and thence to Deerfield, 
and d. 1731. m. Nov. 21, 1677, Joanna Hawks. Children — William, b. Feb. 
14, 1678, d. in Deer. 1690; John, b. Dec. 25, 1679, res. in Deer.; Sarah, b. 
Nov. 21, 1681, m. Zebadiah Williams; Margaret, b. Oct. 6, 1683, m. William 
Belding; Hannah, b. 1685, m. abt. 1704, Joseph Clesson; Daniel, b. Sept. 
II, 1687, res. in Deer. 1729; Ebenezer, b. Aug. 28, 1689, d. Sept. 25, 1690; 
William, b. Oct. 26, 1692. 



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ARNOLD, Thomas, was per. a trader during the Revolution, Children — - 
Rachel, bapt. Jan. 15, 1775; Thomas, bapt. Dec. 22, 1776; Betsey, bapt. Oct. 
1778. 

ATCHISON, John, Hatfield, was slain by Indians, Sept. 19, 1677. M. 
Deliverance. Children — Elizabeth, b. Apr. 22, 1672, m. 1690, Daniel Lamb; 
Mary, b. Oct. 30, 1673, m. 1692, N. Rust; John, b. Mch. 23, 1676, m. and died 
in Brimfield, 173S; Bcnoni, b. Nov. 22, 1677, d. in Springfield, 1704. 

ATHERTON, Rev. Hope, Hat., was bapt. Aug. 30, 1646, s. of Mr. Hum- 
phrey, ord. 1671, freeman 1672, d. June 8, 1677. M. 1674, Sarah Hollister, 
dau. of Lt. Joseph of Wethersfield. She m. (2) Timothy Baker, of Nh. 
Children — Hope and Joseph, (twins,) b. Jan. 7, 1675; Sarah, h. Oct. 26, 1676. 

ATWELL, Oliver, m. June 8, 1781, Jerusha Smith. Children — Daugh- 
ter, b. Feb. 18, 1782, d. Apr. 1782; Child, b. Aug. 1784; Oliver, hapt. }uly 
25. 1785; John, bapt. Sept. 25, 1785; Pamela, b. Sept. 27, 1785; George 
Washington, bapt. Nov. 20, 1789; Fanny Sanford, bapt. Jan. 3, 1790. 

AYRES, Samuel, b. abt. 17 14, rem. in 1740 from Brookfield to Granby. 
He was drowned in Conn, river, Nov. 15, 1768, ae. 54. His body was found, 
Apr. 1 77 1, below South Hadley falls, in a state of good preservation. M. 
Martha Bell, who d. Oct. 25, 1765, ae. 41. Children — John, m. Ruth Smith, 
of Granby, and d. in Greenwich, Jan. 26, 1817; Aaron, b. Nov. 12, 1744, m. 
(i) Lois Moore of Gr., who d. Sept. 26, 1789, ae. 39; (2) Mary Hitchcock, 
who d. June 22, 1830, ae. 69; Eleazar, b. abt. 1746, m. Sybil Clark, and d. 
Mch. 2, 1832, ae. 36; Martha, m. Asher Alvord of So. Had., and rem. to Wil- 
mington, Vt.; Amos, m. Esther Dickinson, and res. in Amherst; Daniel, h. 
July 15, 1751, m. and rem. to the west; Sarah, h. May 10, 1754, d. Apr. 26, 
ae. 22; Lydia, b. Sept. 22, 1756, m. Chilion Palmer, and rem. to Litchfield, 
Ct.; Susanna, b. Jan. 28, 1759; Asa, b. June 5, 1761, m. Mary Wait, and 
rem. to Ohio; Ruth, b. Sept. 22, 1763. 

BACON, Andrew, was in Hartford, 1639, where he was a highly useful 
citizen, assistant of the Gen. Ct., 1637-8, and several times deputy of the 
Gen. Ct. A first settler of Had., he was there freeman in 1661, and d. s. p., 
Oct. 4, 1669. He m. Elizabeth, wid. of Timothy Stanley, of Hartford. Slie 
came in 1634 from England. The court gave her all Mr. Bacon's lands and 
buildings in Hadley. She rem. to Hartford, and d. abt. 1679. 

BAKER, Elijah, s. of John of Northampton, settled in Amherst. M. (i) 

June 16, 1757, Rebecca, dau. of Jonathan Smith of Amli.; (2) . 

Children by first wife — Elijah, a soldier, d. at Rhinebeck; Hannah, bapt. 
Dec. 9, 1759, m. Wm. Hubbard, of Leverett; Enos, bapt. May 20, 1764; 
Sarali, bapt. May 4, 1766; Enos, bapt. May 15, 1768, d. in Amh. 1845, ^^- 77! 
Martin, bapt. Oct. 7, 1770, m. July 16, 1797, Mary Smith. Child by second 
wife — Martha, m. June 22, 1797, Moses Gaylord. 

I. BALDWIN, Joseph, Milford, 1639, rem. abt. 1663 to Had., was freeman 
1666, and d. Dec. 8, 1676. M. (i) Hannah; m. (2) wid. Isabel Northam, 
who as widow Catlin, had come with s. John from Newark, N. J.; m. (3) 
Elizabeth, wid. of William Warriner. She had before been the wife of Luke 



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5 BALDWIN BARNARD. 

I Hitchcock, of Wcthersfield. She d. in Spr. Apr. 25, 1696. Children — Joseph; 
Benjamin, res. in Milford; Hannah, m. Jeremiah Hull, of New Haven; Mary, 
I m. John Catlin, of Arthur Kill., N. J.; Elizabeth, bapt. 1645; Martha, b. 
i 1647, m. Dec. 26, 1667, John Hawks of Hat.; Jonathan, bapt. 1650, res. in 
I Milford; David, b. 1651, m. Nov. 11, 1674, Mary Stream, d. in Milford, 
I 1689; Sarah, bapt. 1653, m. Samuel Bartlett of Nh. 

2. Joseph, s. of Joseph, (1) d. Nov. 21, 1681. M. (i) Elizabeth; m. (2) 
Sarah Coolcy of Milford, bapt. 1648, dau. of Benjamin. She d. in Spr. 1689. 
Children — Joseph, b. 1663, rem. to Maiden; James; Mary, d. Dec. 17, 1674; 
Mehitable, b. June 1670, d. July 11, 1670; Hannah, b. Apr. 13, 1673; Mercy, 
b. Nov. 10, 1674. She or Mary m. Samuel Allen, Jr., of Nh.; Hannah, b. 
Mch. 9, 1675, d. Oct. 31, 1676; Samuel, b. Apr. 7, 1679; Hannah, b. Apr. 27, 
1681. 

BALLARD, Joshua, saddler, s. of Jeremiah, of New Salem, m. Dec. 27, 
1757, Ruth Kellogg, who d. May 3, 1776. Children — Ruth, b. Dec. 27, 1758, 
m. Waitstill Cook; Lovisa, b. Feb. 25, 1761; Polly, b. Jan. 16, 1764; Jerusha, 
h. Dec. 26, 1765; William, b. Nov. i, 1768. 

BARDWELL, Robert, Hatfield, d. Jan. 9, 1726. M. Nov. 29, 1676, 
Mary, dau. of William Gull. She d. Nov. 12, 1726. Children — Ebenezer, b. 
Oct. 19, 1679; Mary, b. Oct. 15, 1681; John, b. Sept. 16, 1683, d. 1685; 
Samuel, h. Sept. 26, 1685; John, b. Aug. 18 or 28, 1687; Elizabeth, b. July 
30, 1689; Thomas, h. Dec. 8, 1691; Hester, b. Aug. 8, 1693, m. Oct. 23, 1717, 
Joseph Belding; Sarah, m. May 19, 1713, Jona. Barrett, of Hartford; Thank- 
ful, m. May 23, 1717, Abram Graves; Abigail, b. abt. 1699, m. June 6, 1720, 
David Graves, and died 1786, ae. 87. 

1. BARNARD, Francis, b. abt. 1617, Hartford, 1644, maltster, a first 
settler of Had., freeman 1666, d. Feb. 3, 1698, ae. 81. M. (i) Aug. 15, 1644, 
Hannah Merrill, or Meruil, or Marvin; m. (2) 1677, Frances, wid. of John 
Dickinson, and dau. of Nathaniel Foote. Children— r/zo»;ta5; Samuel; 
Joseph; Hannah, m. (i) Oct. 17, 1667, Doct. John Westcarr; m. (2) 
Oct. 9, 1680, Simon Beaman, of Deer., and d. 1739; John, slain with Capt. 
Lathrop, Sept. 18, 1675; and prob. Sarah, who d. 1676. 

2. Thomas, s. of Francis, (i) grad. H. C. 1679, ord. Jan. 1682, pastor of 
1st. Chh. Andover, and d. Oct. 13, 1718, in 62 yr. M. (i) Dec. 14, 1686, 
Elizabeth Price, dau. of Theodore. She d. Oct. 10, 1693; m. (2) May 28, 
1696, Abigail Bull, who d. 1702; m. (3) July 20, 1704, Lydia Gofife. Chil- 
dren — Thomas, b. Oct. 20, 1688; John, b. Feb. or Mch. 26, 1690, grad. H. C. 
1709, pastor of ist Chh. Andover, d. June 14, 1758; Theodore, h. Feb. 6, 1692, 
d. Feb. 16, 1725, ae. 34. 

3. Samuel, captain, s. of Francis, (i) d. Oct. 17, 1728, ae. 74. M. Nov. 
5, 1678, Mary Colton, who d. Mch. 4 or 5, 1709, ae. 58. Children — Mary, h. 
Aug. II, 1 68 1, m. 1698, Moses Cook; Hannah, b. June 8, 1684, m. 1715, 
John Marsh, and d. Sept. 31, 1716, ae. 32; Samuels, b. Mch. 29, 1686, d. unm., 
Nov. 5, 1742, ae. 56; John, b. May 6, 1688; Sarah, b. Aug. 17, 1691. 

4. Joseph, s. of Francis, (i) rem. to Deer., where he d. Sept. 6, 1695, 
from wounds received of Indians. M. Dec. 19, 1675, Sarah, dau. of Elder 
John Strong of Nh. She m. (2) Sept. 23, 1698, Jonathan Wells, and d. 1733. 



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BARNARD BARTLETT. 9 

C'liililren — John, b. Nov. 19, 1676; Sarali, b. Dec. 30, 1677, m. 1700, Thomas 
Wills; Joseph, b. Oct. 13, 1679, d. Aug. 8, 1681; Joseph, b. June 20, 1681, 
rem. to Windsor; Thomas, b. Mch. 13, 1683, of Lebanon, 1701; Samuel, b- 
Dec. I, 1684, of Salem, 1762; Rebecca, b. Dec. 25, 1686. m. 1718, Jonathan 
Wills, Jr.; Hannah, h. abt. 1688, m. 1709, Samuel Child; Abigail, h. Oct. 3, 
i6(;i, m. 1714, Ebenezer Sheldon; Ebenezer, h. Mch. 13, 1696, of Roxbury, 
1717. 

5. John, s. of Joseph, (4) a physician, d. Mch. 6, 1726, ae. 49. M. 
Jan. 13, 1701, Bridget Cook. She m. (2) Sept. 24, 1730, Dea. Samuel Dick- 
inson. Children — Thomas, a physician in Tolland, Ct.; Bridget, b. Sept. 30, 
1708, m. 1729, Jonathan Burt, of Deerfield; Sarah, b. Feb. 2, 1710, m. Aug. 

12, 1730, Thomas Temple; Abigail, b. Mch. 14, i7i2,m. May, 1740, Aaron 
Cook; John, b. Dec. 12, 1713, rem. to Shutesbury; Joanna, b. Oct. i, 1715, 
m. 1735, Enos Nash; Francis, h. Nov. 11, 1717, d. Jan. 5, 1719; Joseph, b. 
Jan. I, 1720, rem. to Sund.; Francis, b. Oct. 6, 1721; Rebecca, b. May 18, 
1724. 

BARNARD, John, rem. from Cambridge to Hartford, was a first settler of 
Had., where he was buried May 23, 1664. He left much of his property to 
the children of his kinsman Henry Hayward of Wcthersfield, and the chil- 
dren of his sister, Mary Bedient. M. Mary, who d. Feb. or Mch. 1665. 

BARNS, William, m. Aug. 20, 1696, Mary Smith. Children — Mary, b. 
July 7, 1697; William, b. Aug. 7, 1698; Mercy, h. Nov. 14, 1700; John, h. 
Sept. 22, 1702. 

1. BARTLETT, Daniel, m. (i) Nov. 16, 1777, Elizabeth Smith; m. (2) 
Feb. 3, 1784, Deborah Ferguson. Children — Daniel; Zebina; Jerusha; Sam- 
uel; Elizabeth; Leonard, bapt. Oct. 24, 1790; Lewis, bapt. Feb. 26, 1792; 
Stillman, bapt. Dec. 22, 1793; Roxa, bapt. Jan. 17, 1796; Nancy, bapt. Oct. 
29, 1797; Charles, bapt. Aug. 30, 1804; Dexter, bapt. Aug. 30, 1804. 

2. Daniel, s. of Daniel, (i.) Children — Elijah, b. Jan. 10, 1805; Elatah 
Stockbridge, b. Sept. 20, 1808; Patience, b. Apr. 13, 1810; Miranda, b. Mch. 

13, 1812; Adeline, b. May 30, 1813; Daniel Lewis, b. Dec. 6, 1816. 

3. Leonard, s. of Daniel, (i.) Children — Roxana, b. Mch. 24, 1817; 
Catharine Cooley, b. Dec. 24, 18 18; Daniel James, b. Mch. 8, 1820; Henry 
Leonard, b. Aug. 27, 1824; Lewis Williston, b. June 23, 1826; David Norton, 
b. May 28, 1828; Lyman, b. Feb. 20, 1831; Hannah Jerusha, b. Jan. 7, 1836. 

BARTLETT, Levi. Children— C/ari550, b. May 3, 1809; Clarissa, b. Oct. 
27, 1810; Levi Harvey, b. Sept. 23, 1812; Mary Ann, b. June 3, 1814; Elijah 
Henry, b. Mch. i, 1816; Harriet Newell, b. Mch. 8, 1818; Elizabeth, b. June 

I, 1820; Johti, b. Aug. 22, 1824; Clarissa Naomi, b. Apr. 11, 1827. 

BARTLETT, Nicholas, m. Nov, 14, 1771, Mary Morton of Hat. Chil- 
dren — Lucy, bapt. Oct. 11, 1772; Mary, bapt. Aug. 7, 1774; Caleb, b. Dec. 
29, 1777; Abigail, bapt. Jan. 17, 1776. 

BARTLETT, Oliver, m. 1765, Asenath Smith of So. Had. Children — 
Sarah Lane, bapt. May 17, 1767; Henry, bapt. 1767; Benjamin, bapt. Dec. 

II, 1769; Oliver, bapt. Jan. 30, 1773; Warhani, bapt. Sept. 1775; William, 
bapt. Aug. 18, 1782; Asenath, bapt. Aug. 1784. 



10 BASCOM BELDING. 

BASCOM, Thomas, Amherst, m. Martha. Children — Joel, b. Sept. i8, 
1773; Nathan, b. June 22, 1775; Martha, b. Aug. 12, 1777; Nathan, b. Apr. 
8, 1779; David, b. Aug. 8, 1780. 

BEDIENT, Mary, widow of Morgan, of Staynes, England, with her 
two sons came to New England to receive estate devised by her brother, John 
Barnard. Children b. in England — Morgan, b. June 25, 1651; TJiomas, b. 
July 22, 1654, rem. to Fairfield, Ct., and d. abt. 1698. 

BEEBE, James, m. Oct. 24, 1667, Mary Boltwood, dau. of Robert. She 
d. Aug. 19, 1676, and he then perhaps rem. to Stratford, Ct., and m. Dec. 19, 
1679, Sarah Benedict, dau. of Thomas of Norwalk, Ct. Children — Mary, b. 
Aug. 18, 1668; James b. Dec. 9, 1669, d. Jan. 3, 1670; Rebecca, b. Dec. 8, 
1670; Samuel, b. June 26, 1672; Mary, b. 1675. 

BEERS, Ephraim, Hatfield, m. Sept. 9, 1680, Mary Gardner. Child — 
Elizabeth, b. June 27, 1683, d. Oct. 19, 1684. 

BELDING, Daniel, b. Nov. 20, 1648, s. of William of Wethersfield, set- 
tled as early as 1671 in Hat., whence abt. 1689 he rem. to Deer., and d. Aug. 
14, 1732, ae. 85. M. (i) Nov. 10, 1670, Elizabeth Foote, dau. of Nathaniel; 
she was slain Sept. 16, 1696; m. (2) Feb. 17, 1699, Hepzibah, wid. of Thomas 
Wells of Hat., and dau. of Wm. Buell. She was b. in Windsor, Dec. 11, 
1649, slain Mch. 1704; m. (3) Sarah, wid. of Phillip Mattoon. She d. Sept. 
17, 1751, in 95th yr. Children — William, b. Dec. 26, 1671; Richard, b. Mch. 

29, 1672; Elizabeth, b. Oct. 8, 1673, m. Brooks; Nathaniel, b. Jan. 

26, 1675, d. Aug. 21, 1714; Mary, b. Nov. 17, 1677, m. Trowbridge; 

Daniel, b. Sept. i, 1680, slain Sept. 16, 1696; Sarah, b. Mch. 15, 1682, m. 

Trowbridge; Daniel, b. Sept. i, 1680, slain Sept. 16, 1696; Sarah, b. 

Mch. 15, 1682, m. Benjamin Burt; Hester, h. Sept. 29, 1683, m. Clark; 

Abigail, h. Mch. 10, 1686, d. June 15, 1686; Samuel, h. Apr. 10, 1687; John, 
b. June 24, 1689, d. June 25, 1689; Abigail, b. Aug. 18, 1690; John, b. Feb. 
28, 1693, slain Sept. 16, 1696; Thankful, h. Dec. 21, 1695, slain Sept. 16, 
1696. 

BELDING, Joshua. Children — Submit, bapt. Dec. 5, 1790; Anna, bapt. 
Oct. 21, 1793; Naomi, bapt. March, 1796; Content, bapt. March, 1796. 

1. BELDING, Samuel, s. of Richard, rem. from^Wethersfield to Hat., 
and d. Jan. 3, 1713. M. (i) Mary, who was slain Sept. 19, 1677; m. (2) 
June 25, 1678, Mary, wid. of Thomas Wells; she d. Sept. 20, 1691; m. (3) 
1691, Mary, wid. of John Allis; m. (4) Apr. 10, 1705, Sarah, wid. of John 
Wells. Children — Mary, b. July 10, 1655; Samuel, b. Apr. 6, 1657; Stephen, 
h. Dec. 28, 1658; Sarah, b. Sept. 30, 1661; Ann, b. Jan. 27, 1665; Ebenezer, 
h. Nov. 16, 1667, m. Martha; John, h. Nov. 13, 1669. 

2. Samuel, s. of Samuel, (i) res. in Hat., d. abt. 1737. M. (i) Oct. 9, 
1678, Sarah, wid. of Samuel Billings, and dau. of Richard Fellowes. She d. 
Feb. 5, 1713; m. (2) May 7, 1713, Mary, wid. of Dr. Thomas Hastings, and 
dau. of David Burt, of Nh., b. May 3, 1676, and d. April 13, 1734. Children 
— Mary, b. Aug. 27, 1679, m. Ichabod Allis; Hannah, b. Dec. 5, 1681, m. 
Joseph Clary; Samuel, h. Oct. 19, 1684, d. April 17, 1697; Mehitabel, b. Jan. 



BELDING BELL. 11 

23, 1687, m. Samuel Hawley; Sarah, m. Eleazer Graves; Thaiikfid, m. Dec. 
5. 1739- John Belding, Jr.; Lydia, b. Oct. 28, 1718. 

3. Stephen, s. of Samuel, (i) res. in Hat., and d. Oct. 6, 1720. M. Aug. 
16, 1682, Mary Wells, dau. of Thomas. She m. (2) Jan. 2, 1723, Capt. 
Joseph Field, of Northfield, and d. 1751. Children — Elizabeth, b. Feb. 2, 
1683, m. Richard Scott; Mary, b. May 20, 1685, m. John Wait; Sara/i, b. 
Oct. 25, 1687; Stephen, b. Feb. 22, 1689, prob. m. Mindvvell, dau. of Capt. 
Benjamin Wright, and d. in Northfield, 1735 or 1736; Samuel, b. Oct. 23, 
1692; Joshua, b. abt. 1695, d. in Whately, 1738; m. Dec. i, 1725, Sarah 
Field. She perhaps m. 1761, Thomas Noble of Westfield, and d. Aug. 17, 
1763, in 62d yr.; Esther, m. 1724, Nathaniel Gunn; Lydia, d. July 24, 1714. 

4. John, s. of Samuel, (i) res. in Hat., and was killed at a raising, Oct. 
18, 1725, ae. 56. M. Sarah, perhaps Wait, dau. of Benjamin. She m. (2) 

Nov. 25, 1726, AUis. Children — John, b. Sept. 22, 1694, d. abt. 1758; 

m. (i) Dec. I, 1 7 15, Deliverance Lawrence; m. (2) Dorothy; Joseph, b. 
Aug. 9, 1696, d. in Whately, Oct. 1788, ae. 88; m. (i) Oct. 23, 1717, Esther 
Bardwell; m. (2) July 13, 1727, Margaret Gillett; Martha, b. Aug. 6, 1698, 

m. Bridgman, prob. Orlando; Sarah, b. Feb. 10, 1701, m. Thomas 

Bardwell; Hannah, b. May 14, 1703, m. Nathaniel Hawks of Deer.; Mary, 
b. July 27, 1705, m. Obadiah Dickinson; Ebenezer, b. June 7, 1712; Ebenezer, 
h. July 29, 1 7 14, m. Sept. 30, 1736, Hannah Nash; Rhoda, b. July 20, 17 16, 
m. [Aaron?] Sheldon. 

5. Samuel, s. of Stephen, (3) res. in Hat., and d. Oct. 5, 1732. M. 1717, 
Elizabeth, dau. of Hezekiah Dickinson of Spr. Children — David, b. Feb. 
4, 1718, rem. to Swansey, N. H.; Samuel, b. Aug. 15, 1719, rem. to Swansey ; 
Abigail, b. May 4, 1721, m. Noah Nash, of Hat., and d. Feb. 7, 1797, ae. 75; 

Elizabeth, b. Dec. 2, 1723, m. Arms of Deerfield; Mary, b. Oct. 23, 

1725, d. before 1741; Hezekiah, b. July 2, 1728; Noah, b. May 8, 1731, rem. 
to Conway, and thence to State of New York; Jonathan, b. May 9, 1733. 

6. Hezekiah, s. of Samuel, (5) a deacon in 2nd Chh Amh., where he d. 
June 22, 1813, ae. 85. M. (i) April 16, 1752, Mary, dau. of Jonathan Dick- 
inson of Hat. and Ainh. ; m. (2) Abigail, dau. of John Nash of Hat.; m. (3) 
April 21, 1767, Martha Field of Sund.; m. (4) April 16, 1795, Martha, dau. 
of Windsor Smith of Had. She m. (2) July 6, 1815, Col. Asaph White, of 
Erving. Children — Mary, b. Jan. 11, 1753, m. Hezekiah Howard of Leverett; 
Elizabeth, m. Eleazar Warner of Sund.; Submit, bapt. Jan. 25, 1756, m. 
Ethan Billings of Conway; Hepzibah, m. Elias Graves of Sund.; Abigail, 
bapt. Dec. 5, 1762, m. Nov. 7, 1782, Ebenezer Dickinson of Amh.; John, 
b. July 4, 1764, m. Lydia Hunt, of Belchertown; Elihu, b. June 5, 1768, 
m. Sally Clapp, and d. in Amh.; Martha, b. July 21, 1770, m. (i) Gershom 
Ingram of Amh.; (2) John Kellogg of Amh., and d. May 10, 1837, ae. 67. 

BELDING, Stephen, m. Feb. 10, 1796, Abigail Hibbard. Children — 
Martha, bapt. Feb. 5, 1797; Abigail, bapt. May 4, 1800; Melinda, bapt. 
March 31, 1805; Lucinda, bapt. Feb. 28, 1S08; Esther, bapt. May 6, 1810. 

I. BELL, Reuben, doctor,, m. Dec. 28, 1806, Alethea Smith. Children — 
John Smith, b. May 26, 1807; Frederick and Samuel, (twins,) b. Jan. 8, 181 1 ; 
Charles, b. Oct. 28, 1814; Rnth Maria, b. Oct. 24, 1816; Elizabeth, b. March 
17, 1824. 



12 BELL BILLINGS. 

2. John Smith, s. of Reuben, (i.) Children — Frederick, b. June 26, 
1834; Mary Porter, b. Nov. 11, 1836; Charles Henry, b. Nov. 22, 1838. 

1. BILLINGS, Richard, Hartford, 1640, rem. 1661, to Hat., where he d. 
March 13, 1679. M. Margery, who d. Dec. 5, 1679. Child — Samuel. 

2. Samuel, s. of Richard, (i) Hat., d. Feb. i, 1678. M. abt. 1661, Sarah, 
dau. of Richard Fellowes. She m. (2) Oct. 9, 1678, Samuel Belding, Jr., of 
Hat., and d. Feb. 5, 1713. Children — -Samuel, b. Jan. 8, 1665; Ebenezer, b. 
Oct. 29, 1669; Sarah, d. July 15, 1674; Richard, b. April 7, 1672; John, b. 
Oct. II, 1674, slain July 15, 1698; Sarah, h. Oct. 18, 1676, m. Samuel Dick- 
inson of Hat. 

3. Samuel, s. of Samuel, (2) Hat., m. (i) Nov. 18, 1686, Hannah Wright, 
who d. Nov. 18, 1687; m. (2) 1691, wid. Rebecca Miller. Children — Samuel, 
res. in Sund. and Hardwick; Sarah, b. March 15, 1697, m. Jan. 16, 1724, Dea. 
Samuel Sinith of Sund.; Joseph, b. Nov. 15, 1700, m. Jan. 7, 1726, Elizabeth, 
wid. of Joseph Kellogg, res. in Hat., and d. abt. 1783; Zechariah, b. Nov. 
29, 1702, m. Ruth Meekins, and d. 1771; Benjamin, h. Jan. 18, 1705, m. 
Nov. 13, 1729, Mary, dau. of Joshua Hastings, res. in Belchertown, and d. 
1782, ae. 78. 

4. Ebenezer, s. of Samuel, (2) rem. after 17 13 from Hat. to Sund., and 
d. Nov. 14, 1745. M. abt. 1691, Hannah Church. Children — Samuel, b. 
June 7, 1693; Ebenezer, b. Nov. 10, 1695; John, b. Nov. 26, 1698; Alary, b. 
May 24, 1701, m. Jonathan Field of Sund.; Fellowes, b. Feb. 15, 1704, res. in 
Sund. and Conway; Edward, b. Aug. 10, 1707, m. Aug. 12, 1741, Lucy, dau. 
of Rev. David Parsons of Leicester. He grad. H. C, 1731, was pastor of 
chhs. in Belchertown and Greenfield, and d. abt. 1757; Jonathan, b. June 2, 
1710, m. Mary Root. 

5. Richard, s. of Samuel, (2) Hat., d. abt. 1753. M. (i) March 18, 1703, 
Hannah, dau. of Samuel Marsh of Hat.; m. (2) Sarah. Children — Sarah, b. 
Jan. 9, 1704, m. Samuel Gillett; Hannah, b. July 14, 1706, m. Nathan Wait; 
Richard, b. Sept. 14, 1709, d. unm. in Amh., May 26, 1780, ae. 70; Damaris, 
b. Nov. 26, 1712, m. Samuel Church; Martha, d. Aug. 1720, ae. 2; Thankful, 
b. May 9, 1721, m. Elijah Chapin; John, b. July 8, 1725; Ruth, m. Moses 
Morton. 

6. John, s. of Richard, (5) rem. soon after marriage, from Hat. to Amh., 
where he was Dea. in 2nd Chh.; d. Aug. 31, 1813, ae. 88. M. (i) Jerusha, 
dau. of John Waite of Hat.; m. (2) Sarah, dau. of William Matthews. She 
d. July 2, 1829, ae. 91 yrs. and 11 mos. Children — Joel, h. April i, 1747, d. 
Nov. 4, 1825; m. (i) Mary Field; m. (2) wid. Lombard; Hannah, b. Feb. 
15, 1749, d. Oct. 5, 1823, m. Thomas Hastings of Amh.; Lois, b. Sept. 14, 
1750, d. young; Ursula Fellows, b. Jan. 7, 1753, d. Aug. 30, 1832; m. Feb. 
1782, Dea. Elisha Smith of Amh.; John, b. May i, 1755, served in Rev. war, 
and d. Sept. 11, 1776; Moses, b. Aug. 5, 1757; Lois, b. July 28, 1759, d. 
Aug. II, 1831; m. Giles Church, of Amh.; Aaron, b. Oct. i, 1761, d. in Amh., 
Jan. 23, 1817; m. (i) Jan. 1782, Lucy Rich;.m. (2) Dec. 23, 1810, Esther 
Ayres; Jerusha, b. Nov. 3, 1763, d. July 3, 1798; m. April, 1782, Elijah 
Hastings of Amh.; David, b. Dec. 31, 1765, rem. to State of N. Y.; m. (i) 
April 3, 1786, Hannah Eastman; m. (2) Aug. 21, 1798, Hannah Hyde; 



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Martha, b. Nov. 19, 1767, m. April 9, 1789, Calvin Rich, of New Lebanon, 
N. Y.; Moses, h. Nov. 7, 1769, d. in Amh. Sept. 18, 1798; m. July 3, 1798, 

Mary Field; Sarah, b. Jan. 5, 1774, m. (i) Hull; m. (2) Timothy Sturde- 

vant; Ame, b. Aug. 24, 1777, d. Nov. 6, 1803. 

BLYE, John, m. Mary. Children — John, h. Oct. 2, 1715; Oliver, b. June 
10, 1718. 

BODMAN, Joseph, came from Westfield to Hat., abt. 1685, and d. July 
8, 1711, ae. 56. M. (i) Hepzibah, who d. Jan. 15, 1686; (2) May 4, 1687, 
Naomi Church. Children — Lydia, b. Jan. 1686, d. ae. 2 weeks; Manoah, b. 
March 29, 1692, m. Anna, and d. s. p. 1759, in Sund.; William, b. Jan. 5, 
1698, d. May [July?] 27, 1723, ae. 25; Sarah, b. April 10, 1701, m. Thomas 
Keet; Mary, b. Feb. 12, 1704, m. 1744, John Billings, and d. 1753; Lydia, b. 
July 30, 1707, m. Samuel Harvey; Samuel. 

1. BOLTWOOD, Robert, sergeant, perhaps came from Essex Co., 
Eng., where the name existed as early as the reign of Edward L (1273,) is 
first named on Conn. Records, in 1648, freeman. May 20, 1658. Before 
removing to Had., as one of the first settlers, he probably resided in east part 
of Wethersfield, now Glastenbury. An enterprising man, he was made free- 
man in Mass., March 26, 1661, and d. April 6, 1684. M. Mary, who d. May 
14, 1687. Children — Samuel; Sarah, m. (i) May 31, 1666, Isaac Warner of 
Hat.; m. (2) Dec. 30, 1696, Dea. John Loomis of Windsor; Lydia, m. April 
2, 1674, John Warner of Spr., and d. Jan. 26, 1683; Mari/m, m. April i, 1674, 
Daniel Warner, of Hat., and d. Sept. 22, 1710; Mary, m. Oct. 24, 1667, 
James Beebe, and d. Aug. 19, 1676. 

2. Samuel, s. of Robert, (i) sergeant, a man of remarkable strength and 
bravery, was stationed at Deer, at the time of the sack of that village by 
French and Indians, and was there slain Feb. 29, 1704. M. Sarah, dau. of 
Capt. William Lewis of Farmington. She was b. abt. 1652, and d. Aug. 10, 
1722, ae. 70. Children — Sarah, h. Oct. i, 1672, m. June 28, 1692, Nathaniel 
Kellogg; Mary, b. Aug. 7, 1675, d. young; Samuel, h. Oct. 12, 1679; 
Elizabeth, b. April 12, 1681, m. July 20, 1715, Dea. Eleazar Mattoon of 
Amh.; Robert, b. April 19, 1683, slain at Deer., Feb. 29, 1704, ae. 20; 
Ebcnezer, b. March 20, 1685; William, b. Jan. 28, 1687, d. while on his return 
from captivity in Canada, Aug. 27, 1714, ae. 27; Rebecca, b. Aug. i, i69i,m. 
May 7, 1724, Daniel Shattuck of Hinsdale, N. H.; Solomon, b. July 2, 1694; 
Lydia, b. Oct. 1696, m. June 29, 1719, John Ingram, 3d, of Amh., and d. abt. 
1779. 

3. Samuel, s. of Samuel, (2) rem. as early as 1731, to Amh., where he 
d. in Oct. or Nov. 1738. M. May 10, 1703, Hannah, dau. of Nathaniel 
Alexander. She was b. Nov. 1680. Children — Hannah, b. Jan. 2, 1705, m. 
Nov. 9, 1726, Ebenezer Smith of S. H., and d. Oct. 1733, ae. 28; Samuel, b. 
Jan. 29, 1706; Sarah, b. Dec. 21, 1708; Alary, b. Dec. 27, 17 10; Martha; 
Abigail, m. July 10, 1739, John Field, of Amh.; Jemima, m. Sept. 29, 1742, 
David Nash, of Amh. and S. H. 

4. Ebenezer, s. of Samuel, (2) rem. as early as 17 16 to Berwick, Me., 
and there d. prior to 1741. M. Mary. Children — William, b. Sept. 27, 1715; 



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Elisabeth, bapt. May i, 1720, m. Benjamin Gubtill of Berwick; Sarah, bapt. 
May I, 1720; Mary, bapt. May 2, 1725; John, bapt. May 2, 1725, res. in 
Berwick; Ebenezer, bapt. Aug. 6, 1727, drowned in Nh., July 9, 1743. 

5. Solomon, s. of Samuel, (2) rem. to Amh. as early as 1737, and there 
d. April 20, 1762, ae. 65. M. Mary, wid. of John Pantry, Jr., of Hartford, 
and dau. of John Norton of Farmington, Ct. She was bapt. Nov. 21, 1686, 
and d. May 24, 1763, ac. 76. Children — Rulh, b. April 25, 1722, m. Oct. 19, 
1742, Charles Wright, of Amh., and Pownal, Vt., and d. April 15, 1806, ae. 
85; Sarah, b. April 5, 1723, m. Elijah Merrill, and d. May 17, 1746, ae. 23; 
William, b. Feb. 4, 1725; Solomon, b. Dec. 26, 1727; Ebenezer, b. April 7, 
1731, d. June 9, 1749, ae. 18; Mary, h. July 19, 1733, m. July 11, 1751, 
Samuel Ingram, of Amh., and d. abt. 1780. 

6. William, Lieut., s. of Solomon, (5) res. in Amh., served in the 
French war, and d. May 2, 1779, ae. 54. M. Dec. 10, 1750, Mary, dau. 
of Ebenezer Sheldon of Nh. She was b. Dec. 8, 1724, and d. May 10, 1809, 
ae. 84. Children — Sarah, bapt. Feb. 16, 1752, m. Israel Dickinson of Amh. ; 
Mary, bapt. Nov. 4, 1753; Lucy, bapt. Jan. 3, 1757, m. Feb. 10, 1780, 
Stephen Hubbard of Amh., and d. Sept. 1823; John, bapt. Oct. 14, 1759; 
Esther, h. Feb. 14, 1762, m. Jan. i, 1795, Abner Noble, of Pownal, Vt., and 
d. Jan. I, 1820, ae. 57; Abagail, bapt. May 20, 1764, prob. d. Dec. 28, 1766; 
William, b. May 4, 1766. 

7. Solomon, s. of Solomon (5) res. in Amh., and d. May 17, 1777, ae. 49. 
M. Aug. 29, 1 75 1, Mary, dau. of Nehemiah Strong, of Amh. She was b. 
Feb. 21, 1732, and d. Aug. i, 1S14, ae. 82. Children — Ebenezer, h. July 23, 
1752, grad. H. C. 1773, merchant in Amh., where he d. unm., July 23, 1804, 
ae. 52; Samuel, b. June 12, 1754; Martha, b. April i, 1756, d. Oct. 2, 1778, 
ae. 22; Mary, b. Aug. 2, 1758, m. (i) Moses Dickinson of Amh.; m. (2) 
Oct. 5, 1780, Daniel Cooley, Esq., of Amh., and d. Jan. 10, 1795, ae. 36; 
Solomon, b. May 25, 1760, m. Sarah Benney, res. in Amh., and was killed at 
raising of Hat. Bridge, Dec. 12, 1805, ae. 45; Hannah, h. April 21, 1762, d. 
Dec. 13, 1784, ae. 22; Jemima, b. Dec. 18, 1763, m. Oct. 16, 1805, William 
Brewer of Wilbraham, and d. July 29, 1850, ae. 86; Keziah, b. Dec. 18, 1763, 
m. Doct. Abia Southworth of Pelham, and d. April 28, 1835, ae. 71 ; Elijah, b. 
Aug. 31, 1766, d. Feb. 3, 1776, ae. 9; Elisha, b. Sept. 16, 1767. 

8. John, s. of William, (6) Amh., served in Rev. war, and d. Feb. 5, 
1803, ae. 43. M. Haze, of Pelham. Child — John, b. 1786. 

9. William, s. of Wilham, (6) Amh., d. Aug. 15, 1845, ae. 69. M. (i) 
Aug. 2, 1789, Eunice, dau. of Stephen Noble of Westfield. She d. June 5, 
1807, ae. 37. M. (2) Feb. 18, 1808, Irene, wid. of Asahel Clark, of Amh., 
and dau. of Isaac Hubbard. She d. Aug. 6, 1831; m. (3) April 20, 1833, 
Olive, wid. of Lucius Hastings, and dau. of Joel Smith. She m. (3) Rev. 
Samuel Ware, of Sund. Children — Sarah, b. May 19, 1790, m. 1809, Jona- 
than Marsh, andd. in Richmond, Va., Oct. 19, i8i7,ae. 2-]; Lucius, b. Mch.i6, 
1792; Mary Sheldon, b. Feb. 20, 1794, m. Jan. 17, i8i3,Rufus Green, of Carroll 
N. Y.; Emily, b. May 8, 1798, d. unm., in Amh., Feb. 2, 1834, ae. 35; Harriet, 
b. Jan. 24, 1800, m. (i) Nov. 7, 1838, George Newhall of Athol; m. (2) April 
17, 1844, Joseph Marsh of Had.; William, b. July 3, 1802; Eunice Church, 



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b. Sept. 19, 1804, d. May 27, 1808, ae. 3; Oliver Noble, b. June i, 1807, m. 
Nov. 13, 1833, Nancy, dau. of Nathaniel Smith of Bridgewater, N. H., res. in 
Ionia, Mich.; Eunice Church, b. 1809, m. Horace Dexter of Willoughby, Ohio. 

10. Samuel, s. of Solomon, (7) res. in Conway and Amh., and d. March 
2, 1808, ae. 53. M. Judith, dau. of John Nash. She d. April 28, 1832, ae. 
76. Children — Martha, b. Dec. 4, 1778, m. John Arms, of Conway; Elijah, 
b. Feb. 19, 1780, res. in Amh.; m. Nov. 5, 1807, Eliza, dau. of Tillinghast 
Almy, and d. s. p. April 13, 1855, ae. 75. 

11. Elisha, s. of Solomon, (7) res. in Amh., and d. Aug. 14, 1804, ae. 36. 
M. Lucinda, dau. of Gaius Brewer of Wilbraham. She m. (2) Enos Baker, 
of Amh., and d. Jan. 9, 1852, ao. 73. Child — Elishaba. 

12. John, s. of John, (8) settled in Windsor, Vt. and d. 1843. M. Mch. 5, 
1808, Eunice, dau. of Urijah Brainerd, of Lempster, N. H. Children — Joseph, 
h. Dec. 7, 1808, went to sea in 1829, and has never since been heard from; 
Frederick Pettis, b. July 29, 1810, m. Sept. 6, 1840, Mabel E. Washburn, and 
res. in Troy, N. Y.; Minerva, b. Nov. 11, 1811, ni. May 2, 1834, Nathan 
Walker, and d. Feb. 18, 1856; William Mynders, b. Nov. 8, i8i3,m. Oct. 18, 
1840, Mary McLean, res. in Victor, N. Y., and was for eight years Post Master 
at that place; Harriet, b. Aug. 21, 1816, m. Mch. 1845, Dwight L. Sanderson, 
and cj. Aug. 5, 1847; Emeiine, b. Nov. 3, 1821, d. unm. June 11, 1844, ae. 22; 
Lucy, b. Dec. 24, 1824, m. Oct. 16, 1848, Cyrus Houghton; Abby, b. June 16, 
1827, m. (i) April 22, 1846; (2) Dec. 29, 1851, George Hosington; Mary, 
b. Oct. 13, 1829, m. Oct. I, 1848, Joel Houghton. 

13. Lucius, son of William, (9) Amherst, commenced his studies prepar- 
atory for college in the town school of Amh., under the instruction of William 
D. Williamson, afterwards Governor of Me., and completed the same at Had. 

Grammar school, under the instruction of Lyman, entered Williams 

College in 18 10, and graduated with distinguished honor in 18 14, in the same 
class with Rev. Orville Dewey, D. D. of Boston, Hon. Samuel Farley Vinton 
of Gallipolis, O., and Washington, D. C, and Hon. Austin E. Wing of De- 
troit, Mich., pursued his legal studies with Hon. Samuel Fowler Dickinson of 
Amh., was admitted to the bar of Hampshire County, in Aug. 181 7, and 
entered immediately into practice with his instructor. In 1820, his partner- 
ship with Mr. Dickinson having been dissolved, he opened an ofifice of his 
own, and continued practice until 1836, when he retired from business. In 
1828 he was appointed Secretary of Amh. College, an office which he still 
retains. In politics originally a Whig, he was subsequently a member of the 
Liberty party and in 1841 their candidate for Governor. He m. Aug. 30, 
1824, Fanny Haskins, dau. of Rev. Mase Shepard, of Little Compton, R. I. 
Children — Lucius Manlius, b. June 8, 1825; George Shepard, b. April 29, 
1827, d. July 19, 1833, ae. 6; Fanny Shepard, b. May 31, 1829, d. May 19, 
1831, ae. i; Charles Shepard, b. July 16, 1832, d. July 28, 1833, ae. i; George 
Shepard, b. July 27, 1834, d. in Aikin, S. C, April 14, 1856, ae. 21; Charles 
Uphani, b. March 28, 1837, is a clerk in Middletown, Ct.; Edward, b. Sept. 4, 
1839, grad. Y. C. i860, and is now a member of Cambridge Law school; 
Thomas Kast, b. Feb. 15, 1844, is a member of the class of 1864 in Y. C; 
Samuel, b. Dec. 29, 1849. 



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14. William, s. of William, (9) Amherst, m. June i, 1826, Electa, dau. 
of Jacob Stetson of Amh. Children — Sarah, b. Feb. 7, 1827, m. Jan. 1847, 
Silas Dexter Clark, of Keokuk, Iowa; Caroline, h. April 4, 1829, d. Aug. 15, 
1830, ae. i; Henry Leonidas, b. Jan. 17, 1831, grad. A. C. 1853, master of 
High School, Lawrence; Solomon, b. Jan. 29, 1833, d. June i, 1833, ae. 4 
mos.; Caroline Amelia, b. March 23, 1835, grad. i860, at South Hadley 
Female Sem.; William Francis, b. April 16, 1837; Edmund, b. Sept. 5, 1839; 
Rizpah, b. Feb. 20, 1842; John Emerson, b. March 24, 1844; Harriet Newhall, 
b. June 26, 1848; Robert, b. Feb. 12, 1852. 

15. Oliver Noble, s. of William, (9) Ionia, Mich. M. Nov. 13, 1833, 
Nancy, dau. of Nathaniel S. Smith of Bridgewater, N. H. Children — Emily 
Maria, b. Sept. 24, 1834, m. April, 1853, J. A. Sweezey, Esq. of Hastings, 
Mich.; Solomon, h. July 10, 1837, d. in Jamestown, N. Y., Jan. 4, 1856, ae. 18. 

16. Hon. Lucius Manlius, s. of Lucius, (13) Amherst, pursued his 
studies preparatory to College, at Amh. Academy, between 1834 and 1839, 
under the instruction of Rev. George C. Partridge, Hon. Rodolphus B. Hub- 
bard, Mr. Frederick A. Buel, and Rev. Nahum Gale, D. D., graduated at Amh. 
College in 1843, was appointed in 1852, Librarian of Amh. College, and in 
June, 1861, Post Master of Amherst. In politics a Republican, he was in 
1859 by that party chosen State Senator for the Hampshire & Franklin 
District. He m. June 6, i860, Clarinda Boardman, dau. of Hinckley Williams 
of Goshen. Child — George She pard, b. March 2, 1861. 

BONNEY, Oliver. Children — Son, b. April 13, 1815; Elijah Hayward 

b. Nov. 4, 1816, grad. A. C. 1839, Presbyterian clergyman in , N. Y. 

Franklin, b. Sept. 7, 1819; Franklin, b. Feb. 2, 1822, physician in Had. 
Oliver Edmund, b. Dec. 7, 1823; George Washington, b. Nov. 23, 1825 
Susan Jane, b. Dec. i, 1827; Mary Jane, b. June 21, 1830; Elizabeth 
Harvey, b. Aug. 29, 1832; Cynthia, b. March 12, 1836; Cynthia, b. Oct. 21, 
1838. 

BRACY, Thomas, Hat., s. of Phebe Martin of Wethersfield, who was 
dau. of William Bisby of London. Children — Thomas, b. Oct. 8, 1675, d. 
Oct. 28, 1675; Mary, b. Oct. 20, 1677; Phebe, b. Nov. 14, 1680; Hannah, h. 
Aug. 12, 1683; Thomas, b. Feb. 12, 1686; Sarah, b. Sept. 23, 1688. 

BROOKS. John, m. Hannah. Children — Abigail, b. Dec. i, 1779; Lydia, 
b. Aug. 19, 1782; Sarah, b. April 7, 1784; Roxcelana, b. May 30, 1787; 
Roxcelana, b. May 4, 1799. 

BROOKS, Joseph, m. Miriam. Children — Uri, (son) b. July 8, 1759; 
Miriam, b. Feb. 9, 1761. 

BROWN, James, rem. abt. 1683, from Hat. to Deerfield, and thence to 
Colchester, Ct. M. Jan. 7, 1674, Remembrance Brook. Children — Mary, h. 
May 26, 1677; Abigail, b. Sept. 8, 1678; Thankful, b. June i, 1682; Sarah, 
b. 1683; James, b. 1685; Mindwell, b. 1686; Hannah, b. 1688; Mercy, b. 
1690; Elizabeth, b. 1693, d. ae. 5; John, b. 1695. 

BROWN, Lemuel, m. Oct. 2, 1798, Betsey, dau. of John Dickinson, Jr. 
Children — Douglas; Abigail. 



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BROWNE William, had rem. to Leicester, 1720. M. Mary. Children — 
Alary, b. Jan. 22, 1695; Elizabeth, b. Dec. 16, 1696; Ann, b. Feb. 27, 1700; 
William, b. March 27, 1702; John, b. Nov. 3, 1703; Zechariah, b. Oct. 14, 
1707; Abigail, b. Sept. 26, 1709; Sarah, b. Dec. 4, 17 16. 

BURNHAM, James, came from Windsor, Ct., and rem. to Amherst and 
Granby. Children — Allen, bapt. Aug. 23, 1795; Elsey, bapt. Aug. 23, 1795. 

BURR, Timothy, m. Mary. Children — Mary, b. Sept. 8, 1754; Timothy, 
b. Sept. I, 1757; Elizabeth, b. July 9, 1759; Eleanor, b. March 8, 1761; 
Esther, b. April 9, 1763; Nancy, b. May 7, 1765. 

CARRIER, Isaiah, m. Hannah. Children — Dau., b. Sept. 30, 1771; 
Seth Kneeland, b. Jan. 16, 1773, d. Jan. 21, 1779; Samuel, b. Jan. 11, 1775, 
d. Feb. 2, 1775; Benjamin, b. April 28, 1776, d. April 29, 1776; Samuel, b. 
March 6, 1778; Seth Kneeland, b. Sept. 5, 1780; Hannah, b. April 13, 1783; 
Sarah, b. Sept. 18, 1785; Nathaniel Alontague, b. Nov. 23, 1787. 

"Old Mr. Carrier" d. July 3, 1780. 

1. CATLIN, Samuel, m. May 30, 1735, Mary Crow. Children — Samuel 
Crow; Mary; Elizabeth, m. Moody; Irene, d. Sept. 26, 1753. 

2. Samuel Crow, s. of Samuel, (i) a saddler, rem. abt. 1770 to S. H., 
and thence to the West. M. Dorcas. Children — Samuel, b. Oct. i, 1766, 
d. young; Irene, b. May 17, 1769, d. unm. 1825, ae. 56; Lucretia, b. Oct. 4, 

1 77 1, m. Woodworth; Dorcas, b. July 27, 1776; Elizabeth, b. Nov. 23, 

1778, m. Eleazar Goodman, Jr.; Roxa, b. April 25, 1781, m. Chester Moody; 
Samuel, b. July 23, 1783. 

CHAMBERLAIN, Joseph, came to Had. as a soldier, in 1676, and rem. 
before 1700 to Hat., and before 1709 to Colchester, Ct. where he d. Aug. 7, 
1752, ae. 87. M. Mary or Mercy, dau. of John Dickinson. She d. June 30, 
1735. Children — Sarah, b. Nov. 2, 1690; Sarah, b. March 10, 1693; John, 
b. in March. 

1. CHAUNCY, Rev. Isaac, b. in Stratford, Ct., Oct. 5, 1670, s. of Rev. 
Israel, grad. H. C. 1693, ord. over Had. chh. Sept. 9, 1696, and d. May 2, 
1745, ae. 74. M. (i) Sarah, who d. June 29, 1720, ae. 38; m. (2) Abiel, 
wid. of Rev. Joseph Metcalf of Falmouth, and dau. of Rev. William Adams 
of Dedhain. Children — Mary, b. May 10, 1698, d. Aug. 1701; Israel, b. 
March 15, 1700, grad. H. C. 1724, a preacher, became deranged, and was 
burnt to death the latter part of Nov. 1736, in "a small out house," of his 
father's; Abigail, b. Nov. 13, 1701, m. Sept. 14, 1726, Rev. John Graham of 
Southbury, Ct.; Richard, b. Oct. 23, 1703; Catharine, b. Jan. or June 5, 1705, 
m. Rev. Daniel Russell of Rocky Hill, Ct.; Sarah, b. Dec. 13, 1707; 
Dorothy, b. June 24, 1710, m. May 19, 1738, Rev. Grindal Rawson, of S. 
H.; Charles, b. June 28, 1712; Jerusha, b. Sept. 7, 1714, m. abt. 1747, Rev. 
Hobart Estabrook of East Haddam, Ct.; Josiah, b. Nov. 14, 1716. 

2. Richard, s. of Rev. Isaac, (i) res. in Amh. and Whately, and d. Dec. 31, 
1790, ae. 87; m. Nov. 6, 1729, Elizabeth, dau. of Jonathan Smith of Hat. 
She was b. May 8, 1708, and d. in Wh. May 22, 1790, ae. 82. Children — ■ 
Oliver, b. July 9, 1730, m. Dec. 1751, Huldah Moody; Elizabeth, b. July 25, 



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1732; Eunice, b. April 2, 1735; Jerusha, b. Feb. 8, 1741, d. Sept. 1746; 
Medad, b. July 14, 1744, d. Sept. 1746; Abigail, bapt. Sept. 18, 1748. 

3. Charles, s. of Rev. Isaac, (i) res. in Amh., Sund., &c. M. (i) Jan. 
29, 1740, Sarah Ingram; m. (2) Sept. 18, 1746, Mary Gaylord. Children — 
Catharine, bapt. Jan. 4, 1741, m. April 24, 1759, Benjamin Harwood; 
Dorothy, bapt. April i, 1744; Isaac, bapt. Aug. 22, 1745; Eunice, bapt. June 
5, 1748; David, bapt. April 18, 1750. 

4. JosiAH, s. of Rev. Isaac, (i) res. in Had. and Amh. He was a Justice 
of the Peace, Selectman, Representative to General Court, rem. abt. 1781 to 
westernpartof Albany Co., now Schenectady Co., N.Y.,where both himself and 
wife Mary are believed to have died within a year from the time of their 
removal. Children — Elizabeth Billing, b. April 16, 1747; Mary, b. Jan. 20, 
1749, d. unm., abt. 1796; Sarah, b. March 2, 1751; Josiah, b. July 5, 1753, 
d. June 27, 1766; Isaac, b. Oct. 16, 1755; Moses, b. July 14, 1757, d. 1761; 
Moses, b. April 12, 1761, m. 1792, Sarah Calkin, and d. April 11, 1814; 
Samuel, b. June 3, 1763, d. June 11, 1763; Samuel, b. July 28, 1764, d. 
unm.; Josiah, b. July 19, 1767, d. 1813. 

CHAUNCY, Rev. Nathaniel, s. of Rev. Charles Chauncy, Pres. of Harv. 
Col., was b. about 1639, in Plymouth, grad. H. C. 1661, and d. in Hat., 
Nov. 4, 1685. M. Nov. 12, 1673, Abigail, dau. of John Strong of Nh. She m. 
(2) Sept. 8, 1686, Medad Pomeroy of Nh. and d. April 15, 1704. Children — 
Isaac, b. Sept. 6, 1674, d. unm. in Durham, Ct., July 23, 1748, ae. 68; Kath- 
arine, b. Jan. 12, 1676, m. Aug. 23, 1689, Rev. Daniel Brewer of Springfield, 
and d. May 15, 1754, ae. 78; Abigail, b. Oct. 14, 1677, m. (i) Dr. Hudson; 
(2) or (3) Edward Burroughs; Charles, b. Sept. 3, 1679, d. Oct. 31, 1679; 
Nathaniel, b. Sept. 21, 1682, Y. C. 1702, ordained over church in Dur- 
ham, Ct., Feb. 17, 171 1, and there d. Feb. 8, 1756, ae. 74; Sarah, b. Sept. 
15, 1683, m. July I, 1712, Rev. Samuel Whittlesey of Wallingford, Ct., and 
d. Oct. 20 or 23, 1767, ae. 84. 

1. CHURCH, Richard, Hartford, 1637, rem. in 1659 to Had., and d. 
Dec. 16, 1667. M. Anne, who d. in Hat., March 10, 1684, in 84th yr. Chil- 
dren — Edward, b. abt. 1628; John, b. abt. 1636, m. Oct. 27, 1657, Sarah 
Beckley, res. in Hartford, and was buried Oct. 16, 1691; Samuel; Mary, m. 
Isaac Graves. 

2. Edward, s. of Richard, (i) deacon, Norwalk, 1654, rem. to Hat., and 
d. Sept. 19, 1704, ae. 76. M. Mary, who d. Sept. 30, 1690, ace. to Town 
Rec, but Sept. 17, 1691, ae. 54, ace. to grave-stone. Children — Rebecca, per. 
m. Feb. 11, 1677, Joseph Selden; Mary, b. 1656, prob. m. Dec. 25, 1679, 
Philip Russell; John, slain in Falls' fight. May 19, 1676; Samuel, b. April 4, 
1662, d. May 6, 1662; Samuel, b. Aug. 4, 1663; Naomi, b. May 12, 1666, m. 
May II, 1687, Joseph Bodman; Sarah, b. May 18, 1670, per. m. Dec. 3, 1697, 
William Porter; Hannah, per. m. abt. 1691, Ebenezer Billings; Richard, b. 
Jan. 18, 1675. 

3. Samuel, s. of Richard, (i) freeman of Conn., 1657, d. April 13, 1684. 
M. Mary, prob. dau. of Josiah Churchill. Children — Mary, b. Jan. 23, 1665, 
m. 1684, Samuel Smith, and d. June 18, 1700; Samuel, b. Aug. 19, 1667; 
Richard, b. Dec. 9, 1669, m. Jan. 24, 1696, Sarah Bartlett, and was slain by 



CHURCH. 19 

Indians Oct. 15, 1696, ae. 26; Alehitable, b. Jan. 11, 1672, ni. Nehcmiah Dick- 
inson; Josiah, b. April 10, 1673; Joseph, b. May 26, 1678, d. unni., 1721; 
Benjamin, b. Sept. i, 1680; John, b. Dec. 24, 1682. 

4. Richard, s. of Edward, (2) Hat., d. April 4, 1763. M. Mary, who d. 

Dec. 22, 1776, in 85th yr. Children — Mary, b. Feb. 7, 1713, m. Smith; 

Hannah, b. May 1716, m. Richard Church; John, b. March 27, 1719, d. 
young; Samuel, b. July 16, 1721, d. Oct. i, 1725, ae. 4; Sarah, d. Jan. 14, 
1722; Sarah, m. Ebenezer Train; Edward, b. Dec. 5, 1726, d. at Cape Breton; 
John, h. July 26, 1729, d. unm., April 25, 1779, ae. 49; Sa)ituel, h. Aug. 11, 

1731, m. Lydia Billings, and d. May 9, 1786, ae. 55. 

5. Samuel, s. of Samuel, (3) d. abt. 1737. M. (i) July 7, 1692, Abigail 
Harrison, who d. Sept. 7, 1717; m. (2) Aug. 12, 1720, Abigail Strong. She 
m. (2) Oct. 12, 1738, Ebenezer Chapin. Children — Samuel, d. April 28, 
1703; Martha, b. Sept. 23, 1694, m. Jan. 5, 1715, John White; Abigail, h. 
Dec. 25, 1696, m. May 7, 1723, Samuel Warner; child, h. and d. June 16, 
1699; Richard, b. Sept. 20, 1700; Nathaniel, h. Feb. 7, 1704; Samuel, h. 
Aug. 21, 1706; Experience, b. Feb. 2, 1710, m. June 14, 1733, Joseph Wright; 
Joseph, b. Jan. 28, 1728. 

6. Josiah, s. of Samuel, (3) m. Nov. 24, 1699, Thankful Brooks. Chil- 
dren — Mary, b. Jan. 15, 1701; Jonathan, b. Dec. 13, 1702; John, b. Oct. 2, 
1704; Elizabeth, b. April 10, 1707; Josiah, b. Nov. 27, 1709; Mchitablc, b. 
Sept. 3, 1711; Joseph, b. Jan. 12, 1714; Samuel, b. April 30, 1716; Ann, b. 
Aug. 31, 1718; Martha, b. Oct. 4, 1720. 

7. Benjamin, s. of Samuel, (3) d. Jan. 15, 1755. M. (i) Jan. 13, 1709, 
Miriam Hovey; m. (2) Sept. 23, 17 14, Hannah Dickinson; m. (3) May 29, 
1724, Sarah, wid. of Elisha Perkins. Children — Benjamin, b. Dec. 26, 1709; 
Meriam, b. May 12, 17 12, m. May 24, 1739, Joseph Smith, and d. 1773; 
Nehemiah, b. July 22, 1715; John, b. Sept. 23, 1716, m. March 24, 1741, 
Jemima Montague; Esther, b. Feb. 13, 171S, m. Nov. i, 1749, Joseph Bar- 
nard; Mary, b. Aug. 13, 1719, m. Feb. 11, 1746, Phinehas Smith; and prob. 
others. 

8. Richard, s. of Samuel, (5) m. Jan. 12, 1727, Mehitable Dickinson. 
Children — Moses, b. Feb. 23, 1728, d. Sept. 9, 1748; Elisha, b. May 29, 1730, 
d. abt. 1766; Son, b. Sept. 1732, d. Nov. 5, 1732; Richard, b. Nov. 9, 1733, 
d. Dec. 8, 1733; Waitstill, b. Feb. 7, 1735, d. Sept. 12, 1748; Dau., b. Feb. 27, 
1737, d. Feb. 1737; Mary, b. April 3, 1738, d. abt. 1778; Marthh, b. March i, 
1740; Rebecca, per. 

9. Nathaniel, s. of Samuel, (5) m. 1727, Rachel McCranncy of Spr. 
Children — -Nathaniel, b. Dec. 5, 1728; William Harrison, b. March 3, 1730; 
Rachel, b. April 10, 1731, m. 1750, Joseph Burt of Spr.; Malachi, b. June 24, 

1732, m. April 30, 1756, Ehzabeth Miller; Jesse, b. July 14, 1733; Eber, b. 
Dec. 14, 1734; Timothy, b. May 12, 1736, m. June 9, 1757, Abigail Church; 
Samuel, b. Dec. 7, 1737; Ruth, b. June 24, 1739; Experience, b. Jvme 24, 
1739; Mary, b. Aug. 4, 1741; David, b. Dec. 30, 1744; Jonathan, b. April 
17, 1747; Benjamin, b. May 20, 1751. 

10. Samuel, s. of Samuel, (5) rem. abt. 1743, to Amh. M. Margaret, 
dau. of Samuel Smith. She d. 1791. Children — Margaret, b. Jan. 12, 1735; 
m. Gideon Smith; Sarah, b. Aug. 17, 1736, m. Ebenezer White, and d. abt. 



20 CHURCH CLARK. 

1802; Abigail, b. 173S, 111. Elisha Smith; Thankful, b. 1741, d. in Conway, 
1788; Daniel, b. 1743, m. Feb. 2, 1775, Hannah Smith; Eunice, bapt. Nov. 
1747, d. unm. ; Giles, b. Aug. 20, 1754, m. Lois Billings, and d. in Amh. Feb. 
14, 1807, ae. 52. 

11. Joseph, s. of Samuel, (5) Amh., d. Sept. 7, 1819, ae. 91. M. Jan. 2, 
1755, Abigail, dau. of Jonathan Smith. She d. March 22, 1815. Children — 
Samuel, a physician in Sund., m. (i) Sabra Farnum, and d. June 7, 1826, ae. 
71; Abigail, m- Gideon Henderson, and rem. to Claremont, N. H.; Joseph, 
b. abt. 1760, m. (i) Lydia Wait; m. (2) Ehzabeth Kellogg, and d. in Amh., 
Sept. 20, 1840; child, bapt. 1764; Sylvanus, b. Nov. 13, 1768, m. Betsey 
Stevens, and d. in Amh., Sept. 6, 1854, ae. 85. 

12. Benjamin, s. of Benjamin, (7) S. H., m. Ruth Kellogg. Children — 
Joel, b. Sept. 16, 1740, res. in S. H., m. Hannah; Benjamin, b. April 16, 
1742, m. Miriam, and d. in Gr., Dec. 15, 1775; Josiah, b. July 9, 1744; 
David, b. March 31, 1746; John, b. Jan. 13, 1747, d. unm., in S. H., 1831; 
Waitstill, b. Feb. 9, 1752; Nathan, b. July 27, 1754, grad. D. C. 1784, settled 
as a minister in Bridgton, Me., in 1789, and d. Nov. 14, 1836, ae. 82; Ruth, 
b. Nov. 15, 1757; Dorcas, h. Aug. 7, 1763. 

13. Nehemiah, s. of Benjamin, (7) Amh. and Montague, d. 1773. M. 
Esther Smith. Children — Medad, b. Dec. 22, 1747; Hannah, b. Oct. 25, 1749; 
Samuel, (?) b. Feb. 21, 1752; Ebenezer, bapt. Oct. 15, 1754; Esther, bapt. 
Sept. 4, 1757. 

14. William Harrison, s. of Nathaniel, (9) m. Nov. 15, 1750, Jane 
Wood. Children — child, d. March, 1752; Diadema, b. March 7, 1755; child, 
b. Dec. 7, 1756, d. Dec. 7; Jesse, b. Dec. 7, 1756. 

15. Eber, s. of Nathaniel, (9) rem. to Brattleboro', Vt.; m. May 25, 
1758, Mary Farrand. Children — Eber, b. April 11, 1759, d. May 16, 1759; 
Josiah, b. July 21, 1761; Eber, b. July 19, 1763. 

CLAPP, Preserved, s. of Preserved of Nh., b. 1705, res. in Amh., and d. 
Oct. 18, 1758, ae. 53. M. Aug. 20, 1730, Sarah, dau. of Christopher West, of 
Guilford, Ct. She was b. Nov. 9, 1706, and d. 1795. Children — Preserved, 
b. May 6, 1731, m. Eunice Atherton of Bolton; Sarah, b. Oct. 4, 1733, m. 
(i) Jan. 13, 1751, Ebenezer Kellogg of Amh.; m. (2) April 23, 1778, John 
Nash, of Amh.; Lucy, b. Nov. 10, 1737, m. (i) Jan. 4, 1760, Martin Smith 

of Amh.; m. (2) Shattuck, of Hinsdale, N. H.; Irene, b. Nov. 12, 

1740, m. 1759, Noadiah Lewis, of Amh., and d. Oct. 10, 1830, ae. 89; Miriam, 
b. June 25, 1743, d. young; Oliver, b. 1744, m. Elizabeth Mattoon, and d. in 
Amh. Oct. 25, 1832, ae. 88; Mary, bapt. Jan. 25, 1747, m. Timothy Hubbard, 
and d. April 22, 1835, ae. 88; Timothy, bapt. May 21, 1749, m. Sarah Field, 
and d. in Amh. May 20, 1824, ae. 75; William, bapt. Aug. 1752, m. Martha 
Dickinson, and d. Aug. 28, 1809.- 

CLARK, Israel, Gr., d. June 17, 1796, in 62d yr. M. Dec. 3, 1756, 
Mehitable, dau. of Luke Montague. She d. Oct. 23, 1815, in 77th yr. Chil- 
dren — Sybil, b. Nov. 9, 1757; Israel, b. Nov. 10, 1759; Luke, b. Feb. 11, 
1762; Jotham, b. Nov. 19, 1764; Joseph, b. Aug. 7, 1767; Asa; Joel; Titus. 

I. CLARK, John, b. abt. 1704, in Ireland, m. Mary. Children — John, 
b. abt. 1739; Moses, h. Aug. 7, 1749. 



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2. John, s. of John, (i) m. 1764, Margaret Farrand. Children — Sarah, 
b. July 19, 1766; Enoch, b. May 19, 1768; Peggy, b. Jan. 19, 1770; Phyllira, 
b. Sept. 14, 1772; Achsah, bapt. Sept. 25, 1774, d. Jan. 14, 1776; Achsah, b. 
Aug. 12, 1777. 

3. Moses, s. of John, (i) m. Sarah. Children — James, b. Aug. 28, 1773; 
Moses, b. March 9, 1775; William, b. Dec. 2, 1776; David, b. Nov. 5, 1778; 
Phene, (dau.) b. July 28, 1780: Jonathan, b. Sept. 9, 1782. 

CLARK, Noah, b. 1719, came from Nh. to Gr., and d. abt. 1790. M. 
Rachel, dau. of Samuel Phelps, of Nh. She was b. 1724. Children — 
Rachel, b. Dec. 14, 1745; Gad, b. Feb. 27, 1746, d. 1749; Amaziah, b. Nov. 
26, 1748, joined the Shakers; Rufns, b. Feb. 22, 1751; Etmice, b. April 27, 
1753; Rhoda, b. Aug. 28, 1755; Esther, b. Aug. 28, 1757; Kezia, b. May 21, 
1759; Noah, b. April 27, 1762. 

CLARK, Seth, came from Nh. to Gr., m. Mary Edwards. Children — 
Enos, b. 1747; Mary, h. 1748, d. young; Mary, b. 1749; Eleanor, b. Nov. 
13, 1750; Mary, b. 1751, d. 1751; Seth, b. July 15, 1753; Mary, b. Nov. 2, 
1755; Adah, (dau.) b. May 16, 1759; Naomi, b. Jan. i, 1761; Levi, b. Aug. 

3, 1762, d. Jan. II, 1764. 

CLARK, Simeon, b. Oct. 20, 1720, s. of Increase of Nh., deacon in Amh.. 
where he d. Oct. 28, 1801, ae. 81. M. Nov. 2, 1749, Rebecca, dau. of 
Nathaniel Strong. She d. Jan. 13, 181 1, ae. 86. Children — Eunice, b. Aug, 
II, 1750, m. Timothy Green of Amh., and d. May 6, 1776, ae. 25; Simeon, b. 
June 25, 1752, m. (i) Lucy Hubbard; m. (2) April 23, 1795, Irene Lewis; 

res. in Amh., and d. May 3, 1831, ae. 78; Levi, b. Aug. 27, 1753, m. 

Lincoln, and d. Sept. 1836, ae. 83; Judah, b. April 18, 1756, d. Sept. 9, 1757; 
Lois, b. March 9, 1758, d. June 20, 1759; Judah, b. Aug. 16, 1759, m. Nov. 
26, 1789, Esther Merrick, and d. July 18, 1842, ae. 82; Asahcl, b. Feb. 6, 
1762, m. Nov. 23, 1786, Irene Hubbard; d. in Amh., March 7, 1800, ae. 38; 
Lois, b. Jan. 3, 1764, m. Jan. 29, 1792, Oliver Cowls of Amh., and d. Dec. 

4, 1803, ae. 39; Justus, b. Nov. 24, 1765, m. Oct. 26, 1794, Dorcas Pomeroy, 
and d. Dec. 25, 1847, ae. 82; Mary, b. Dec. 13, 1767, m. John Stebbins of 
Gr.; Jerusha, b. May 31, 1770, d. Jan. 19, 1771; Jerusha, b. May 12, 1772, 
m. Nov. 19, 1804, John Stebbins of Gr., and d. March 26, 1815, ae. 42. 

CLARKE, Mr. Henry, Windsor 1640, representative 1641-1650, Assist- 
ant 1 650-1 66 1, a first settler of Had., a wealthy and distinguished man. 
He was one of the Commissioners for holding the courts at Spr. and Nh. (or 
Associates, as they were called after 1666) from 1663 to 1676. He d. s. p. 
Dec. 23, 1675. M. Jane, who d. Feb. 25, 1672. 

1. CLARY, John, came from Watertown, and d. Feb. 10, 169 1. M. Feb. 

5, 1644, Sarah Caddett, but Cady, accd. to Savage, and Cassell, accd. to Bond. 
She d. Dec. 23, 1681. Children — John; Sarah, b. Oct. 4, 1647, m. Dec. 13, 
1667, John Perry of Watertown; Gershom, b. Sept. 7, 1650. 

2. John, s. of John, (i) res. in Hat. and North., and d. Aug. 15, 1688. 
M. Jan. or June 16, 1670, Ann Dickinson, who m. (2) Enos Kingsley. 
Children — John, b. April 3, 1671, slain in Brookfield, 1709, leaving John and 
Rachel; Sarah, b. March 19, 1673, d. young; Joseph, h. Nov. 30, 1677; 
Mary, m. Hutchinson. 



22 CLARY COLEMAN. 

3. Joseph, s. of John, (2) Hat. and Sund., d. 1748. M. Nov. 19, 1702, 
Hannah, dau. of Samuel Belding of Hat. Children — Joseph,h. Sept. 3, 1705, 
m. Sarah Gunn, and d. in Leverett; Samuel, b. 1707; Martha, b. 17 12; 
Sarah, d. 1715; Sarah, b. 1717; Hannah, b. 17 19. 

COATS, Reuben. Child— Son, b. Feb. 26, 1777. 

1. COLEMAN, Thomas, doubtless came from Evesham, Eng., Wethers- 
field 1639, rep. 1652 and 1656, rein, to Had., where he was a first settler, 
freeman 1661, and buried Oct. i, 1674. M. Wid. Frances Wells, who d. 
March, 1678. Children — John, h. abt. 1635; Noah; Esther, (?) m. Philip 
Davis; Sarah, m. abt. 1661, Richard Treat, Jr.; Deborah, m. Daniel Gunn, 
of Milford, Ct., and d. 1703. 

2. John, s. of Thomas, (i) freeman of Conn., 1658, and of Mass., 1672, 
res. in Hat., where he d. Jan. 21, 1711, ae. 76. M. (i) May 29, 1663, Hannah 
Porter of Windsor, who was slain Sept. 19, 1677; (2) March 11, 1679, Mehit- 
able Root, who d. Aug. 4, 16S9; (3) Mary, wid. of Thomas Stebbins of Spr. 
She d. Oct. 17, 1725, ae. 84. Children — Thomas, b. March 3, 1664, d. unm.; 
Hannah, b. Feb. 14, 1667, m. Thomas Nash; John, b. April 11, 1669, res. in 
Wethersficld; Noah, b. Dec. 20, 1671; Sarah, b. Feb. 15, 1673, m. John 
Field; Bcthia, b. Oct. 14, 1676, slain Sept. 21, 16^^; Ebenezer, b. Aug. 29, 
1680, d. in Colchester, 1741; Nathaniel, b. Oct. 18, 1684. 

3. Noah, s. of Thomas, (i) freeman 167 1, d. July 20, 1676. M. Dec. 27, 
1666, Mary, dau. of John Crow. She m. (2) Sept. 16, 1680, Peter Montague. 
Children — Mary, b. Aug. 31, 1667, d. Sept. 20, 1668; Thomas, b. Dec. 23, 
1668, d. young; Twins, b. and d. 1670; Mary, b. Sept. 15, 1671, d. Sept. 25, 
1 671; Sarah, b. Oct. 25, 1672, m. 1692, Westwood Cook; Mary, b. Dec. 27, 
1675, d. young. 

4. Noah, s. of John, (2) rem. abt. 1705, from Hat. to Colchester, Ct., 
and d. 1711. M. Hannah. Children — Hannah, b. Feb. 16, lyoi; Noah, h. 
July 2, 1703; Joseph, b. June 28, 1706. 

5. Nathaniel, s. of John, (2) Hat., d. April 7, 1755, ae. 70. M. 1705, 
Mary Ely. Children — John, b. Jan. 16, 1707, d. 1725, ae. 18, in East Wind- 
sor, Ct.; Nathaniel, b. Sept. 21, 1709; Mary, b. July 14, 17 12, m. John 
Dickinson; Elijah, b. Nov. 17, 1714; Noah, b. March 27, 1718, res. in Hat.; 
Samuel, b. Sept. 22, 1720, d. May 17, 1728; Ainos, per. res. in Middletown; 
John, b. May 14, 1728, d. abt. 1770, in Hartford. 

6. Nathaniel, s. of Nathaniel, (5) rem. to Amh. in 1742, and d. March 
8, 1792, ae. 82. M. March 24, 1739, Mercy Smith, who d. May 16, 1798, ae. 
83. Children — Seth, b. March 17, 1740; Thankful, b. Nov. 13, 1741; Azubah, 
b. April 18, 1749, m. March 27, 1783, Jonathan Dickinson of Amh.; Enos, b. 
Jan. 26, 1751, d. of croup. 

7. Elijah, s. of Nathaniel, (5) Hat., m. Mary. Children — Elijah, h. 
March 10, 1745, m. Tabitha, and d. Jan. 19, 1S18, ae. 73; Alary, b. July 31, 
1747; Submit, b. Dec. 5, 1751. 

8. Seth, s. of Nathaniel, (6) grad. Y. C, 1765, studied medicine with 
Dr. L. Hubbard of New Haven, Ct., and established himself in the practice 
of the same in Amh., where he d. Sept. 9, i8i6, ae. 74. M. (1) Oct. 20, 



COLEMAN COOK, OR COOKE. 23 

1765, Sarah Bcechcr, who d. March 3, 1783, ae. 42; (2) Jan. 27, 1785, Eunice, 
wid. of OHvcr Warner of Had., and dau. of Dea. Jonathan Church, of Spr. 
She d. Aug. 8, 1822, ae. 81. Children — William, b. Sept. 7, 1766, a physician 
in Pittsfield; Thankful, h. May 10, 1768, m. Nov. 8, 1798, Dr. Linus Stevens, 
of Charlemont, N. Yi.; Sarah, b. Feb. 13, 1770, d. Feb. 14, 1776, ae. 6; Fanny, 
h. March 6, 1772, d. Feb. 9, 1776, ae. 3; Seth, b. April 4, 1774, m. Elizabeth 
Doane; Sarah, b. Aug. 2, 1777, d. April 11, 1782, ae. 4; Eliphalet Beecher, 
b. Aug. 30, 1779, grad. W. C. 1800, clergyman, d. in Olivet, Mich., 1856, 
ae. 76; Fanny, b. Aug. 3, 1781, m. Hon. Nathaniel W. Howell, of Canan- 
daigua, N. Y. 



COLT, Lt. Benjamin, came from Lyme, Ct., and d. Aug. 30, 1781. M. 
1761, Lucretia Ely of Lyme. She m. (2) John Walker, and d. March 3, 
1826, ae. 83. Children — Benjamin, b. Sept. 30, 1762; Lucretia, b. Dec. 16, 
1763, d. Sept. 12, 1767, ae. 3; Daniel, b. July 7, 1767, grad. H. C. 1786, 
d. 1816 in La.; Lucretia, b. June 28, 1769, d. Jan. 7, 1771; Ethalinda, h. 
July 23, 1771, m. Oct. 8, 1790, Joseph Dudley Selden; Ame, h. Feb. 7, 1773, 
m. Aug. 30, 1791, Moses Porter; Betsey, b. Sept. i, 1774; Lucretia, b. Nov. 
25, 1776; m. 1803, Ebenezer Foot, Esq., of Troy, N. Y.; Elisha, b. June 
12, 1778, m. Aug. 17, 1800, Rebecca Cook; Christoplier, b. Aug. 31, 1780, a 
merchant in Hartford, Ct. 



1. COOK, or COOKE, Capt. Aaron, bapt. Feb. 21, 1640, s. of Aaron, 
of Nh., was representative, 1689, 1691, 1693 and 1697, and d. Sept. 16, 1716, 
in 75th yr. M. May 30, 1661, Sarah, dau. of William Westwood. She d. 
March 24, 1730, in 86th yr. Children — Sarah, b. Jan. 31, 1662, m. Thomas 
Hovey; Aaron, res. in Hartford; Joannah, b. July 10, 1665, m. Feb. 22, 
1683, Samuel Porter, Jr., and d. Nov. 13, 17 13, ae. 49; Westwood, b. March 
29, 1670 or 167 1 ; Samuel, b. Nov. 16, 1672; Moses, b. May 5, 1675; Eliza- 
beth, b. Jan. 9, 1677, m. July 19, 1698, Ichabod Smith; Bridget, b. March 31, 
1683, m. (1) June 13, 1701, John Barnard; (2) Dea. Samuel Dickinson. 

2. Westwood, s. of Aaron, (i) d. June 3, 1744, ae. 73. M. 1692, Sarah 
Coleman, who d. after Feb. 1756. Children — Mary, b. March 21, 1693, d. 
June, 1693; Noah, b. April 5, 1694; William, b. June 20, 1696, grad. H. C. 
1716, ord. as pastor of chh. in East Sudbury, March 20, 1723, m. Jane, dau. 
of Maj. Stephen Sewall of Salem, and d. June 17, 1760, ae. 66; Aaron, b. 
Jan. 14, 1699; Bridget, b. Jan. 26, 1701, m. Rev. William Rand; Westwood, 
b. June 20, 1703; Mary, b. April 6, 1711, d. Aug. 23, 1730, ae. 19; Rebecca, 
b. April 14, 1717, prob. m. Wyman. 

3. Samuel, Lieut., s. of Aaron, (i) d. Sept. 16, 1746, ae. 73. M. June 
21, 1698, Ann, dau. of Jonathan Marsh. She d. March 30, 1758. Children — 
Ann, b. June 6, 1700, m. Feb. 26, 1725, Aaron Cook, and d. Dec. 27, 1776, 
ae. 76; Sarah, b. June 7, 1703, m. Dec. 7, 1726, Timothy Eastman, Jr.; 
Hannah, b. April 22, 1706, m. March 20, 1730, William Dickinson, Jr., 
Samuel, b. Jan. 10, 1709, grad. H. C. 1735, ord. Sept. 12, 1739, over Second 
chh. in Cambridge, and d. June 4, 1783, ae. 74. M. (i) 1740, Sarah Porter; 

(2) Anna, dau. of Rev. John Cotton of Newton; (3) , dau. of Rev. 

Nicholas Bowes, of Bedford; Mehitable, b. Nov. 10, 1711, m. Jan. 31, 1734. 
Jonathan Smith; Jonathan, b. March 28, 1714, d. April 12, 1714; Joanna, 



24 COOK, OR COOKE. 

b. May lo, 1715, d. June 13, 1715; Miriam, b. Oct. 14, 1716, m. Nov. 17, 
1743, Josiah Pierce; Jonathan, b. Jan. 17, 1722. 

4. Moses, Capt., s. of Aaron, (i) d. March, 1758. M. July 4, 1698, 
Mary Barnard, who d. 1753. Children — Mary, h. March 20, 1700, m. (i) 
June 18, 1734, Stephen Kellogg; (2) Oct. 30, 1744, Moses Nash of West 
Hartford, and d. Sept. 21, 1775, ae. 75; Moses, b. Aug. i, 1702, d. April 19, 
1725, ae. 22; Joannah, b. Oct. 13, 1704, ni. March 7, 1723, Westwood Cook; 
Aaron, b. Feb. 21, 1707; Margaret, b. March 18, 171 1, m. (i) Cotton Part- 
ridge; (2) Samuel Gaylord; Elisha, b. Feb. 22, 1715; Martha, b. May 26, 
1717, m. April 15, 1741, John Dickinson; Hannah, b. Oct. 16, 1719, m. 1739, 
Moses Marsh. 

5. Noah, s. of Westwood, (2) d. June 17, 1760. M. (i) 17 16, Sarah 
Marsh, who d. Sept. 4 or 5, 1746; (2) 1747, Esther Chapin. Children — 
Sarah, b. Nov. 8, 171 7, m. Sept. 8, 1743, Elisha Cook; Noah, b. Feb. 24, 
1720, d. May 17, 1725, ae. 5; Coleman, b. June 12, 1722, d. Aug. 20, 1746, 
ae. 24; Joseph, b. Nov. 24, 1724; Dorcas, b. March 28, 1727, m. Aaron Good- 
rich; Noah, b. Feb. 12, 1730. 

6. Aaron, s. of Westwood, (2) d. May 3 or 30, 1739, ae. 80. M. Feb. 26, 
1725, Ann, dau. of Samuel Cook. She d. Dec. 27, 1776, ae. 76. Children — 
John, b. April 11, 1726; Aaron, b. Feb. 21, 1728; Phinehas, b. July 16, 1730, 
d. young; Phinehas, b. June 25, 1732, d. young; Jabez, b. Oct. 29, 1734, d. 
unm., Aug. 28, 1803, ae. 68; Phinehas, b. Aug. 23, 1741, d. June 25, 1759, ae. 
17- 

7. Westwood, s. of Westwood, (2) rem. to Amh., and d. abt. 1748. M. 
March 7, 1723, Joanna, dau. of Moses Cook. She d. abt. 1749. Children — 
Jane, b. Oct. 11, 1724, m. 1749, Joseph Wright of Ware; Moses, b. May 26, 
1726; Mary, b. Dec. 16, 1730, d. young; Joannah, b. Oct. 23, 1734, d. abt. 
1734; Mary, b. June 4, 1743, m. Dec. 5, 1764, John Smith. 

8. Jonathan, s. of Samuel, (3) m. Aug. 2, 1744, Ruth Goodman. Chil- 
dren — Seth, b. Oct. 4, 1744; Samuel, b. Dec. 22, 1746, d. Sept. 12, 174S; 
Mary, b. Aug. 9, 1749, m. June 13, 1771, Dan West; Hannah, b. Jan. 24, 
1751, m. Jan. 5, 1774, Thomas W. Foster; Ruth, b. Jan. 3, 1753, m. Dec. 8, 
1774, Maj. John Smith; Samuel, b. March 18, 1755, rem. to Worthington, a 
Judge in Vt.; Jonathan, b. 1757, d. Aug. 22, 1758, ae. i yr. and 7 mos.; 
Jonathan, b. Oct. 17, 1759, called Doctor, rem. from Had.; Ann, b. Nov. 19, 
1761, m. April 17, 1788, Williain Westwood Cook; Lucretia, b. June 2, 1764, 
m. Jan. 15, 1792, Elihu Smith; David, b. June 2, 1764, d. June 7, 1764; 
Clarissa, b. Dec. 19, 1768, m. 1792, Eliphalet Baker of Sandisfield. 

9. Aaron, s. of Moses, (4) d. March 29, 1795, ae. 88. M. May, 1740, 
Abigail, dau. of Doct. John Barnard. She d. June 18, 1782, ae. 72. Chil- 
dren — Samuel, b. June 7, 1741, rem. to N. H.; m. 1761, Mary Fairfield of 
Belchertown; William, b. June 7, 1743; Moses, was in Rev. war, d. unm.; 
Thankful, m. Sept. 2, 1773, Walter Fairfield of Lyme; Mary, b. Aug. 29, 
1756; Samuel, b. Jan. 16, 1763; Elijah, b. Nov. 20, 1764. 

10. Elisha, Ens., s. of Moses, (4) d. March 7, 1794, ae. 79. M. Sept. 8, 
1743, Sarah, dau. of Noah Cook. Children — Rebecca, b. June 10, 1744, d. 
May 23, 1751, ae. 6; Sarah, b. Dec. 27, 1745, d. Aug. 23, 1746, ae. 8 mos.; 



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Cokinan, b. Aut^. 3, 1747; Elisha, b. Sept. 3, 1749; Waiistill, b. Feb. 25, 
1752, Perez, b. Feb. 18, 1754, res. in Gr., and d. July 21, 1844, ae. 90; 
Oliver, b. March 12, 1756, rem. to Vt.; Gad, b. Sept. 20, 1758, m. Joanna, 
dau. of Oliver Smith; William Westwood, b. March 3, 1762. 

11. Joseph, s. of Noah, (5) d. June 14, 1805, ae. 79. M. Abigail, dau. of 
Luke Smith, Jr., to whom he was pub. March 9, 1751. Children — Giles, b. 
Aug. 23, 1751, d. in Greenfield, April 4, 1834, ae. 82; David, b. Nov. 29, 
1752; Joseph, b. 1754, d. Oct. 2, 1779; Enos, h. Dec. 28, 1755, grad. Y. C. 
1785, lawyer in Deerfield, whence he rem. to N. Y.; Sarah, b. Nov. 18, 1757, 
d. Oct. 22, 1784; Irene, b. May 15, 1759, d. 1759; Irene, b. Jan. 21, 1761, d. 
Jan. 1836; Caleb, b. Dec. 10, 1762, d. July 10, 1777; Lucretia, b. Sept. 23, 
1765, d. 1834; Louisa, b. Sept. 23, 1765, d. Jan. 24, 1785. 

12. Noah, Lt., s. of Noah, (5) d. April 8, 1796, ae. 66. M. Oct. 23, 1748, 
Kezia Parsons of Nh. She d. 1809. Children — Noah, b. Oct. 8, 1749, grad. 
H. C. 1769, minister in Keene, N. H.; Amasa, b. April 7, 1751, grad. Bro. 
Univ., 1776, settled over chh. in Bernardston, Dec. 1783, dis. May 1805, d. 
1816, ae. 65; Elihii, b. Jan. 16, 1753; Eleazar, b. Feb. 11, 1755, rem. to St. 
Albans, Vt., and d. 1800; Timothy, b. Feb. 6, 1757, rem. to Stamford, Vt.; 
Josiah, b. March 29, 1759, d. Jan. 5, 1778, ae. 18; Parsons, b. March 8, 
1762, d. Dec. 15, 1777, ae. 15; Solomon, b. Feb. 11, 1764; Andrew, b. Feb. 
I, 1766, d. Dec. 21, 1814, ae. 48; Stephen, b. Sept. 19, 1768, d. Jan. i, 1S27; 
Kcziah, b. Jan. 22, 1773, m. Shattuck of Brookfield. 

13. John, s. of Aaron, (6) d. Feb. 29, 1805, ae. 74. M. (i) Jan. 24, 1760, 
Rebecca Smith, who d. May 30, 1762, in 26th yr.; m. (2) Jan. 4, 1770, 
Elizabeth, wid. of Josiah Smith, and dau. of David Smith. She d. June 20, 
1819, ae. 79. Children — Phinehas, b. Nov. 15, 1760, d. June 14, 1761; Silas, 
h. Nov. 7, 1770, d. Nov. I, 1772; Rebecca, b. July 31, 1772, m. Feb. 7, 1797, 
Noah Smith of Winchester, N. H.; Elizabeth, b. July 5, 1774, d. Jan. 13, 
1776; John, b. April 6, 1776, d. April 6, 1856, ae. 80; Silas, b. Jan. 9, 1779, 
d. April 27, 1814, ae. 35; Phinehas, b. Oct. 9, 1781, grad. W. C. 1803, clergy- 
man, d. in Amh., April 28, 1853, ae. 71. 

14. Aaron, s. of Aaron, (6) d. Jan. 24, 1800, ae. 77. M. 1755, Anne 
Sheldon of Nh., who d. Dec. 29, 1796. Children — Anne, b. Aug, 23, 1756, m. 
April 3, 1794, Samuel Pierce; Phebe, b. Dec. 15, 1758, m. Oct. 30, 1798, John 
Sikes of Ludlow; Lucy, b. Nov. 26, 1760, m. March 17, 1782, Daniel Smith; 
Persis, b. Oct. 26, 1762, m. (i) Nov. 7, 1787, William, s. of John Smith; 

m. (2) Bates, and d. Aug. 13, 1848; Jerusha, b. Oct. 3, 1764, m. Dec. 

15, 1785, Willard Smith, and d. Nov. 28, 1848; Susannah, b. Dec. 2, 1766, m. 
1798, Nathaniel Bridges; Dan, b. July 5, 1770; Caleb, b. Jan. 16, 1773, d. Jan. 
23, 1838. 

15. MosES, s. of Westwood, (7) Amh., m. July 7, 1748, Hannah Smith 
Children — Moses, bapt. 1751, m. Susanna Henderson and rem. to Vt.' 
Preserved, bapt. Jan. 19, 1755, d. unm., in Ashfield; Joanna, bapt. Jan. 29; 
1758, m. Nov. 16, 1774, Clark Lawton; Martin, bapt. March 14, 1764, m., 
Jan. 28, 1785, Hannah, dau. of Noah Smith; Levi, m. (i) April 27, 1786, 
Achsah, dau. of Dea. Eleazar Smith, of Amh., and rem. to Ashfield. 

16. Seth, s. of Jonathan, (8) d. Nov. 26, 1817. M. March 23, 1775, 
Elizabeth Stevens, who d. May 4, 1818. Children — Son, h. and d. Jan. 1776; 



26 COOK, OR COOKE. 

Stephen, b. Feb. 25, 1777; Betsey, b. Nov. 5, 177S; Charlotte, b. Dec. 15, 
1780, d. unm., May. 24, 1854; Sort, per. Almon, bapt. June 29, 1783, rem. 
to N. Y.; Child, bapt. June 29, 1783; Winthrop, b. April 26, 1785; Child, 
b. and d. June, 1787; Child, b. and d. July, 1788. 

17. William, s. of Aaron, (9) d. Oct. 20, 1817. M. April 26, 1770, Martha 
White, who d. Oct. 14, 1816, ae. 74. Children — Experience, b. Nov. 20, 1771, 
m. 1795, Stephen Cook; Mary, b. Nov. 11, 1774, d. unm., Aug. 5, 1806, ae. 
31; Martha, b. Sept. 18, 1777; David White, b. July 26, 1779, ni. Nov. 23, 
1799, Salome Cady, and d. in Belchertown, Jan. 29, 1854, ae. 74; William, 
b. Aug. 23, 1 781, m. and d. in Hat. 

18. Coleman, s. of Elisha, (10) m. Jan. 31, 1771, Hannah Smith. She d. 
Feb. 22, 1824, ae. 80. Children — David Smith, b. Nov. 1771; Sarah, b. Feb. 

14, 1774, m. Tyler; Eliezer, b. May 4, 1775; James, b. Sept. 1777; 

Hannah, b. April 20, 1780, m. Rhodes; Lucinda, b. April 26, 1783, m. 

April 19, 1801, Joel Fox; Coleman, b. Jan. 25, 1785, rem. to Vt. 

19. Elisha, s. of Elisha, (10) m. Dec. 23, 1774, Martha, wid. of Perez 
Jones, and dau. of John Dickinson. Children — Submit, bapt. May 14, 1775, 

m. (i) Sept. 12, 1799, Timothy Stockwell; (2) Wallis; Job, b. Oct. 

11,, 1775; Elisha, b. abt. 1779; Robert, bapt. May 20, 1781; Rebecca, b. June 
21, 1783, m. Aug. 17, 1800, Elisha Colt; Martha, b. Dec. 26, 1785, d. unm.; 
Margaret, bapt. May 6, 1787, d. unm.; Roswcll, b. Jan. 1790, d. in youth. 

20. Waitstill, s. of Elisha, (10) d. March 7, 1823, ae. 71. M. Jvily 23, 

1779, Ruth Ballard, who d. in Nh. Children — Ruth, m. Edwards of 

Nh.: Sylvia; Waitstill; Linda, b. 1785; Catharine, b. Nov. 20, 1786; Son, 
b. Nov. 1788, d. June 22, 1789; Calvin, b. April 11, 1790; Lucius Althea, 
b. March, 1792; Ashbel; Frederick, d. Feb. 21, 1817. 

21. William Westwood, s. of Elisha, (10) d. Oct. 28, 1821, [1822?] 
M. April 17, 1788, Anne, dau. of Jonathan Cook. Children — Daniel, b. April 
17, 1788; Sophia, b. 1793, m. 1814, Allen Clark of Nh.; Harriet, m. Feb. 14, 
1817, Sylvanus Dickinson; Louisa, bapt. June 17, 1798, m. Jacob Edson. 

22. Elihu, s. of Lt. Noah, (12) d. April 5, 1801. M. Cynthia Frink of 
Spr., to whom he was pub. Dec. 2, 1779. She was b. in Stonington, Ct., 
July II, 1758, and d. June 7, 1853, ae. 94. Children — Dau. per. Cynthia, 
b. Jan. 17, 1781, m. Jan. 15, 1799, Isaac Daniels of Keene, N. H., and d. 
Jan. 1849; Achsah, b. Oct. 2, 1782, m. (i) Jabez Fairbanks; (2) Caleb 
Stockbridge, and d. Feb. 1837; Josiah, b. Jan. i, 1785, d. Sept. 10, 1828; 
Artcmas, b. April 5, 1787; Elihu, b. Jan. 13, 1790; Eunice, b. July 26, 1792; 
Sophia, b. July 11, 1795; d. Oct. 19, 1802; Miriam, bapt. June 3, 1798; 
m. James Congdon, and d. July 4, 1850. 

23. Solomon, s. of Lt. Noah, (12) d. June 21, 1831, ae. 67. M. Jan. 3, 
1790, Tryphcna Newton, who d. June 10, 1805. Children — Solomon, b. Nov. 
19, 1790; Elizabeth, b. May 4, 1792; Tryphena, b. May i, 1794, d. Dec. 20, 
1807, ae. 13; Sylvester, b. Feb. 16, 1796; Noah, b. May 28, 1798; Parsons, 
b. Feb. i8, 1800, grad. W. C. 1822, pastor of Cong. chh. in Lynn; Amanda, 
b. Feb. 12, 1803. 

24. John, s. of John, (13) d. April 6, 1856, ae. 80. M. Jan. 22, 1799, 
Sarah, dau. of Daniel White. She was b. Jan. 26, 1779. Children — Maria, 



COOK, OR COOKE. 27 

b. Oct. 19, 1799, xn. John Judd Graves; Zenas, b. Sept. i, 1801, m. Lucy 
Russell; Ephraim, b. Sept. 30, 1803, d. Sept. 19, 1S04; Ephraim, b. June 14, 
1805, m. Phebe English; Rosivell Wells, b. June 7, 1807, m. May 19, 1835, 
Harriet A. Nash of Greenfield; Elizabeth Smith, b. April 28, 1810, m. Norman 
Hamilton; Horace, b. March 8, 1812, d. Oct. 29, 1820; Sarah Porter, b. June 
17, 1814, d. Sept. 16, 1838, ae. 24; Silas Wright, b. Dec. 8, 1816, m. Mary 
Cook; John Dudley, b. Feb. 28, 1821; Emily White, b. March 28, 1824, 
d. Aug. 22, 1 83 1. 

25. Dan, s. of Aaron, (14) m. Eunice Smith of Winchester, N. H., pub. 
July 5, 1795. Children — Loomis, b. Dec. 3, 1797, d. Dec. 27, 1802; Judith, 
b. June 26, 1799, d. Aug. 30, 1800; Aaron, b. April 21, 1800, d. Oct. 16, 
1805, Julia; b. Dec. 16, 1S02; Loomis, b. Sept. 3, 1805; Charles, b. March 29, 

1S07. 

26. Stephen, s. of Seth, (16) rem. to N. Y., m. Jan. 19, 1799, Polly 
Dewey, who d. Jan. 8, 1827. Children — Charles, b. Dec. 16, 1799; Jonathan, 
b. April 26, 1801; Mary Ann, b. Feb. 15, 1805; Adelia, b. June 9, 1807; 
Clarissa, b. Sept. 2, 1810; Betsey, b. Sept. 2, 1812; Giles, b. Sept. 16, 1815; 
Eveline, b. Dec. 4, 181S. 

27. Almon, s. of Seth, (16) d. Sept. 1825. M. Lorinda, dau. of Clement 
Smith. She d. May 10, 1815. Child — Lewis, b. Aug. 25, 1809, d. Sept. 17, 
1820. 

28. WiNTHROP, s. of Seth, (16) d. June 11, 1854, ae. 69. M. (i) • , 

dau. of Joel Smith of Amh.; (2) Feb. 3, 1814, Sophia, dau. of Erastus Smith. 
She d. Sept. i, 1846. Children — Chester, b. Nov. 27, 1814, m. April 24, 1856, 
Laura Briggs; Charlotte Smith, b. Oct. 5. 1816, m. April 21, 1847, Elijah H. 
Bartlett; Horace, b. Oct. 21, 1818, d. March 18, 1819; Elizabeths., b. Jan. 31, 
1820, m. May 26, 1841, Charles E. Lamson; Sophia L., b. March 3, 1822, 
m. Oct. I, 1845, Josiah S. Smith; Horace, b. April 24, 1824, Representative 
1861, m. Dec. 19, 1855, Corneha Asenath, dau. of Theodore Pasco, and had — 
Herbert Stanley, b. June 27, 1857, d. Dec. 25, i860; Charles, b. Oct. 30, 
1826, d. Nov. 15, 1829; Mary D., b. Feb. 12, 1829; Charles, b. Feb. 9, 1831, 
m. Nov. 20, 1856, Harriet M. Flagg, and has Francis Luther, b. March 18, 
1859, and Frederick, b. Oct. 14, i860. 

29. David Smith, s. of Coleman, (18) m. Aug. 3, 1772, Ruth Rood. 
Children — Horace, b. Oct. 11, 1792; Pamela, b. April 3, 1795, d. Oct. 13, 
1796, ae. I. 

30. James, s. of Coleman, (18) d. 1861. M. (i) Nov. 26, 1797, Polly, 
dau. of Simeon Rood. She d. April 5, 1800; (2) June i, 1801, Ruhamah 
Deane, b. July i, 1776. She d. 1861. Children — Erastus, b. April 14, 1798, 
m. and res. in Vt.; Dau., b. March 20, 1800; Elbridge, b. May 3, 1802, d. 
Nov. 20, 1820, ae. 18; Austin, b. Sept. 20, 1804, d. Oct. 29, 1820; James, b. 
June 12, 1806, d. Sept. 18, 1807; James, b. Dec. 5, 1807; Maria A., b. July 
30, 1809, m. Charles Austin Kellogg; Polly Rood, b. Aug. 14, 181 1, m. Wil- 
Ham E. Mather of Nh.; Martha H., b. June 21, 1813, m. 1853, Rev. Solomon 
Knapp of Lockport, 111.; Rufus, b. Jan. i, 1815; Enos Foster, b. Oct. 29, 
1816; Elizabeth Ann, b. March 10, 1819, d. Nov. 30, 1820; Elizabeth Ann, 
b. Sept. 5, 1821, m. May 27, 1846, Sylvester Keith. 



28 COOK, OR COOKE. 

31. Elisha, s. of Elisha, (19) d. Jan. 7, 1846, ae. 67. M. Anne, dau. of 
Timothy Eastman. She d. Feb. 23, 1841, ae. 59. Children — Abigail; Mary; 
Jane; Roswell Dickinson, b. 1820, d. June 9, 1842, ae. 22, while a member of 
the Class of 1843, in A. C; Henry Martin, b. abt. 1825, d. April 7, 1842, ae.17. 

32. Robert, s. of Elisha, (19) d. Oct. 10, 1813. M. Lucy, dau. of 
Noadiah Warner. Child — Albert Hunt, b. April 28, 1810. 

33. Daniel, s. of William Westwood, (21) d. March 25, 1823. M. Sept. 
12, 1811, Permelia, dau. of William Smith of Williamstown. She was b. 

March, 1792, and m. (2) Feb. 11, , Lucius Crane. Children — Nancy 

Elvira, b. Sept. i, 181 2, d. Sept. 21, 1828; William Smith, b. April 18, 18 13; 

Martin Franklin, b. Nov. 18, 1815; Sarah Ann, b. May 26, ; Sydenham, 

b. April 4, 1818; Daniel, b. May 23, 1821; Eliza, b. Feb. 18, . 

34. Elihu, s. of Elihu, (22) m. Nov. 4, 1812, Elizabeth Sparhawk, dau. 

of Hull of Walpole, N. H. She was b. March 27, 1793. Children — 

Evander, b. Oct. 21, 1813, d. Dec. i, 1813; Abigail Frank, b. April lo, 1815; 
Charlotte Sparhawk, b. April 28, 1817; Enos Evander, b. Nov. 7, 1819; 
Sophia, b. Nov. 20, 1820; Adaline, b. Oct. 20, 1822; Josiah, b. Nov. 13, 1824; 
John Black, b. June 6, 1827, d. Sept. 25, 1828; John Elihu, b. Aug. 25, 1829; 
Jane Elizabeth, b. Jan. 17, 1831; Eleazar, b. May 24, 1826. 

35. James, s. of James, (30) m. Sept. 26, 1831, Angeline, dau. of Benja- 
min Kellogg. Children — Mary Jane, b. Oct. 10, 1832, d. Oct. 7, 1833; George 
Elbridge, b. Dec. i, 1834; Mary Jane, b. Jan. 5, 1837, d. June 8, 1837; James 
Francis, b. Nov. 5, 1844, d. March 29, 1848; Juliette Montague, b. Oct. 15, 
1847; Maria, b. July, 1852; Francis James, b. Jan. 15, 1855. 

36. RuFUS, s. of James, (30) m. May 10, 1848, Sophia, dau. of Rufus 
Lyman of Norwich. Children — Austin Eliot, b. Oct. 8, 1849; Rufus Lyman, 
b. Dec. 9, 1852. 

37. Enos Foster, s. of James, (30) Amherst, m. April 22, 1840, Sarah 
Jane, dau. of Daniel White. Children — Henry A., b. Dec. 8, 1840; Child, b. 
Feb. 9 and d. Feb. 19, 1844; Wm.E.,h. April 18, 1845, d. Aug. 31, 1848; Child, 
b. March r6 and d. March 18, 1847; Martha Jane, h. Jan. 16, 1850, d. Dec. 29, 
1856; Mary A., h. June 20, 1853, d. Sept. 27, 1853; William Foster, h. July 
I, 1855; Frederick Louis, b. Feb. 18, 1858; Mary Maria, b. Feb. i, 1861. 

38. Alfred Hunt, s. of Robert, (32) m. Nov. 20, 1834, Prudence, dau 
of Jonathan Lyon. She was b. in Holland, Mass., Dec. 21, 1809, and d 
Nov. 26, 1850. Children — Martha Hunt, h. Sept. 7, 1835; Alfred Lyon, b 
Dec. I, 1836; Lucy Warner, b. Sept. 10, 1838; Ellen Elizabeth, b. May 7 
1840; Elmira Fay, b. Nov. 9, 1841; Henry Robert, b. Sept. 10, 1843; Herbert 
Jonathan, b. May 18, 1845; Lucius Lyon, b. Nov. 16, 1846, d. Jan. 10, 1849 
Emory Lucius, b. June 12, 1848. 

39. William Smith, s. of Daniel, i^^) m. (i) Nov. 28, 1837, Mary E. 
Phelps of Nh. She d. Feb. 23, 1848; (2) Nov. 30, 1848, CaroHne, dau. of 
Zaccheus Crocker Ingram of Amh. She was b. May 12, 1811, and d. April 
27, 1850, ae. 28; (3) Feb. 5, 1851, Catharine, dau. of Asahel Burr of Spring- 
field, Vt. She was b. Jan. 4, 1820. Children — Horace D., b. Dec. 8, 1838, 
d. Jan. 22, 1839; Helen N., b. Feb. 25, 1840, d. Aug. 28, 1840; Elizabeth W., 
b. May 15, 1842; George P., b. Nov. 15, 1845; Nancy D., b. Dec. 12, 1847; 
Caroline, b. April 27, 1850, d. 



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40. Martin Franklin, s. of Daniel, i:^;^) d. June 3, 1856, ae. 39. M. 
(i) March 31, 1840, Elizabeth E., dau. of Levi Wright. She d. July 17, 
1853, ae. 37; (2) Aug. 28, 1855, Sabra, dau. of Stephen Montague. Chil- 
dren — Abbe Greenwood, b. Feb. 19, 1846; Harriet Amelia, b. Oct. 24, 1847. 

41. Sydenham, s. of Daniel, (^^) m. May 7, 1845, Elizabeth, dau. of 
John Shipman. Children — Alice Georgianna, h. March 9, 1846, d. Aug. 9, 
1846; Charles Herbert, b. May 27, 1847, d. July 23, 1848; Charles Herbert, 
b. Feb. 9, 1852; Emma Louisa, h. Jan. 18, 1852, d. March 9, 1854; Edwin 
Shipman, b. May 19, i860. 

42. Daniel, s. of Daniel, (5;^) m. Sept 5, 1844, Aurelia, dau. of Josiah 
Smith. Children — Francis Edward, b. Oct. 17, 1845; Daniel Westwood, b. 
July 12, 1846; Sarah Ann, h. Sept. 20, 1850, d. May 28, 1859; Lucius Crane, 
b. Oct. 25, 1852, d. April 3, 1859; Helen Permelia, h. Aug. 4, 1855, d. April 6, 
1859; Maria Louisa, b. May 7, 1857, d. Nov. 7, 1857; Arthur Lyman, b. 
Sept. I, 1858, d. March 28, 1859. 

COOK, Samuel, b. Aug. 7, 1779, d. April 14, 1854. M. Hannah Gates. 
She was b. July 3, 1779, and d. Oct. 20, 1809. Children — Miriam, h. May 16, 
1801, m. May 9, 1825, David, s. of Josiah Pierce; Samuel Pierce, b. Oct. 7, 
1804; Eliza, b. April 7, 1807, d. Jan. 31, 1840. 

COOLEY, Samuel. Children — Samuel and Tamesin, bapt. July 28, 1799; 
Loi Clark, (son) bapt. July 20, 1800. 

CORKINS, William, m. Oct. 30, 1792, Huldah Peck. 

1. COWLES, COWLS, and COLE. John, Farmington, 1652, rem. abt. 
1664, to Hat., freeman 1666, d. Sept. 1675. M. Hannah, who made her Will 
at Hartford, 1680. Children — John, b. abt. 1641; Hannah, b. abt. 1644, m. 
Caleb Stanley, and d. 1689; Sarah, h. abt. 1647, m. Nathaniel Goodwin, and 
d. 1676, ae. 29; Mary, m. [Nehemiah?] Dickinson; Elizabeth, m. Richard 
Lyman; Samuel, m. 1661, Abigail, dau. of Timothy Stanley, res. in Farming- 
ton, andd. Apr. 17, 1691 ; Esther, prob., m. 1669, Thomas Bull of Farmington. 

2. John, s. of John, (i) Hat., freeman 1690, d. May 12, 171 1, ae. 70. 
M. Nov. 22, 1668, Deborah, dau. of Robert Bartlett of Hartford. Children — 
Hannah, h. Nov. 14, 1668, d. unm. Dec. 25, 1711, ae. 41; Jonathan, h. Jan. 
26, 1671; Samuel, b. May 27, 1673; John, b. June 15, 1676, d. June 18, 1690; 
Abigail, b. Feb. i, 1679, d. Dec. 8, 1690; Sarah, b. June 5, 1681, m. Joseph 
Burt; Mary, b. Nov. 3, 1683, d. unm. 1742; Esther, b. April 14, 1686, m. 
May 25, 1713, Nathaniel Dickinson. 

3. Jonathan, s. of John, (2) Hat., d. Nov. 13, 1756. M. Jan. 21, 1697, 
Prudence Frary, who d. July i, 1756. Children — Abigail, b. May 24, 1698; 
John, b. Dec. 27, 1700; Jonathan, b. June 30, 1703; Timothy, b. April 9, 
1706; Keziah, h. Sept. 6, 1708, m. Ebenezer Cowles; Nathaniel, b. March 21, 
171 1, m. Anna, dau. of Peter Montague, of S. H., and d. abt. 1761, in Bel- 
chertown; Eleazar, b. Sept. 18, 1713, m. Dec. 6, 1739, Martha Graves, res. in 
Hat., d. s. p.; Elisha, b. April 19, 1716; Eunice, b. Aug. 18, 1719; Abia, b. 
Oct. 27, 1722, d. May 10, 1727. 



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4. Samuel, s. of John, (2) Hat., d. Aug. 16, 1750, from injuries received 
by a fall from a cart three days before. M. 1698, Sarah Hubbard. Children — 
Mary, b. March 16, 1698, m. March 23, 1720, John Amsden; Sarah, h. abt. 
Oct. 12, 1703, m. Timothy Cowles; Samuel, b. March 12, 1706, m. Abigail, 
res. in Coventry, Burlington, Harwinton, Simsbury, and Norfolk, Ct., dying 
in the latter place, 1762; Elizabeth, b. June 28, 1708, m. Charles Hoar; 
Ebenezer, b. Dec. 18, 1710, m. Kezia, d. of Jonathan Cowles, and d. in Hat., 
Oct. 28, 1800; Son, b. Jan. 21, 1713, d. ae. i week; Daughter, b. Jan. 21, 
1713, d. ae. I day. 

5. John, s. of Jonathan, (3) Arah., d. between June and Nov., 1735. 
M. Mary, who d. in Belchertown, 1795, in Sgth yr. Children — Israel, b. 
Sept. 28, 1726, m. Lydia Bardwell, rem. to Belchertown, and d. 1797; Abia, 
b. Dec. 22, 1729, m. March 3, 1752, Gideon Hannum of Belchertown; John,^ 
b. July 28, 1731, m. Sept. 24, 1757, Hannah Bardwell, and d. in Belchertown; 
Martha, b. Nov. 14, 1734, m. Dec. 12, 1754, Stephen Crowfoot of Belcher- 
town; Mary, bapt. Oct. 3, 1742. 

6. Jonathan, s. of Jonathan, (3) Amh., d. May 14, 1776, ae. 73. M. 
June 13, 1732, Sarah Gaylord, who d. Feb. 2, 1790, ae. 81. Children — Sarah, 
b, Dec. 29, 1732, m. Abraham Kellogg, and d. Oct. 26, 1819, ae. 87; Oliver, 
b. July 15, 1735; Jerusha, b. May 5, 1737, m. Oliver Barrett of Leverett; 
Jonathan, b. Aug. 2, 1739, d. unm., in Amh., March 14, 1772, ae. 32; David 

b. Aug. II, 1 741; Josiah, b. March 20, 1744, m. (i) Christian , (2) 

Wid. Mary Marsh, and res. in Leverett; Eleazar, b. Oct. 18, 1746; Reuben, 
b. July 22, 1749; Enos, b. May 5, 1752, m. Jan. 28, 1779, Dorcas Goodrich, 
and d. s. p., in Amh., Jan. 21, 1825, ae. 72; Simeon, b. Oct. 24, 1755. 

7. Timothy, s. of Jonathan, (3) Hat., d. abt. 1788. M. Sarah, dau. of 
Samuel Cowles. Children — Sarah, b. Sept. 7, 1740, m. Peter Train; Timothy, 
b. Dec. 25, 1741. 

8. Elisha, s. of Jonathan, (3) Hat., d. abt. 1770. Children — Abner, b. 
May 26, 1749; Justin; Lucy, b. June 4, 1753; Elijah; Prudence. 

9. Oliver, s. of Jonathan, (6) Amh., d. Jan. 23, 1799, ae. 63. M. Irene, 
dau. of Nathan Dickinson, of Amh. She d. March 28, 1834, ae. 90. Chil- 
dren — Levi, b. April 24, 1764, m. (i) Dec. 25, 1805, Rebecca Hastings; 
(2) Submit, wid. of Enoch Bangs, and dau. of John Eastman, res. in Amh., 
and d. Aug. 22, 1829, ae. 65; Oliver, b. Oct. 27, 1765, m. (i) Jan. 29, 1792, 
Lois, dau. of Simeon Clark; (2) Jan. 16, 1806, Ruth Lindsay; (3) 1832, 
Submit, wid. of his brother Levi. He d. in Amh., April i, 1850, ae. 85; 
Rufus, b. Dec. 16, 1767, m. (i) Mary Putnam; (2) Sarah, wid. of Solomon 
Boltwood of Amh., and dau. of Robert Benney. He grad. D. C. 1792, and 
was a physician in New Salem and Amh., and d. in Amh. Nov. 22, 1837, S-e.-jo; 
Chester, h. Aug. 14, 1770, a physician, m. (i) March 3, 1796, Abigail, dau. of 
Levi Dickinson of Granby; (2) April 25, 181 1, Sally Wade of Chicopee. He 
d. in Amh., Feb. 25, 1842, ae. 71 ; Jonathan, b. Oct. 24, 1755, d. Sept. 19, 1777. 

10. David, s. of Jonathan, (6) Amh., d. Nov. 18, 18x7, ae. 76. M. Sarah, 
dau. of Joseph Eastman of Amh. She d. Aug. 14, 1815, ae. 71. Children — 
David, b. Dec. 20, 1773, m. Sally Wheelock of Leverett, and d. s. p. May 
23, 1814, ae. 40; Sally, b. July 23, 1775, m. Dec. 6, 1778, Rev. Ichabod 
Draper of Amh., and d. in Mich., Aug. 3, 1848, ae. 73; Joseph, b. May 29, 



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1777, ni. Sept. 1801, Beulah Walkup, and d. in Amh.; Silas, b. Nov. 4, 1779, 
m. Dec. 22, 1805, Zilpha Shumway, and d. in Hadley; Jonathan, b. Dec. 2, 
1781, m. April 16, 1807, Esther, dau. of Elias Graves of Sunderland, and res. 
in Amh. 

11. Eleazar, s. of Jonathan, (6) Amh., d. July 19, 1795, ae. 48. M. 
Dec. 5, 1 77 1, Hannah, dau. of Azariah Dickinson. She d. Oct. 5, 182 1, ae. 
70. Children — Hannah, b. Nov. 10, 1772, m. Jan. 5, 1797, Israel Scott of 
Whately, and d. in Hadley, April 20, 1827. ae. 55; Eunice, b. Oct. i, 1775, 
d. Sept. 5, 1777; Irene, b. May 8, 1777, m. Jan. 8, 1801, Israel Thayer, andd.; 
John, b. Dec. 20, 1779, m. Nov. 24, 1799, Deborah Warner, and d. in New 

Haven; Eunice, b. April 22, 1782, m. Day; Eleazar, b. July 25, 1784, 

m. Sept. 5, 1 8 10, Sybil Montague, and d. in Amh. 1849; Stoughton, b. Jan. 3, 
1788, m. Osbom, and res. in Parishville, N. Y. 

12. Reuben, (6) Amh., d. March 13, 1824, ae. 74. M. Nov. 26, 1778, 
Betsey Rice. Children — Elizabeth, bapt. Jan. 7, 1780, m. Samuel Church; 
Reuben, bapt. Jan. 6, 1782, d. young; Lavina, bapt. June 6, 1784, m. Nov. 23, 
181 2, Zebina Cowls; William, bapt. Oct. 14, 1787; Jcrua, bapt. Feb. 26, 1792, 
m. John Randolph; Reuben, bapt. July 27, 1794; Sylvester, bapt. April 23, 
1797, m. Sophronia Mason of Cummington; Solomon, bapt. Sept. 15, 1799; 
Wealthy, bapt. Sept. 12, 1802, ni. Trumbull. 

13. Simeon, s. of Jonathan, (6) Amh., d. July 8, 1831, ae. 75. M. 
Feb. 12, 1778, Sarah, dau. of Reuben Dickinson of Amh. She d. April 21, 
1814, ae. 57. Children — Simeon, b. Jan. 11, 1779, m. Nov. 10, 1805, Char- 
lotte, dau. of Gideon Stetson, and d. in Goshen; Child, b. Oct. 26, 1780, d. in 
infancy; Jerusha, b. March 4, 1782, m. Noah Smith; Orinda, b. Jan. 21, 
1784, m. Chester Marshall; Azubah, b. April 12, 1786, m. Timothy Baker, 
and d. in Springfield, May 28, 1828, ae. 42; Zebina, b. April 10, 1789, m. Nov. 
23, 1812, Lavina Cowls, and rem. to New Haven, Vt., and Lincoln, Vt.; 
Moses, b. July 10, 1791, in. Nov. 10, 1814, Chloe, dau. of Ebenezer Dickinson 
of Amh. and res. in Amh.; Aaron, b. Oct. 23, 1793, m. Ruth Saunders, and res. 
in Springfield; Sally, b. Oct. 14, 1796, m. Nov. 26, 1829, Joseph Spear of 
Sunderland; Eli, b. Jan. i, 1800, m. Melinda Ball of Holden, and d. Jan. 
1844, ae. 44. 

COLE, Stephen, Amherst, m. Persis. Children — Persis, b. Nov. 5, 1772; 
Elizabeth, b. Aug. 28, 1774; Polly, b. Aug. 19, 1778; Stephen, b. Sept. 9, 1780; 
Ebenezer, b. July 8. 1782; Persis, b. June 23, 1784; Sally, b. June 23, 1786. 

1. CRAFT, Thomas, Had. 1678, d. Feb. 27, 1692. M. Dec. 6, 1683, 
Abigail Dickinson. She m. (2) Nov. 30, 1704, Samuel Crowfoot, and d. 17 14. 
■Children — John, b. Nov. 22, 1685; Mary, b. Feb. 3, 1687, m. Thomas Hovey, 
Jr.; Abigail, b. Sept. 29, 1688, m. Feb. 3, 1709, Joseph White; Thomas, b. 
Feb. 27, 1690, d. April 12, 1714; Elizabeth, b. April 17, 1691, m. May 2, 1734, 
Benjamin Smith; Benoni, b. Oct. 22, 1692, d. May 20, 1722. 

2. John, s. of Thomas, (i) Hat., d. May 2, 1730, ae. 44. M. Martha 
Graves. Children — Thomas, b. Aug. 16, 17 17, m. Sarah Graves, and d. in 
Whately, 1803; Moses, b. Oct. 23, 1719; Rebecca, b. Oct. 12, 1721; Benoni, 
b. Nov. 17, 1725; Gains, b. Dec. 22, 1727. 



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CRAFTS, Joseph, m. May 20, 1779, Roxelany White. Child — Mary 
Parsons, b. April, 1780. 

1. CROW, John, came to New England in 1635, was an early settler of 
Hartford, and one of the first settlers of Hadley, freeman 1666. He returned 
as early as 1676 to Hartford, where he d. Jan. 16, i686. M. Elizabeth, only 
child of William Goodwin. Children — John, a merchant in Fairfield, d. at 
sea, s. p., 1667; Samuel; Nathaniel, who prob. resided in Hartford, and was 

buried July 2, 1695. Hem. Anna who after his death m. Andrew Warner 

of Windham, and d. 1697; Daniel, b. about 1656, prob. res. in Hartford, and 
was buried Aug. 13, 1693, ae. 37; Esther, m. Giles Hamlin, Esq., of Middle- 
town; Sarah, b. March i, 1647, m. Nov. i, 1661, Daniel White, of Hat., and 
d. June 29, 1719, ae. 72 ; Hannah, b. July 13, 1649, m. March 7, 1668, Thomas 
Dickinson; Elizabeth, b. 1650, m. William Warren; Mehitable, b. abt. 1652, 
m. Sept. 24, 1668, Samuel Partridge, Esq., and d. Dec. 8, 1730, ae. 78; Mary, 
m. (i) Dec. 27, 1666, Noah Coleman of Hat., (2) Sept. 16, 1680, Peter Mon- 
tague, and d. Oct. 12, 1720; Ruth, m. (i) Dec. 21, 1671, William Gaylord, 
m. (2) John Haley. 

2. Samuel, s. of John, (i) was slain at Falls fight, May 18, 1676. He m. 
May 17, 1671, Hannah, dau. of Capt. William Lewis of Farmington. She 
m. (2) 1676, Daniel Marsh. Children — Mary, b. Feb. 5, 1672, m. April 9, 
1690, Luke Smith, and d. June 19, 1761, ae. 89; Hannah, b. Dec. 6, 1673; 
Samuel, b. Feb. 11, 1675. 

3. Samuel, s. of Samuel, (2) d. Feb. 13, 1761, ae. 86. M. Jan. 11, 1710, 
Rebecca Smith, who d. Feb. 26, 1715. Children — Rebecca, b. May 22, 1712, 
m. June 4, 1761, Daniel Noble of Westfield, and d. 1802; Mary, b. Feb. 12, 
1715, m. May 30, 1735, Samuel Catlin. 

CROWFOOT, Daniel, b. abt. 1721, S. H., came from Middletown, Ct. 
M. Margaret Hillyer. Children — Margaret, b. Oct. 4, 1750; Abial, b. Oct. 4, 
1750; Abigail, b. Feb. 3, 1753; Joseph, b. March 26, 1755; Charles, b. May 
15. 1758. 

CROWFOOT, Samuel, perhaps s. of Joseph of Springfield, d. Feb. 10, 
1733, ae. 71. M. Mary, prob. dau. of Isaac Warner. She d. April 9, 1702; 
(2) Nov. 30, 1704, Abigail, wid. of John Croft, and dau. of John Dickinson. 
She d. 1714. Children — Samuel, b. Jan. 21, 1694; Stephen, b. April 13, 1695; 
Mary, b. April 6, 1697, m. 1719, Peter Domo; Joseph, b. July 3, 1699; 
Daniel, b. June 5, 1700; Ebenezer, b. April 3, 1702; Sarah, b. May 25, 1706. 

CUTLER, Robert, s. of Rev. Robert, was b. in Epping, N. H., Oct. 2, 
1748. He was a physician in Pelham and Amherst, and d. March 10, 1835, 
ae. 84. M. Dec. 22, 1773, Esther, wid. of Isaac Guernsey of Northampton, 
and dau. of Elisha Pomeroy. She d. Dec. 11, 1822, ae. 77. Children — 
Esther, b. June 11, 1775, m. Jan. 28, 1806, Wright Warner, and d. in Steu- 
benville, Jan. 22, 1818, ae. 42; Susan, b. April 9, 1777, m. May 4, 1808, 
Jason Mixter of Hardwick, and d. 1861, ae. 84; Robert, b. Dec. 1778, d. 
Nov. 4, 1 781; Elihu Pomeroy, b. Oct. 18, 1780, grad. W. C. 1798, m. July, 
1811, Betsey Delano, was a promising lawyer in Hardwick and North Yar- 
mouth, Me., and d. Aug. 29, 1813, ae. 32; Isaac Guernsey, b. Nov. 18, 1782, 



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grad. W. C. 1801, m. Dec. 24, 1807, Nancy Hastings, was a physician in 
Amherst, where he d. Nov. 29, 1834, ae. 52; Robert, b. Sept. 14, 1784, was a 
physician in Sheldon, Vt., and St. Albans, Miss., and d. Nov. 22, 1817, ae. 33. 

DALE, Mrs. Mehitable. Children — Samuel; Jeremiah; Green. 

DANA, Amariah, s. of Samuel of Pomfret, Ct., was b. May 20, 1738, and 
rem. abt. 1773 to Amherst, where he d. Oct. 29, 1830, ae. 92. M. (i) June 30, 
1763, Dorothy May, who d. Dec. 9, 1779; (2) Oct. 5, 1780, Ruth Williams, 
who d. April 16, 1822. Children — Ezra, b. May i, 1764, d. Jan. 7, 1776; 
Lucinda, b. Nov. 3, 1765, m. Nathan Sprout; Eleazer, b. Aug. 6, 1767, rem. 

to Weybridge, Vt.; Dorothy, h. Sept. 22, 1769; m. Marsh; Lucretia, 

b. Nov. 3, 1771, killed by being run over by the wagon while her parents 
were removing from Conn., March 9, 1773, ae. i; Lucretia, b. Oct. 9, 1773, 

m. Nathaniel Goddard of Boston; Mary, b. April 17, 1775, m. Cowan; 

Freedom, b. May 2, 1777; Son, b. June 14, 1783; Ruth, b. June 8, 1784, 

m. Terry, of Hardwick; Hannah, b. Oct. 27, 1786, m. David Dickinson, 

of Amh.; Amariah, b. Nov. 14, 1787, settled in Minerva, N. Y.; Samuel, 
b. March 26, 1790, m. Julia Moody; Sarah, b. Dec. 14, 1791, m. Elijah 
Church of Amherst; Sylvia, b. June 1, 1793, d. unm., in Amherst; Joseph, 
b. March 15, 1795. 

DAVIS, Hermon, m. June 19, 1781, Mehitable Dean. Child, bapt. 
Oct. 1782. 

DAVIS, Sarah, d. Aug. 31, 1789. 

DEAN, Faxon, m. Mehitable. Children — Samuel; Mehitable; Sarah; 
Olive, b. Jan. 6, 1766; Orange, b. Sept. 19, 1767. 

1. DICKINSON, Jonathan, from Wethersfield, d. May 28, 1791, ae. 63. 

2. Levi, s. of Jonathan, (i) rem. to Had., abt. 1786, d. Jan. 28, 1843, 
ae. 88. M. Bethiah Fuller, who d. Feb. 6, 1845, ae 84. Children — Harvey, 
b. 1785; Levi, b. Dec. 11, 1786; Jonathan, b. Feb. 1789; Bethiah, b. May, 
1790, m. John Shipman; Luther, b. Nov. 7, 1792; Son, b. Sept. 1794; Simeon, 
b. Sept. 4, 1796; Samuel, b. abt. 1797, d. March 6, 1813, ae. 16; Fuller. 

3. Simeon, Deacon, s. of Levi, (2) m. Aug. 17, 1818, Martha, dau. of 
Enos Nash. Children — Henry Kirk White, b. June 8, 1819, res. in West Spr. ; 
Edwin, b. July 13, 1826, m. Aug. 14, 1849, Paulina, dau. of Rev. Joseph 
Bent, of Amh., res. in West Spr.; Sidney, b. Feb. 6, 1835; Simeon, b. Dec. 10, 
1837; Martha Elizabeth, b. Dec. 19, 1842. 

I. DICKINSON, Nathaniel, Wethersfield, 1637, town clerk, 1645, 
representative 1646-56, rem. to Had. 1659, freeman 1661, deacon, and first 
Recorder, resided for a few years in Hat., but died in Had., June 16, 
1676. M. Anne. Children — Samuel, b. July, 1638; Obadiah, b. April 15, 
1 641; Nathaniel, b. Aug. 1643; Nehemiah, b. abt. 1644; Hezekiah, b. Feb. 
1645; Azariah, b. Oct. 4, 1648, slain in Swamp fight, Aug. 25, 1675, m. 
Dorcas, who m. (2) 1676, Jonathan Marsh; Thomas; Joseph; John; Anna, 
or Hannah, m. (i) Jan. or June 16, 1670, John Clary; (2) Enos Kingsley 
of Nh. 



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2. Samuel, s. of Nathaniel, (i) Hat., freeman 1690, d. Nov. 30, 171 1, 
ae. 73. M. Jan. 4, 1668, Martha, dau. of James Bridgman of Spr. and Nh. 
She was b. Nov. 20, 1649, and d. July 16, 171 1, ae. 61. Children — Samuel, 
h. Aug. 17, 1669; Child, b. Dec. 12, 1671; Nathaniel, b. Feb. 10, 1672; Sarah, 
b. Nov. 5, 1675, d. unm., abt. 1750; Azariah, b. Dec. 4, 1678; Ebenezer, b. 
Feb. 2, 1681; Ann, b. Dec. 17, 1683; Joseph, b. Aug. 3, 16S6, d. in Sund., 
Sept. 2, 1755, ae. 69, leaving neither wife or child; Hannah, b. April 4, 1689, 
m. Thomas Hovey of Sund. 

3. Obadiah, s. of Nathaniel, (i.) His house was burnt, and he and 
child carried in 1677 to Canada. He returned the next year, and rem. from 
Hat. to Wethersfield, where he d. June 10, 1698, ae. 57. M. (i) Jan. 8, 
1669, Sarah Beardsley; (2) Mehitable, prob. dau. of Samuel Hinsdale. 
Children-VSaraA, b. Aug. 20, 1669; Obadiah, b. Jan. 29, 1672; Daniel, b. 
April 26, 1674; Eliphalet; Sarah; Noadiah, b. 1694; Mehitable, b. 1696. 

4. Nathaniel, s. of Nathaniel, (i) Hat., freeman 1690, d. Oct. 11, 1710. 
M. (i) Hannah, who d. Feb. 23, 1679; (2) 1680, Wid. EUzabeth Gillett; 
(3) 1684, Elizabeth, wid. of Samuel Wright, of Nh. Children — Nathaniel, 
b. May i, 1663; Hannah, b. Jan. 18, 1666, m. Samuel Kellogg of Colchester, 
Ct., and prob. d. Aug. 3, 1745, ae. 79; John, b. Nov. i, 1667; Mary, b. Feb. 2, 
1673, m. Nathaniel Smith; Daniel, b. March 3, 1675; Rebecca, b. March, 
1677, m. 1713, Thomas Allen. 

5. Nehemiah, s. of Nathaniel, (i) freeman, 1690, d. Sept. 9, 1723, in 
79th yr. M. Mary, prob. Cowles, dau. of John. Children — Nehemiah, b. 
June 5, 1672; William, b. May 18, 1675; John, b. Feb. 14, 1676, d. Feb. 16, 
1676; Mary, b. Jan. 4, 1678, m. Aug. 6, 1702, Samuel Gaylord; John, (twin,) 
b. Jan. 4, 1678; Sqrah, b. April 19, 1680, m. July 4, 1709, Samuel Mighill; 
Samuel, b. Aug. 16, 1682; Hannah, b. Sept. 6, 1684, m. Sept. 23, 17 14, 
Benjamin Church; Esther, b. March 3, 1687; Nathaniel, b. Aug. 23, 1689; 
Israel, b. March 16, 1691; Abigail, b. Jan. 14, 1693; Ebenezer, b. Sept. 17, 
1696; Rebecca, b. April 2, 1699, m. Dec. 16, 1725, Jonathan Smith. 

6. Hezekiah, s. of Nathaniel, (i) a merchant, res. in Hat., Had., and 
Spr., where he d. June 14, 1707. M. Dec. 4, 1679, Abigail, dau. of Samuel 
Blackman of Stratford. She m. (2) Jan. 1708, Thomas Ingersol, of West- 
field and Spr., and d. 1717. Children — Joanna, b. Feb. 2, 1684; Jonathan, 
b. April 22, 1688, grad. Y. C, 1706, pastor of ist Pres. chh. in Newark, N. J., 
and first President of New Jersey College. He d. Oct. 7, 1747, ae. 59; 
Abigail, b. Dec. 8, 1690; Elizabeth, b. March 9, 1693; Moses, b. Dec. 12, 
1695, grad. Y. C, 1717, settled as clergyman in Maidenhead, N. J., and 
installed in 1727 over church in Norwalk, Ct. He d. May i, 1778, ae. 82; 
Adam, b. Feb. 5, 1702. 

7. Thomas, s. of Nathaniel, (i) freeman of Conn., 1657, and of Mass. 
1661, a first settler of Had. Having sold out at the latter place in 1679, he 
removed to Wethersfield, and there d. 1716. M. March 7, 1667, Hannah, 

dau. of John Crow. Children — Elizabeth, b. Dec. 6, 1668, m. Adams; 

Hannah, b. May 20, 1670, m. Leffingwell; Thomas, b. Feb. 15, 1672; 

Esther, b. Jan. 22, 1674, m. (1) Nathaniel Smith of Hartford; (2) Hezekiah 
Porter, of Hartford; Mehitable, b. Oct. 20, 1675; Nathaniel, b. Nov. 15, 1677, 
was buried Jan. 26, 1678; Elihu; Ebenezer. 



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8. Joseph, s. of Nathaniel, (i) freeman of Conn., 1657, res. in Nh., from 
1664 to 1674, and then rem. to Northfield. He was slain with Capt. Beers, 
Sept. 4, 1675. M. Phebe Bracy, dau. of Mrs. Martin. Children — Samuel, 
b. May 24, 1666, d. in Hat., in 1690 or 1691; Joseph, b. April 27, 1668;. 
Nathaniel, b. May 20, 1670; John, b. May 2, 1672; Azariah, b. May 15, 1674, 
prob. m. (i) Mary, and (2) Elizabeth, and settled abt. 1704, in Haddam, Ct. 

9. John, s. of Nathaniel, (i) Had., 1659, d. 1676. M. Frances, dau. of' 
Nathaniel Foote of Wethersfield. She m. (2) Francis Barnard. Children — 
Hannah, b. Dec. 6, 1648, m. (i) Sept. 23, 1668, Samuel Gillet. (2) May 15, 
1677, Stephen Jennings; Mary, m. Samuel Northam, of Hat., Deerfield, and 
Colchester, Ct.; John, m. Susanna, dau. of Joseph Smith of Hartford, Ct. and 
rem. to Ct.; Jonathan, d. before March, 1678; Sarah, m. (i) Dec. 11, 1677, 
Samuel Lane; (2) Feb. 27, 1691, Martin Kellogg; Rebecca, b. abt. 1658, 
m. Feb. 11, 1681, Joseph Smith, and d. Feb. 16, 1731, ae. 73; Elizabeth, d. 
before March, 1678; Abigail, m. (i) Dec. 6, 1683, Thomas Croft, (2) Nov. 30, 
1704, Samuel Crofoot; Mercy, b. abt. 1668, m. June 8, 1688, Joseph Cham- 
berlain, of Hat., and Colchester, Ct.. and d. June 30, 1735, ae. 67; Mehitable, 
m. June 26, 1689, John Ingram. 

10. Samuel, s. of Samuel, (2) Hat. M. (i) Sarah, dau. of Samuel Bil- 
lings. (2) 1706, Rebecca, wid. of Abner Wright. Children — John, b. Sept. i, 
1699; Samuel, perhaps; Elisha, b. Dec. 15, 1708; Moses, b. Sept. 28, 171 1; 

Benoni; Martha. 

11. Nathaniel, s. of Samuel, (2) Hat., d. Nov. 29, 1741. M. May 25, 
1713, Esther Cole, who d. 1750. Children — Eunice, b. July 17, 1714, m. 
Thomas Baker; Gideon, b. April 27, 1716; Joseph, b. Aug. 30, 1719, m. 
Submit, and d. 1747; Meriam, m. Simeon Morton. 

12. Azariah, s. of Samuel, (2) Hat., m. Jan. 23, 1707, Sarah Gunn. 
Child — Azariah, b. June 5, 1709, grad. Y. C. 1730, and d. March, 1737, in 
Branford, Ct. 

13. Ebenezer, s. of Samuel, (2) Hat., d. March 16, 1730. M. June 27, 
1706, Hannah Frary. Children — Editha, b. Aug. 23, 1707, m. John Field; 
Elizabeth, b. Aug. 2, 1709, m. Gunn; Nathan, b. May 30, 1712; Han- 
nah, b. Feb. 17, 17 15, m. Remembrance Bardwell; Reuben, b. Aug. 2, 1717; 
Samuel, b. Oct. 14, 1718; Mary, b. Oct. 14, 1718, d. unm., 1754; Abner, b. 
Jan. 5, 1724, m. Sarah, res. in Wh., and d. Sept. 28, 1799, ae. 75. 

14. Nathaniel, s. of Nathaniel, (4) Hat. made his Will 1743, which was 
approved 1757. M. (i) Hepzibah Gibbs, who d. 1713, (2) Lydia, wid. of 
Samuel Wright, of Nh. Children — Nathaniel, b. Feb. 25, 1685, slain 1698; 
Samuel, b. Dec. 30, 1687, res. in Deer., and d. abt. 1761; Ebenezer, b. Oct. 7, 
1690, res. in Hat.; Daniel, b. Nov. 13, 1693; Hepzibah, b. Aug. 7, 1696, m. 
1720, Jonathan Belding; Nathaniel, b. Nov. 27, 1698, res. in Northfield, and 
d. before 1758; Benjamin, b. Sept. 11, 1702; Thankful, b. Sept. 11, 1702, 
m. 1726, Japhet Chapin of Spr.; Catharine, b. Jan. 8, 1706, m. 1726, Caleb 
Chapin of Spr. 

15. John, s. of Nathaniel, (4) Hat., d. Dec. 21, 1761, ae. 94. M. (i) 
1688, Sarah, who d. 1707, (2) Hepzibah, prob. dau. of Lt. Thomas Wells of 
Deer. Children — Sarah, b. April 15, 1689, m. Feb. 15, 1709, John Leonard 



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of Spr.; Jerusha, b. March 20, 1693, m. Daniel Russell; Lydia, m. Jan. 12, 
1714, Joseph Churchill of Wethersfield ; Eunice, b. 1697, m. Noah Clark of 
Nh.; Hannah, m. Feb. 20, 1723, William Murray; Ruth, m. abt. 1727, Samuel 
Wells; John, b. April 2, 1707; Thomas, b. April 6, 1718; David, b. Oct. 5, 
1720, d. 1726; Mary, b. June 20, 1722, d. Dec. 10, 1726; Salmon; Abigail, 
m. Jonathan Wells of Belchertown; Dorothy, prob. 

16. Nehemiah, s. of Nehemiah, (5) d. Oct. i, 1715, ae. 43. M. Mehita- 
ble Church, who d. in S. H., Sept. 25, 1748, in 8ist yr. Children — Mary, 
b. June 12, 1 701; Nehemiah, b. Nov. 6, 1702; Mehitable, b. July, 1704, m. 
Jan. 12, 1727, Richard Church; Hannah, b. June 30, 1706, m. Luke Monta- 
gue; Sarah, b. April 13, 1708, m. June 24, 1733, John Moody; Daniel, b. 
Sept. 8, 1 7 10, m. Rachel Goodman, and d. s. p. in Amh., abt. 1793; John, 
b. May 14, 1713- 

17. William, s. of Nehemiah, (5) d. June 24, 1742, ae. 67. M. Mary, 
dau. of Jonathan Marsh. Children — Mary, b. Feb. 23, 1704; m. April 6, 
1727, John Smith, s. of Ebenezer; William, b. April 26, 1706; Dorcas, b. 
March 21, 1709, m. May 10, 1728, Hezekiah Smith; John, b. Nov. 27, 1715; 
Josiah, b. Aug. 8, 1724; Elisha, h. May 18, 1729. 

18. Samuel, s. of Nehemiah, (5) deacon, removed to Shutesbury, where 
he d. abt. 1747. M. (i) Oct. 17, 1711, Hannah Marsh, who d. June 10, 1729, 
ae. 39. (2) 1730, Wid. Bridget Barnard, who d. Aug. 31, 1762. Children — 
Samuel, b. Oct. 16, 1712; Jonathan, b. Jan. 16, 1715; Azariah, b. July 10, 
1717; Nathaniel, b. Sept. 3, 1721; Hannah, b. March 6, 1723; Nehemiah, 
b. June 15, 1726. 

19. Nathaniel, s. of Nehemiah, (5) rem. to Sund., and d. 1719. M. 
Dec. 3, 1713, Hannah, dau. of Luke Smith. Children — Esther, b. 1716, m. 
Nov. 12, 1 741, John Dickinson of Amh., and d. Jan. 11, 1803, in 88th yr. ; 
Moses, b. 1 7 18. 

20. Israel, s. of Nehemiah, (5) d. April, 1733. M. (i) Jan. 28, 1719, 
Mary, dau. of Dea. Nathaniel White. (2) Feb. 13, 1724, Ruth, dau. of Luke 
Smith. Children — Ruth, b. Dec. 5, 1724; David, b. March 18, 1726, m. 1753, 
Hannah Smith; Ruth, b. Sept. 27, 1728, d. March 19, 1745; Rebecca, b. Dec. 
1732, m. June 16, 1762, Moses Clark of Sund., being his fourth wife. 

21. Ebenezer, s. of Nehemiah, (5) deacon, rem. abt. 1731 to Amh., 
where he d. abt. 1780. M. (i) May 26, 1720, Sarah, dau. of Nathaniel 
Kellogg, who d. March 22, 1743, ae. 42; (2) Wid. Hamilton of Brook- 
field. Children — Gideon, b. Dec. i, 1720; Ebenezer; Reuben; Joseph, b. abt. 
1 731; Abigail, m. Oct. 21, 1740, Samuel Ingram of Amh.; Sarah, m. Jan. 18, 
1753, Asa Adams; Mary, b. abt. 1737, m. April 27, 1757, Noah Dickinson of 
Amh.; Jerusha, m. (i) Jan. or Feb. 1763, David Blodgett of Amh.; (2) 
March 19, 1804, Nathan Dickinson of Amh., and d. Oct. 27, 1818; Experience, 
bapt. June 28, 1741, d. unm. in Had., March 7, 1770, in 29th yr. 

22. Nathaniel, s. of Joseph, (8) deacon. Hat., d. 1745. M. Hannah, 
dau. of Daniel White, of Hat. Children — Jonathan, b. Nov. 7, 1699; Martha, 
b. Dec. 25, 1701, m. March 2, 1727, Elnathan Graves; Obadiah, b. July 28, 
1704; Nathan, b. April, 1707, d. May 10, 1707; Joshua, b. Feb. 7, 1709; 
Elijah, b. Feb. 24, 1712, d. June 8, 1714; Elijah, b. Sept. 20, 1714, d. May 28, 
1715; Joel, b. March 23, 1716; Lucy, b. Sept. 9, 1718, d. Dec. 24, 1718. 



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23. Moses, s. of Samuel, (10) Hat., d. abt. 1787. M. Oct. 24, 1737, 
Anna, dau. of Joseph Smith. Children — Samuel, res. in Wh.; Rebecca; 
Martha, m. William Mather; Miriam, m. Silas Billings; Anna, m. John 
Bullard. 

24. Benoni, s. of Samuel, (10) Hat., d. abt. 1723. M.Ruth. Children — 
Ruth, m. Elisha Belding; Ann, m. Nathaniel Coleman; Alehitable; Martha. 

25. Gideon, s. of Nathaniel, (11) Hat., d. abt. 1781. M. Rebecca. Chil- 
dren — Lois, b. June 7, 1743, m. Daniel Dickinson, and d. in Hat., Aug. 31, 
1834, ae. 91; Gideon, b. Dec. 29, 1744; Joseph, b. May 9, 1747; Beulah, b. 
May 25, 1754, m. Elijah Stebbins, and removed to Vt. 

26. Nathan, s. of Ebenezer, (13) rem. in 1742, from Hat. to Amh., 
where he d. Aug. 7, 1796, ae. 84. M. (i) Thankful Warner; (2) Joanna 
Leonard of Spr. ; (3) Judith Hosmer. Children by first wife — Nathan, b. 
Oct. 19, 1735; Ebenezer, b. Jan. 3, 1741; Irene, b. July 13, 1743, m. Oct. 27, 
1762, Oliver Cowls of Amh., and d. March 28, 1834, ae. 90; Enos, b. March 
28, 1746. Children by second wife — Azariah, b. March 6, 1752, m. and res. 
in Boston, where he d. abt. 1826; Elihu, b. Oct. 14, 1753; Shelah, b. Sept. 20, 
1755, served in Rev. war, and d. April 30, 1777, ae. 21; Thankful, b. March 
15, 1758, m. Oct. 7, 1802, Eli Smith of S. H.; Lois, bapt. Aug. 5, 1759; Asa, 
bapt. May 10, 1761; Levi; Joanna, bapt. April 6, 1766, m. July 15, 1817, 
John Conkey, of Pelham, and d. Nov. 17, 1825, ae. 60. Children by third 
wife — Stephen, bapt. July 6, 1770; Judith, m. Daniel Heath. 

27. Daniel, s. of Nathaniel, (14) Hat., d. Oct. 16, 1768. M. (i) Lydia, 
dau. of Ichabod Allis. She d. Oct. 16, 1737, ae. 35, (2) 1744, Ruth Bagg, 
who d. Dec. 19, 1791, in 83d yr. Children — Daniel, b. June 3, 1745; Lydia, 
b. Nov. 21, 1746, m. Gideon Dickinson; Aaron, b. Oct. 9, 1749, rem. to West 
Brookfield; Roger, b. Feb. 23, 1752. 

28. Benjamin, s. of Nathaniel, (14) was a teacher and occasionally 
preached. He d. May 18, 1778. M. Sarah Scott. Children — Azariah, b. 
Sept. 18, 1735; John; Benjamin, was a physician in Sund. and Wh., but d. 
in Hudson, N. Y. ; Asenath; William, b. Feb, 4, 1746, d. 1749. 

29. John, s. of John, (15) Hat., a colonel. He d. Feb. 21, 1799, in 
92d yr. M. abt. 1734, Mary Coleman. Children — John; Lemuel; Mary, 
m. Graves; Sarah, m. Belding. 

30. Thomas, s. of John, (15) rem. abt. 1753, from Hat. to Deerfield. 
M. Prudence Smith. Children — David, b. Feb. 3, 1745, d. Aug. 22, 1746; 
David, b. Aug. 31, 1747; Eliphalet, b. Aug. 22, 1749; Thomas Wells, b. June 
14, 1751; Hepzibah, b. 1753; Honor, b. 1755; Prudence, b. 1758; Consider, 
b. 1761. 

31. Salmon, s. of John, (15) Hat., d. abt. 1782. Children — Salmon; 
John; Mary, m. Feb. 8, 1774, Samuel Dickinson, jr.; Hannah, m. Aug. 31, 
1773, Seth Bard well; Olive. 

32. Nehemiah, s. of Nehemiah, (16) Gr., d. March 20, 1776, ae. 73. 
M. June 4, 1730, Mary Moody, who d. Nov. 15, 1787. Children — Nehemiah, 
b. Aug. 10, 1731, d. Oct. 25, 1799; Mary, b. Oct. 19, 1732, d. 1752; Joseph, 
b. Sept. 13, 1734, d. March 28, 1736; Azubah, b. Sept. 7, 1736, m. 1757, 
Josiah Snow, Jr.; Joseph, b. Dec. 15, 1738, m. Susanna, dau. of Samuel 



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Church, and d. Nov. 2, 1817, ae. 78; Editha, b. Feb. 21, 1742; Mehitable, b. 
Jan. 13, 1745, d. Aug. 25, 1748; Mehitable, b. Oct. 28, 1749. 

2,^. John, s. of Nehemiah, (16) Amh., d. abt. 1791. M. Nov. 12, 1741, 
Esther, dau. of Nathaniel Dickinson of Sund. She d. in Gr., Jan. 11, 1803, 
in 88th yr. Children — Nathaniel, b. Aug. 13, 1742; m. Theoda, dau. of Dea. 
David Smith, and d. abt. 1795; Israel, b. May 15, 1746; Waitstill, b. April 
17. 1750- 

34. William, s. of William, (17) S. H., d. Dec. 30, 1740, ae. 35. M. 
March 30, 1730, Hannah Cook. She d. Oct. 29, 1745, ae. 39. Children — 
Hannah, b. Feb. 5, 1731, d. April 11, 1731; Son, b. and d. Dec. 10, 1732; 
Silence, b. Feb. 25, 1734, d. March 26, 1734; Son, b. Feb. 25, 1734, d. Feb. 26, 
1734; Waitstill, b. Feb. 14, 1736; William, b. Jan. 9, 1741. 

35. John, s. of Wilham, (17) d. Sept. 25, 1753, ae. 37. M. April 15, 
1 741, Martha, dau. of Moses Cook. She m. (2) June 25, 1761, David Bagg 
of Blandford, and d. June 29, [30.''] 1762. Children — Mary, b. Jan. 12, 1742, 
d. May 12, 1743; William, b. Oct. 4, 1743, d. Aug. 30, 1746; Martha, b. 
Sept. 7, 1745. ni. (i) Perez Jones; (2) Dec. 23, 1744, Elisha Cook, Jr.; 
Marah, b. Oct. 15, 1747, d. Oct. 17, 1747; John, b. Oct. 30, 1748; Mary, b. 
Jan. 20, 1751, m. Nov. 15, 1770, Enos Smith, and d. Feb. 7, 1815, ae. 64; 
William,, d. Nov. 24, 1757, ae. 4. 

36. JosiAH, s. of William, (17) d. Oct. 29, 1772, ae. 48. M. Nov. 24, 
1748, Sibil Partridge, who d. Oct. 19, 1819, ae. 87. Children — Josiah, m. 
Wealthy Shepard of Hartford, Ct., and d. in Nh., Jan. 17, 181 2, ae. 62; 
Elisha, b. July 27, 1752; Cotton, b. Nov. 1754; Elihu, rem. to Charlestown, 
N. H.; Sibil, m. Dec. 9, 1779, Daniel Dickinson; Maria, m. May 10, 1787, 
Maj. John Smith, and d. May 21, [29?] 1808, ae. 46; William, b. June, 
1765, m. Nov. 15, 1795. 

37. Samuel, s. of Samuel, (18) Gr., d. Feb. 10, 1750, ae. 38. M. Esther, 
dau. of Nathaniel White. Children — Hannah, b. Dec. 3, 1743, m. Waitstill 

Dickinson; Christian, b. Oct. 5, 1745, m. Barton; Samuel, b. May 15, 

1747, m. Naomi; Eli, b. Nov. 10, 1749. 

38. Jonathan, s. of Samuel, (18) res. in Shutesbury and Amh. M. 
Sept. 26, 1745, Dorothy, dau. of John Stoughton, of Windsor, Ct. She was 
b. March 18, 1715. Children — Lucy, h. Nov. 9, 1746, m. Zaccheus Crocker 
of Sunderland; Dorothy, b. March 14, 1748, m. April 10, 1788, Joseph Dick- 
inson of Amh., and d. Feb. 27, 1808, ae. 60; Jonathan, b. Sept. 5, 1749; Joel, 
b. May 29, 1751, m. Eunice; Samuel, b. May 5, 1753, rem. to Brattleboro', 
Vt.; Stoughton, b. Feb. 17, 1755; Daniel, b. Oct. 10, 1756. 

39. AzARiAH, s. of Samuel, (18) Shutesbury and Amh., d. Nov. 12, 1799, 
ae. 82. M. Sept. 16, 1747, Eunice, dau. of John Stoughton of Windsor, Ct. 
She was b. Feb. 19, 1717. Children — Eunice, b. April 10, 1749, m. Feb. 6, 
1771, Joseph Eastman, of Amh., and d. Aug. 16, 1838, ae. 89; Hannah, b. 
Dec. 24, 1750, m. Dec. 5, 1771, Eleazar Cowles of Amh., and d. Oct 5, L821, 
ae. 70; Azariah, b. April 13, 1753; Oliver, b. March 27, 1757, m. (i) Hannah 
Strickland, (2) Nov. 20, 1831, Dorothy Whiting, and d. in Amh., s. p., 
May 12, 1843, ae. 86. 

40. Nathaniel, s. of Samuel, (18) Shutesbury and Amh., d. July 10, 
1806, ae. 84. M. (i) Thankful , who d. March 9, 1783, ae. 60; (2) 



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Jan. 1 8, 1787, Wid. Jemima Wales. Children — Mary, b. Dec. 29, 1746, 
m. Nov. 12, 1772, Ebenezer Eastman, of Amh., and d. March 16, 1825, ae. 78; 
Xathaniel, b. Sept. i, 1750; Josiah, b. Oct. 15, 1753, d. May, 1762; Elijah, 
b. Dec. 26, 1756, d. March, 1762; Rachel, b. Oct. 19, 1759; Elijah, b. April i, 

1762, d. Nov. 30, 1765 ; Rebecca, b. May 24, i 764, d. young; Salome, b. April i , 
1766, d. young; Salome, b. Nov. 13, 1768, d. j'oung. 

40^. Nehemiah, s. of Samuel, (18) Shutesbury and Amh., d. Jan. 23, 
1779, ae. 52. M. Nov. 14, 1749, Amy, dau. of John Stoughton of Windsor, 
Ct. She d. Jan. 27, 1784, ae. 64. Children — Nehemiah, b. April 23, 1756, 
insane, d. unm. May 7, 1794; John, b. Oct. 27, 1757; Simeon, b. Oct. 9, 1759, 
m. Sally McClare, rem. to Weybridge, Vt., and d. Jan. 20, 1800, ae. 40. 

41. Moses, s. of Nathaniel, (19) Amh., d. April 9, 1803, ae. 85. M. 
Thankful, dau. of Chileab Smith. She d. Oct. 18, 1802, ae. 80. Children — 
Moses, bapt. April 27, 1746, d. Jan. 30, 1748; Hannah, b. Oct. 7, 1747, m. 
(i) Aaron Warner, Jr., of Amh., (2) Aaron Moody; Moses, b. Sept. 8, 1749; 
Lois, b. May 14, 1751, m. Feb. 20, 1772, Enos Dickinson, of Amh., and d. 
Sept. 21, 1820; Aaron, b. June 24, 1753; Medad, b. June 9, 1755; Mercy, 
b. Nov. 21, 1757, d. March 6, 1777, ae. 19; Elijah, b. April 20, 1760; Eli, 
b. Oct. I, 1762, d. Sept. 28, 1767, ae. 5; Judah, b. Feb. 12, 1765. 

42. Gideon, s. of Ebenezer, (21) Amh. M. Aug. 19, 1745, Hannah, 
dau. of Nathaniel Edwards, of Amh. Children — Gideon, bapt. Dec. i, 1745; 
Elisha, bapt. March 22, 1747; Hannah, bapt. Jan. 22, 1749, m. Jonathan 
Smith of Whately; Abigail, bapt. Jan. 20, 1751, d. unm., prob. in April, 
1822; Sarah, bapt. Oct. 28, 1753, m. Simeon Dickinson, Jr.; Martha, bapt. 
Jan. 23, 1757, m. William Clapp of Amh.; Naomi, b. abt. 1761, m. May, 
1782, Seth Dickinson of Amh.; Samuel, bapt. May 13, 1764, d. ae. abt. 21. 

43. Ebenezer, s. of Ebenezer, (21) Amh., d. Sept. 12, 1798. M. Chloe 
Holton, b. abt. 1734, who d. Feb. 18, 1826, ae. 92. Children — Ebenezer, b. 
Feb. 6, 1 761; Chloe, bapt. March 20, 1763, m. Simeon Dickinson, Jr.; 
Experience, bapt. May 20, 1770, prob. d. young; Roswell, b. abt. 1772; 
Luther, bapt. Dec. 4, 1774; Zimri; Joseph. 

44. Reuben, s. of Ebenezer, (21) commanded a company from Amh. and 
vicinity in the Revolutionary war, and after the close of the war rem. to Thet- 
ford, Vt. He d. in Amh., Nov. 12, 1803, at the house of his sister Mrs. Jerusha 
Blodgett, while there on a visit. Children — Reuben, bapt. 1755, m. — Kellogg; 
Sarah, bapt. Feb. 12, 1757, m. Feb. 12, 1778, Simeon Cowls, and d. April 20, 
1814; Esther, bapt. Feb. 11, 1759. m. Amos Ayres of Amh., and d. May 17, 
1831; Ruth, b. abt. 1763, m. Perez Dickinson of Amh., and d. March 25, 
1798, ae. 35; Josiah, bapt. Oct. 2, 1768; Solomon; Elijah; Josiah; Rachel. 

45. Joseph, s. of Ebenezer, (21) Amh., d. July 25, 1804, ae. 73. M. (i) 
Martha, dau. of Jonathan Dickinson, son of Samuel; (2) April 10, 1788, 
Martha, dau. of Jonathan Dickinson, s. of Nathaniel. Children — Joseph, h. 
Sept. 18, 1768; Martha, b. Aug. 2, 1769, m. Luke Blodgett; Ira, b. Aug. 14, 
1789, m. Dec. 12, 1810, Dolly W. Fairbanks. 

46. Jonathan, s. of Nathaniel, (22) rem. from Hat. to School Meadows 
in Had. and thence abt. 1748 to Amh., where he d. Dec. 31, 1787, ae. 88. 
M. April 2, 1724, Mary, dau. of Nathaniel Smith of Hat. She d. April 10, 

1763. Children — .Simeon, b. abt. 1726; A^oah, b. abt. 1729; Jonathan; Mary, 



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m. April 1 6, 1752, Hezekiah Belding of Amh.; Martha, m. Joseph Dickinson 
of Amh., and d. Aug. 12, 1779. 

47. Obadiah, s. of Nathaniel, (22) Hat., d. June 24, 1788, ae. 84. M. 

(i) May 26, 1726, Mary, dau. of John Belding of Hat.; (2) Martha . 

Children — Elijah, b. July 31, 1727, prob. d. young; Elihu, b. Oct. 11, 1729, 

per. d. young; Lucy, b. Nov. 20, 1731, m. Allis; Israel, m. Nov. 20, 

1764, Mercy, dau. of OHver Partridge; Hannah, m. Nov. 14, 1755, Julius 
Allis; Submit, m. 1766, Samuel Gaylord of Hat.; Lois, m. 1770, John C. 
Williams, and d. Sept. 7, 1787, in 42d yr.; Elijah, b. abt. 1733, d. in Hat., 
Jan. 26, 1813, ae. 80; Elihu; Obadiah; Mary, m. Jan. 27, 1774, Elisha 
Allis, Jr.; Martha. 

48. Joshua, s. of Nathaniel, (22) d. in Belchertown, March 2, 1793, ae. 
89. Child — Violet, b. Nov. 15, 1738, m. Rev. Justus Forward of Belchertown, 
and d. March 27, 1834, ae. 95. 

49. Nathan, s. of Nathan, (26) Amh., d. Aug. 3, 1825, ae. 90. M. (i) 
Jan. 15, 1 761, Esther Fowler, who d. March 15, 1803, ae. 63; (2) March 19, 
1804, Wid. Jerusha Blodgett, who d. Oct. 27, 1818. Children — Timothy, b. 
June 25, 1761; Perez, b. March 26, 1763; Ezekiel, b. May 25, 1765, m. 
Jan. 19, 1797, Perly Gunn of Montague; Esther, b. March 3, 1767, m. Maj. 
Medad Dickinson; Esther, b. Dec. 14, 1768, m. (i) Judah Dickinson; (2) 
March 28, 1805, Daniel Moody; Irene, b. Dec. 30, 1770, m. Nov. 15, 1798, 
Luke Montague of Amh., and d. 1849; Samuel Fowler, b. Oct. 9, 1775; Anna, 
b. April 15, 1780, m. OHver Smith of Had. 

50. Ebenezer, s. of Nathan, (26) Amh. M. Oct. 30, 1765, Ruth East- 
man, who d. Jan. 3, 1833. Children — William, b. Feb. 6, 1767, m. Sept. 28, 
1789, Tirzah Warner, and d. Nov. 4, 1824; Lucinda, b. Nov. 17, 1769, m. 
May II, 1800, David Watson of Amh., and d. Jan. 16, 1842; Editha, b. 
Dec. 16, 1773, d. Feb. 15, 1^/4; Sylvanus,h. Dec. 2, 1776, m. Deborah Parker, 
and rem. to Reedsboro', Vt.; Ebenezer, b. April 7, 1779, m. Abigail Barrows, 
and rem. to Cincinnati, O.; Abijah, b. Dec. 7, 1781, m. Oct. 26, 1806, Mary 
Stetson, and d. in Amh., April 11, 1824. 

51. Enos, s. of Nathan, (26) Amh., d. Dec. 31, 1821, ae. 72. M. Lois, 
dau. of Moses Dickinson of Amh. She d. Sept. 21, 1820. Children — Azubah, 
b. July 6, 1773, m. Jan. 22, 1795, Enoch Bangs of Amh., and d. Feb. 23, 
1799; Eli, b. Aug. II, 1775, m. Nov. 12, 1798, Lovisa Mattoon; David, b. 
April 27, 1778, m. March 6, 1800, Mary, dau. of Moses Warner of Amh., and 
rem. to Petersham; Lois, b. Oct. 7, 1783, m. April 27, 1809, Lt. Enos Dick- 
inson of Amh.; Philomela, b. Feb. 16, 1786, m. Jan. 21, 1808, Ebenezer 
Williams of Amh.; Enos, b. March 27, 1788, m. (i) Jan. 27, 1814, Joanna 
Nash; (2) Jan. 7, 1819, Thankful, dau. of Oliver Cowls, of Amh.; Lucius, 
b. Jan. 23, 1790, m. July i, 1813, Betsey Shumway; Mary, b. Oct. 20, 1792, 
d. Jan. 15, 1812; Horace, b. Jan. 25, 1797, m. Sept. 11, 1822, Sophia Stetson 
of Amh., and res. in Palmer. 

52. Elihu, s. of Nathan, (26) Amh., d. June 5, 1811. M. Sept. 28, 1791, 
Susanna, dau. of Noadiah Lewis of Amh. Children — Joel L., bapt. March 9, 
1794, d. 1794; Rufus Leonard, b. April 19, 1795, m. Electa Perry, and d. abt. 
1837, in New Ashford; Fidelia, b. May 17, 1796, m. June 2, 181 7, James 
Kellogg of Amh.; Austin Lyman, bapt. May 26, 1799, m. (i) March 26, 1820, 



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Sarah E., dau. of Rev. Ichabod Draper, of Amh., and d. abt. 1835; Fanny, 
bapt. May 10, i8oi, m. March 5, 1821, Learned Scott, of Lanesboro', and 
d. in L., abt. 1840. 

53. Asa, s. of Nathan, (26) Amh., d. Feb. i, 1824. M. June 9, 1805, 
Salome, dau. of Thomas Hastings, of Amh. Children — Friend, b. April 6, 
1806, m. (i) May 28, 1827, Betsey Packard, (2) Betsey Hayes, and d. in 
Higganum, Ct., Nov. 1851; Noble, b. Dec. 14, 1807, res. in Amh.; Asa, b. 
Feb. 24, 1809, m. Jan. 20, 1841, Louisa Sprout. 

54. Levi, s. of Nathan, (26) Amh., m. Margaret Peebles. She m. (2) 

Andrew Hyde, and (3) , at the West. Children — Sarah, b. May 15, 

1783; Irene, b. April 21, 1785, m. s. of Simeon Pomeroy; Elizabeth, b. June 
3, 1787; Patrick Peebles, b. Oct. 29, 1789. 

55. Stephen, s. of Nathan, (26) Amh., d. July 25, 1827, ae. 57. M. (i) 

Dec. I, 1793, Mary Eastman. (2) Wid. Currier. Children — Adolphus, 

b. Oct. II, 1794, m. Oct. 16, 1817, Lydia, dau. of Andrew Hyde; Judith, m. 
April II, 1816, Samuel Thayer of Belchertown; Asa, tn. May 12, 1812, Sophia 
Hastings; Joseph E.; Polly, m. April 15, 1824, Erastus Smith, Jr., of Had.; 
Osman, d. young; Orin R., bapt. Dec. 21, 1806, m. Jan. 19, 1830, Mary 
Hyde; Salome, bapt. May 6, 1810, m. Oct. 21, 1831, Elisha Clark, Jr.; 
Elihu E., bapt. Oct. 18, 1812, m. April 2, 1835, Susan D. Pettengill; George, 
bapt. Nov. 10, 1816, d. Jan. 11, 1824; Maria, bapt. Nov. 15, 1818; Hosmer, 
m. Roxanna Goodale. She m. (2) Wright D. Kellogg, of Amh. 

56. AzARiAH, s. of Benjamin, (28) m. Sarah. Children — Sarah, bapt. 
i)OV. 8, 1767; William, bapt. Nov. 8, 1767; John, bapt. May 27, 1770; John, 
fjapt. June 14, 1772; Samuel Steward, h. Sept. i, 1774, d. March 13, 1776; 
Son, h. Oct. 28, 1777, d. Nov. 1777; child, h. and d. Nov. 1778; Lucretia 
(or Asenath) Scott, h. April 29, 1782. 

57. Israel, s. of John, (i^) Amh. M. (i) Sarah, dau. of William 
Boltwood, of Amh.; (2) Nov. 16, 1786, Abigail Lyon. Children — Israel, d. 
July 25, 1801; Mary, m. William Champney, of Pownal, Vt.; Esther, bapt. 
April 8, 1781, m. Jan. 25, 1810, Chester Billings of Amh. 

58. Waitstill, s. of John, (33) Amh., d. abt. 1792. M. (i) Lucretia 
Montague of Gr. She m. (2) Benjamin Wilson, and had Lucretia, b. Aug. 
12, 1801, and d. Oct. 6, 1837, ae. 79. Children — Chester, h. July 12, 1780, 
non compos; David, h. Aug. 14, 1785, m. Nov. 29, 1810, Hannah Dana, and 
d. in Amh., Nov. 19, 1833, ae. 48; Oliver, b. June 27, 1789, m. (i) Nov. 17, 
181 1, Elizabeth, dau. of Moses Billings of Amh.; (2) Clarissa, dau. of Moses 
Billings; (3) March 9, 1847, Lucy Montague, and d. Sept. 2, i860, ae. 71. 

59. Waitstill, s. of William, (34) Gr. M. Phebe. Children — Hannah, 
h. Nov. 1, 1760; Irene, h. Sept. 28, 1762; Waitstill, h. 1765; Phebe, h. Oct- 
18, 1766. 

60. William, s. of William, (34) Gr. M. Esther, prob. dau. of Hezekiah 
Smith. Children — Dorcas, b. Sept. 9, 1764; William, h. Nov. 23, 1766. 

61. John, s. of John, (35) d. Dec. 2, 1830, ae. 82. M. 1773, Abigail 
Alexander. She d. Dec. 30, 1832, ae. 84. Children — Betsey, b. Oct. i, 1774. 
m. Oct. 2, 1798, Lemuel Brown; (2) Sept. 21, 1808, Maj. John Smith, and 
d. June 22, 1832, ae. 57; Abigail, b. Oct. 2, 1776, m. July 21, 1794, Francis 
Newton; Martha, h. Dec. 1778, m. Thomas Reynolds; John, b. Dec. 14, 



42 DICKINSON. 

17S1; Elijah, b. Oct. 10, 1783; William, b. 1785; Polly, b. Nov. 19, 1787, 
m. 1813, Thomas Reynolds; Theodocia, b. Jan. 1790, d. Feb. 18, 1791, ae. i. 

62. Elisha, s. of Josiah, (36) d. Sept. 25, 1811, ae. 59. M. Hannah 
Billings of Conway. She was b. Feb. 24, 1754, and d. April 6, 1829, ae. 75. 
Children — Polly, b. June 4, 1783, m. Enos Smith, Jr.; Hannah, b. March 4, 

1786, m. Elisha Ely of Rochester, N. Y.; Elisha, b. April 15, 1788, m. Azubah 
Hammond of Winchester, N. H.; Ruth, b. Oct. 30, 1790, m. Henry Smith; 
Charles, b. June 25, 1793, m. and res. at the West. 

63. Cotton, s. of Josiah, (36) res. in Claremont, N. H., Had., and Nh., 
and d. in Nh., Jan. 21, 1826, ae. 72. M. OUve, dau. of Seth Field of North- 
field. She d. Sept. 10, 1844, ae. 89. Children— F anny , b. Sept. 27, 1780; 
Olive, b. July 23, 1782; Josiah, b. Sept. 9, 1784; Cotton, b. July 11, 1786; 
Susannah, b. Nov. 11, 1789; Lucy, b. Sept. 11, 1791; Melinda, b. May 22, 
1794- 

64. William, s. of Josiah, (36) deacon, d. March 15, 1849, ae. 83. M. Nov. 
15, 1795, Dorothy, dau. of WiUiam Warner. Children — Maria Partridge, b. 
Oct. 15, 1797, m. Rev. Lewis Sabin, D. D. of Templeton; William, b. Dec. 
17, 1799, d. Dec. 10, 1817; Roswell, b. March 11, 1802, d. June 13, 1803; 
Dorothy, b. July 13, 1804, d. Sept. 27, 1810; Roswell, b. Dec. 29, 1806, d. 
Sept. 18, 1807; Elizabeth, b. Aug. 20, 1808, m. Horace Goodrich of Ware; 
Caroline, b. March 19, 1811; Dorothy, b. March 6, 1813, m. Leonard B. 
Shearer of Boston; George, b. Aug. 24, 1815; Harriet Newell, b. March 5. 
1 818, m. Rev. Ebenezer W. BuUard; William Phelps, b. Oct. 17, 1820, m. 
Feb. 2, 1848, Emeline, dau. of Rev. John Woodbridge, D. D., and res. i. 
Chicago, 111. 

65. Jonathan, s. of Jonathan, (38) Amh., d. June 2, 1836, ae. 86. M. 
March 27, 1783, Azubah, dau. of Nathaniel Coleman of Amh. Children — 
Nathaniel Coleman, b. Feb. 4, 1784, m. (i) Jan. 27, 1807, Submit Smith; (2) 
June 2, 1841, Sybil Strickland; Enos, b. Oct. 23, 1785, m. April 27, 1809, 
Lois Dickinson; Achsah, b. Dec. 25, 1786, m. Jan. 20, 1807, Jonathan C. 
Warner; Ansel, b. Oct. 23, 1788, d. 1807; Jeremy, b. Aug. 22, 1791, d. Nov. 
12, 1809, ae. 18; Anna, b. Jan. 25, 1801. 

66. Stoughton, s. of Jonathan, (38) Amh. M. Dec. 16, 1784, Abigail, 
dau. of Jonathan Nash, of Amh. Children — Gardner; Luther; Clarissa; 
Polly; Joshua, d. Aug. 1796, ae. 4; Horace, d. Aug. 1796, ae. 2; Joshua; 
Horace. 

67. Daniel, s! of Jonathan, (38.) M. Dec. 9, 1779, Sybil, dau. of Josiah 
Dickinson. Children — Sophia, b. Sept. 4, 1780, m. Doct. Josiah Goodhue; 
Henry, b. Feb. 3, 1783, d. unm., 1804; Charlotte, b. Feb. 15, 1785, m. (i) 
John Dickinson, (2) Thomas Cutler, of Bernardston; Samuel, b. Juh' 30, 

1787, m. Abigail Stockbridge; Sylvanus, b. Dec. 6, 1789; Elihii, b. April 12, 
1791, unm.; Lucy, bapt. April 30, 1797, d. ae. 10; Daniel, b. 1799, m. Mary 
Ann Williston, was master of a vessel, and d. in 1832, in St. Jago; Edward, 
bapt. Feb. 1801, m. Catharine Jones, physician in Peoria, 111. « 

68. AzARiAH, s. of Azariah, (39) Amh., d. Aug. 31, 1813. M. Dec. 22, 
1785, Mary, dau. of Joseph Eastman of Amh. Children — Sarah /., b, 
June 17, 1787, d. Sept. i, 1788; Ransom, b. May 8, 1789, m. Nov. 17, 1808, 
Betsey, dau. of Aaron Dickinson, and res. in Sunderland; Austin, b. Feb. 15, 



DICKINSON. 43 

1 79 1, grad. D. C. 1813, was a clergyman, m. 1836, Laura W. Camp, and d. 
Aug. 15, i&4^, Daniel, h. ]une 18, 1793, m. (i) Feb. 17, 181 9, Louisa Adams; 

(2) June 25, 1829, Tamer Eastman, and res. in Amh.; Baxter, b. April 14, 
1795, grad. Y. C. 1817, a clergyman, m. June 4, 1823, Martha, dau. of Col. 
Jotham Bush and Mary Taylor of Boylston, d. Dec. 7, 1875. She (mother) 
was b. Feb. 10, 1798, d. Aug. 15, 1892; Hannah, h. ]une 3, 1797, ra. Austin 
Loomis of Amh. 

69. Nathaniel, Esq., s. of Nathaniel, (^ grad. H. C. 1 77 1, Amh., d. Nov. 
10, 1802, ae. 51. M. Dec. 9, 1779, Sarah, dau. of Ebenezer Marsh of Had. 
She d. Dec. 9, 1801, ae. 47. Children — Susanna, b. Sept. 6, 1781, m. May 29, 
1803, Chester, s. of John Dickinson, and d. Oct. 8, 1836, ae. 55; Walter, b. 
May 2, 1784, m. Nov. 7, 1806, Lydia, dau. of John Dickinson, and d. in Amh., 
April 9, 1851, ae. 66. _ . 

70. John, s. of Nehemiah, (^ Amh., d. Jan. 4, 1850, ae. 92. M. (i) 
June 8, 1778, Lydia, dau. of Joseph Eastman of Amh.; (2) Nov. 6, 1836, 
Wid. Susanna Wilder. Children — Zebina, b. Sept. 30, 1778, m. i8o8, Mary 
Watson, and d. in Amh., June 2, 1837; Chester, b. April 26, 1780, m. May 29, 
1803, Susanna, dau. of Nathaniel Dickinson, and d. in Amh., May 10, 1850; 
John, b. Feb. 25, 1782, grad. W. C. 1800, lawyer and Judge of Probate at 
Machias, Me., returned abt. 1837 to Amh. Hem. (i) Oct. 12, 1807, Rebecca 
Ellis; (2) Jan. 5, 1848, Olive S., wid. of Rev. Samuel Shepard, D. D., of 
Lenox; Nehemiah, b. Feb. 16, 1784, m. Jan. 18, 1826, Wid. Wealthy Cowles, 
and d. in Amh., March 15, 1837; Bissel, b. Sept. i, 1787, d. Dec. 19, 1789; 
Bela, b. July 6, 1789, d. May 2, 1790; Lydia, b. July 9, 1791, m. Nov. 6, 
1806, Walter Dickinson, and d. in Amh., March 21, 1827, ae. 35; Anie Stongh- 
ton, b. April 6, 1796, m. (i) Sept. 19, 1816, Jonathan Dickinson; (2) May 6, 
1847, John Kellogg, Esq., of Benson, Vt., and d. i860, ae. 64. 

71. MosES, s. of Moses, (41) Amh., d. Sept. 18, 1775. M. Mary, dau. of 
Solomon Boltwood of Amh. She m. (2) Oct. 5, 1780, Daniel Cooley, Esq., 
of Amh., and d. Jan. 10, 1795. Child — Mary, m. Nov. 30, 1797, Joseph 
Blair, Jr., of Amh. 

72. Aaron, s. of Moses, (41) Amh., d. April 24, 1802. M. June 8, 1780, 
Eleanor Morton. Children — Charles, b. Sept. 8, 1782, d. unm., at the West; 
Aaron, bapt. April 25, 1784, d. young; Lucy, b. June 15, 1785, m. Aaron M. 
Chandler of Amh.; Lucinda, b. Aug. 5, 1786, m. (i) Luke Tuttle; (2) Thomas 
B. Strong of Pittsfield; Sainton Morton, b. Aug. 2, 1788, m. May 10, 1820, 
Lucretia Smith of Had., and res. in Amh.; Elizabeth, b. June 11, 1790, m. 
Nov. 17, 1808, Ransom, s. of Azariah Dickinson, and d. May 29, 1849, ae. 58. 

73. Medad, s. of Moses, (41) m. (i) Sally Smith; (2) Eleanor Morton; 

(3) Esther, dau. of Nathan Dickinson. Children — Sally Smith, b. Oct. 7, 
1786; Hannah, b. March 10, 1788, m. Lorenzo Smith of Had.; Thankful, b. 
June 25, 1789; Olive, b. Oct. 9, 1793; Moses Billings, b. Sept. 6, 1795, m. 
Ruth Osbum; Pliny, h. March 5, 1797, m. Aurelia Burt, rem. to Syracuse, 
N. Y.; Olive, h. Sept. 25, 1798, m. Doct. Geo. Hill of Ann Arbor, Mich.; 
Esther, b. Aug. 15, 1800; Aaron, b. July 5, 1802, res. in Heath; Eleanor M ., 
b. Aug. 3, 1804, m. Obadiah Dickinson; Medad, b. May 25, 1806; Julia, 
b. May 3, 1809. i 

74. Elijah, s. of Moses, (41) a Colonel, Amh., d. Feb. i, 1820. M. 
June 13, 1780, Jerusha, dau. of Jonathan Smith. She d. April 6, 1853, ae. 89. 
Children — Moses, b. June 15, 1781, grad. W. C. 1800, and d. unm. in Amh., 



44 DICKINSON. 

Aug. 4, 1841, ae. 60; Silas, h. Sept. 24, 1783, d. May 30, 1804; Lucretia, b. 
Jan. 19, 1791, d. Feb. 6, 1792; J. Smith, b. Oct. 8, 1793; Fanny, b. Aug. 5, 
1798, d. June 7, 1802; Jonathan Smith, b. Aug. 6, 1803, m. Minerva Bartlett 
of Leverett, and d. in Amh., June 2, 1836, ae. 32; Fanny, b. April 26, 1805, 
m. (i) Artemas Thompson; (2) Caleb Benjamin; (3) Calvin Merrill. 

75. JUDAH, s. of Moses, (41) Amh., d. Aug. 4, 1800, ae. 35. M. (i) 

Olive ; (2) Nov. 10, 1791, Thankful Dickinson. Children — Judah, b. 

Aug. 20, 1797, d. July 30, 1803, ae. 5; Henry, b. May 11, 1799, d. Aug. 5, 
1803, ae. 4; Thankful, b. Jan. 9, 1801, m. Doct. John Hubbard. 

• "'76. Gideon, s. of Gideon, (42) rem. after 1787 from Amh. to Washing- 
ton, Vt. M. (i) Abigail, dau. of John Field; (2) Lydia, dau. of Simeon 
Dickinson. Children — Jerusha, bapt. June 2, 1771; Rosalinda, b. March 19, 
1775; Abigail, b. July 25, 1779; Gideon, bapt. Sept. 16, 1781; Abi, bapt. 
Nov. 23, 1783; Joshua, bapt. May 29, 1785; Irene, bapt. Aug. 12, 1787. 

77. Elisha, s. of Gideon, (42) Amh., d. May 12, 1819, ae. 72. M. 
Martha, dau. of Simeon Dickinson. She d. March 17, 1848, ae. 92. Children 
— Elisha, b. Aug. 2, 177-, d. ae. 18 mos.; Martha, b. Jan. 16, 1778, m. 
March 19, 1797, Zebina Hawley of Amh., and d. 1852, ae. 74; Elisha, b. 
Jan. 30, 1781, m. (i) Feb. 1807, Lois Marsh; Roxana, b. April 3, 1783, m. 
Philip Hawley; Susan, b. Aug. 12, 1785, m. Aug. i, 1833, Benoni Rust; 
Wealthy, b. Dec. 5, 1787, m. (i) Josiah Cowls; (2) Jan. 18, 1826, Nehemiah 
Dickinson; Samuel, b. Oct. 28, 1789, m. Jan. i, 1816, Wealthy Cushman; 
Elijah, b. March 9, 1792, m. Oct. 23, 1823, Sarah Belding; Harrison, b. 
April 21, 1794, d. March 4, 1804, ae. 9; Jerusha, b. July 29, 1796, d. unm , 
Sept. 8, 1840, ae. 44. 

78. Ebenezer, s. of Ebenezer, (43) Amh., d. Aug. 15, 1818. M. Nov. 17, 
1782, Abigail Belding, dau. of Hezekiah. She d. in a fit, June 25, 1839, ae 
76. Children — Electa, b. Feb. 8, 1783, d. Jan. 21, 1785; Rufus, b. Feb. 20, 
1786, m. Aug. 1811, Almira Church, and res. in South Deerfield; Luther, b. 
Aug. 26, 17S8, d. Aug. 20, 1789; Hezekiah, b. Sept. 26, 1790, d. Dec. 27, 1791 ; 
Chloe, b. Jan. 26, 1793, m. Nov. 10, 1814, Moses Cowls; Electa, b. Feb. 10, 
1795, m. May 25, 1825, Lyman, s. of Jonathan Smith, and d. in Amh., 
April 25, 1859; Abigail, b. April 13, 1797, d. unm., Dec. 29, 1851; Martha, 
b. Dec. 26, 1799, d. Feb. 3, 1802; Hezekiah, b. March 14, 1802, m. Nov. 22, 
1832, Electa Marshall; Orra, b. April 14, 1804, m. June 25, 1833, John Milton 
Smith of Goshen; Speedy, b. July 19, 1807, d. Feb. 19, 1808. 

79. RoswELL, s. of Ebenezer, (43) Amh., d. March 4, 1848, ae. 76. M. 
Rachel, dau. of John Hunt of Belchertown. Children — Nancy, b. Sept. 14, 
1800, m. Nathaniel Adams Wilder of Chesterfield; Charlotte, b. Jan. 14, 1801, 
unm.; Rebecca, b. July 5, 1803, m. Samuel, s. of Eli Parker; Lovina, b. April 
26, 1805; Caleb Dexter, b. May 23, 1807, m. (i) Tryphena Russell; (2) 
Louisa Billings, res. in North Hadley; Maria, b. May, 1808, m. Rev. Eli W. 
Harrington of Lunenburgh, and d. Aug. 29, 1838, ae. 30; Charles Holton, 
b. Jan. 1810, m. Maria Brainard. 

80. ZiMRi, s. of Ebenezer, (43) Amh., d. May 31, 1802. M. Lucy. 
Children — Salina; Hiram; daughter. 

81. Joseph, s. of Joseph, (45) Amh., d. March 3, 1841, ae. 72. M. Jan. 
29, 1795, Sarah, dau. of John Hunt of Belchertown. She was b. in Brain- 
tree, May 22, 1776. Children — Martha, b. June 9, 1796, d. Dec. 3, 1796; 



DICKINSON. 45 

Harriet, b. Nov. 2, 1798; Mary Ann, b. Feb. 2, 1801, m. June 8, 1837, 
Parker Hastings of Amh.; Alartha, b. Nov. 26, 1802, m. Oct. 3, 1850, Lucius 
Church; Dorothy, b. May 30, 1807, m. Nov. 9, 1837, Marcus Lyon Goodale of 
Belchertown; Sarah Hunt, b. Jan. 13, 1809, m. Nov. 29, 1832, David Blod- 
gett; Joseph, b. Oct. 20, 1810, m. (i) May 8, 1839, Jane Elizabeth Pease of 
Gr. ; (2) June 2, 1841, Fidelia Alvord of Wilmington, Vt.; Daniel Baxter, 
b. May 18, 1813, d. Sept. 10, 1813; Emily, b. Jan. 4, 1S17, m. Wm. Morton 
Graves of South Hadley. 

82. Simeon, s. of Jonathan, (46) Amh., d. May 23, 1806, in 8ist yr. M. 
Sept. 15, 1750, Martha, dau. of Aaron Graves of Hat. Children — Lucy, b. 
Sept. 28, 1 75 1, d. unm., Aug. 20, 182^; Lydia, b. May 25, 1753, m. March 18, 
1810, Gideon Dickinson, Jr. of Washington, Vt., and d. 1854; Martha, b. 
July 17, 1755, rn. Elisha Dickinson and d. March 17, 1848, ae. 92; Simeon, 
b. Aug. 28, 1757; Seth, h. Oct. 6, 1759; Gad, h. Nov. 29, 1761, m. July 11, 
1793, Mary Franklin, and d. s. p. in Amh., Dec. 26, 1848, ae. 87; Eunice, b. 
Feb. 6, 1764, m. March 13, 1800, Nathaniel Edwards of Amh., and d. Mch. 2, 
1862, ae. 98; Martin, b. Oct. 29, 1765, d. unm., May 4, 1818, ae. 52; Jemima, 
b. Nov. 28, 1767, d. unm., June 20, 1820, ae. 52; Jerusha, b. March 24, 1770, 
m. Nov. 29, 1797, Nathan Franklin of Amh., and d. Feb. 21, 1849, ae. 79; 
Obed, b. April 11, 1772, d. Oct. 15, 1775; William, b. Jan. 26, 1775, d. unm., 
Nov. 1824, ae. 49. 

'- 83. Noah, s. of Jonathan, (46) Amh., d. March 28, 1815, ae. 86. M. (i) 
April 27, 1757, Mary, dau. of Dea. Ebenezer Dickinson, she d. June i, 1791, 
ae. 54; (2) March 22, 1792, Susan Ward. Children — Mary, b. abt. 175S, 
m. July 7, 1779, Hon. Ebenezer Mattoon of Amh., and d. July 30, 1835, 
ae. 77; Jonathan, bapt. June 7, 1795, m. Sept. 19, 1816, Ame S., dau. of 
John Dickinson, and d. Oct. 2, 1S40. 

84. Jonathan, s. of Jonathan, (46) Amh., d. in Pittsfield, Sept. 7, 1798. 
M. (i) Dec. 27, 1759, Mary Hamilton, who d. Dec. 6, 1770, ae. 27; (2) Mary 
Matthews of New Braintree; (3) Mary Warner. Children — Salome, bapt. 
Aug. 16, 1762, m. March, 1782, Eli Parker, and d. June 16, 1801; Mary, 
bapt. Aug. .10, 1766, d. young; Silas, bapt. Nov. 19, 1769, m. Oct. 22, 1789, 
Eunice, dau. of Jonathan Moody; Lois, m. April 5, 1787, John Blodgett, and 
rem. to Claremont, N. H.; Polly, bapt. 1772; Nancy, bapt. June 24, 1787, 
d. unm., in Oct. or Nov. 1833; Lucy, bapt. March 14, 1790, m. Jude Hamil- 
ton, and rem. to Vt. 

85. Rev. Timothy, s. of Nathan, (49) grad. D. C. 1785, ord. as pastor of 
(Cong.) church in HoUiston, Feb. 18, 1789, where he d. July 6, 1813, ae. 52. 
M. Nov. 26, 1789, Margaret, dau. of Rev. Joshua Prentiss of Holliston. 
She d. Feb. 16, 1839, ae. 79. Children — Nancy, b. Oct. 14, 1790, d. Feb. 2, 
1806, ae. 15; Joshua Prentiss, b. Aug. 2, 1792, grad. Brown Univ. 1811, was 
a physician in Bangor, Me., where he d. Nov. 17, 1856, ae. 64; Thomas, b. 
June 24, 1794. m. (i) Nov. 27, 1817, Rhoda Adams; (2) March, 1835, 
Miranda Pond; (3) Sept. 20, 1836, Susan Grout, and d. in Hoi., Nov. 2, 
1844, ae. 50; Edwards, b. April 22, 1796, grad. H. C. 1818, practiced medicine 
in Waterford, N. Y., m. April 2, 1824, Susan Henry, and d. in Hoi., Feb. 
28, 1831, ae. 34; Irene, b. Dec. 28, 1797, m. Sept. 10, 1840, Harding P. 
Woods of Barre; John, b. Feb. 11, 1801, d. March, 1801, ae. 4 weeks; Esther, 
b. Oct. 2, 1803, res. in Barre. 



46 DICKINSON DOMO, OR DOMER. 

86. Perez, s. of Nathan, (49) Amh., d. Aug. 20, 1815, ae. 50. M. (i) 
June 28, 1787, Ruth, dau. of Reuben Dickinson. She d. March 25, 1798, 
ae. 35; (2) Lucinda Foster, who d. in Knoxville, Tenn. Children — Betsey; 
Electa, m. Oct. 31, 181 5, Horace Gates of Belchertown; Fanny, m. Seneca 
Holland of Belchertown and Amh.; Ruth, d. unm., Jan. 9, 1843, ae. 49; 
Nancy, bapt. May 11, 1806; Appleton, bapt. March 27, 1808, grad. A. C. 
1825; Lucinda, bapt. June 2, 181 1; Perez, bapt. April 25, 1813. 

87. Hon. Samuel Fowler, (49) Amh., grad. D. C. 1795, was an eminent 
lawyer in Amh., Representative and Senator in General Court of Mass., rem. 
1833 to Cincinnati, O., and thence to Hudson in the same State, where he d. 
April 22, 1838, ae. 62. M. March 31, 1802, Lucretia Gunn of Montague, who 
d. in Enfield, May 11, 1840, ae. 64. Children — Edward, b. Jan. i, 1803, grad. 
Y. C. 1823, a lawyer in Amh., Representative, Senator, Counsellor, and 
Representative in Congress, m. May 6, 1828, Emily, dau. of Joel Norcross of 
Monson; William, b. Oct. 7, 1804, m. (i) Eliza Hawley; (2) Mary L. 
Whittier, both of Andover, and res. in Worcester; Lucretia, b. Dec. 16, 1806, 
m. Rev. Asa BuUard of Cambridge; Mary, b. Feb. 10, 1809, m. Mark H. 
Newman, and d. March 31, 1852; Samuel Fowler, b. Aug. 16, 1811, res. in 
Macon, Ga.; Catharine, b. Feb. 17, 1814, m. Joseph A. Sweetser of New 
York; Timothy, b. March 11, 1816, m. Jan. 10, 1838, Hannah, dau. of Ezekiel 
Dickinson, and d.; Frederick, b. Aug. 3, 1819, grad. A. C. 1837, m. Feb. 17, 
1846, Mary Richardson of Billerica, and res. in B.; Elizabeth, b. May 29, 1823. 

88. John, s. of John, (61) d. Sept. 29, 1787. M. Jan. 6, 1808, Charlotte, 

dau. of Daniel Dickinson. She m. Cutter of Bemardston, and d. Jan. 

12, 1861, ae. 76. Children — Lucy; Charlotte. 

89. Elijah, s. of John, (61) d. March 22, 1848. M. April 4, 1815, 
Clarine, dau. of Samuel White of So. Hadley. She was b. April 3, 1789. 
Children — Elijah Walden, b. Feb. 29, 1816, m. Nov. 12, 1839, Mary A. 
Crossett; Jerusha, b. Feb. 15, 1819, m. Nov. 25, 1847, Warren S. Judd; 
Alphonzo, b. Nov. 3, 1821, m. Jan. 20, 1853; Samuel Collins, b. Dec. 11, 1824, 
m. May 16, 1846, Rachel S. Parsons; Emeline, b. Nov. 5, 1826, d. Sept. i, 
1847; Luther White, b. Nov. 30, 1830. 

90. George, s. of Dea. William, (64) m. Aug. 19, 1844, Maria, dau. of 
Cotton Dickinson of St. Johnsbury, Vt. Children — William C, b. Oct. 18, 
1846; Lewis S., b. Jan. 27, 1849; George, b. May 2, 1851; Albert, b. Sept. 23, 
1853; Arthur E., b. Jan. 20, 1859. 

91. Sylvanus, s. of Daniel, (67) m. Feb. 14, 1817, Harriet, dau. of 
WiUiam Westwood Cook. Children — James P., b. Jan. 10, 1818; Horace 
Stoughton, b. Dec. 11, 1819, d. Sept. 18, 1838; William Westwood, b. Jan. 21, 
1822; Harriet Sophia, b. Jan. i, 1824; Daniel Henry, b. Dec. 16, 1825; 
Frances Cordelia, h. Jan. 23, 1828, d. June 27, 1855; Elisha B., b. Dec. i, 
1832; Horace Stoughton, b. March 29, 1839. 

DOMO, or DOMER, Peter, d. in S. H., Jan. i, 1763, ae. 78. M. Feb. 
20, 1719, Mary Crowfoot, who d. Dec. 17, 1759, ae. 62. Children — 
Mary, b. Nov. 13, 1719; Martha, b. May 28, 1721; Sarah, b. Oct. 23, 1723, 
m. Henry Gilbert of Ware; Martin, b. July 20, 1730; Comfort, (dau.) d. 
unm., in Gr., March 17, 1798. 



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1. EASTMAN, Roger, b. abt. 1611, sailed from Southampton, Eng., for 
New England, April, 1638, in the ship Confidence of London, John Jobson, 
master, settled in Salisbury, where he d. Dec. 16, 1694, ae. 83. M. Sarah, 
who d. March 11, 1698. Children — John, b. April 9, 1640, m. Nov. 5, 1670; 
Nathaniel, b. May 18, 1643; Philip, b. Dec. 20, 1644; Thomas, b. Nov. 11, 
1646; Timothy, b. Nov. 29, 1648; Joseph, b. Jan. 8, 1651; Benjamin, b. Feb. 
12, 1653, m. April, 1678, Anna Joy; Sarah, b. Sept. 25, 1655, m. (i) June 13, 
1678, Joseph French, Jr., of Salisbury; (2) Aug. 4, 1684, Solomon Shepard of 
S. and d. Dec. i, 1748, ae. 93; Samuel, b. Nov. 20, 1657, m. (i) 1686, Eliza- 
beth Severance, (2) Shuah, and d. Feb. 27, 1725, ae. 67; Ruth, h. April 22, 
1662. 

2. Timothy, s. of Roger, (i) rem. to Suffield, and thence abt. 1690, to 
Had., where he d. April i, 1733, ae. 85. M. May 16, 1682, Lydia, dau. of 
William Markham. Children — William, b. April 9, 1684, d. April 22, 1705, 
ae. 21; Lydia, b. May 2, 1691, d. unm., Oct. 5, 1746, ae. 55; Sarah, b. Oct. 
II, 1694, m. Jan. 24, 1716, William Montague, and d. Sept. 29, 1747, ae. 52; 
Timothy, b. Jan. 10, 1697. 

3. Joseph, s. of Roger, (i) rem. as early as 1682, from Salisbury to Had., 
where he d. April 4, (14?) 1692. M. Mary, dau. of Hon. Peter Tilton of Had. 
She m. (2) Feb. 17, 1693, James Guernsey. Children — Joseph, b. Aug. 2, 
1683; Mary, b. Dec. 11, 1684, d. April 10, 1685; Peter, h. Jan. 20, 1686, 
prob. m. Nov. 28, 1708, Mehitable Root, and rem. to Whipanung, N. J. 

4. Timothy, s. of Timothy, (2) d. March 25, 1733, ae. 36. M. Dec. 7, 
1726, Sarah Cook. She d. March 10, 1793. Children — Sarah, b. June 16, 
1728, m. Dec. 4, 1746, Ebenezer Marsh; Joanna, h. Jan. 2, 1731, m. April 5, 
1750, Phinehas Lyman; Elisabeth, b. Jan. 31, 1733, m. June 2, 1757, Olivei 
Smith, and d. Aug. 13, 181 1, ae. 78. 

5. Joseph, s. of Joseph, (3) deacon, was in 1704 taken captive at Deer- 
field, by French and Indians, and after his return settled in Had., on the 
place of his grandfather, Hon. Peter Tilton, where he d. Sept. 29, 1769, ae. 
86. M. Nov. 22, 171 1, Mercy Smith, who d. Jan. 10, 1784, in 90th yr. 
Children — Mary, b. Oct. 11, 1712, m. Nov. 27, 1735, Fellows Billings of 
Conway; Joseph, b. Feb. i, 1715; William, b. Aug. 25, 17 18; John, b. 
March 20, 1721; Mercy, b. Sept. 5, 1723, m. Experience Smith of Gr. ; Rachel, 
b. Jan. 2, 1725, m. Nov. 23, 1749, John Clary of Sunderland; Benjamin, b. 
Jan. 2, 1725; Abigail, b. May 28, 1728, m. Dec. 26, 1751, Josiah Smith of 
Granby; Ruth, b. Nov. 13, 1731, d. March 13, 1740; Kezia, b. Nov. 5, 1733, 
m. Dec. 28, 1763, Jonathan Belding of Northfield; Timothy, b. Sept. 9, 1739. 

6. Joseph, s. of Joseph, (5) Amh., d. Oct. 29, 1790, ae. 75. M. May 17, 
1746, Sarah Ingram. She d. Aug. 30, 181 1, ae. 86. Children — Sarah, b. 

Jan. 28, 1744, m. David Cowles of Amh., and d. Aug. 14, 1815, ae. 71; Ruth, 
b. Aug. 10, 1745, m. Oct. 30, 1765, Ebenezer Dickinson of Amh., and d. 
Jan. 3, 1833, ae. 87; Joseph, b. March 21, 1747, m. Feb. 6, 1771, Eunice, 
dau. of Azariah Dickinson of Amh., and d. s. p. in Amh., March 26, 1826, ae. 
79; Ebenezer, b. May 31, 1749; John, b. May 7, i-j^i; Mercy, h. Oct. 14, 1754. 
m. Dec. 15, 1778, Daniel Kellogg of Amh., and d. Jan. 12, 1823, ae. 68; 
Lydia, b. Jan. 13, 1757, m. June 8, 1778, John Dickinson of Amh., and d. 



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May lo, 1834, ae. 77; Mary, b. Aug. 2, 1761, m. Dec. 22, 1785, Azariah 
Dickinson of Amh., and d. Nov.. 20, 1836, ae. 75; Hannah, b. Feb. 21, 1766^ 
m. April 3, 1786, David Billings, and d. June 18, 1786, ae. 20; Tilton, b. 
April 28, 1769, d. Aug. 17, 1773, ae. 4. 

7. William, s. of Joseph, (5) Gr., deacon, d. July 20, 1793, ae. 74. M.. 
(i) Dec. II, 1744, Mary, dau. of Dea. Joseph White of S. H. She was b. 
June 25, 1727, and d. Nov. 19, 1752, ae. 25; (2) Elizabeth Moseley of Glas- 
tenbury, Ct. Children — Mary, b. Sept. 12, 1745, m. Joel Lyman; Mercy ^ 
b. Dec. 31, 1746, d. Jan. 22, 1747; Mercy, b. Feb. 17, 1748, d. Dec. 31, 1752; 
William, b. Nov. 10, 1749, d. 1759; Joseph, b. July 14, 1751, d. Feb. 26, 1752 ^ 
Joseph, b. Nov. 13, 1754; Elizabeth, b. Dec. i, 1756; Rachel, b. Dec. 15, 1759^ 

m. Dickinson; Lois, b. July 8, 1761, m. Kellogg; William, b.. 

Nov. 20, 1763; Abigail, d. Jan. 26, 1767; Abigail; Ruth. 

8. John, s. of Joseph, (5) d. March 28, 1790, ae. 69. M. Dec. 3, 1763,. 
Submit, wid. of David Keyes of Western (Warren) and dau. of Jonathan 
Belding of Northfield. She d. in East Hartford, Ct., May 23, 1816, ae. 84. 
Children — Lois, b. Sept. 27, 1764, m. Dec. 9, 1788, William Porter, and d. 
Dec. 12, 1792, ae. 28; Anne, b. April 22, 1766, d. Aug. 22, 1767, ae. i; John,. 
b. May 18, 1768, d. Aug. 29, 1769, grad. Y. C. 1788, a physician in Flushing, 
L. I., where he d. unm.; Joseph, b. Feb. 22, 1772, d. Aug. 21, 1775, ae. 3; 
David, b. Aug. 31, 1774, left home at the age of 21 for the West, and has. 
never since been heard from; Submit, b. Aug. 24, 1776, d. Aug. 24, 1778. 

9. Benjamin, s. of Joseph, (5) Gr., d. Nov. 28, 1792, ae. 67. M. 1758, 
Eunice Day of Spr. Children — Benjamin, b. May 23, 1760; John, h. April 
24, 1762, d. 1762; Eunice, b. Nov. 8, 1763, m. Samuel White of Gr. ; John,. 
b. Dec. 23, 1765, grad. Y. C. 1795, a clergyman, d. 1834; Mercy, b. April 14, 
1768, m. James Smith of Gr. ; Kezia, m. Oct. 21, 1792, Asa Nash of Gr., and 
d. July 29, 1806. 

10. Timothy, s. of Joseph, (5) d. Aug. 19, 1818, ae. 78. M. (i) Nov. 15,, 
1770, Anna, dau. of Jonathan Smith. She d. Dec. 7, 1777; (2) 1780, Ruth,, 
dau. of Timothy Sheldon of Sufifield, Ct. She d. Feb. 7, 1830, ae. 76. 
Children — Anna, bapt. April 25, 1773; Timothy, b. Sept. i, 1775, d. Sept. 15,. 
1775; Anna, b. May 22, 1781, m. Dec. 30, 1807, Elisha Cook, and d. Feb. 23, 
1841, ae. 59; Lucinda, b. July 12, 1783; Samuel, b. Sept. 27, 1785; Joseph, 
b. April 8, 1788; Ruth, b. March 21, 1791, m. Jan. i, 1834, Eleazar Wright 
of Nh., and d. Jan. i, 1834, ae. 32; Grace, b. Nov. 5, 1793, m. Nov. 7, 1815,. 
Dea. Aaron Breck of Nh.; Timothy, b. Sept. 15, 1796. 

11. Ebenezer, s. of Joseph, (6) Amh., d. Nov. 7, 1820, ae. 71. M.. 
Nov. 12, 1772, Mary, dau. of Nathaniel Dickinson, of Amh. She d. March 
16, 1825, ae. 78. Children — Tilton, b. Aug. 15, 1773, grad. D. C. 1796, 
Cong, clergyman in Randolph, Vt., where he d. July 8, 1842. M. Speedy 
Smith; Polly, b. Nov. 8, 1775, m. Dec. 11, 1794, Stephen Dickinson of Amh.,. 
and d. May 25, 1822; Elijah, h. March 13, 1777, m. Oct. 24, 1802, Rebecca 
Hall, and d. March 26, 1820; Zebina, b. Sept. 28, 1778, d. unm. in Carlisle,. 
Nov. 6, 1855, ae. 77; Salome, b. Oct. 25, 1780, m. (i) April, 1803, Silas 
Adams of Shutesbury; (2) David Putnam; Samuel, b. March 18, 1783, grad. 
D. C. 1802, res. in Amh., m. Sally Pynchon; Clarissa, b. Nov. 9, 1784. 
m. Nov. 27, 1801, Asa Adams of Shutesbury; Achsah, b. Oct. 19, 1786, m^ 



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April 15, 1S05, Josiah Warner, Jr.; Theodore, b. Dec. 17, 17S8, m. Jan. 3, 
1811, Susanna Scott, and d. May 27, 1816; Ebenezer, b. Nov. 22, 1790, 
enlisted in U. S. Army, in war of 181 2, and died. 

12. John, s. of Joseph, (6) Amh., d. Aug. 6, 1829, ae. 78. M. Dec. 22, 
1779, Hepzibah, dau. of John Keyes. She d. 1837. Chil'dren — Submit, b. 
Oct. 20, 1780, m. (i) Nov. 19, 1801, Enoch Bangs of Amh.; (2) Levi Cowls 
of Amh.; (3) 1832, Oliver Cowls of Amh.; Emelia, b. March 7, 1782, m. 
Jan. 25, 1814, John Hawks of Deerfield; Joseph, b. Nov. 4, 1783; Beulah, 
b. and d. June i, 1785; Hannah, b. June 22, 1786, d. unm., Sept. 14, 1S18; 
Solomon Keyes, b. July 12, 1788, m. Nov. 10, 1819, Almira Richardson, res. 
in Amh.; Jonathan, b. March 21, 1790, grad. Y. C. 1811, a lawyer, d. unm. in 
New York City, Sept. 7, 1830, ae. 40; Oman, b. March 30, 1793, d. Dec. 28, 
1793; Lois, b. Aug. 17, 1794, m. Aug. 26, 1824, Lewis Whittemore; Oman, 
b. March 26, 1796; grad. Y. C. 182 1, a Secretary of the American Tract 
Society in New York City, m. Nov. 1832, Mary Reed; Anna, b. Sept. 14, 
1797, m. Oct. 31, 1821, Archimedes Ferry, and res. in Amh.; John, b. May 3, 
1799, d. Nov. 1799; Hepzibah, b. Jan. 8, 1802, m. (i) Aug. 31, 1826, Henry 
Clary; (2) Nov. 25, 1835, Matthew O. Halsted of Orange, N. J.; John, b. 
July 19, 1803, m. (i) Prudence Dale; (2) Prudence Hathaway; David, b. 
June 16, 1806, grad. A. C. 1835, minister in Leverett, m. (i) Sarah Smith, 
(2) Emily Pomeroy. 

13. Samuel, s. of Timothy, (10) d. May, 1837. M. Nov. 21, 1815, 
Abigail Smith of Chester. She d. Oct. 1837. Children — Samuel Sheldon, 
b. Nov. 2, 1816, res. in Greenfield, and is editor of the Gazette & Courier; 
Charles Baxter, b. March 12, 1819, res. in Chicopee; William Smith, b. Feb. 7, 
1821, d. April 28, 1821; Child, b. May 20, 1822, d. May 23, 1822; Harriet 
Sophia, b. May 4, 1824, d. Jan. 25, 1853; William Merrick, b. July 10, 1827, 
res. in Macon, Ga.; Lucy Ann Smith, b. July 27, 1831, res. in Springfield; 
Sarah Maria, b. Nov. i, 1834, res. in Springfield. 

14. Joseph, s. of Timothy, (10) d. Jan. 13, i860, ae. 71. M. Nov. 1819, 
Susan, dau. of Oliver Sheldon of Suffield, Ct. She was b. 1786, and d. 
Jan. 13, 1853, ae. 67. Children — Timothy Phelps, b. Nov. 27, 1820, m. 
April 24, i860, Susan Phelps, dau. of Milton Woodville of Chicopee; Henry 
B., b. Aug. 2, 1823, d. June 29, 1850, ae. 27. 

15. Joseph, s. of John, (12) rem. in 1814 to State of New York, and 
now (1861) res. in Bleeker, N. Y. M. (i) July 24, 1806, Lois Root of Monta- 
gue. She was b. Sept. 19, 1786, and d. Feb. 14, 1810; (2) Dec. 30, 1810, 
Eunice Parker of Whately. She was b. April 11, 1785. Children — Rilus, 
b. Nov. 23, 1807; Lucius Root, b. Sept. 15, 1809; Martin, h. Jan. 20, 181 2. 

16. Rilus, s. of Joseph, (15) res. in Bleeker, N. Y. M. May 5, 1831, 
Catharine Maria Jipson, b. Oct. 12, 1812. Children — Lois Root, b. Feb. 27, 
1832; Oman, b. Sept. 20, 1833, d. July 19, 1857, ae. 23; Catherine Lucinda, 
b. May 17, 1835; Elizabeth Jane, b. May 25, 1837; Rilus, b. Oct. 24, 1839; 
Joseph, h. Jan. 29, 1842; David, b. May 24, 1844; Sarah Ann, b. Sept. 27, 
1846; Aloney, b. May 23, 1849; Lucius Root, b. Dec. 8, 1851; Lena Harriet, 
b. Feb. 28, 1857. 



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17. Lucius Root, s. of Joseph, (15) grad. A. C. 1833, Andover Theo. 
Sem. 1836, has been pastor of Cong, church in Sharon, but now (1862) 
resides in Amherst. M. Dec. 20, 1837, Sarah Ann, dau. of Aaron Belden of 
Amh. She was b. July 20, 1817. Children — Lucius Root, b. Jan. 25, 1839, 
grad. A. C. 1857, and Andover Theo. Sem. 1861; Mary Louisa, b. March 27, 
1841; Sarah Hibbard, b. Nov. 5, 1850. 

EDWARDS, Jonathan, Amh., s. of Nathaniel, was b. in Northampton, 
Dec. 1722. M. Sept. 6, 1748, Rebecca, dau. of Samuel Smith of Sunderland. 
Children — Jonathan, bapt. Aug. 20, 1749, d. young; Jonathan, bapt. Sept. 8, 
1 75 1, d. Dec. 6, 183 1, ae. 80; Rebecca, bapt. March 17, 1754, m. Zechariah 
Hawley of Amh., and d. Jan. 17, 1832, ae. 78; Nathaniel, b. April 25, 1756, 
m. (i) Jan. 16, 1794, Mary, dau. of Simeon Pomeroy; (2) Eunice, dau. of 
Simeon Dickinson, and d. July 22, 1830; Lydia, bapt. March 26, 1758, m. 
April, 1780, Reuben Nash of Amh., and d. May 20, 1823; Philip, bapt. Feb. 
10, 1760, m. Jan. 23, 1783, Jerusha Pomeroy; Sarah; Mary, bapt. Feb. 23, 
1766, m. May i, 1791, Gideon Ingram; Hannah; Martha, bapt. April 17, 
1768, m. March 5, 1793, Samuel Marsh of Montague. 

EVENS, John, Hatfield, rem. abt. 1685 to Deerfield. M. (1) Mary; 

(2) July, 1677, Mercy or Mary, wid. of Ephraim Hinsdale, and dau. of 

Hawks. Children — Peter, b. in Roxbury, June 21, 1674; Elenor, b. Jan. 8, 
1678; Jonathan, b. March 10, 1679. 

FELLOWS, Richard, Hartford, 1643, rem. 1659, to Springfield, thence 
to Nh., and in 1661 to Hat., where he d. 1663. M. Ursula, who d. Sept. 21, 
1690. Children — Richard, slain Aug. 25, 1675, at Swamp fight above Hat- 
field; Samuel, d. unm.; Sarah, m. (i) abt. 1661, Samuel Billings of Hat.; 
(2) Oct. 9, 1678, Samuel Belding, Jr., of Hat., and d. Feb. 5, 1713; John, 
bapt. Nov. I, 1646; Mary, bapt. Feb. 9, 1650, m. March 24, 167 1, Joseph 
Leonard of Spr. 

1. FERRY, Noah, s. of Charles, Jr. of Springfield, d. in Gr., Nov. 4, 
1798, ae. 86. M. 1736, Experience Allis of Hat. She d. Nov. 4, 1794. 
Children — Noah, m. Hannah, and res. in Gr. ; Charles, b. Jan. 7, 1739; 
Daniel, b. Feb. 15, 1743; Rebecca, h. April 9, 1745. 

2. Charles, s. of Noah, (i) Gr., d. Oct. 19, 1804, ae. 65. M. Mary, who 
d. Nov. 22, 1789. Children — Charles, b. 1763; Mary, b. 1766; Experience, 
b. 1769; Luther, b. 1773; Rhoda, b. iTj(>, d. 1777; Asa, b. 1779; Chester, 
b. 1782. 

1. FIELD, Zachariah, Hartford, 1639, rem. abt. 1659, to Nh., and as 
early as 1663, to Hat., where he was buried June 30, 1666. M. Mary. 
Children — Mary, m. Oct. 2, 1663, Joshua Porter of Nh. ; Zechariah, m. Dec. 17, 
1668, Sarah, dau. of John Webb, res. in Nh. and Deerfield, and d. 1674; 

John; Satnuel; Joseph. 

2. John, s. of Zechariah, (i) Hat., freeman, 1690, d. June 26, 1717. 
M. Dec. 17, 1670, Mary, dau. of Alexander Edwards of Nh. Children — John, 
b. May 11, 1672; Alary, b. Feb. 2, 1674; Zechariah, b. Aug. 1676; Benjamin, 
b. Feb. 14, 1679; Mary, b. Feb. 20, 1681, m. March 6, 1701, Dr. Thomas 
Hastings of Hat.; Bethia, b. abt. 1684, m. John Allis; Sarah, b. Feb. 2, 



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1687, m. 1709, Nathaniel Peck of Swanzey, N. H.; Abilene, d. May 6, 1689; 
Ebenezer, b. July 2, 1690, prob. slain by Indians, in Deerfield, Oct. 26, 1708, 
Abilene, b. July 2, 1690, m. Nash. 

3. Samuel, s. of Zechariah, (i) Hat., slain by Indians June 24, 1697. 
M. Aug. 9, 1676, Sarah, dau. of Thomas Gilbert of Springfield. Children — 
Samuel, b. Sept. 27, 1678; Thomas, b. June 30, 1680; Sarah, b. June 30, 
1683, m. Nov. 18, 1702, Samuel Warner of Springfield; Zechariah, b. Aug. 29, 
1685; Ebenezer, b. March 17, 1688; Mary, b. July 23, 1690, m. June 26, 

1712, Jonathan Hoyt; Josiah, b. Nov. 5, 1692, rem. to Somers, Ct.; Joshua, 
b. April 9, 1695, rem. to Springfield and Bolton. 

4. Joseph, s. of Zechariah, (i) res. until about 1714 in Hat., when he 
rem. to Sunderland, where he d. Feb. 15, 1736, in 78th yr. M. (i) June 28, 
1683, Joanna, dau. of John Wyatt of Hartford. She d. March 23, 1722; 
(2) Jan. 2, 1723, Wid. Mary Belding. Children — Mary, b. July 18, 1684; 
Joanna, b. Dec. 9, 1686, d. Aug. 30, 1689; Joseph, b. June 9, 1689; Daughter, 
b. March 15, 1691, d. April 19, 1691; Joannah, b. Jan. 9, 1693, m. June ir, 

1713, Thomas French; Lydia, b. June 26, 1695, m. 1724, John Bliss of 
Springfield; Jonathan, b. Oct. 13, 1697, and d. 1781. He m. (i) March 30, 
1721, Mary Billings; (2) July 25, 1739, Esther Smith; Martha, b. Oct. 19, 
1699; Abigail, b. Sept. 4, 1702, d. in Sunderland, Jan. 10, 1721 ; Israel, b. June 
29, 1705, d. July 16, 1705; Thankful, b. Sept. 19, 1707, d. Oct. 11, 1707. 

5. John, s. of John, (2) Hat., d. May 28, 1747, ae. 75. M. Sarah, dau. 
of John Coleman of Hat. Children — John, b. Sept. 14, 1700; Sarah, m. 
Joshua Belding; Hannah, b. July 8, 1704, m. Dec. 24, 1729, Samuel Dickin- 
son of Deerfield; Amos, b. June 24, 1708; Eliakim, b. Nov. 27, 1711; Mary, 
b. June 18, 1715. 

6. Zechariah, s. of John, (2) an early settler of Amh., where he d. abt. 
Jan. 1738. M. May 25, 1705, Sarah, dau. of Dea. John Clark of Nh. 
Children — Ebenezer, b. Aug. 8, 1709, prob. imbecile; Rebecca, b. abt. 1711, 
m. Jan. 13, 1737, Joseph Hawley of Amh.; Sarah, b. March 18, 1714, m. abt. 
1736, Samuel Hawley of Amh.; Mary, b. Jan. 21, 1716, m. May 18, 1738, 
Moses Warner of Amh.; John, b. Jan. 12, 17 18. 

7. Samuel, s. of Samuel, (3) rem. as early as 1720 from Hat. to Deerfield, 
and d. 1762. M. 1706, Mary Hoyt, who d. 1747. Children — Elizabeth, b. 
April 16, 1707; Samuel, b. Feb. 20, 1709, d. 1726; Eunice, b. May 29, 17 14, 
m. Joseph Smead; David, b. Jan. 4, 17 12, d. in Deerfield, 1792; Ebenezer, 
b. 1723. 

8. Thomas, s. of Samuel, (3) rem. after 1728 to Longmeadow. M. 1713, 
Abigail, dau. of Hezekiah Dickinson. Children — Abigail, b. Oct. 5, 1714, 
m. Abial Abbot of Windsor, Ct.; Samuel, b. May 10, 1718, d. Aug. 10, 1721; 
Moses, b. Feb. r6, 1722; Simeon, a physician in Enfield; Samuel, b. Oct. 10, 
1725, physician in Saybrook, Ct.; Sarah, b. Nov. 28, 1728. 

9. Zechariah, s. of Samuel, (3) rem. first to Deerfield, and thence to 
Northfield, and d. 1746. M. Sarah Mattoon. Children — Seth, h. 1712; 

Catharine, b. 1715, m. Willard of Winchester, N. H.; Gaius, b. 17 16; 

Ebenezer, b. 1717; Samuel, b. 17 19; Paul, b. 1721. 

10. Ebenezer, s. of Samuel, (3) Northfield, d. Sept. 12, 1723. M. 
Elizabeth, who m. (2) Azariah Wright. Children — Ebenezer, b. 1715; 



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Joajina, b. 1717, ni. Phinehas Wright; Closes, b. 1719; Aaron, b. 1722; 
Elizabeth, b. i 723. 

11. Joseph, s. of Joseph, (4) deacon, Sunderland, d. 1754. M. Sept. 13, 
1716, Mary Smith. Children — Elisha, b. 1717; Mary, b. 1719, m. Daniel 
Clark; Abigail, b. 1721, m. 1745, Samuel Field; Joseph, b. 1723, d. 1798; 
Thankful, b. 1726; Martha, b. 1729; Experience, b. 1732, m. Elijah Clark; 
Sarah, b. 1735, m. Simeon Lyman; Jonathan, b. 1737; Israel, b. 1741. 

12. John, s. of John, (5) Hat., d. May 26, 1762, ae. 61. M. (i) Editha 
Dickinson, who d. 1740; (2) Ann Bagg. Children — Medad, b. Aug. 8, 1734; 

Editha, b. June 15, 1737, m. Fitch of Ct.; Hannah, b. Oct. 5, 1740, 

m. Silas Graves. 

13. Amos, s. of John, (5) Hat., perhaps d. Oct. 10, 1759. M. Aug. 30, 
1739, Mehitable, dau. of Thomas Day of Hartford. Child — Zechariah, b. 
Jan. 6, 1744. 

14. Eliakim, s. of John, (5) Hat., d. Feb. 8, 1786, ae. 75. M. 1752, 
Esther Graves of Whately. Children — Zenas, b. Aug. 10, 1753; Sarah, b. 
April 22, 1755, m. D. Scott; Zilpah, b. Nov. 13, 1756, m. Abner Loomis; 
Rhoda, b. Oct. 26, 1758, m. Elisha Wait; John, b. Aug. 25, 1760, rem. to 
Conway; Abigail, b. July 21, 1762, m. Roger Dickinson; David, b. April 11, 
1764, rem. to Conway; Esther, b. April 4, 1767, an invalid, d. unm.; Hannah, 
b. June 21, 1769, m. (i) Grimes; (2) Cooley. 

15. John, s. of Zechariah, (6) Lt., Amh. M. July 10, 1739, Hannah, 
dau. of Samuel Boltwood of Amh. Children — John, bapt. May 18, 1740, 

m. (i) Jan. 15, 1767, Elizabeth Henderson; (2) Wid. Wells; Abigail, 

bapt. July II, 1742; Martha Boltwood, bapt. Oct. 2, 1743, m. (i) Col. Nathan 
Allen; (2) Thomas Bascom; Mary, bapt. July 27, 1746, m. Joel Billings of 
Amh., and d. Aug. 18, 1813; Abigail, bapt. June 5, 1748, m. Gideon Dickin- 
son, Jr. of Amh.; Sarah, bapt. May 27, 1750, m. Timothy Clapp of Amh., and 
d. abt. Feb. 1799; Ebenezer, bapt. March 22, 1752, m. Oct. i, 1782, Sarah 
Gould; Samuel, bapt. Jan. 20, 1754, m. June 15, 1779, Miriam Nash; Jemima, 
bapt. May 25, 1755, m. Jan. 15, 1778, Oliver Bridgman; Jonathan, bapt 
Dec. 9, 1759, m. (i) Jan. 2, 1780, Sally Smith; (2) Johnson; Zechariah. 

FOOTE, Nathaniel, b. Jan. 10, 1648, s. of Nathaniel of Wethersfield, 
Ct., rem. abt. 1674 from Hat. to Springfield and thence abt. 1681 to Wethers- 
field. He d. Jan. 12, 1703, ae. 55. M. May 2, 1672, Margaret, dau. of 
Nathaniel Bliss of Springfield. She d. in Colchester, Ct., April 3, 1745, ae. 
95. Children — Sarah, b. Feb. 25, 1673, m. Nov. 1691, Thomas Olcott of 
Hartford, Ct., and d. July 24, 1756, ae. 84; Margaret, b. Dec. i, 1674; 
Elizabeth, b. June 23, 1677, m. June, 1701, Robert Turner of Coventry, Ct.; 
Mary, b. Nov. 24, 1679, m. May 14, 1706, Daniel Rose, Jr. of Coventry, Ct.; 
Nathaniel, b. Sept. 9, 1682, m. (i) July 4, 1711, Ann Clark; (2) Sept. 13, 
1727, Wid. Hannah Coleman, resided in Colchester, and d. Aug. 20, 1774, 
ae. 91; Ephraim, b. Feb. 13, 1685, m. June, 1708, Sarah Chamberlain, and 
d. in Colchester, June 10, 1765, ae. 79; Josiah, b. Sept. 27, 1688, m. Sarah 
Welles, res. in Colchester, and d. Dec. 1778, ae. 90; Joseph, b. Dec. 28, 1690, 
m. (i) Dec. 12, 1719, Ann Clothier; (2) Sept. 2, 1740, Wid. Hannah 
Northam, and d. in Colchester, April 21, 1756, ae. 55; Eunice, b. May 10, 
1694, m. Dec. 3, 1712, Michael Taintor, Jr., of Colchester. 



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1. FOOTE, Samuel, b. May i, 1649, s. of Nathaniel of Wethersfield, 
settled in Hat., and d. Sept. 7, 1689, ae. 40. M. 167 1, Mary, dau. of Thomas 
Merrick of Springfield. She d. Oct. 3, 1690. Children — Nathaniel; Mary, 
b. July 9, 1674, slain in Canada; Samuel, slain by Indians at Deerfield, 
Feb. 29, 1704; Mary, b. Feb. 28, 1680, m. Feb. 13, 1707, Samuel Sykes of 
Springfield, and d. Feb. 18, 1752, in 72d yr.; Sarah, b. Feb. 26, 16S2, m. 
June 21, 1706, William Scott of Springfield and Kingston, (Palmer;) Eliezcr, 
b. Sept. 5, 1684; Thomas, b. 1687; Daniel, b. 1688. 

2. Nathaniel, s. of Samuel, (i) Hat., m. Nov. 5, 1707, Mary Ward. 
Children — Dinah, b. Oct. 5, 1708; Ezra, b. June 28, 17 13; Benoni, b. June 28, 
1713, d. July 2, 1713. 

3. Eliezer, s. of Samuel, (i) res. in Springfield, until abt. 1730, when 
he rem. to Brimfield, where he d. Nov. 17, 1758, ae. 73. M. (i) May 24, 
1717, Lydia Bidwell, who d. Feb. 9, 1719; (2) Sarah, who d. Dec. 17, 1773. 
Children — Eliezer, b. Feb. 8, 1719, d. in infancy; Lydia, b. Feb. 8," 1719. 

4. Thomas, s. of Samuel, (i) res. in Springfield, Brimfield and Monson, 
and d. in M. abt. 1766. Children — Samuel, b. Nov. 12, 1728, res. in Norfolk, 
Ct., Spencertown, N. Y., and New Haven, Vt., dying in the latter place, Dec. 
16, 1790, ae. 62; Joseph, res. in Monson, and Spencertown, N. Y., and d. 1795, 
ae. 65. M. (i) Roselle, dau. of David Chapin of Enfield, Ct.; (2) Thankful 
Parcy; (3) Wid. Sawyer. 

5. Daniel, s. of Samuel, (i) res. in Hartford and Simsbury, Ct.,and d. 
in S., July 15, 1740, ae. 51, from injuries received by being run over by a 
cart. M. Nov. 19, 1718, Mary, dau. of Joseph Collier of Hartford, Ct. She 
d. June, 1769, ae. 71. Children — Samuel, b. Oct. 4, 1719, res. in Simsbury, 
Ct., and d. Sept. 18, 1775, ae. 55. M. Nov. 24, 1743, Lois Loomis; Mary, 
b. Nov. 20, 1721, m. (i) 1737, Joel Gillett of Wintonbury Society, (Windsor,) 

Ct., and Nine Partners, N. Y.; (2) Fillemore; Daniel, b. April 27, 

1724, res. in Simsbury, Ct., Washington and Dalton, Mass., Middlebury, Vt., 
and Canton, N. Y., and d. in C, May 10, 1801, ae. 77. M. Jan. 14, 1748. 
Martha, dau. of Dea. John Stillman of Wethersfield, Ct.; Joseph, b. Feb. 17, 
1727, res. in Simsbury, Ct., and d. Sept. 16, 1779, ae. 52. M. Dec. 8, 1757, 
Azubah, dau. of Nathaniel Griswold of Windsor, Ct.; John, b. 1729, res. in 
Simsbury, Ct., and d. Sept. 15, 1813, ae. 82. M. (i) 1753, Rosanna, dau. of 
Jonathan Humphrey of Simsbury, Ct.; (2) Mary Fowler of Salem, Ct.; 
Rachel, b. 1731, d. Jan. 21, 1737; Sarah, b. 1732, m. June 9, 1762, Daniel 
Boardman of Wethersfield, Ct.; Rachel, b. March, 1736, m. June 5, 1760, 
Timothy Phelps of Simsbury, Ct. 

1. FOX, Abraham. Children — Abraham; Joseph Kneeland, b. June 25, 
1782; Son, b. and d. June, 1785; Patience, b. Sept. 22, 1786. 

2. Abraham, s. of Abraham, (i.) Child — Jesse Anson, b. March 30, 1803. 

FOX, Joel. Children — Cynthia, b. Nov. 14, 1801 ; Eliza, b. July 19, 1804. 
See page 165. 

FOX, Nathaniel, m. Martha. Children — Mary, b. July 7, 1740; Nathan- 
iel, b. June 7, 1742; Martha, b. Sept. 20, 1744; Ebenezer, b. Sept. i, 1746; 
Eunice, b. March 20, 1748; Moses, b. March i, 1752, d. April 15, 1752; 
Catharine, b. March 14, 1753. 



54 FRANKLIN GARDNER. 

FRANKLIN, Henry Johnson, came in 1766 from Pomfret, Ct., to Amh., 
where he d. Aug. 3, 1800, ae. 59. M. Mary WilUams of Pomfret. Children — 
Mary, b. Nov. 13, 1765, m. July 11, 1793, Gad Dickinson of Amh., and d. 
Sept. 23, 1851, ae. 85; Nathan, b. July 27, 1767, m. Jerusha, dau. of Simeon 
Dickinson, res. in Amh., and d. March 11, 1832, ae. 64; Persis, b. Dec. 25, 
1768, m. Edward Stanley, and d. March 26, 1803, ae. 34; Francis, b. Sept. 26, 
1772, m. John Thayer of Belchertown, and d. Feb. 25, 1843, ae. 70; Elizabeth, 
b. Dec. 16, 1775, m. Dea. Eliab Thomas, and d. Sept. 23, 1837, ae. 6i; 
Sophia, b. Nov. 30, 1778, d. Nov. 2, 1802, ae. 23. 

1. FRARY, Eliezer, prob. son of John of Dedham and Medfield, free- 
man 1680, Hat., d. Dec. 19, 1709. M. Jan. 28, 1666, Mary, dau. of Isaac 
Graves. Children — Eliezer, b. July 7, 1669, d. Aug. 5, 1669; Samuel, b. 
April 15, 1674; Prudence, b. May 7, 1677, m. Jonathan Cowls of Hat.; Eliezer, 
b. May 12, 1680, res. in 1750 in Hat.; Hannah, b. March 23, 1683, m. Ebenezer 
Dickinson; Isaac, b. March 2, 1686; Jonathan, b. Nov. 13, 1689. 

2. Samuel, s. of Eliezer, (i) rem. to Middletown, Ct. M. Sarah. 
Children — Joseph, b. 1696; Sarah, b. 1698. 

3. Isaac, s. of Eliezer, (i) Hat., d. abt. 1760. M. Dec. 8, 1715, Lydia, 
dau. of Jonathan Parsons of Nh. Children — Eleazar, b. Dec. 19, 17 16; 
Phineas, b. April 29, 17 18; Moses; Lydia, m. Thomas Hastings; Hannah; 
Martha; Elisha, b. Aug. 18, 1729; Mary, m. Jonathan Morton. 

4. Jonathan, s. of Eliezer, (i) Hat., d. May 18, 1728. M. July 23, 
1719, Mary, dau. of John Graves, 2d. She m. (2) Oct. 30, 1729, Eliakim 
King of Nh. Children — Jonathan, b. Oct. 27, 1721; John, b. Dec. 7, 1726. 

5. Eleazar, s. of Isaac, (3) Hat., d. 1801. M. (i) 1745, Deborah 
Chapin of Springfield; (2) Margaret. Children — Nathaniel, b. abt. 1754, 
d. 1832, ae. 78; Eleazar; Seth, b. 1758, d. Feb. 24, 1847, ^^- 88; Mary, m. 
John Wait; Esther, m. David Scott of Whately; Sarah, m. Jacob Cooper. 

6. Moses, s. of Isaac, (3) rem. from Hat. to Whately, and thence as 
early as 1773, to Ashfield. M. Abigail Fairfield. Children — Submit, b. 
Nov. 21, 1744; David, b. Sept. 12, 1747; Moses, b. Feb. 8, 1750; Jerusha, 
b. Aug. 13, 1752; Julius, b. July 27, 1755; Abigail, b. July 3, 1759; Mercy, 
b. July 7, 1762; Moses, b. 1764. 

7. Jonathan, s. of Jonathan, (4) Hat., m. Eunice Cowles. Children — 
Prudence, b. Oct. 28, 1743; ^50, b. Sept. 17, 1745; Eunice, b. March 11, 1752. 

1. FRARY, Sampson, prob. s. of John of Dedham and Medfield, settled 
in Hat., whence he rem. in 1673 to Deerfield, where he was slain by French 
and Indians, Feb. 29, 1704. M. Mary, who was slain 1704. Children — 
Mary, m. 1681, Jacob Root of Nh.; Mehitable, m. 1682, Hezekiah Root of 
Nh.; Susanna, b. March 4, 1668, d. March 28, 1668; John, b. Sept. 17, 1669; 
Nathaniel, b. Nov. 29, 1675. 

2. Nathaniel, s. of Sampson, (i) res. in Deerfield, where he d. April 30, 
1727. M. Mehitable. Children — Obadiah; Nathan; Eunice; Amos, d. 
before 1729. 

GARDNER, Jacob, Hat. M. Hannah. Child— yoco&, b. 1676. 

GARDNER, Joseph, Hat. M. Mary. Child — Mehitable, b. May 20, 1679. 



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GARDNER, Samuel, Hartford or Wethersfield, 1641, rem. 1663 to Had. 
where he d. Nov. 22, 1696, ae. abt. 81. M. Elizabeth, who d. June 21, 1676. 
She may have been his second wife, for at settlement of Samuel Gardner, Jr.'s 
estate in 1677, Joanna and Sarah are called his only sisters. Children — 
Samuel, d. without family, Jan. 12, 1677 ; John, m. 1681, Wid. Mehitable Hins- 
dale, and d. leaving no children, Nov. 26, 1684; Joannah, m. Feb. 3, 1681, 
Nathaniel Warner; Sarah, m. March 25, 1678, John Preston; Hannah, m. 
1675, Nathaniel Bancroft; Elizabeth, m. Nov. 21, 1664, John Ingram; 
Abigail, m. 1673, Isaac Morgan; Mary, d. June 6, 1662; Martha, b. Jan. 8, 
1664, d. Feb. 15, 1664; Nathaniel, d. Dec. 8, 1676. 

1. GAYLORD, William, b. in Windsor, Ct., Feb. 25, 1651, settled in 
Had., and d. 1680. He was s. of William and Ann (Porter) Gaylord, and 
grandson of Dea. William Gaylord of W., who prob. came over from old 
England in 1630, in the Mary and John, and was one of the first deacons of 
the Dorchester Church. M. Dec. 21, 1671, Ruth, dau. of John Crow. She 
m. (2) John Haley. Children — Ruth, b. April i, 1673; Child, b. Oct. 23, 
1674; Samuel, b. Oct. 19, 1676; William, b. Oct. i, 1678. 

2. Samuel, s. of William, (i) d. 1734. M. 1702, Mary Dickinson, who 
was living in 1751. Children — Ruth, b. April 6, 1703, d. June 20, 1703; 
William, b. Oct. 4, 1704; Mary, b. Jan. 27, 1707, prob. m. Sept. 18, 1746, 
Charles Chauncey; Sarah, b. Feb. i, 1709, m. Jan. 13, 1732, Jonathan 
Cowles of Amh., and d. Feb. 2, 1790, ae. 81; Samuel, b. May 5, 1711; John, 
b. Sept. 27, 1713; Nehemiah, b. Nov. 30, 1715; Nathaniel, b. Sept. 8, 1718; 
Ruth, b. Feb. 16, 1721, m. Sept. 10, 1751, John Strickland. 

3. William, s. of William, (i) Deacon, rem. to West Hartford, Ct., 
where he d. Dec. 19, 1770, ae. 92. M. 1702, Hope, dau. of Thomas Butler of 
Hartford. She d. June 16, 1763, in 83d yr. Children — William, b. Jan. 13, 
1703, d. Oct. 21, 1703; Ruth, b. Oct. 18, 1704; Twins, b. and d. Aug. 1706; 
William, b. Nov. 24, i7o[9?]; Samuel, b. Dec. 10, 1711; Sarah, b. May, 1714. 

4. William, s. of Samuel, (2) rem. from Had. to S. H., and d. Aug. 20, 
1798. M. 1733, Elizabeth Scovill. Children — Elizabeth, b. Aug. 31, 1734; 
Mary, b. Jan. 7, 1735; Catharine, b. Nov. 8, 1737, m. Dec. 22, 1762, Ezekiel 
Day of West Springfield, and d. Sept. 28, 1824, ae. 86; William; Oliver, 
b. Dec. 7, 1740; Nathaniel, b. Sept. 8, 1742; Eliphalet, b. Oct. 28, 1744; 
Meribah, b. July 3, 1746, m. Ashley; Ebenezer, b. Sept. 12, 1749. 

5. Samuel, s. of Samuel, (2) bought the homestead of Josiah Chauncy, 
Esq., Nov. 23, 1749, his former house at the upper end of the street having 
been washed away by the river. He d. Sept. 3, 1785, ae. 74. M. (i) 1736, 
Margaret, wid. of Cotton Partridge. She d. March 15, 1756; (2) 1758, 
Elizabeth Worthington of Springfield. Children — Cotton, b. Oct. 2, 1737, 
d. in a fit; Margaret, b. April 11, 1740, m. Dec. 17, 1761, Edmund Hubbard, 
Jr.; Samuel, b. Oct. 20, 1742; Martha, b. July 3, 1747, m. Nov. 27, 1771, 
Enos Nash, and d. Sept. 25, 1788, ae. 41; Child, b. March 10, 1756, d. 
March 11, 1756. 

6. John, s. of Samuel, (2) res. in S. H., d. abt. 1799. He m. (r) 1746, 
Abigail Miller of Springfield, who d. 1775, in 53d yr.; (2) abt. 1775, Dolly 
Taylor. Children by second wife — Abigail; John; Moses; Josiah. 



56 GAYLORD GOODELL. 

7. Nehemiah, s. of Samuel, (2) d. June 21, 1796, ae. 80. M. , 

who d. Oct. 20, 1783, ae. 61. Child — Nehemiah. 

8. Oliver, s. of WiUiam, (4) S. H. M. Betty. Children — Lois, b. May 
13' 1773. m- Martin Wait; William, b. March i, 1775; Benjamin Evens, 
b. Sept. 10, 1777; Keturah, b. Aug. 6, 1779, ni. (i) Ferry Parsons of East- 
hampton; (2) Seth Phelps of Chester. 

9. Samuel, s. of Samuel, (5) d. June 10, 1816, ae. 73. M. (i) 1766, 
Submit, dau. of Obadiah Dickinson of Hat. She d. Oct. 25, 1766, in 24th yr.; 
(2) Nov. 15, 1770, Penelope Williams. She d. April 10, 1815, ae. 70. 
Children — Samuel, b. Oct. 25, 1771, and d. Feb. 7, 1797, ae. 25. He m. Dec. 
31, 1795, Lucretia, dau. of Chileab Smith. She m. (2) Jan. 6, 1799, Samuel 
Dexter Ward; Submit Dickinson, b. Aug. 24, 1773, d. Dec. 7, 1775; Submit 
Dickinson, b. Jan. 8, 1776, m. 1793, Eliakim Smith; Chester Williams, b. 
Dec. 25, 1777, d. Sept. 10, 1779; Penelope, b. Oct. 15, 1780, m. June 4, 1804, 
Erastus Nash, and d. 1861, ae. 80; Chester, b. Sept. 3, 1782; Elizabeth, b. 
July 3, 1784, d. unm.; Israel, b. Aug. 4, 1788. 

10. Nehemiah, s. of Nehemiah, (7) m. Sept. 4, 1766, Rebecca, dau. of 
Dea. Enos Nash. She d. Aug. 15, 1794. Children — Joanna, d. unm.; 
Lucinda, bapt. 1774, m. Richard Osborn; Moses, b. June 6, 1776, m. (i) 
Polly Baker; (2) Clarissa Stockwell; Rebecca, b. Jan. 6, 1780, m. Isaac 
Baker of Amh.; Nehemiah, bapt. March 24, 1782, d. April, 1782; Child, 
b. Dec. 1783; Jerusha, bapt. Jan. 25, 1784, m. Francis Strickland of Amh. 

GILLETT, Joseph, b. Nov. 2, 1664, s. of Joseph, of Simsbury, settled in 
Hat., whence he rem. to West Hartford. M. (i) Nov. 3, 1687, Esther Gull; 
(2) Mercy Griswold at Hartford. Child — Elizabeth, b. 1689. 

1. GILLETT, Samuel, b. in Windsor, Ct., Jan. 22, 1643, s. of Jonathan, 
settled in Hat., and was slain in the Falls' fight. May 9, 1676. M. Sept. 23, 
1668, Hannah Dickinson. She m. (2) May 15, 1677, Stephen Jennings. 
Children — Hannah, b. Sept. 20, 1669, was burned to death, Feb. 1671; Mary, 
b. Dec. 20, 1671; Samuel, b. May 14, 1672; Hannah, b. Sept. 5, 1674. 

2. Samuel, s. of Samuel, (i) Hat., d. abt. 1769. M. Hannah, dau. of 
Dr. Thomas Hastings of Hat. Children — Hannah, b. Jan. 9, 1698, m. 

Benton of Guilford, Ct.; Margaret, b. May i, 1699, m. Joseph Beld- 

ing; Samuel, b. Dec. 26, 1703; Elizabeth, b. Dec. 29, 1705, m. Bard- 
well; Mary, b. July 31, 1711, m. Evetts of Killingsworth, Ct. 

3. Samuel, s. of Samuel, Jr. (2) Hat., d. abt. 1745. M. April 8, 1730, 
Sarah Billings. Children — Sarah, d. unm.; Martha, m. May 16, 1754, Perez 
Graves; Hannah, m. Nov. 10, 1757, Oliver Morton. 

GOLDING, Mr. Peter, b. abt. 1635, rem. abt. 1690, from Boston to Had., 
and thence to Sudbury, where he d. Oct. 11, 1703. M. (i) Jane; (2) Sarah. 
Children — Mary, b. Jan. 21, 1666; Frances, b. Feb. 22, 1668; Elizabeth, 
b. Oct. 6, 1673; Windsor, b. March 3, 1675; Thomas, b. Jan. 23, 1678; 
Sarah, b. Aug. 19, 1679, m. (i) April 13, 1704, Daniel Warner; (2) Jan. 6, 
1714, Thomas Horton; Jane, b. Jan. i, 1684; Mercy, Sept. 8, 1686, m. 
Dec. 19, 1710, Chileab Smith, and d. Aug. 6 or 7, 1756, ae. 69. 

GOODELL, Isaac, b. abt. 1730, d. in Amherst, Jan. 14, 1808, in 77th yr. 
M. (i) 1753, Huldah, dau. of Thomas Burt of Nh. She was b. Feb. 9, 1733; 



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(2) Oct. 24, 1805, Wid. Prudence Billings. Children — -Isaac, bapt. 1755, 
m. Jemima, dau. of Daniel Warner of Nh., and rem. to Broome Co., N. Y.; 
Mercy, bapt. July 24, 1757, m. Aug. 6, 1778, Elijah Elmer; Thomas, bapt. 
Oct. 29, 1758, m. Hannah Parker; David, bapt. April 20, 1760, m. 1784, 
Mercy, dau. of Gideon Clark of Nh. She was b. Jan. 6, 1760; Eleanor, 
bapt. Feb. 21, 1762, m. Sept. 26, 1780, Silas Wright of Amh. 

1. GOODMAN, Richard, Deacon, Cambridge, 1632, Hartford, 1639, 
was one of the first settlers of Had. Having been slain by the Indians, he 
was buried April 3, 1676, ae. abt. 67. M. Dec. 8, 1659, Mary, dau. of Stephen 
Terry of Windsor. She was b. Dec. 31, 1635, and d. in Deerfield, 1692. 
Children — John, b. Oct. 13, 1661; Richard, b. March 23, 1663, res. in Hart- 
ford, Ct., and d. May 4, 1730, ae. 67; Stephen, b. Feb. 6, 1664; Mary, b. 
Nov. 5, 1665, m. 1684, John Noble of Westfield and New Milford. Ct.; 
Thomas, b. March 20, 1668, d. Aug. 24, 1670, ae. 2; Elizabeth, b. Feb. 5, 
167 1, m. Jacob Warner; Thomas, b. Sept. 16, 1673; Samuel, b. May 5, 1675. 

2. John, s. of Richard, (i) freeman 1690, d. Jan. 17, 1725. M. abt. 
1685, Hannah, dau. of Thomas Noble of Westfield. She m. (2) Oct. 12, 1728, 
Nathaniel Edwards of Nh. She was b. Feb. 24, 1664, and d. abt. 1741, ae. 
77. Children — John, b. Sept. 29, 1686; Hannah, b. May 29, 1689, d. March, 
1690; Haimah, b. Jan. 15, 1696, d. Feb. 4, 1718, ae. 21; Stephen, b. Aug. 17, 
1699, d. Feb. 4, 1718, ae. 18; James, b. Feb. 7, 1707. 

3! Thomas, s. of Richard, (i) d. Oct. 5, 1748, ae. 75. He m. Grace, 
dau. of Samuel Marsh of Hat. She d. May 28 or 29, 1756. Children — Mary, 
b. Nov. 15, 1699, d. unm., Jan. 3, 1769, ae. 69; Thomas, b. Dec. 15, 1701: 
Samuel, b. March 10, 1704, taken captive at Fort Massachusetts, in 1746, 

and d. in Canada. Perhaps m. Rebecca ; Rachel, b. Oct. i, 1706, per. 

m. June 14, 1750, Daniel Dickinson; Abigail, h. July 3, 1709, d. unm., 
Jan. 24, 1795, ae. 84; Eleazar, b. Sept. 4, 171 1; Nathan, b. Dec. 29, 1713. 

4. James, s. of John, (2) d. Sept. 8, 1746, ae. 39. He m. (i) 1736, 
Anna Phelps of Springfield; (2) Sept. 22, 1743, Sarah Sikes of Springfield. 
Children — Hannah, b. April 28, 1740, m. Aug. 8, 1771, Timothy Stockwell; 
Stephen, b. Dec. 26, 1742; Oliver, drowned in Springfield, March 26, 1747. 

5. Thomas, s. of Thomas, (3) d. Nov. 4, 1761, ae. 59. He m. (i) 1724, 
Mary Scovill, who d. March, 1736, ae. t,^'' (2) Rebecca Shepard of Hartford. 
Children — Ruth, b. Jan. 12, 1726; Mary, b. 1728, d. 1731; Miriam, b. 1731, 
d. 1732; Noah, b. Feb. 9, 1734; Asa, b. Aug. 6, 1738, res. in West Hartford, 
Ct.; Simeon, b. Dec. 14, 1739; Rebecca, b. July 21, 1743, m. Joel Moody of 
Amli.; Susannah, b. Feb. 2, 1745; Thomas, b. July 19, 1746; Thankjtd, 
b. Dec. 3, 1748, m. Ephraim Smith; Ends, b. March 4, 1751, rem. to Mason- 
ville, N. Y.; Elihu, b. April 5, 1753, rem. to Greenfield; Riith, m. Jonathan 
Cook. 

6. Eleazar, s. of Thomas, (3) res. in S. H., and d. July 27, 1849, ae. 37. 
He m. Dec. 25, 1746, Hannah Rugg. Children — Samuel; Eleazar. 

7. Stephen, s. of James, (4) d. June 28, 1802, ae. 59. He m. (i) 1761, 
Mercy Dewey of Westfield, who d. Dec. 28, 1764; (2) Feb. 28, 1765, Joanna 
Kellogg, who d. Aug. 31, 1831, ae. 89. Children — Joanna, b. Dec. i, 1765, 
d. Dec. 3, 1765; James, b. May 13, 1767, d. in Mobile, Ala.; Joanna, b. 
Feb. 20, 1769, m. Perez Jones, and rem. to Windsor, Vt.; Stephen, b. Nov. 19, 



68 GOODMAN GRANIS. 

1770, d. at the West; Mercy, b. Nov. 17, 1773, d. Sept. 12, 1776; John Kel- 
logg, b. June 18, 1776, rem. in 1802, to Jersey City, and d. Oct. 29, 1853, 
ae. 77; Sylvester, b. Nov. 19, 1778; Spencer, b. June 5, 1781; Mercy, b. Aug. 
18, 1783, m. Cotton Smith. 

8. Noah, s. of Thomas, (5) res. in S. H. He m. Oct. 25, 1756, Abial 
Smith. Children — Ithamar, b. Feb. i, 1757; Titus, b. Oct. 23, 1763; 
Simeon; Abial, m. Dec. 25, 1798, Ebenezer Bartlett of WilUamsburgh ; Mary, 
m. Bezaleel Alvord; Clarissa, d. ae. abt. 14. 

9. Enos, s. of Thomas, (5) rem. to Masonville, N. Y. He m. Esther, 
dau. of Jonathan White of S. H. Children — Cynthia, b. Aug. 25, 1775; 
Erastus, b. Aug. 15, 1777; Phineas, b. May 12, 1780; Enos, b. July 16, 1782;' 
Cleopas, b. Dec. 8, 1784; Esther, b. July 23, 1787; Thomas, b. Aug. 22, ^ 
1789; Tryphosa, b. April 15, 1792; Sophia, b. Dec. 17, 1794. 

10. Samuel, s. of Eleazar, (6) res. in S. H. He m. (i) Joanna Smith; 
(2) Huldah Montague. Children by second wife — Calvin, b. May 12, 1778; 
Luther, b. Jan. 6, 1780. 

11. Eleazar, s. of Eleazar, (6) rem. from S. H. to Lake George. He m. 
Rebecca, dau. of Joseph White. Children — Justin, b. Feb. 7, 1771 ; Eleazar; 
Eldad; Nathan; Satnuel; Oren. 

GOODRICH, Aaron, d. Jan. 27 or 28, 1769, ae. 48. He m. Dorcas Cook. 
Children — Sarah, b. Oct. 16, 1747, m. Oct. 21, 1773, Nathaniel Montague; 
Aaron, b. Sept. 30, 1749, d. April 14, 1776, ae. 26; Dorcas, b. Dec. 16, 1751, 
m. Jan. 28, 1779, Enos Cowls of Amh., and d. Aug. 11, 1824, ae. 72; Joanna, 
b. Aug. 9, 1754, m. 1775, Jonathan Russell of Chesterfield; Mary, b. Oct. 13, 
1756, d. Oct. 17; Rebecca, b. Aug. 8, 1759. 

GOODWIN, Mr. William, sailed from London, in ship Lyon, June 22, 
1632, and arrived in New England, Sept. 16, 1632. He was made freeman 
in Mass. Nov. 6, 1732, and was in May 1634, Deputy from Cambridge to the 
General Court. He was an early settler of Hartford, Ct., where he was a 
man of great influence, both in Church and State. Having resided in Hadley 
about ten years from its first settlement, abt. 1620 he returned to Ct., and d. 
in Farmington, March 11, 1673. He m. Susanna, who d. in F., May 17, 1676. 
Child — Elizabeth, m. John Crow of Had. and Hartford. 

GOULD, Solomon, Amherst. Children — David, bapt. April 6, 1760; 

Samuel, bapt. May 8, 1763; Noah, bapt. May 8, 1763, m. Jan. 30, 1794, 

Mary Williams; Child, bapt. March 17, 1765; Miriam, bapt. Feb. 9, 1766; 
Reuben, bapt. July, 1767; Bashmotte, bapt. July 4, 1771. 

GRANGER, Holcomb, m. Electa, who d. Sept. 6, 1793. Children — 
Electa; Achsah; Lydia; Thaddeus. 

GRANIS, Edward, a shoemaker, came from Hartford to Had., and rem. 
abt. 1677, to New Haven, Ct. He m. (i) May 3, 1654, Elizabeth Andrews 
of Hartford; (2) 1662, Hannah, dau. of John Wakefield of New Haven. 
Children — Joseph, b. March 31, 1656, d. young; Hannah, m. Jan. 31, 1681, 
John Hill; Mabel, m. March 2, 1684, John Johnson; Abigail, m. 1689, John 
Allen, Jr.; Sarah, b. Oct. 20, 1671, m. 1690, Nathaniel Bishop; Jo/m, b. 
Dec. 5, 1674; Joseph, b. March 12, 1677; Ann. 



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1. GRAVES, Thomas, Hartford, 1645, rem. to Hat., and d. Nov. 1662. 
He m. Sarah, who d. Dec. 17, 1666. Children — Isaac; John; Samuel; per- 
haps a Daughter, whose name is unknown. 

2. Isaac, s. of Thomas, (i) Hat., was slain by Indians, Sept. 19, 1677. 
He m. Mary, dau. of Richard Church. She d. 1694 or 1695. Children — 
Mary, b. July 5, 1647, m. Jan. 28, 1665, Eleazar Frary; Isaac, b. Aug. 21, 
1650, prob. d. young; Rebecca, b. July 3, 1652; Samuel, b. Oct. i, 1655; 
Sarah, m. April 27, 1677, Benjamin Barrett; Elizabeth, b. March 6, 1662, 
m. Benjamin Hastings of Hat.; John, b. 1664; Hannah, b. Jan. 24, 1666, 
m. William Sacket of Westfield; Jonathan; Mehitable, b. Oct. i, 1671, m. (i) 
Jan. 29, 1690, Richard Morton; (2) William Worthington. 

3. John, s. of Thomas, (i) Hat., slain by Indians, Sept. 19, 1677. He 
m. (i) Mary, dau. of Lt. Samuel Smith. She prob. d. Dec. 16, 1668; (2) 
Mary, widow of John Wyatt of Haddam, Ct. Children — John; Mary, m. (i) 
Jan. 15, 1671, Samuel Ball of Springfield, (2) April, 1679, Edward Stebbins; 
Isaac; Samuel; Sarah, m. Edward Stebbins; Elizabeth, b. Dec. 9, 1662, 
m. Thomas Jones; Daniel, b. Dec. 7, 1664; Ebenezer, b. Nov. 20, 1666; 
Bethiah, b. June 17, 1668, d. Jan. 21, 1669; Nathaniel, b. June 10, 1671. 

4. Samuel, s. of Isaac, (i) Hat., d. Feb. 8, 1692. He m. (i) Oct. i, 
1678, Sarah Colton. She d. July 11, 1689; (2) Jan. i, 1690, Deliverance 

. She m. (2) Isaac, s. of John Graves. Children — Rebecca, b. 1681; 

Samuel, b. March 2, 1685; Joseph; perhaps Sarah, b. Jan. i, 1688; Elizabeth, 
b. Oct. 8, 1689; Thomas, b. Oct. 21, 1690. 

5. John, s. of Isaac, (2) Hat. He m. Sarah. Children — Isaac, b. July 
10, 1687; Benjamin, b. Aug. 12, 1689; Jemima, b. April 30, 1693, m. (i) 
May 5, 1715, John Graves, (2) Eleazar Allis; Mary, b. Nov. 9, 1695, m. (i) 

Jonathan Frary, (2) King; Elnathan, b. Aug. 20, 1699; Hannah, 

b. June 4, 1 701, m. Eleazar King; Eunice, b. Sept. 29, 1705; Aaron, b. Feb. 
2, 1707; Sarah, perhaps, b. 1691. 

6. Jonathan, s. of Isaac, (2) tanner, Hat., d. Oct. 12, 1737, ae. 71. He 
m. (i) Sarah, dau. of John Parsons. She d. March 15, 1711; (2) Mary, wid. 
of Benjamin King of Nh., and dau. of Abel Janes of Nh. Children — Moses, 
b. Feb. I, 1700; Jonathan, b. March 6, 1702; Joseph, b. June 4, 1704; Perez, 
b. Nov. 26, 1707, d. in Belchertown, April 12, 1728, ae. 22; Mary, b. Aug. 20, 
1722, m. Noah Loomis of Harwinton, Ct.; Elijah, b. Dec. 20, 1723, d. 1739; 
Sarah, b. Feb. 9, 1726. 

7. John, s. of John, (3) Hat., d. Dec. 2, 1750. He m. Feb. 12, 1678, 
Sarah, dau. of John White, Jr. Children — Sarah, b. Feb. 15, 1679, m. Oct. 
27, 1702, Nathaniel Clark of Middletown, Ct.; John, b. March 23, 1682; 
Mary, b. Feb. 24, 1683, m. Jeremiah Wait; Thomas, b. July 4, 1685, d. Oct. 

1689; Abigail, b. Oct. 29, 1687, m. Wilcox; Martha, b. Nov. 4, 1689, 

m. May 17, 17 16, John Crafts; Daniel, b. Oct. 13, 1690, d. young; Thomas, 
b. June 5, 1693; Daniel, b. Jan. 20, 1698; Rebecca, b. May 4, 1700, m. Moses 
Nash, and d. in West Hartford, Ct., Oct. 6, 1743. 

8. Isaac, s. of John, (3) Hat., d. abt. 1740. He m. (i) April i, 1679 

Sarah Wyatt, who d. June 9, 1695; (2) 1697, Abigail , who d. July 13 

1697; (3) Deliverance, wid. of Samuel Graves. Children — Mary, b. Oct. 31 
1682, d. Dec. 26, 1684; Sarah, b. Oct. 23, 1684, m. Nov. 22, 1705, Daniel 
Kelsey; Elizabeth, b. Oct. 23, 1686, m. Hull; Isaac, b. Nov. 3, 1688 



60 GRAVES. 

Mary, b. Sept. 23, 1690, m. Smith; Lydia, b. March 11, 1693, m. 

Jan. I, 1719, Thomas Graves, and d. in Belchertown, 1777, ae. 85; Abigail, 
b. Aug. 16, 1696, m. March 14, 1717, Stephen Crowfoot. 

9. Samuel, s. of John, (3) rem. prior to 1718, from Hat. to Sunderland, 
and d. March 11, 1731. He m. Sarah, who d. Oct. 15, 1734. Children — 
perhaps Sarah, b. Jan. i, 1688; Jonathan, b. Oct. 27, 1689; Abraham, b. 
Dec. 12, 1691, m. May 23, 1717, Thankful Bardwell, and was of Deerfield in 
1749; David, b. Dec. 9, 1693; Noah, b. Dec. 19, 1695; Mehitable, b. Dec. 19, 
1695, prob. m. John Bardwell; Samuel, b. Jan. 30, 1698. 

10. Nathaniel, s. of John, (3) Hat., d. abt. 1757. He m. April 30, 
1702, Rebecca Allis. Children — Rebecca, b. Oct. 25, 1703; Mary, b. Feb. 22, 
1706, m. Isaac Graves; Nathaniel, b. Nov. 16, 1707; Ruth, b. Aug. 16, 1709; 
Eleazar, b. Dec. 12, 171 1; Israel, b. abt. 1716, rem. to Whately; Martha, 
b. Oct. 29, 1718, m. Eleazar Cowls; Oliver, b. abt. 1725, rem. to Whately. 

II.. -Joseph, s. of Samuel, (4) Hat., d. April 22, 1728. He m. Bridget, 
dau. of Edward Scott. She d. 1756. Children — Sarah, b. Nov. 13, 1717, 
m. Thomas Crafts; Miriam; Elizabeth, b. May 14, 1721. 

12. Thomas, s. of Samuel, (4) rem. from Hat. to Belchertown, and d. 
1784, ae. 92. He m Jan. i, 1719, Lydia, dau. of Isaac Graves. She d. in 
Belchertown, 1777. Children — John, b. Oct. 16, 17 19; Lydia, b. June 20, 
1726, d. unm., 1779, ae. 53. 

12J. Benjamin, prob. s. of John, (5) Sunderland, d. Oct. i, 1756, ae. 67. 
He m. 1720, Mary Warner. She d. in S. H., April 10, 1779, in 86th yr. 
Children — Mary, b. Dec. 23, 1720, m. June 20, 1745, Jonathan Warner; 
Elizabeth, b. Aug. 17, 1723, m. 1749, Orange Warner of Had.; Sarah, b. 
Sept. 16, 1726, m. Sept. 22, 1748, Moses Montague; Daniel, b. Nov. 5, 1728, 
d. in Sund., Feb. 5, 1793, ae. 64; Benjamin, b. Feb. 29, 1734; Moses, b. 
Oct. 10, 1736; Aaron, b. Oct. 10, 1736; Eunice, b. Jan. 25, 1741, m. Seth 
Lyman. 

13. Elnathan, s. of John, (5) Hat., d. Feb. 17, 1785, ae. 85. He m. (i) 
March 2, 1727, Martha, dau. of Dea. Nathaniel Dickinson of Hat. She d. 

Jan. 9, 1756, ae. 55; (2) Wid. Dorothy Belding, dau. of Morton. 

She d. May 9, 1800, ae. 80. Children — Seth, b. Dec. 27, 1727; Perez, b. 
April 26, 1730; Silas, b. Feb. 8, 1732; Lucy, b. May 8, 1734, m. Benjamin 
Wells; Martha, b. Feb. 26, 1739, m. John Nash of Williamsburgh. 

14. Aaron, s. of John, (5) rem. from Hat. to Williamsburgh, and d. 
1788, ae. 81. Children — Jemima, b. April 11, 1730; Martha, b. March 9, 
1732, m. July 12, 1752, Simeon Dickinson of Amh., and d. Dec. 3, 1822, ae. 
90; Mary, b. Oct. 19, 1733, m. May 22, 1754, John Nash, Jr., of Amh.; 
Eunice, m. March i, 1759, Jonathan Moody, Jr. of Amh., and d. Dec. 15, 
1813; Beulah, m. Aug. 20, 1761, Asahel Moody of Amh., and prob. d. Dec. 30, 
1826; Lucius; Aaron, b. abt. 1749, d. in S. H., Nov. 18, 1834, ae. 85. 

15. MosES, s. of Jonathan, (6) Hat. He m. Feb. 24, 1743, Martha 
Marsh of Had. She d. Feb. 3, 1755, ae. 35; (2) Catharine. Children — 
Judith, b. Dec. 4, 1743, killed by lightning, June 19, 1754; Elijah, b. Nov. 14, 
1745; Moses, b. Feb. 3, 1748; John, b. Jan. 13, 1750, d. Aug. 6, 1751; John, 
b. March 13, 1752; Martha, b. April 6, 1754; Jonathan, b. June 26, 1762; 
Judith, b. Feb. 16, 1764. 



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i6. Jonathan, s. of Jonathan, (6) rem. to Belchertown, and d. 1787, 
ae. 84. Children — Perez, who in May, 1758, being about to go into the army 
made his will, which was proved in Oct. following; Joseph, bapt. Oct. 5, 
1735, d. in Belchertown, 1796; Penelope, b. May 8, 17=:^, m. (i) 1757, Elihu 
Dwight; (2) Hollister. 

17. John, s. of John, (7) Hat., d. Aug. 1716. He m. May 5, 1715, 
Jemima Graves. Child — Nathan, b. March 20, 1716, res. in Whately, where 
he was deacon in the Church. 

18. Daniel, s. of John, (7) rem. from Hat. to Greenfield, was taken 
captive by the Indians, Aug. 12, 1756, and slain shortly after. He m. 1724, 
Thankful, dau. of Ebenezer Smead. Children — Ebenezer, b. March 15, 1726; 
Jerusha, b. March 29, 1728, m. Ebenezer Allen; Thankful, b. June 8, 1730; 
Daniel, b. July 2, 1732, d. 1755; Esther, b. 1734; Joel, b. April 27, 1737, 
d. 1760; John, m. Sarah Judd of Nh. 

19. Isaac, s. of Isaac, (8) rem. to Sunderland. He m. 1713, Mary, dau. 
of Jonathan Parsons of Nh. She was b. July 8, 1688. Children — Sarah, 
b. Dec. 22, 1713; Jerusha, b. June 13, 1717; Simeon, b. Jan. 20, 1720, 
d. Dec. 20, 1747; Phinehas, b. April 30, 1726; Submit, b. Jan. 7, 1731. 

20. Jonathan, s. of Samuel, (9) Sunderland. He m. June 2, 1715, 
Mrs. Elizabeth Combs. Children — Jonathan, who prob. d. young; Ebenezer, 
b. Sept. 10, 1717. 

21. David, s. of Samuel, (9) d. in Whately, 1781. He m. June 6, 1720, 
Abigail, dau. of Robert Bardwell. She d. 1786. Children— E/z/a/j, b. July 
18, 1720; Simeon, b. April 13, 1722; Martha, b. March 7, 1731; David, b. 
1733; Matthew; Martin; Abigail; Esther; Anna; Hannah. 

21J. Noah, s. of Samuel, (9) Sunderland, prob. d. March 17, 1773. He 

m. Rebecca , who d. Feb. 8, 1744. Children — Noah, b. Jan. 25, ; 

Reuben, b. Nov. 23, 1724; Noah, b. Oct. 21, 1726; Silas, b. Sept. 3, 1728, 
d. Sept. 15, 1728; Rebecca, b. Feb. 14, 1731; Rhoda, b. Feb. 9, 1734; Benoni, 
b. Feb. 16, 1736; Martha, b. Aug. i, 1739; Martin, b. Dec. 5, 1741. d. 
Dec. 17, 1743. 

22. Samuel, s. of Samuel, (9) settled in Sunderland, whence he rem. to 
South Deerfield, where he d. May 6, 1774. He m. Grace. Children — Azubah, 
b. Jan. 1, 1730; Child, b. Sept. i, 1731; Elizabeth, b. Feb. i, 1734; Bethula, 
b. Oct. 8, 1736; Sarah, b. May 2, 1739; Zebadiah, b. June 15, 1741; Eunice, 
b. March 30, 1745. 

23. Nathaniel, s. of Nathaniel, (10) Sunderland. He m. Hannah. 
Children — Mehitable, b. Oct. 21, 1732; Hannah, b. Aug. 27, 1735; Lydia, 
b. Sept. 5, 1738; Martha, b. July 8, 1744. 

24. Eleazar, s. of Nathaniel, (10) Hat. He m. Oct. i, 1736, Sarah 
Belding. Children — Samuel, b. Oct. 12, 1737; Mary, b. Oct. 14, 1739; 
Sarah, b. Feb. 20, 1742; Lucy, b. April 10, 1744. 

25. Benjamin, s. of Benjamin, (12^) Sunderland. He m. Sept. 15, 1757, 
Thankful Field. Children — Rufus, b. Sept. 27, 1758, grad. D. C. 1791; 
Benjamin, b. Oct. 4, 1760, d. in S., March 22, 1832, ae. 71; Thankful, b. 
Oct. 18, 1764; Timothy, h. Oct. 18, 1764; Electa, b. Feb. 5, 1767. 



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26. Moses, s. of Benjamin, (12^) Leverett. He m. (i) Sarah. She was 
b. March 20, 1740, and d. Oct. 23, 1767; (2) Jan. 12, 1768, or Jan. 11, 1769, 
Experience Oakes. She was b. March 17, 1742. Children — Enos, b. May 20, 
1763; Mary, b. Dec. 20, 1764; Sarah, h. March 27, 1767; Naomi, b. Nov. 4, 
1769; Achsah, b. May 4, 1772; Lucy, b. Jan. 4, 1774; Experience, b. April 9, 
1776; Martha, b. April 9, 1776; Moses, b. April 11, 1778; Elihu, b. Oct. 20, 
1780. 

27. Perez, s. of Elnathan, (13) Hat. He m. (i) May 16, 1754, Martha, 
dau. of Samuel Gillett; (2) Feb. 19, 1795, Zeruiah, wid. of Elihu White of 
Hat., and dau. of Ebenezer Cole of Hat. She was b. Nov. 30, 1741. and d. 
Dec. 13, 1820, ae. 79. Children — Samuel, b. May 4, 1755; Elisha, b. Sept. 2, 
1757; Martha, b. April 28, 1759, m. M. Montague; Perez, b. Jan. 2, 1761, 
d. 1848; Elnathan, b. Feb. 2, 1763; William, b. Feb. 11, 1766; Solomon, 
b. March 2, 1768; Levi, b. Jan. 12, 1771; Timothy. 

28. Joseph, s. of Jonathan, (16) Belchertown, d. 1796, ae. 62. He m. 
Eunice, dau. of Nathaniel Dwight of Belchertown. She d. 1807, ae. 66. 
Children — Perez, b. 1762; Margaret, m. 1785, Benjamin Howe; Susanna, 
m. 1787, Nathan Parsons, Jr., and rem. to Bangor, Me.; Electa, m. 1788, 
Dea. Aaron Lyman; Josiah Dwight, b. 1772, rem. in 1828, to Manchester, 
N. Y.; Jonathan, b. 1774; Elijah, b. 1779, d. 1799; Joseph, b. 1783, rem. in 
1828, to Manchester, N. Y. 

29. Reuben, s. of Noah, (21^) Sunderland, d. March 11, 1778, ae. 53. 
He m. Sept. 18, 1748, Hannah Fuller. Children — Patience, b. June 20, 1749; 
Noah, b. June 7, 1751; Gideon, b. June 4, 1753; Asa, b. Nov. 4, 1755; 
Selah, b. March 19, 1758; Randall, b. May 31, 1760; Submit, b. May i, 1763; 
Martin, b. Feb. 23, 1766; Hannah, b. Aug. 21, 1769. 

30. Ends, s. of Moses, (26) Leverett. He m. Oct. 6, 1785, Sybil, dau. 
of Abraham Kellogg. She was b. Sept. 24, 1761. Children — Walter, b. 
June 13, 1786; Sally, b. June 28, 1788; Fanny, b. March 6, 1791, d. Aug. 6, 
1808; Kellogg, b. Aug. 20, 1793; Nancy, b. June 3, 1796; Moses, b. July 21, 
1798; Enos, b. Nov. 5, 1800; Sybil, b. Aug. 8, 1803. 

GREEN, Eliphalet, Gr., d. Feb. 16, 1777. He m. 1754, Mercy, dau. of 
Jonathan Selden. Children — Elizabeth, b. Feb. 10, 1755; Eliphalet, b. 
Jan. 14, 1757; Jared, b. July 5, 1759; Hepzibah, b. Oct. 7, 1761; David, 
b. April 14, 1766; Rhoda, b. June 28, 1768; Phebe, b. Sept. 26, 1771. 

GREEN, Timothy, b. Jan. 4, 1748, Amherst, d. Sept. 7, 1821, ae. 73. He 
m. (i) Eunice, dau. of Simeon Clark of Amherst. She d. May 6, 1776, 
ae. 25; (2) Sybil Peck. Children — Timothy, b. March 27, 1771, m. Dec. 25, 
1800, Huldah Harris; Zera, b. June 18, 1773, m. Eleanor Morton, and d. in 
Amh., March 28, 1813, ae. 40; Clark, b. April 11, 1776, m. April 26, 1798, 
d. in Amh., Nov. 27, 1848, ae. 72; Eunice, b. Nov. 16, 1781, m. (i) Oct. 22, 
1807, Josiah Ayres of Amh.; (2) Chester Hawley, and d. Feb. 1862, ae. 80; 
Sybil, b. Aug. 19, 1783, m. Nov. 28, 1805, Elijah Clark, and res. (1862) in 
Rock'ford, 111.; Joel, b. Oct. 4, 1785, d. March 19, 1788; Lucretia, b. May 21, 
1787, d. Nov. 6, 1803; Joel, b. Dec. 10, 1788, m. Oct. 30, 1809, Philomela, 
dau. of Simeon Clark of Amh.; Rufus, b. Sept. 8, 1790, m. Jan. 17, 1813, 
Mary Sheldon, dau. of Wm. Boltwood of Amh., and res. in Frewsburg, 
Chautauque Co., N. Y.; Lucina, b. July 16, 1792, m. Jan. 19, 1817, Chester 
Rice;Po%, b. June28, 1794, d. Jan. 27, i8i3,ae. 18; Judith, h. 'Nov. 19, 1796. 



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GREY, James, perhaps rem. abt. 1760, to Stockbridge. He m. July 28, 

1732, Sarah Marsh, prob. wid. of John Marsh, and dau. of WiUiams. 

She d. June i, 1759. Children — James, b. Sept. 24, 1752; John. 

GROVER, HosEA, m. 1797, pub. Feb. i, Diadema Grover of Glasten- 
bury, Ct. Children — Josiah, b. Nov. 8, 1798; Phineas, b. July 23, 1800; 
Leonard, b. Sept. 29, 1803; Leonard, perhaps same with the last, bapt. Jan. 
5, 1806; Ruth Marilla, bapt. Aug. 21, 1808. 

GULL, William, rem. from Wethersfield, Ct. to Hat., freeman 1673, 
made will April 12, 1701, which was proved Dec. 18, 1701. He m. Elizabeth, 
wid. of Nathaniel Foote, Jr., and dau. of Lt. Samuel Smith. Children — 
Mary, m. Nov. 29, 1676, Robert Bardall; Anna, m. Jonathan Root; Esther, 
'b. Nov. 21, 1665, m. Joseph Gillett; Mercy, b. June 27, 1668, m. Jeremiah 
Alvord. n ; ^ 3^ 

GUNN, Moses, m. Jan. 18, 1739, Sarah Mighill. Child — Rufus, h. 
^752. 

GUNN, Samuel, s. of Nathaniel of Hartford, settled in Hat., but rem. in 
1 7 14 to Sunderland, where he was a deacon in the Church, and d. Aug. i, 
1755, in 93d yr. He m. Jan. 22, 1685, Elizabeth, dau. of John Wyatt. She 
■d. Oct. 2, 1737. Children — Sarah, b. April 3, 1686, m. Jan. 23, 1707, Azariah 
Dickinson; Elizabeth, h. Nov. 8, 1689, m. May 4, 1709, Simon Cooley; 
Nathaniel, b. July 30, 1693, res. in Sunderland, m. 1724, Esther Belding; 
Samuel, b. March 22, 1696; Mary, b. Aug. 9, 1698, m. Daniel Hubbard; Abel, 
"b. July 17, 1700; Christian, b. Sept. 5, 1702, m. Isaac Hubbard of Sunder- 
land; Editha, b. April 26, 1705, m. Ebenezer Billings, Jr.; John, b. Dec. 3, 
1707; Sarah, b. Oct. 27, 1711, m. 1729, Joseph Clary. 

HALE, Thomas, rem. to Enfield, Ct., and d. abt. 1725. He m. Priscilla, 
dau. of William Markham. Children — Martha, b. Oct. 10, 1676; Thomas, 
Id. Oct. 8, 1678; John, b. Nov. 26, 1680; Samuel, b. July 2, 1683, d. Aug. 6, 
1689; Priscilla, b. Sept. 9, 1685; William, h. Feb. 18, 1687; Son, b. and d. 
Jan. 10, 1689; Joseph, b. March, 1691; Samuel. 

HALEY, John, d. abt. 1688. He m. (i) Mrs. Ruth Gaylord, dau. of John 
Crow; (2) Hannah, dau. of Samuel Bliss. She m. (2) May i, 1689, Simon 
Smith. 

HAMMOND, Timothy, m. Nov. 16, 1769, Hannah Clark. Children — 
Martha, bapt. Sept. 27, 1772; Nathaniel, bapt. Oct. 11, 1772; Molly, bapt. 
April II, 1775; Timothy, b. Sept. 1777; Hannah, bapt. Jan. 30, 1780; Dau., 
"bapt. Feb., 1786; Child, b. Nov. 13, 1779; Child, b. and d. 1782. 

HARRISON, Isaac, was slain after the Falls fight, May 19, 1676. He m. 
Dec. I, 1671, Martha, dau. of Richard Montague. She m. (2) Henry White. 
'Children — Abigail, b. Sept. 11, 1673, m. July 7, 1692, Samuel Church; 
.Sarah, m. March 24, 1698, John Selden. 

HARWOOD, Benjamin, m. Bridget. Child — Abigail, b. Nov. 13, 1753. 

HASTINGS, Benjamin, b. in Watertown, Aug. 9, 1659, s. of Thomas, 
res. in Hat., Nh., Deerfield and Hat., and d. Dec. 18, 1711, ae. 60. He m. (i) 



64 HASTINGS. 

Elizabeth, dau. of Isaac Graves of Hat. She d. abt. 1695; (2) abt. 1697, 
Mary, prob. wid. of Jonathan Parsons of Nh. Children — Samuel, b. March 
15, 1684, taken captive by Indians at Deerfield, Feb. 29, 1704, and carried 
to Canada, whence he never returned; Elizabeth, b. March 8, 1693; Hannah, 
d. Feb. 8, 1697; Benjamin, b. May, 1699, res. in Greenfield; Zeruiah, b. 
Aug. 30, 1701; Joseph, b. Dec. 27, 1703; Dau., b. June 30, 1706, d. July 9, 
1706; Submit, b. July 16, 1707, m. Sept. 19, 1723, John Wait. 

1. HASTINGS, Thomas, b. in Watertown, July i, 1652, s. of Thomas, 
physician, settled in Hat., where he d. July 23, 1712, ae. 60. He m. (i) 
Oct. 10, 1672, Anna, dau. of John Hawkes. She d. Oct. 25, 1705; (2) Feb. 
14, 1706, Mary, dau. of David Burt of Nh. She m. (2) May 17, 1703, Samuel 
Belding, and d. Feb. 14, 1706. Children — Margaret, b. July 7, 1674, m. 
May 7, 1707, Nathaniel Evetts of Guilford, Ct.; Hannah, b. Jan. 19, 1677, 
m. Samuel Gillett; Thomas, b. Sept. 24, 1679; Hepzibah, b. April 16, 1682, 
m. April 5, 1705, Jonathan Curtis of Wethersfield; Mehitable, b. Jan. 23, 
1685, m. Nov. 35, 1714, John Burk; John, b. Sept. 17, 1689; Silence, b. Feb. 
26, 1707, m. Josiah Hadlock of Williamsburgh ; Thankful, b. May 5, 1711, 
d. July 15, 1711; Sylvanus, b. Sept. 10, 1712, d. Feb. 27, 1713. 

2. Thomas, s. of Thomas, (i) a physician in Hat., d. April 14, 1728, 
ae. 48. He m. March 6, 1701, Mary, dau. of John Field of Hat. Children — 
Mary, b. Dec. 24, 1701, d. Jan. 10, 1702; Thomas, b. Nov. 6, 1702, d. Nov. 4, 
1703; Mary, b. July 26, 1704, m. Nov. 13, 1729, Benjamin Billings; Anna, 

b. Oct. 13, 1706, m. White; Dorothy, b. July 27, 1709, d. July 29, 

171 1 ; Thomas, d. Dec. 12, 17 13, ae. 9 mos., according to grave stone, but 
i^ yrs., accd. to Town Rec; Waitstill, b. Jan. 3, 1714; Tabitha, b. Oct. 6, 
1715, m. Jan. 4, 1739, John Strickland; Hopestill, b. April 13, 1718; Dorothy, 
b. March 20, 1720, d. April 6, 1720; Thomas, b. Jan. 28, 1721; Lucy, b. 
Feb. I, 1723, m. Jonathan Taylor. 

3. John, s. of Thomas, (i) res. for some years in Hat., whence he rem. 
up the Conn, river, and was at Fort Dummer, in 1735. He m. (i) Lydia 

, who d. June 21, 17 16; (2) July 4, 1720, Hannah, dau. of Dea. John 

White of Hat. She was b. March 26, 1695. Children — Lydia, b. 1714, 
d. Dec. 24, 1714; Lydia, b. June 8, 1716, d. July 5, 1716; Sylvanus, b. March 
22, 1721, res. in Charlestown, N. H.; John, b. Nov. 14, 1722, res. in Charles- 
town, N. H.; Oliver, b. Nov. 22, 1724; Lemuel, b. Feb. 5, 1727, res. in Charles- 
town, N. H., Hannah, b. July 28, 1729; Lydia, b. Aug. 19, 1732; Mehitable, 
b. 1735- 

4. Waitstill, s. of Dr. Thomas, (2) was a physician in Hat., where he 
d. April 22, 1748. He m. Oct. i, 1736, Abigail, dau. of John Marsh of Had. 
She m. (2) Col. Buckley of Colchester, Ct.; (3) Rev. Little of Col- 
chester, and d. as early as 1758. Children — John, b. Jan. 10, 1738; Abigail, 
b. Feb. 28, 1739, m. Solomon Woolcott of Williamstown ; Hannah Barnard, 
b. March 16, 1742, m. Nathaniel Kellogg of Dalton; Mary, b. Jan. 10, 1744; 
Samuel, b. March 14, 1747, d. Feb. 28, 1748. 

5. Hopestill, s. of Dr. Thomas, (2) Hat., d. Dec. 24, 1766. He m. 
Lydia Frary. She m. (2) Windsor Smith. Children — Abner, b. July 7, 
1742, d. July 10, 1742; Lydia, b. July 5, 1743, d. Oct. 5, 1746; Seth, b. Dec. 6, 
1745; Lydia, b. Nov. 21, 1747, d. Oct. 4, 1751; Tabitha, b. Oct. i, 1749, d. 



HASTINGS. 65 

unm., in Amh., in 1795; Elihii, b. Aug. 17, 1751, d. unm. in Hat., Feb. 25, 
1837, ae. 75; Elijah, b. June 6, 1753; Perez, b. Dec. 23, 1754; Hopestill, b. 
Oct. 30, 1756, d. Oct. 31, 1756; Oliver, b. Aug. 25, 1757, d. in Hammonds- 
port, N. Y. 

6. Thomas, s. of Dr. Thomas, (2) rem. abt. 1753, from Hat. to Amh., 
where he d. Jan. 22, 1787, ae. 66. He m. Mary, dau. of Joseph Belden of 
Hat. She d. July 31, 1801, ae. 78. Children — Esther, b. Feb. 1, 1743, m. 
Ephraim Kellogg of Amh. ; Sara/j, b. July 13, 1744, m. Jan. 17, 1771, Nathan- 
iel Alexander Smith of Amh., and d. Oct. 7, 1810; Thomas, b. May 20, 1746; 
Anna, b. April 22, 1748, m. Jonathan Nash of Amh.; Waitstill, b. May 8, 
1750; Samuel, b. March i, 1752; Sybil, bapt. Oct. 14, 1753, m. (i) Joseph 
Peck; (2) Timothy Green, Jr. of Amherst; Moses, bapt. Aug. 31, 1755; Mary, 
bapt. April 24, 1757, d. April 24, 1757; Mary, bapt. Aug. 12, 1759, m. Dec. 30, 
1779, Simeon Pomeroy of Amh.; Elisha, bapt. April 12, 1761, accidentally 
killed by his brother with an axe; Tabitha, m. Ethan Smith; Lucy, bapt. 
March 31, 1765, d. unm., Feb. 21, 1814. 

7. Hon. John, s. of Dr. Waitstill, (4) Hat., was a magistrate 36 yrs. and 
a Senator or Counsellor of Mass., 28 yrs. He d. Dec. 6, 1811. He m. Content 
Little, who d. April 9, 1829, in 89th yr. Children — John, b. Oct. 1765; 
Content, b. Sept. 14, 1767; Mary, b. Jan. 1769, m. Daniel Wait; Waitstill, 
b. May 14, 1771, a physician in Margaretta, O.; Elizabeth, b. March 7, 1773, 
d. unm. in Hat., Nov. 5, 1823; Abigail, b. May 7, 1775; Samtiel, b. April, 
1777, rem. to Springfield; Ephraim, b. Nov. 17, 1780, rem. to Nashua, N. H.; 
Justin, b. Feb. 14, 1786. . 

8. Seth, s. of Hopestill, (5) settled as a physiciar; in Washington, Ct., 
whence in 1797, he rem. to Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y., and d. April 29, 
1830. He m. Nov. 10, 1779, Eunice Parmalee, b. Dec. 30, 1763. She d. 
May 2, 1821. Children — Seth, b. Aug. 23, 1780, a physician in Clinton, N. Y., 
m. Sept. 12, 1802, Huldah Clark; Betsey, b. Aug. 28, 1782, m. April 13, 1802, 
Elnathan Judd, M. D., of Troy, Mich.; Thomas, h. Oct. 15, 1784, a teacher 
of music in New York City, m. Mary Seymour; Eunice, b. Oct. 22, 1786, 
d. Jan. 10, 1788; Orlando, b. March 7, 1789, a lawyer in Rochester, N. Y., 
m. (i) Nov. 12, 1812, Betsey Clarke; (2) Aug. 31, 1823, his cousin, Mrs. 
Lydia F. Hamilton, dau. of Elijah Hastings of Amh.; Eurotas Parmalee, b. 
July 20, 1 791, a merchant in Detroit, Mich., m. (i) Jan. 26, 1819, Electa 
Owen; (2) Aug. 23, 1826, Mrs. Philema Moody; (3) Oct. 14, 1835, Theodocia 
C. Petit; Charles, b. Sept. 2, 1793, a tanner in Mich., m. (i) May 21, 1818, 
Patty Barker; (2) July 8, 1837, Julia Trowbridge; Polly Sophia, b. April 14, 
1796, d. June 10, 1803; Truman, b. Aug. 29, 1798, a lawyer in Genesee, 
Buffalo and New York, m. (i) Aug. ii, 1828, Elizabeth Vail; (2) April 6, 
1837, Mary Williams; Albert Merwin, b. July 16, 1804, m. 1827, Frances 
Barry, and d. Oct. 4, 1828; Eunice Sophia, b. Sept. 22, 1809, m. (1) July 24, 
1833, Washington Smith, M. D.; (2) Sept. 10, 1840, Levi Trowbridge of 
Southfield, Mich. She d. Oct. i, 1849. 

9. Elijah, s. of Hopestill, (5) a blacksmith in Amh., d. Oct. 4, 1803, 
ae. 50. He m. (i) April, 1782, Jerusha, dau. of Dea. John Billings of Amh. 

She d. July 3, 1798, ae. 34; (2) Rebecca , who m. (2) April 25, 1805, 

Levi Cowls of Amh., and d. Nov., 1826, ae. 63. Children — Lucinda, m. April 
2, 1809, Calvin Hamilton; Lydia, m. (i) May 14, 1810, Chauncey Hamilton; 



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(2) Aug. 31, 1823, her cousin, Orlando Hastings, Esq., of Rochester, N. Y. ; 
Nancy, m. Dec. 24, 1807, Dr. Isaac Guernsey Cutler of Amh., and d. Jan. 28, 
1849; Elijah. 

10. Perez, s. of Hopestill, (5) a blacksmith in Hat., where he d. March 
II, 1822. He m. Oct. 31, 1787, Elizabeth, dau. of Dea. Salmon and Mary 
(Wait) White of Whately. Children — Elizabeth, b. Nov. 15, 1788, m. June, 
1814, Horace Hastings of Geneva, N. Y., and d. Aug. 15, 1837; Eurotas, b. 
May 15, 1790, m. Eroe Arms, was a banker in Buffalo, N. Y., and d. May 22, 
1858; Electa, b. Jan. 15, 1792, m. July 4, 1816, Dr. David Field of Geneva, 
N. Y.; Perez, b. May 29, 1794, m. May, 1822, Eunice Hastings, was a mer- 
chant in Geneva, N. Y., and d. April 26, 1852. 

11. Thomas, s. of Thomas, (6) Amh., d. Jan. 22, 1827, ae. 81. He m. 
Hannah, dau. of Dea. John Billings of Amh. She d. Oct. 5, 1823, ae. 74. 
Children — Salome, b. July 22, 1770, m. June 9, 1805, Asa Dickinson of Amh., 
and d. Sept. 5, 1846, ae. 76; Jerusha, b. Aug. 8, 1772, m. Sept. 6, 1792, Luke 
Rich; Hannah, b. Nov. lo, 1774, d. Sept. 15, 1777; Submit, b. May 13, 1777, 
m. April 26, 1798, Clark Green of Amh.; Hannah, b. Jan. 15, 1780, m. Oct. 31, 

1799, Martin Kellogg of Had.; Thomas, b. Feb. 6, 1782, m. Nov. i, 1803, 
Eunice Clark, and d. in Amh., Oct. 11, 1858, ae. 76; Eli, h. June i, 1784, m. 
Sarah Paine, and d. in Ohio, March, 1835, ae. 51; Judith, h. Oct. i, 1786, m. 
Dec. 21, 1809, George Nutting of Amh.; Mary, b. Oct. 27, 1788, m. May 
7, 1808, Samuel Smith; Lucius, b. Oct. 13, 1791, m. Feb. 8, 1810, Olive, dau. 
of Joel Smith, and d. in Amh., Sept. 25, 1823; David, b. April 15, 1795, d. 
Aug. 17, 1796. 

12. Samuel, s. of Thomas, (6) Amh., Oct. i, 1807. He m. Sept. 15, 
1774, Lucy, dau. of Simeon Pomeroy of Amh. She m. (2) Martin Kellogg 
of Amh., and d. Dec. 23, 1839, ae. 87. Children — Waitstill, b. June 15, 1775 
d. Jan. 3, 1776; Waitstill, b. July 24, 1778, m. (i) Elsy, dau. of David Shaw 
of East Windsor, Ct.; Elisha, b. July 31, 1780, m. Jan. 31, 1813, Abigail, 
dau. of Benjamin Potwine, and d. July 18, 1856; Samuel, b. Nov. 14, 1785, 
m. Sarah Spear, and rem. to Reedsborough, Vt.; Daughter, b. and d. July 19, 
1788. 

13. Moses, s. of Thomas, (6) Amh., rem after 1820 to Vt., and d. June 6, 
1844. He m. Aug. 29, 1776, Elizabeth, dau. of Eli Parker of Amh. Children 
— Twins, b. Oct. 3, 1776; Rachel, b. Nov. 20, 1777, m. Benjamin Cooley of 
Whately, rem. to Brownhill, O.; Elizabeth, b. Aug. 31, 1779, m. Luther 
Lathrop of Wilmington, Vt.; Polly, b. Sept. 12, 1781, m. Nov. 23, 1800, 
Joseph Cutler of Chicopee; Otis, b. July 17, 1783, m. June 13, 1804, Clarissa 
Kellogg, and d. Oct. 1846; Pickering, b. June 28, 1785, d. unm. in Amh., 
Feb. 15, 1808; Matilda, b. June 14, 1787, m. Benoni Rust of Amh., and d. 
Nov. 30, 1832; Sarah, b. Nov. 15, 1789, m. Oct. 16, 1806, Zaccheus Crocker 
Ingram of Amh., and d. Aug. 30, 1832; Moses, b. Jan. 13, 1792, m. March 3, 
1814, Anna Smith, and d. in la., Jan. 12, 1842; Aaron, b. Feb. 7, 1794, d. 
Sept. 18, 1796; Parker, b. July 18, 1796, m. (i) Sept. 21, 1819. Martha 
Graves, dau. of Seth Dickinson of Amh.; (2) June 8, 1837, Mary A., dau. of 
Joseph Dickinson of Amh., and res. in Amh.; Aaron, b. Sept. 7, 1798, m. 
Barbara Alvord, and d. Feb. 15, 1846, in Brunswick, N. Y.\ David, b. Nov. 12, 

1800, d. Jan. 8, 1801. 



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14. John, s. of John, (7) a physician in Hat., d. May 2, 1845. He m. 
Feb. I, 1790, Sybil Dickinson. She d. July 29, 1843. Children — Chester, 
b. Dec. 2, 1790, res. in Hat., m. Sept. 20, 1818, Lois Dickinson; John, b. 
Dec. 22, 1791, m. Lucretia Ward of Petersham, rem. to Onondaga Hollow, 
N. Y.; Mary b. 1794, m. Dr. Chester Bardwell of Whately; Sybil, b. July 31, 
1796, d. young; Justin, b. July 23, 1800, m. Dolly Wait of Hat.; Sophia, b. 
Nov. 10, 1802. 



1. HAWKES, John, came abt. 1660, from Windsor, Ct., and was buried 

June 30, 1662. He m. Elizabeth . She m. (2) Robert Hinsdale; 

(3) June 25, 1683, Thomas Dibble of Windsor, Ct. Children — John, bapt. 
Aug. 13, 1643; Nathaniel, bapt. Feb. 16, 1645, d. young; Elizabeth, bapt. 
Jan. 10, 1647, m. Nov. 24, 1664, Joseph Gillett; Anna, bapt. Oct. i, 1648, 
m. (i) Oct. 10, 1672, Thomas Hastings, and d. Oct. 25, 1705; Isaac, b. Aug. 
II, 1650, drowned in Conn, river, June 22, 1659; Mary, b. May 23, 1652, 
m. (i) Oct. 10, 1672, Experience Hinsdale; (2) July, 1677, John Evans; 
Joanna, b. Feb. 8, 1654, m. William Arms of Deerfield, and d. Nov. 22, 1729; 
Eliezer, b. Dec. 20, 1655; Sarah, b. Sept. 29, 1657, m. (i) 1677, Philip Mat- 
toon of Deerfield; (2) Daniel Belden, and d. Dec. 17, 1751; Gershoni, b. 
Aug. 12, 1659, d. young. 

2. John, s. of John, (i) settled in Hat., whence he rem. to Deerfield, 
and subsequently to Waterbury, Ct., where he d. He m. (i) Dec. 26, 1667, 
Martha, (probably Baldwin,) who d. Jan. 7, 1676; (2) Nov. 20, 1696, Alice, 
wid. of Samuel Allis of Hat. She was slain by French and Indians, Feb. 29, 

1704. Children — John, b. June 26, 1671, d. young; John, m. Thankful , 

and was slain, Feb. 29, 1704; Hannah, m. 1694, Jonathan Scott of Water- 
bury, Ct., and d. April 7, 1744; Elizabeth, b. 1697, taken captive in 1704, and 
was slain on the way to Canada. 

3. Eliezer, s. of John, (i) was deacon in Deerfield, where he d. March 22, 
1727. He m. April 30, 1689, Judith, dau. of William Smead of Nh. Children 
— Thankful, b. 1690, m. (1) Thomas Taylor; (2) Daniel Ashley of Westfield; 
Eliezer, b. 1693; Mary, b. 1695, m. Jonathan Pattison; Elizabeth, b. 1697, 
m. Hezekiah Stratton; Nathaniel, b. 1699; Sarah, b. 1701, m. 1726, Thomas 
Wells; Hannah, b. 1703, m. 1727, Samuel Allen; John, b. 1707. 



1. HAWLEY, Samuel, b. Feb. 23, 1686, s. of Joseph of Nh. and grand- 
son of Thomas of Roxbury, settled in Hat., whence he rem. to Amh. He m. 
Dec. 2, 1708, Mehitable, dau. of Samuel Belding. Children — Lydia, b. April 
3, 1710, m. Aug. 4, 1730, John Morton of Amh.; Samuel; Joseph; Moses, h. 
April 3, 1718; John, probably the man who in 1762 was warned out of Sun- 
derland; Dorothy, h. abt. 1723, m. May i, 1741, Ephraim Kellogg of Amh., 
and d. July 26, 1812, ae. 89; Mary, m. Jonathan Nash of Amh. 

2. Samuel, s. of Samuel, (i) Amh., d. in the army, Dec. 15, 1750. He 
m. abt. 1736, Sarah, dau. of Zechariah Field of Amh. Children — Anne, per- 
haps; Elijah, d. in the army, Nov. 30, 1756; Sarah, m. (i) Benjamin Buck- 
man; (2) Hodden; Zechariah, bapt. April 10, 1743, d. young; John, 

bapt. Dec. 28, 1746; Miriam, bapt. Jan. 1, 1749; Mehitable, m. her cousin, 
David Hawley of Amherst; Zechariah, bapt. May 13, 1753, m. Rebecca, dau. 
of Jonathan Edwards of Amh., was a dea. in Amh., and d. June i, 1824, ae. 71. 



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3. Joseph, s. of Samuel, (i) Amh., d. abt. 1756. He m. (i) Jan. 13, 
1737, Rebecca, dau. of Zechariah Field of Amh.; (2) 1753, (pub. April 12,) 
Thankful Alexander. She m. (2) Daniel Kellogg of Amh. Children — 
Asenath, bapt. Dec. 1739, m. 1758, (pub. Sept. i,) Jonathan Scott of Sunder- 
land; Joseph, b. July i, 1744, d. young; Joseph, bapt. Oct. 10, 1748; Abigail, 
d. July 15, 1758; Rebecca. 

4. Moses, s. of Samuel, (i) Amh., d. July 27, 1802, ae. 84. He m. (i) 
Jan. 10, 1744, Eunice Houghton; (2) 1750, (pub. April 2,) Rebecca Gould. 
Children — Rebecca, b. abt. 1751, d. unm., Jan. 26, 1846, ae. 88; Asenath, b. 
abt. 1760, d. unm., Dec. 20, 1847, ae. 87; Eunice, b. abt. 1763, d. Oct. 20, 
1843, ae. 80; David, m. his cousin, Mehitable Hawley, and d. in Amh., April 
23, 1829; Noah, rem. to Natick; Samuel, m. Dec. 28, 1803, Fanny Perry. 

1. HENDERSON, Gideon, resided for a few years after marriage in Nh. , 
whence abt. 1745 he rem. to Sunderland, and thence to Amh., where he d. 
Dec. 6, 1791. He m. Aug. 4, 1740, Sarah Baker. She d. Aug. 25, 1803. 
Children — Sarah, b. July, 1741, d. 1742; Sarah, b. Sept. 12, 1743, d. Oct. 13, 
1760; Gideon, b. Aug. 30, 1745, d. Sept. 4, 1745; Mehitable, b. July 23, 1746, 
d. Nov. 24, 1760; Elizabeth, b. Jan. i, 1748, m. Jan. 15, 1767, John Field, 
and d. April 6, 1783; Mary, b. April 24, 1751, d. Oct. 15, 1760; Gideon, b. 
Oct. 9, 1753, m. Abigail, dau. of Joseph Church of Amh., rem. to Claremont, 
N. H., and d. July 10, 1825, ae. 61; Timothy, b. Jan. 18, 1756; Susanna, b. 
March 15, 1758, m. Moses Cook, and d. 1824. 

2. Timothy, s. of Gideon, (i) Amh., d. Oct. 14, 1833, ae. 77. He m. 
Anna Wales. Children — Ira, b. Sept. 10, 1781, d. in Orange, O., 1850; 
Timothy, b. March 30, 1784, m. (i) Aug. 26, 1811, Mary Parker; (2) Tryphena, 
wid. of Charles Kellogg of Amh., and d. in Had., Oct. 28, 1861 ; Zebina, b. June 
18, 1786, d. in Hudson, N. Y., Sept., 1812; Luther, b. Aug. 5, 1788; Gideon, 
b. Sept. 28, 1790, rem. to Mt. Morris, N. Y.; Seth Smith, b. Sept. 6, 1794, m. 

(i) Lima Famum; (2) , and d. in Euclid, N. Y., in 1844; Nancy, b. 

Jan. 14, 1797, m. March, 1819, Ashley Hubbard of Sunderland; Horace, b. 
March i, 1801, m. (i) Oct. 28, 1824, Martha Hubbard; (2) May 23, 1832, 
Caroline Rowe of Sunderland, and res. in Amherst. 

HENRY, James, rem. from Had. to S. H., as early as 1763, and d. April, 
1767. He m. Elizabeth. Children — Josiah; Sarah; Margaret, b. Feb. 17, 
1731; William,, b. July 8, 1732; Samuel, b. May 25, 1734; Elizabeth. 

1. HIBBARD, George, came to Had. from Windham, Ct., abt. 1780, 
and d. July 15, 1823. At the date of his death, he had had 16 children, 109 
grandchildren, and 51 great grandchildren. Children — John; George; 
Eliphaz, b. April i, 1782; Son, b. Aug. 6, 1784; Sally, b. March 12, 1786; 
Dau., b. May 18, 1788; Dau., b. March 29, 1790; Dau., April, 1791. 

2. John, s. of George, (i) d. Sept. i, 1855, ae. 87, at which date he had 
had 14 children, 30 gr. children, and 27 great gr. children. He m. 1792, 
(pub. Jan. 29,) Irene Belding of Whately. Children — Child, d. April 29, 
1793; Elias, b. Feb. 7, 1794; John, bapt. July 12, 1795; Lucy, bapt. Feb. 5, 
1797; John, b. June 10, 1798; Albert, bapt. May 4, 1800; Chester, b. Oct. 17, 
1802; Eliphaz, b. Oct. 24, 1803; Irene, bapt. Nov. 5, 1809. 



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3. George, s. of George, (i) d. Dec. 1849, ^^- 69. He m. Nov. 30, 1797, 
Susanna Washburn. Children — Clarissa; Truman; Elizabeth; Eliphaz; 
Isaiah Washburn. 

4. Elias, s. of John, (2) d. Jan. 2, 1828. He m. (i) Phila, (2) Lydia 

C. . Children — Richard M., b. Jan. 16, 1823; Elias Worcester, b. 

June 30, 1830; Phila Elizabeth, b. Dec. 9, 1832; Rufus Pomroy; Emily Jane, 
b. April 29, 1836; Henry Harrison, b. June 6, 1840. 

HICKSON, Walter, Hat., d. April 3, 1696. He m. Feb. 1679, Sarah, 
wid. of Barnabas Hinsdale, and dau. of John White. She d. Aug. 10, 1702. 
Children — John, b. Nov. 7, 1679, d. July 2, 1691; Elizabeth, b. Jan. 26, 1681, 
prob. d. young; Jacob, b. Jan. 26, 1683, captured by Indians and slain in 
1704, at Cowas, N. H., while on the way to Canada. 

1. HILLIARD or HILLYER, John, b. June 3, 1637, s. of John of 
Windsor, Ct., rem. to Nh., and thence to Had., where he d. Dec. 29, 1729, 
ae. 85. He m. Sept. 30, 1664, Anne Baxter, who d. June 5, 1728, ae. 84. 
Children — John, b. Dec. 26, 1669; Mary, b. Dec. 28, 1671; Timothy, b. 
Nov. 4, 1686. 

2. Timothy, s. of John, (i) rem. to S. H., and d. Dec. 9, 1759, ae. 72. 
He m. Mehitable. Children — Margaret, b. May 6, 1716, m. Daniel Crowfoot; 
John, b. Feb. 5, 1717; Mehitable, b. Nov. 22, 1721, m. Oct. 25, 1740, William 
Thompson; Adary, b. May 22, 1725, m. Ephraim Crowfoot; Timothy, b. 
Dec. 15, 1728; Joseph, b. Feb. 21, 1735. 

3. John, s. of Timothy, (2) S. H. He m. Mary. Children — John, b. 
Sept. 14, 1744; Patience, b. Feb. 18, 1746; Warham, b. Aug. i, 1747, d. 1747; 
Submit, b. 1749, d. 1749; Anne, b. 1750, d. Jan. 8, 1832, ae. 81; Uriah, b. 
1752; Joseph, b. 1755; Warham, b. 1757. 

4. Timothy, s. of Timothy, (2) S. H. Child — Hannah, b. Oct. 23, 1756, 
m. Fuller. 

1. HINSDALE, Robert, Dedham, 1638, freeman March 13, 1639, rem. 
to Medfield, thence as early as 1672 to Had., and later to Deerfield, where 
together with his sons Barnabas, John and Samuel, he was slain by Indians. 
He m. (i) Ann; (2) Elizabeth, wid. of John Hawkes. She m. (3) 1683, 
Thomas Dibble of Windsor, Ct. Children — Elizabeth, m. July 7, 1657, James 
Rising; Barnabas, b. Nov. 13, 1639; Gamaliel, perhaps mistake for Samuel, 
b. March 5, 1642; Mary, b. Feb. 14, 1644; Experience, b. Jan. 23, 1646; 
John, b. Jan. 27, 1648, slain by Indians, Sept. 18, 1675; Ephraim, b. Sept. 26, 
1650. 

2. Barnabas, s. of Robert, (i) rem. from Hat. to Deerfield, and was 
slain Sept. 18, 1675, at Bloody brook, being one of Capt. Lathrop's Co. He 
m. Oct. 15, 1666, Sarah, wid. of Stephen Taylor, and dau. of John White. 
She m. (3) Feb. 1679, Walter Hickson, and d. Aug. 10, 1702. Children — 
Barnabas, b. Feb. 20, 1668, m. Nov. 9, 1693, Martha Smith, settled in Hart- 
ford, Ct., and d. Jan. 25, 1725; Sarah, m. Jan. 8, 1691, Samuel Hall of 
Middletown, Ct.; Elizabeth, b. Oct. 29, 1671, d. March 8, 1672 ; /saac, b. 
Sept. 15, 1673, m. Jan. 6, 1715, Lydia Loomis, settled in Hartford, Ct., and 
d. abt. March i, 1739; Mary, b. March 27, 1677. 



70 HINSDALE HOLT. 

3. Samuel, s. of Robert, (i) rem. from Had. to Deerfield, where he was 
killed by Indians, Sept. 18, 1675. He m. Oct. 31, 1660, Mehitable Johnson, 
perhaps dau. of Humphrey of Roxbury. She m. (2) John Root, (3) Dea. 
John Coleman. Children — Mehitable, h. Oct. 18, 1663, prob. m. Obadiah 
Dickinson; Ann, h. Feb. 22, 1666; Mary, m. 1685, Thomas Sheldon, and d. 

Sept. 1738; Sarah, m. 1692, Samuel Janes; Samuel, m. Abigail , and 

d. in Medfield, Jan. 1730; Mahuman, m. Mary, and d. in Deerfield, May 9, 
1736- 

4. Experience, s. of Robert, (i) Deerfield, d. 1676. He m. Oct. 10, 
1672, Mary, dau. of John Hawks. She m. (2) July, 1677, John Evens of 
Hat. and Deerfield. Children — Elizabeth, m. John Comwell of Middletown; 
and another daughter, whose name is not known. 

5. Ephraim, s. of Robert, (i) rem. from Hat. to Deerfield, but returned 

to Hat., and d. Aug. 20, 1681. He m. Mehitable , who m. (2) John 

Gardner. Children — John, b. Aug. 7, 1677; Experience, b. July, 1679, m. 
Nathaniel Clark of Medfield; Mehitable, b. abt. 16S1, m. Nathaniel Wright 
of Medfield. 

HITCHCOCK, Charles, deacon, s. of Enos of Brookfield, was b. Jan. 27, 
1798. He m. (i) May 12, 1823, Sophia, dau. of Moses Porter; (2) Aug. 21, 
1843, Cornelia Hubbard Wells, b. May 29, 1807, dau. of Roswell Hubbard 
of Northampton. 

HITCHCOCK, Mrs. Thankful, wid. of Enos, d. June 27, 1853, ae. 75. 

HODGE, George, a tailor, resided for a time in Nh., but removed, and 
finally settled in Had. He m. 1757, Jane Question. She d. March, 1804, 
ae. 80. Children — William, b. Sept. 30, 1758; John, b. Oct. 19, 1760, m. 
March 19, 1789, Sarah Dickinson; George, b. March 18, 1763. 

2. William, s. of George, (i.) He m. (i) Dec. 22, 1785, Amanda Hop- 
kins; (2) Nov. 6, 1808, Esther Edwards. Children — George, b. Oct. 14 
1786; William., b. April 9, 1788; Emily, b. Feb. 7, 1790; Timothy, b. Dec. 31 
1791; Charles, b. Aug. 23, 1793; Mary, b. April 25, 1795; Henry, b. April 13 
1797; Robert Wilson, b. Dec. 13, 1799; Giles, b. April 29, 1801; Anna, b 
Oct. 20, 1803; Hannah, b. March 25, 1807; Esther, b. Oct. 10, 1808. 

3. Henry, s. of William, (2.) He m. Nov. 20, 1823, Eliza, dau. ol 
John Nash. Children — Mary Guilford, b. Sept. 27, 1824, d. July 26, 1826 
Harriet Merrick, b. Feb. 6, 1826, m. Oct. 7, 1847, Hon. Thomas F. Plunketl 
of Pittsfield; Lester Porter, b. Feb. 2, 1828, graduated A. C. 1850, and d. 
Athens, O., May 28, 1851; Elizabeth Hervey, b. July 16, 1831, d. May 2 
1833; Lephe Nash, b. Oct. 22, 1833, d. Oct. 25, 1835; William, Henry, b, 
July 24, 1841. 

HODGE, Benjamin, Children — Charles D., b. Nov. 15, 1826; James W.^ 
b. July 8, 1828; Harriet M., h. Feb. 22, 1830; Eliza, h. May 10, 1832; 
Samuel, b. Sept. 20, 1835; Sarah G., b. March i, 1837; Susan A., b. Nov. 21, 
1839. 

HOLT, MosES Pike. Children — Moses Pike, b. May 15, 1806; William 
Henry, h. May 26, 1808; Giles, b. May 22, 1810. 



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1. HOPKINS, Rev. Samuel, D. D., s. of Rev. Samuel of West Spring- 
field, was b. Oct. 31, 1729, grad. Y. C. 1749. Tutor in Y. C. 1751-4, ord. as 
pastor of church in Had., Feb. 26, 1755, received the degree of Doctor of 
Divinity from Y. C. in 1802, and d. March 8, 1811, ae. 81. He m. (i) Feb. 
17, 1756, Sarah, wid. of his predecessor, Rev. Chester Williams, and dau. of 
Eleazar Porter, Esq., of Had. She d. Feb. 5, 1774; (2) Oct. 1776, Margaret, 
dau. of Rev. Sampson Stoddard of Chelmsford. Children — Samuel, b. Oct. 31 , 
1756, d. in Martinico, July 11, 1782, ae. 25; Mabel, h. Aug. 28, 1758, m. Oct. 
28, 1779, Moses Hubbard, and d. April 19, 1829, ae. 70; Hannah, b. Aug. 10, 
1760, m. Nov. 4, 1779, Rev. Samuel Spring, D. D. of Newburyport, and d. 
June II, 1819, ae. ^8; Jerusha, h. July 14, 1762, m. Sept. 14, 1788, Rev. Samuel 
Austin, D. D., of Worcester, and d. March 26, 1841, ae. 78; Stephen, h. June i, 
1764, m. (i) Nancy Turner, was a joiner in Hanover, N. H., Brookfield, Vt., 
and Peacham, Vt.; Polly, b. March 6, 1766, m. Dec. 15, 1785, Benjamin Colt, 
and d. Sept. 14, 1813, ae. 47; Lucy, b. Feb. 6, 1768, m. Sept. 4, 1797, Rev. 
William Riddel of Bristol, Me.; John, b. Jan. 17, 1770; Elizabeth, b. June 12, 
1772, m. Nov. I, 1793, Rev. Leonard Worcester of Peacham, Vt. 

2. John, s. of Rev. Samuel, (i) a merchant, rem. April, 1814, from 
Hadley to Boston, and thence in Oct. 1824 to Northampton, where he d. 
Jan. 9, 1842, ae. 71, leaving a very large estate. He m. 1797, Lydia, dau. of 
Thomas Thompson of Newburyport. She was b. April 17, 1773, and d. in 
Newburyport, April 10, 1842, ae. 68. Children — Sarah Ann Wait, h. Jan. 20, 
1799, m. Sept. 23, 1822, Rev. John Wheeler, then of Windsor, Vt., but after- 
wards President of University of Vermont at Burlington. She d. in Burling- 
ton, Nov. 2, 1847; Elizabeth, b. May 18, 1802, d. Aug. i, 1802; Thomas 
Thompson, b. Dec. 13, 1804, d. June 27, 1805; Samuel, b. April 11, 1807, 
grad. D. C. 1827, was ordained and installed over the ist church in Mont- 
pelier, Vt., Oct. 26, 1831, and dismissed May, 1835, was installed over ist 
church in Saco, Me., Feb. 1836, and dismissed 1841, reinstalled over the same 
church in 1842, and dismissed 1845. He now resides in Nh. and is an author 
of note. He m. May 29, 1832, Caroline W., dau. of Josiah Dwight of Nh.; 
Erastus, b. April 7, 1810, grad. D. C. 1830, was settled May, 1835, in the 
ministry at Beech Island, Edgefield District, S. C, and dismissed 1837. He 
was settled in the fall of 1837 over the 2d Presbyterian church in Troy, N. Y., 
and dismissed in the fall of 1841. He has since resided in Nh., and has 
represented that town in the Legislature. As a political speaker, he has in 
the State few superiors. He m. (i) June 25, 1835, Sarah H. Benedict of 
Charleston, S. C, who d. May 3, 1838; (2) Nov. 18, 1841, Charlotte Freling- 
huysen, dau. of Rev. William Allen, D. D., of Nh.; George, b. Sept. 13, 181 2, 
d. at the Santa Cruz, West Indies, March 16, 1830, ae. 17, while a member of 
Yale College; Lewis Spring, b. Sept. 18, 1815, entered in 1831 the University 
of Vermont, but left before graduation, pursued his medical studies at North- 
ampton, and in Boston, New Haven, Ct., and Philadelphia, Pa., and graduated 
at Med. Col. at Charleston, S. C. About the year 1840, he commenced the 
practice of his profession in Northampton, but after two years was compelled 
by failing health to abandon the same. His residence has since been at 
Northampton. He m. Oct. 14, 1846, Fanny J. Washburn of Boston. 



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HOPKINS, Timothy, deacon, b. April 9, 1762, s. of Timothy and nephew 
of Rev. Samuel, D. D., came from West Springfield, and d. March 17, 1840. 
He m. Aug. 9, 1792, Rebecca, dau. of Eliakim Smith. She d. Aug. 17, 1848. 
Children — Charles, b. June 13, 1793, grad. Y. C. 1814, and d. Dec. 28, 1816; 

Mehitable, b. April 30, 1795, m. Hunt; Emily, b. Jan. 19, 1805, m. 

Sept. 12, 1838, Sherman Peck; William Smith, b. Feb. 4, 1807, a farmer 
in New Salem, m. Sept. 3, 1848, Adeline Fitts. 

HOVEY, Joseph, s. of Daniel of Ipswich, settled in Had., but rem. 
perhaps (says Savage) to Cambridge, d. in Milton, May or June, 1690. 
He m. May 31, 1677, Hannah Pratt, perhaps dau. of John of Hartford, Ct. 
Children — Joseph, b. Feb. 28, 1678; Ebenezer, b. Nov. 5, 1680; Hannah, b. 
Nov. 21, 1682; John, b. Aug. 21, 1684; Caleb, b. June 4, 1687; Thomas, b. 
June 6, 1681, says record, perhaps a mistake for 1689. 

1. HOVEY, Lt. Thomas, from Ipswich, per. s. of Daniel, freeman 1681, 
lieut., representative, 1699 and 1703, and d. 1739, ae. 91. He m. Sarah, dau. 
of Aaron Cook. Children — Thomas, b. 1678; Sarah, b. Dec. 25, 1680, m. 
Jan. 21, 1704, Jonathan Winchell; Abigail, b. Jan. 8, 1682, m. Jan. 27, 1701, 

Nathaniel Austin, Jr.; Joanna, b. abt. 1684, m. Wadsworth; Elizabeth, 

b. abt. 1686, m. John Smith, s. of Joseph; Miriam, b. Aug. 27, 1689, m. 
Jan. 30, 1709, Benjamin Church; Hannah, b. Nov. 5, 1691, buried March 7, 
1694; Three daughters, b. and d. Nov. 12, 1693; Daniel, b. Dec. i, 1694, 
d. Feb. 13, 1716; Dorcas, b. Feb. i, 1698, d. unm., March 3, 1795, ae. 97; 
Rachel, b. Jan. 20, 1700, d. Oct. 12, 1703. 

2. Thomas, s. of Thomas, (i) d. in Sunderland, in 1728. He m. (i) 
Mary Crafts, who d. Jan. 6, 17 14; (2) Nov. 5, 17 19, Hannah, dau. of Samuel 
Dickinson of Hat. She became deranged, and d. abt. 1757. Children — Mary, 
b. Feb. 12, 1710; Martha, m. (i) 1746, Nathaniel Barstow; Thomas, b. and 
d. 1720; Hannah, b. 1721, d. March 30, 1730; Sarah, b. 1723, d. young; 
Miriam, b. 1726, d. young. 

1. HOYT, David, deacon, s. of Nicholas, b. in Windsor, Ct., April 22, 
165 1, rem. to Hat. and thence to Deerfield. He, together with his wife and 
children, Jonathan, Sarah, Ebenezer, and Abigail, was taken captive in the 
sack of Deerfield, Feb. 29, 1704, and carried away towards Canada, and 
perished of hunger near the lower Cohoes. He m. (i) April 3, 1673, Sarah, 
dau. of Thomas Wells, who d. before Sept. 1676; (2) Mary; (3) Abigail, 
wid. of Joshua Pomeroy, and dau. of Nathaniel Cook of Windsor. She m. 
(3) Dea. Nathaniel Rice of Wallingford, Ct. Children — Samuel, b. June 12, 
1674; David; Mary, m. April 4, 1707, Judah Wright; Sarah, b. May 6, 

1686, m. Nims; Jonathan, b. April 6, 1688; Benjamin, b. Sept. 15, 

1692, rem. to Wallingford, Ct.; Ebenezer, b. Aug. 21, 1695, remained among 
the Indians; Abigail, b. May i, 1702. killed on the way to Canada, March, 
1704. 

2. David, s. of David, (i) Deerfield, slain by Indians, Feb. 29, 1704. 
He m. April 14, 1699, Hannah, dau. of Joseph Edwards of Nh. She was b. 
Sept. 1675, and m. (2) 1706, Samuel Field. Children — Sarah, b. Jan. 16, 
1700, d. April 12, 1700; Mary, b. April 20, 1703, m. July 4, 1723, Jonathan 
Wells, and d. Nov. 22, 1750. 



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3. Jonathan, s. of David, (i) Deerfield, d. May 23, 1779. He m. Mary 
Field, who d. June 26, 1780. Children — Mary, b. Oct. 5, 1714- m- Oct. 24, 
1740, Ebenezer Sheldon; Abigail, b. Sept. 10, 1716, m. (i) Oct. 18, 1743, 
Matthew Clesson; (2) John Nims; Sarah, b. July 9, 1719, m. Dec. 6, 1740, 
John Burk; David, b. Oct. 26, 1722, m. (i) 1743, Mercy Sheldon; (2) April 
25, 1754, Silence King, and d. in Deerfield, Sept. 6, 1814; Hannah, b. April 
8, 1726, d. Dec. 22, 1728; Jonathan, b. Feb. 20, 1728, m. July 11, 1751, 
Experience Childs, and d. May 7, 18 13. 

HUBBARD, Hezekiah, came from Lebanon, Ct., and d. May i, 1775, 
ae. 38. He m. Jan. 31, 1760, Mabel, dau. of Edmund Hubbard. She d. 
May 3, 1816, ae. 81. Children — Lucinda, b. Feb. 13, 1761, d. July 11, 1761, 
ae. 4 mos.; Lucinda, b. Nov. 25, 1761, m. (i) Sept. 7, 1780, William Jones; 

(2) Haskell; Mabel, b. Aug. 19, 1768, d. unm. May 20, 1842; Hezekiah, 

b. Oct. 6, 1770, rem. to the West; Hannah, b. Aug. 19, 1772, d. unm. i860; 
John Hancock, b. 1774. 

1. HUBBARD, John, s. of George of Wethersfield, Milford and Guilford, 
Ct., came abt. 1660 from Wethersfield, Ct., and d. abt. 1705. He m. Mary 
(perhaps Merriam of Concord) who survived him. Children — Mary, b. Jan. 
27, 1651, d. young; John, b. April 12, 16^^;^ Hannah, b. Dec. 5, 1656, d. 

1662; Jonathan, b. Jan. 3, 1659, m. — MenisCrrt', and d. in Concord, 1728, 

ae. 70; Daniel, h. March 9, 1661; Mercy, b. Feb. 23, 1664, m. Oct. 12, 
1685, Jonathan Boreman of Wethersfield, Ct.; Isaac, b. Jan. 16, 1667; 
Mary, b. April 10, 1669, m. 1688, Daniel Warner; Sarah, b. Nov. 12, 1672, 
m. Samuel Cowles of Hat. 

2. John, s. of John, (i) settled in Glastenbury, Ct. Children — John; 
David; Ephraim; Isaac; Sarah. 

3. Daniel, s. of John, (i) d. Feb. 12, 1744, ae. 82. He m. Nov. i, 
1683, Esther Rice, or Rise. She d. Feb. 11, 1737, ae. 67. Children — Esther, 
b. Jan. 17, 1685, m. Nov. 13, 1707, Leonard Hoar; Anna, b. July 13, 1687, 
d. May 13 or 25, i688; Daniel, b. May 7, 1689, per. moved to Brimfield; 
Anna, b. July 10, 1691; Mary, h. Jan. n, 1694, m. Dec. 15, 1715, Peter 
Montague, Jr.; Elizabeth, b. April 5, 1695; Samuel, b. April 9, 1697, m. 
Hannah Bliss of Springfield, and rem. to Brimfield; Racliel, b. Oct. 16, 1698, 
m. Sept. 13, 1729, Gabriel Williams; Edmund, b. July 18, 1700; Joseph, b. 
June 5, 1702, d. Nov. 26, 1706; Joshua, b. July 23, 1705, d. Aug. 7, 1705; 
Rebecca, b. Sept. 19, 1706, m. May 13, 1727, Jacob Williams of Hartford, Ct. 

4. Isaac, s. of John, (i) settled in Hat., whence in 1714, he rem. to 
Sunderland, where he was a deacon, and d. Aug. 7 or 9, 1750, ae. 83. He 
m. Ann, dau. of Daniel Warner. She d. June 26, 1750. Children — John, b. 
April 20, 1693; Isaac, b. Jan. 14, 1695; Mary, b. Feb. 25, 1697; Daniel, 
b. April 30, 1699; Hannah, b. Sept. 7, 1701, m. 1727, Nathaniel Mattoon; 
Jonathan, b. Dec. 29, 1703, grad. Y. C. 1724, settled as first pastor of church 
in Sheffield, Oct. 22, 1735, dismissed in 1764, and d. July 6, 1765, ae. 61; 
Joseph, b. April 8, 1708; David, b. March 9, 1712. 

5. Edmund, s. of Daniel, (3) d. April 27, 1766. He m. Ruth, who d. 
Nov. 25, 1775. Children — Anna, b. July 4, 1729, d. unm. Feb. i, 1764; 
Ruth, b. Aug. I, 1732, m. May 4, 1758, James Meacham; Edmund, b. Feb. 11, 
1734; Mabel, b. March 17, 1737, m. Jan. 31, 1760, Hezekiah Hubbard, and d. 
May 3, 1S16; Esther, b. March 22, 1738, m. Oct. 14, 1773, Peter Strong of 



74 HUBBARD. 

Chesterfield; Moses, b. May 30, 1740, d. Jan. 17, 1743; Moses, prob. grad. 
Y. C. 1765, teacher, m. Oct. 28, 1779, Mabel, dau. of Rev. Samuel Hopkins, 
D. D., d. in Brookfield, Vt. 

6. John, s. of Isaac, (4) Hat., a deacon, d. Aug. 25, 1778, ae. 85. He 
m. Hannah Cowles of East Hartford, Ct., who d. Feb. 19, 1777, in 85th yr. 
Children — Mary, b. July 28, 17 19, m. Joseph Warner, and rem. to Cum- 
mington; Elisha, b. Sept. 4, 1721; Hannah, b. March 28, 1724, d. March 20, 
1727, ae. 3; John, b. Nov. 6, 1726, grad. Y. C. 1747, settled May 30, 1750, 
over the church in Northfield, where he d. Nov. 28, 1794, ae. 68. 

7. Isaac, s. of Isaac, (4) Sunderland, d. abt. 1763. He m. (i) July 4, 
1723, Christian, dau. of Dea. Samuel Gunn of Hat. and Sunderland; (2) 
Abigail, wid. of Jonathan Atherton of Amh. and dau. of John Kellogg. 
Children — Israel, b. Jan. 18, 1725, m. 1747, Abigail Smith, and d. in Sunder- 
land, April 21, 1817, ae. 92; Hannah, b. July it, 1727, m. (i) 1745, Simeon 
Graves; (2) Absalom Scott; Isaac, b. Jan. 6, 1730; Elijah, b. Dec. 16, 1731; 
Christian, b. Dec. 17, 1733, m. Paul Field of Northfield; Anna, b. March 8, 
1739; Giles, b. Sept. 7, 1742, d. in Sunderland, Aug. 21, 1824, ae. 81. 

8. Daniel, s. of Isaac, (4) Sunderland, d. May 30, 1779, ae. 80. He m. 
1732, Mary, dau. of Samuel Gunn of Hat. and Sunderland. Children — 
Mary, b. 1734; Daniel, b. 1736; Martha, b. 1739, d. young; Martha, b. 1741, 
m. Timothy Parsons. 

9. Joseph, s. of Isaac, (4) rem. from Had. to Leverett, and d. abt. 1783. 
He m. Nov. 4, 1737, Joanna, dau. of Samuel Porter. She d. Dec. 12, 1766. 
Children — Susanna, b. July 6, 1738, m. Jan. 29, 1760, Wilder Willard of 
Fort Dummer; William, b. Aug. 22, 1742, d. Aug. 16, 1752; Anna, m. Israel 
Hubbard; Joanna, m. Nahum Ward. 

10. David, s. of Isaac, (4) Sunderland, and m. 1743, Miriam Cooley, 
doubtless dau. of Simon of Sunderland. Children — Moses, b. 1743; David, 
b. 1748; Gideon, b. 1751; William, b. 1754. 

11. Edmund, s. of Edmund, (5) d. May 5, 1791. He m. Dec. 17, 1761, 
Margaret, dau. of Samuel Gaylord. She d. Dec. 9, 1825, ae. 85. Children — 
Lucy, b. Feb. 24, 1764, m. Oct. 26, 1786, Samuel Porter, and d. Jan. 23, 1848; 
Daniel, b. Feb. 19, 1766, d. Nov. 12, 1775; Elisha, b. June 6, 1768; Samuel, 
b. Aug. 18, 1770, d. Nov. 12, 1775; Susanna, b. Sept. 17, 1772; Elizabeth, 
b. Sept. I, 1774, m. Elihu Smith; Daniel, b. Sept. 24, 1776, rem. to the 
vicinity of Troy, N. Y.; Edmund, b. March 8, 1779, rem. to Chester; William, 
b. March 6, 1781, d. Dec. 30, 1846, in Cummington; David, b. Dec. 25, 1788, 
d. ae. abt. 14. 

12. Elisha, s. of John, (6) Hat., d. April 11, 1768, ae. 46. He m. June 
7, 1748, Lucy, dau. of Thomas Stearns of Worcester. She was b. Oct. 6, 
1727. Children — Hannah, b. Feb. 2, 1750, m. Aug. 2, 1770, Simeon White, 
Jr., of Williamsburgh, and d. Feb. 17, 1786, ae. 36; Elisha, b. Nov. 12, 1751; 
Lucy, b. Sept. 26, 1753, m. Gershom Clark Lyman of New Marlboro', Vt.; 
Anna, b. Dec. 26, 1755, m. Nov. 27, 1799, Josiah Allis of Whately, and d. 
June 21, 1839, ae. 83; Elisha, b. Sept. 13, 1758; Lucretia, b. Sept. 23, 1760, 
m. Epaphroditus Champion of Haddam, Ct.; Sarah; John. 



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13. Isaac, s. of Isaac, (7) rem. from Sund. after 1756 to Amh., and thence 
in his old age to Wilmington, Vt., where he d. abt. 1810. He m. Oct. 29, 1752, 
Submit, dau. of Isaac Graves of Sunderland. Children — Elihu, b. March 24, 

1754, m. March 3, 1779, Smith of Leverett, and d. in Goshen; Stephen, 

b. July 27, 1756, m. Feb. 10, 1780, Lucy, dau. of William Boltwood of Amh., 
and d. in Manchester, Ct., Dec, 1828, ae. 72; Lucy, b. abt. 1758, m. Simeon 
Clark of Amh., and d. March 19, 1793, ae. 35; Irene, bapt. May 29, 1763, 
m. (i) Nov. 23, 1786, Asahel Clark of Amh.; (2) Feb. 18, 1808, WilHam 
Boltwood of Amh., and d. Aug. 6, 1831, ae. 68; Elijah, prob. bapt. Sept. 20, 
1767, m. Feb. 15, 1795, Abi, dau. of Noadiah Lewis of Amh., and d. in Amh., 
March 24, 1814, ae. 47; Chester, bapt. March 14, 1770, m. Dorothy, dau. of 
Martin Kellogg of Arnh., and rem. to Wilmington, Vt. 

14. Elisha, s. of Edmund, (11) settled in Chesterfield, but returned to 
Had., and d. Feb. 24, 1827. He m. Feb. 9, 1797, Lucinda, dau. of Stephen 
Noble of Westfield. She was b. Jan. 27, 1774, and d. Oct. 29, 1857, ae. 83. 
Children — Maria, b. Feb. 7, 1798; Harriet, b. June 7, 1799; Lucinda, b. 
April 4, 1801, m. Aug. 15, 1826, Lyman Selby; Margaret Gaylord, b. June 
13, 1804, m. July 6, 1836, Seth Barlow; Elizabeth, b. Nov. 24, 1807, m. Nov. 
1834, Erastus Hall; Eunice Noble, b. Oct. 30, 1809, m. April 13, 1831, Theo- 
dore Bartlett of Nh.; Susan, b. Dec. 19, 1812, m. April 9, 1843, Erastus 
Nash, Jr. 

15. Elisha, s. of Elisha, (12) Williamsburgh, where he kept a public 
house and was town clerk. He d. May 17, 1843, ae. 84. He m. June 22, 1780, 
Hannah, dau. of Daniel White of Hat. She d. March 27, 1824, ae. 64. 
Children — Lucinda, b. Aug. 27, 1780; Sally, b. Oct. 10, 1782, d. Oct. 11, 
1782; Jeremiah, b. Oct. 10, 1783, d. Nov. 25, 1786; Jeremiah, b. Nov. 24, 
1786, m. Feb. 25, 1813, Huldah Nash, and d. May 18, 1850, ae. 63; Elisha, 
b. Sept. 29, 1789, grad. W. C. 1811, a lawyer in Williamsburgh, d. unm., 
Aug. 30, 1853, ae. 64; Erastus, b. Feb. 27, 1792, m. 1818, Wealthy Amanda 
Mayhew, and d. Sept. 14, 1850, ae. 58; Hannah, b. July 4, 1794, d. ae. 7 yrs.; 
Lucretia, b. Dec. 25, 1796, m. Jan. 5, 1815, Walter Price of Williamsburgh; 
Sally, b. Sept. 7, 1799, m. 1818, Moses Putney, resided in Munroe Co., N. Y., 
and d. 1838, ae. 39; Hannah, b. Oct. 1800. 

1. HUNT, John, d. Dec. 20, 1840. He m. Jan. 4, 1816, Mehitable 
Hopkins. Children — Charles, b. Feb. 18, 1818, d. March 17, 1825; Harriet 
Mills, b. May 17, 1819, m. Nov. 3, 1836, Otis S. Baker, and d. Dec. 24, 1840, 
ae. 21; Timothy Edwards, b. Dec. 3, 1820; Emily Hopkins, b. Sept. 15, 
1822, m. May 26, 1842, Henry A. Ferry; John, b. Dec. 10, 1824; Charles, b. 
Aug. 10, 1826, d. Aug. 31, 1826; Mary Ann, b. Dec. 15, 1827. 

2. John, s. of John, (i) m. Jan. 2, 1851, Sarah Angeline, dau. of David 
Gould of Heath. Children — John Gould, b. Aug. 8, 1853; Charles Hopkins, 
b. Dec. 7, 1854; Harriet Baker, b. March 12, 1857; Lewis Frederick, b. Jan. 2, 
1859: Helen Emily, b. Dec. 29, 1859, d. Feb. 24, i860. 

HUNTER, Stephen, m. Hannah. Child — Mary Elizabeth, b.Nov. 13,1836. 

I. INGRAM, John, b. abt. 1642, freeman 1683, d. June 22, 1722, ae. 80. 
He m. 1660, Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel Gardner. She d. Nov. 29, 1684. 
Children — John, b. June 29, 1661; Jadiah, b. Aug. 16, 1668; Samuel, b. 



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Oct. 8, 1670; Ebenezer, b. Feb. 3, 1673, d. April 11, 1690; Nathaniel, b. Oct. 8. 
1674; Jonathan, b. 1676, slain at Deerfield, Feb. 28, 1704; Elizabeth, b. 
May I, 1679, d. Jan. 3, 1702; Abigail, b. Jan. 12, 1683. 

a. John, s. of John, (i) rem., when advanced in years, to Amh., where 
he was living Oct. 1742. He m. June 26, 1689, Mehitable, dau. of John 
Dickinson. Children — Elizabeth, b. March 15, 1691, m. (i) March 27, 1712, 
Philip Panthom; (2) Dec. 13, 1716, Ebenezer Kellogg; John, b. Jan. 9, 
1693; Ebenezer, b. Dec. 10, 1694, d. Nov. 21, 1695; Hannah, b. Oct. 17, 1697, 
m. Nov. 1716, Dea. John Nash of Had. and Amh.; Mehitable, b. Sept. 13, 
1698, m. Nov. 6, 1724, Aaron Smith; Mary, b. July 10, 1702; Ebenezer, b. 
Nov. 10, 1701, d. Jan. 6, 1702; Rebecca, b. Nov. 5, 1704, m. Nov. 11, 1726, 
Nathaniel Smith; Jonathan, b. Dec. 15, 1708, d. Jan. 26, 1709; Experience, 
b. April 17, 1714, d. Aug. 21, 1714; Elisha, b. Sept. 7, 1717. 

3. Samuel, s. of John, (i) prob. resided in Had. until after 1703, and 
then removed. He is named March 19, 1722, in his father's will. He m. 
Oct. 14, 1696, Hannah, dau. of Daniel Warner of Hat. She d. June 28, 1699. 

4. Nathaniel, s. of John, (i) is said to have lived to an advanced age. 
He m. 1696, Esther Smith. Children — Esther, b. July 23, 1697, m. Oct. 14, 
1725, Isaac Selden; Elizabeth, b. April 6, 1699, m. Sept. 26, 1726, Samuel 
Belding of Deerfield; Abigail, b. Aug. 24, 1700; Mercy, b. April 15, 1702, 
m. Oct. 6, 1732, Jonathan Selden; Ebenezer, b. Nov. 18, 1703, d. in Amh., 
March 26, 1735. Perhaps he m. Jane, who in 1737 or 1738 m. Robert Rogers; 
Nathaniel, b. May 18, 1708; Hannah, b. April 14, 1711, m. May 18, 1743, 
Dea. Nathaniel Montague; Jonathan, b. June 5, 17 13; Sarah, b. Oct. 2, 1717, 
m. Jan. 27, 1740, Charles Chauncey. 

5. John, s. of John, (2) Amh., d. Nov. II, 1737, ae. 45. He m. June 29, 
1719, Lydia, dau. of Samuel Boltwood. She d. abt. 1779. Children — Samuel, 
b. Dec. 18, 1720; Sarah, b. Sept. 25, 1725, m. Dec. 9, 1743, Joseph Eastman 
of Amh., and d. Aug. 30, 181 1, ae. 86; Philip, b. Aug. 27, 1727; John, b. 
Nov. 19, 1730; Reuben, b. Nov. 18, 1732; Ebenezer, b. May 21, 1737, d. 
May 25. 1738. 

6. Elisha, s. of John, (2) Amh., d. May 23, 1783. He m. Aug. 14, 

1743, Elizabeth, wid. of Noadiah Lewis of Farmington, Ct., and dau. of 
Dea. Ichabod Smith. She prob. d. Oct. 1789. Children — Anna, b. June 10, 

1744, m. Martin Wait of S. H.; Elizabeth, b. Sept. 16, 1746, m. Barnabas 

Sabin; Eunice, b. Sept. 23, 1748, m. Lieut. Williams of Leverett; 

Lucy, b. July 22, 1750, m. Perez Moody; Azubah, b. April 15, 1752, m. Paul 
Newton; Elenor, b. Jan. 2, 1754, m. Doct. Moses Gunn of Montague; Jeruska, 
b. May 7, 1756, m. Dec. 16, 1781, Joseph Kellogg of Amh., and d. Dec. 5, 
1824, ae. 69; Susannah, b. June 10, 1758, d. Sept. 26, 1760. 

7. Nathaniel, s. of Nathaniel, (4) S. H., m. Nov. 11, 1742, Martha, 
dau. of Joseph Kellogg of S. H. Children — Nathaniel, h. Aug. 23, 1743; 
Sarah, h. Sept. 18, 1745; Martha, b. Nov. 23, 1747. 

8. Jonathan, s. of Nathaniel, (4) d. Nov. 12 or 14, 1748, ae. 35. He 
m. May 18, 1743, Mary, dau. of John Montague, Jr. Children — Jonathan, 
b. Jan. 5, 1745; John, b. Aug. 9, 1746; Mary, h. Nov. 21, 1748. 

9. Samuel, s. of John, (5) Amh., d. abt. 1769. Hem. (i) Oct. 21, 1740, 
Abigail, dau. of Dea. Ebenezer Dickinson of Amh.; (2) July 11, 1751, Mary, 



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dau. of Solomon Boltwood of Amh. She d. abt. 1780. Children — Lydia, 
bapt. Aug. 29, 1744, m. John Morton of Amh., and d. June 21, 1834, ae. 90; 
Sarah, bapt. Aug. 16, 1747, m. Oliver Cooley of Sunderland; Ebenezer, bapt. 
June 19, 1752, d. Oct. 6, 1752; Abigail, bapt. Sept. 9, 1753, m. April 3, 1783, 
Abraham Parker of Whately; John, bapt. April 13, 1755, m. Susannah 
Crocker; Samuel, bapt. Jan. 2, 1757, m. June 17, 1783, Jerusha Blodgett; 
Mary, bapt. Feb. 24, 1760, m. Elisha Ellis of Whately; Elisha, bapt. June 24, 
1764, d. ae. 19; Hannah, b. Dec. 18, 1767, m. June 22, 1786, Ebenezer Mor- 
ton of Hat., and d. Aug. 28, 1848; Lucretia, bapt. May 20, 1770, d. unm., 
ae. abt. 20. 

10. Philip, s. of John, (5) Amh., m. March 10, 1757, Experience Peirce, 
prob. wid. of Jonathan, and dau. of Peter Montague of S. H. Children — 
Lodeona, bapt. Oct. i, 1758; Philip, b. April 27, 1760; Experience, bapt. Nov. 
I, 1761, m. Sept. 29, 1785, Gideon Shattuck, and d. in Ticonderoga, N. Y., 
Sept. 12, 1837, ^6. 76; William, bapt. May 15, 1763; Jonathan Peirce, bapt. 
Oct. 12, 1766; Lucretia and Lucinda, (twins,) bapt. May 22, 1768; Asa^ 
bapt. Jan. 27, 1771; Phebe, bapt. Aug. 9, 1772; Roswell, bapt. July 30, 1775. 

11. John, s. of John, (5) Amh., d. Aug. 30, 1809. He m. Feb. 9, 1758, 
Thankful Rose. Children — Ebenezer, m. 1789, Esther Rood; Gideon, m. (i) 
May I, 1 79 1, Mary, dau. of Dea. Jonathan Edwards of Amh.; (2) Mary King, 
and d. in Amh., July i, 1798, ae. 35; Naomi, m. Eliab Alvord of Westhamp- 
ton; Gershom, m. Martha Belden; Oshee; Robert, m. 1790, Sarah Bolles; 
Ezekiel, rem. to Vt. ; Joab; Peter, d. young. 

12. Reuben, s. of John, (5) Amh., d. June 16, 1791, ae. 57. He m. 
1755' (pub. June 6,) Phebe, dau. of Capt. Daniel Shattuck of Hinsdale, N. H. 
She was b. Dec. 27, 1729, and d. Aug. 4, 1806. Children — Joanna, bapt. 
May 23, 1756, d. April 9, 1783, ae. 27; Phebe, d. Oct. 25, 1767, ae. 8; David, 
bapt. March 6, 1763, d. Jan. 23, 1827; Jonathan, bapt. April 21, 1765, d. Oct. 
22, 1767, ae. 2; Nathaniel, bapt. April 21, 1765, d. March 20, 1776, ae. 11; 
Nathan, bapt. July 30, 1769, d. Feb. 24, 1818, ae. 49; Phebe; Nathaniel; 
Sarah. 

13. Nathaniel, s. of Nathaniel, (7) S. H., d. Aug. 19, 1815. He m. 
Hannah, who d. July 8, 1838. Children — Hannah, h. Feb. 16, 1772, d. 
March 15, 1797; Ebenezer, b. Nov. 3, 1775; Martha, b. Feb. 2, 1777; Nathan- 
iel, b. March 26, 1779; Esther, b. April 19, 1781; Abigail, b. July 2, 1784; 
Artemas, b. March 11, 1787, d. 1830; Alpheus, b. Oct. 31, 1789; Warren, b. 
Oct. 31, 1793. 

14. Jonathan, s. of Jonathan, (8.) Children — Jonathan, h. April, lyjg; 
Samuel, b. March, 1781; Son, b. April 20, 1783; Joanna, bapt. April 17, 
1785; Ira, bapt. Dec. 31, 1786; Elisha, bapt. April 17, 1789. 

INGRAM, William, m. Jan. i, 1789, Esther White. Children — Oliver, 
bapt. Sept. 30, 1792; Experience, (dau.) bapt. Sept. 30, 1792; Quartus, bapt. 
Nov. 24, 1793; Charles, bapt. Jan. 29, 1797; Child, h. Nov. 1791; Child, 
b. 1793. 

JENNINGS, Stephen, freeman 1690, came perhaps from Brookfield to 
Hat., and returned thither. He m. probably, (2) May 15, 1677, Hannah, 
wid. of Samuel Gillett, and dau. of John Dickinson of Had. She with two 
of her Gillett children was in 1667 carried to Canada. Children — Captivity, 



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b. March 14, 1678, m. Abijah Bartlett; Stephen, b. June 16, 1680. He or his 
father was slain by the Indians, July 20, 1710; Joseph, b. Aug. 23, 1682; 
Sarah, b. Aug. 29, 1684; Benjamin, slain by the Indians, July 20, 17 10; 
John: Jonathan, b. Nov. 24, 1692. 

JUDD, AsAHEL, b. in Nh., s. of Thomas of Nh., who was s. of Samuel 
of Nh., who was s. of Dea. Thomas of Cambridge, Hartford, and Windsor, 
settled in S. H. He was an Ensign in a colonial company in Nova Scotia, 
in the French war, and d. near Minas, N. S., in 1756. He m. (i) Rachel 
Wait of Nh., who d. April 26, 1751, in 24th yr.; (2) 1754, (pub. Feb. 3,) 

Mary Ely of Springfield. She m. (2) Sikes. Children — Simeon, d. 

unm., in Nh., Nov. 2, 1826, ae. 77; Martha, m. Aaron Bush of Westfield. 

1. JUDD, Reuben, b. in Nh., 1733, (s. of Thomas of Nh., who was s. of 
Samuel of Nh., who was s. of Dea. Thomas of Cambridge, 1632, Hartford, 
1636, and Farmington, 1644,) settled in S. H., where he d. March 7, 1815, 
ae. 81. He m. (i) Elizabeth, dau. of Moses White of S. H. She d. May 9, 
1765, ae. 24; (2) Elizabeth, dau. of John Smith. She d. March 31, 1781, 
ae. 31; (3) Dec. 12, 1784, Submit, dau. of Moses Graves of Hat. She d. in 
Had., Dec. 24, 1830. Children — Achsah, b. Oct. 8, 1759, m. abt. 1778, 
Thomas Wells of Leyden, and d. Jan. 1847, ae. 87; Reuben, b. Jan. 10, 1761, 
m. Nov. 27, 1791, Rachel Smead, and d. in Streetsborough, Portage Co., O.; 
Lydia, b. June 10, 1762, m. Eli Day of Nh., and d. May 8, 1812; Elizabeth, 
b. Jan. 10, 1764; Salathiel, b. Aug. 31, 1769; Elizabeth, b. Jan. 9, 1771, 
m. (i) Nov. 29, 1792, Dr. Asahel Merrill of Shelbume; (2) Dec. 22, 1809, 
Levi Clapp of Easthampton; (3) Asahel Judd of Charlemont; Lucy, b. 
Oct. 28, 1772, d. unm.; Supplina, b. Nov. 4, 1774, m. Jan. 26, 1797, Jemima 
Pooler, rem. to Alleghany Co., N. Y.; Mahlah, b. March 26, 1777, m. 
Luther Stebbins of Caldwell, N. Y.; Samuel, b. April 24, 1779; Tirzah, b. 

Feb. 26, 1 781, m. Beckwith; Lucinda, b. Sept. 1785, d. unm. in Had., 

Oct. 3, 1838, ae. 53; Mary, b. Nov. 1787, d. in Chester, ae. abt. 15; Horace, 
b. Oct. 1789. 

2. Salathiel, s. of Reuben, (i) rem. to Chester, and d. 1821. He m. 
Irene, dau. of Abraham Day. She d. in S. H. Children — Harvey, b. abt. 
1793, d. unm., 1820, ae. 27; Salathiel, b. May 3, 1795; Alfred, b. April 3, 
1798; Alvin, b. March, 1800, rem. to 111., m. Jan. 3, 1822, Eliza White; 
Quartus, m. Jan. 13, 1842, Mrs. Julia M. Crawford, and res. in S. H.; Theo- 
dosia, m. Daniel Blair of Warren, and rem. to 111.; Lucy, m. James Hamilton 
of Chester; Irene, m. Ira Bacon; James Madison, rem. to 111., m. (i) Aurelia 
White; Elizabeth, m. Andrew Hayward of Hartford, rem. to 111., and d. 

3. Samuel, s. of Reuben, (i) S. H., d. March 2, 1825. He m. Nov. 23, 
1800, Fidelia, dau. of Justus Wright. She d. June 17, 1843, ^^- ^^• 
Children — Fidelia, b. Dec. 13, 1801, d. Sept. 26, 1802; Samuel, b. Jan. 25, 
1803, d. Dec. 17, 1805; Fidelia, b. May 15, 1804, m. Alanson Dickinson of 
Had., and d. in Michigan, April 15, 1846; Samuel, b. May 29, 1806; twin 
daughters, b. and d. Jan. 12, 1808; Alelissa, b. Jan. 8, 1809, m. Nov. 1827, 
Asa Clark; Dorcas, b. April 5, 181 1, m. Josiah W. Goodman; Andrew 
Wright, b. Oct. 29, 1812, drowned July 9, 1823; Edwin Smith, b. Sept. 27, 
1814, d. at sea, Oct. 29, 1836; Daniel Austin, b. April 16, 1816, res. in Spring- 
field; Albert, b. June 22, 1818, has changed his name to Albert Judd Wright, 
is a painter in Boston; George, b. April 28, 1820, d. April 15, 1822. 



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4. Horace, s. of Reuben, (i) d. in Had., Jan. 4, 183 1, ae. 41. He m. 
abt. 1820, Joanna, dau. of Eli Smith of Had. She m. (2) 1845, -A-sa Brown 
of Had. Children — Henry M., d. Sept. 19, 1827, ae. 7; Martha Smith, d. 
Sept. 17, 1827, ae. 5; Eliza Ann, b. April, 1825, d. Sept. 1830; Charles Porter, 
b. Sept. 2, 1826, m. Algenette Moody of S. H., and res. in S. H.; Martha 
Smith, b. April 11, 1829; Lucinda, b. Dec. 20, 1830, d. Dec. 19, 1844. 

5. Salathiel, s. of Salathiel, (2) S. H., d. March 28, 1842, ae. 46. He 
m. Laura Taylor of Chester. Children — Ellen, b. Nov. 14, 18 19, m. Feb. 14, 
1849, Jonathan Burnet, Jr.; Harvey, b. Oct. 7, 1822, m. Catharine Kellogg of 
S. H., and res. in S. H. ; Mary Miller, b. Jan. 9, 1825, m. Henry M. Goodman; 
Lewis Strong, b. Aug. 19, 1827, m. Nancy Jane Trip of Fair Haven, and res. 
in S. H.; Edward Hooker, b. Dec. 27, 1829, m. Mary Ann Brainard of S. H., 
and res. in S. H.; Alfred Salathiel, b. Sept. 19, 1833, d. Sept. 27, 1848. 

6. Alfred, s. of Salathiel, (2) S. H., m. Oct. 13, 1822, Polly, dau. of 
Selah Smith of S. H. Child — Irene Sophia, b. Jan. 5, 1824, m. 1848, Joseph 
Strong Preston. 

7. Samuel, s. of Samuel, (3) rem. abt. 1852, from S. H. to Grand Rapids, 
Mich. Children — Emily Sophia, b. Jan. 27, 1833, d. Aug. 31, 1833; Samuel 
Adolphus, h. May 21, 1834, m. Clarissa Smith of S. H.; George Edwin, h. 
March 23, 1838; Elliot Eugene and Ellen Eugenia, (twins,) b. Sept. 13, 1841. 



1. JUDD, Thomas, b. in Nh. 1723, s. of Thomas of Nh., who was s. of 
Samuel of Nh., who was s. of Dea. Thomas of Cambridge, 1632, Hartford, 
1636, and Farmington, 1644, res. in S. H., and d. Dec. 21, 1802, in 80th 
yr. He m. (i) 1749, (pub. Oct. 26,) Esther Jones of Springfield. She d. 
Jan. 8, 1760, in 35th yr. ; (2) Esther, dau. of Daniel Graves of Greenfield. 
She d. May 30, 1772, in 38th yr.; (3) Thankful, dau. of John Allen of Green- 
field. She d. Feb. 9, 1775, in 39th yr. ; (4) Ruth Taylor of West Springfield. 
She d. Nov. 16, 1793, in 57th yr. Children — Thomas, b. Nov. 11, 1750; 
Levi, b. Jan. 15, 1753, d. young; Esther, b. Jan. 4, 1755, m. Joseph Bascom 
of Greenfield; Asahel, b. Sept. 4, 1757, d. young; Silva, b. March 10, 1764, 
m. Luther Smith of S. H.; Levi, b. Oct. 27, 1765; Asahel, b. Sept. 28, 1767, 
d. abt. 1852, in Charlemont. He m. (i) Dec. 18, 1790, Azubah, dau. of 
Josiah Snow; (2) Sept. 21, 1795, Margaret, dau. of Capt. Thomas Lothrop 
of Martha's Vineyard; (3) his cousin Elizabeth, wid. of Levi Clapp of East- 
hampton, and dau. of Reuben Judd of S. H.; Elijah, b. June 29, 1769; Allen, 
Td. Jan. 25, 1775. 

2. Thomas, s. of Thomas, (i) S. H., d. March, 1813. He m. Hannah 
Stanley of S. H. Shed. Dec. 5, 1841. Children — Sarah, h. Oct. 22, 1784, 
m. May 18, 1826, Seth Smith of Gr. ; Simeon, b. March 9, 1786; Hannah, 
b. July 27, 1788, d. unm., Feb. 1848; Lydia, b. May 2, 1790, d. July 6, 1791 ; 
Lydia, b. Feb. 3, 1792, d. unm., Jan. 1848; Sophia, b. June 26, 1794, d. unm., 
in Gr., Feb. 11 or 16, 1841; Tirzah. 

3. Levi, s. of Thomas, (i) deacon in S. H., whence in April, 1827, he 
rem. to Geneva, N. Y., and d. Sept. 1829. He m. 1786, Lucy, dau. of Josiah 
Snow of S. H. She m. Dea. Wilder of Geneva, N. Y., and d. there, June, 
1846. Children — Zebina, b. Sept. 24, 1787; Ruth, b. July 7, 1789; Lucy, 



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b. Aug. 21, 1791, m. Halsey Brainard of S. H.; Azubah, b. Nov. i, 1793, m. 
Oct. 2, 182 1, Smith Kentfield, and res. in Ohio; Levi, b. Feb. 18, 1796, m. 
Jan. 25, 1820, Elvira Taylor, and rem. to Waterloo, N. Y., but d. in Geneva, 
N. Y.; Hervey, b. April 7, 1798; Nabby, b. Oct. 26, 1800, m. Moses C. Wright; 
Milton, b. Nov. 17, 1802, m. Theodocia Thompson, and settled in Geneva, 
N. Y. ; Thomas, b. April 4, 1805, m. Mary Ann Brewster, and moved to 
Fredonia, N. Y.; Lorenzo, h. April, 1807, d. July, 1807. 

4. Elijah, s. of Thomas, (i) res. in S. H., Charlemont and Gr., and d. 
March 7, 1837. He m. (i) May 3, 1795, Elizabeth, dau. of Josiah Snow of 
S. H.; (2) Wid. Lucy Tufts, dau. of Benjamin Smith. Children — Quartus, 
b. Nov. 21, 1795, d. in S. H., of consumption; Betsey, b. Sept. 14, 1797, d. in 
Gr., of consumption; Esther, b. May 24, 1799, d. in Gr. of consumption; 
Jemima, b. March 12, 1801, d. in Gr. of consumption; Cordelia, b. March 16, 
1803, m. Algernon Sidney Bartlett, and d. of consumption; Elijah, b. Feb. 20, 
1805, d. in Geneva, N. Y.; Josiah, b. Feb. 28, 1807, res. in Wisconsin; 

Climene, b. July 22, 1809, m. Burt of Springfield; Sylvester, b. Aug. 24, 

1811, res. in Collinsville, Ct.; Jonathan Jones, b. Jan. 25, 1814, res. in Wis. 

5. Allen, s. of Thomas, (i) S. H., d. Aug. 26, 1828. He m. Jan. 2, 
1797, Sarah, dau. of Ebenezer Snow. Children — Willard, b. Dec. 26, 1797; 
Otis, b. March 16, 1800, d. Nov. 3, 1826; Sally, b. May 20, 1802; Allen, b. 
March 14, 1804, res. in Chicopee; William., b. April 3, 1807, d. young; Asaph, 
b. Jan. 22, 1810; Thankful. 

6. Simeon, s. of Thomas, (2) S. H., m. Lydia, dau. of Eli Day of Nh. 
Children — Alethea Day, b. Sept. 30, 1823, m. Elam Hitchcock of South- 
ampton; Andrew Thomas, b. Feb. 9, 1826, m. June 26, 185 1, Sarah H. Day; 
Lydia, b. July 24, 1828, m. Levi Stockwell of Had. 

7. Zebina, s. of Levi, (3) S. H., m. Nov. 23, 1812, Laura, dau. of Silas 
Smith. Children — Zebina, b. Feb. 23, 1814, m. Eliza Turner, and rem. 
to Fredonia, N. Y.; Warren Smith, b. March 27, 1816, d. Oct. 23, 181 7; 
Warren Smith, b. Sept. 6, 1820, m. Jerusha Dickinson of Had. ; Henry Holden, 
b. Oct. 30, 1822, m. Mary Bonney of Had., and res. in S. H.; Lucy Asenath, 
b. March 30, 1826, m. Oliver Bonney of Had. 

8. Hervey, s. of Levi, (3) S. H., was killed in his cellar, by lightning, 
Aug. 8, 1853, ae. 55. He m. Maria Alvord of Nh. Children — Harriet Maria, 
b. Jan. 26, 1827; Edwin Hervey, b. June 20, 1828, m. Elvira Thorp; Levi 
Harrison, b. Oct. 29, 1829; Twins, b. Aug. 27, 1833, d. Aug. 31, 1833; 
Samuel Emerson, b. Oct. 5, 1835, d. May 9, 1836; Louisa Irene, b. Nov. 23, 
1836; John Dwight, b. Nov. 4, 1840, d. young. 

9. Willard, s. of Allen, (5) S. H., m. Sophia Searl of Norwich. Chil- 
dren — Otis Allen, b. Sept. 6, 1829, m. Celia Thorp; Elizabeth Sophia, 
b. Sept. 12, 183 1, m. March 14, 1851, George White of Had.; Henry W., b. 
Nov. 20, 1833; Watson S., b. Oct. 20, 1835; Sarah Ellen, b. Sept. 15, 1837; 
Child, b. and d. Dec. 13, 1840; John Dwight, b. May 8, 1843. 

10. Asaph, s. of Allen, (5) S. H., d. June 8, 1856, ae. 46. He m. Lucretia, 
dau. of John Bates of Westhampton. She d. May, 1855. Children — 
Frances Jane, b. Jan. 22, 1836; William Asaph, b. March 4, 1838; John 
Harrison, b. April 7, 1840. 



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1. KELLOGG, Joseph, weaver, of Farmington, Ct., in 1651, rem. as 
early as 1659 to Boston, and thence as early as 1662 to Hadley, where he was 
a lieutenant and often one of the selectmen. He d. ae. abt. 80, in 1707 or 
1708, as appears from the fact, that his will dated 1707, was proved Feb. 4, 

1708. He m. (i) Joanna , who d. Sept. 14, 1666; (2) May 9, 1667, 

Abigail, dau. of Stephen Terry of Windsor, Ct. She was living as late as 1 714, 
at which date she gave land to her son Ebenezer. Children — Elizabeth, b. 
March 5, 1651, d. young; Joseph, b. Aug. 11, 1653, d. between 1680 and 1684; 
Nathaniel, bapt. Oct. 29, 1654, d. young; John, bapt. Dec. 29, 1656; Martin; 
Edward, b. Oct. i, 1660; Samuel, b. Sept. 28, 1662; Joanna, b. Dec. 8, 1664, 
m. Nov. 29, 1683, John Smith; Sarah, b. Aug. 27, 1666, m. April 27, 1686, 
Samuel Ashley of Westfield; Stephen, b. April 9, 1668; Nathaniel, b. Oct. 8, 
1669; Abigail, b. Oct. 9, 167 1, m. Nov. 14, 1688, Jonathan Smith of Hat.; 
Elizabeth, b. Oct. 9, 1673, m. Nov. 27, 1691, John Nash; Prudence, b. Oct. 14, 
1675, m. April 18, 1699, Dea. Abraham Merrill of West Hartford, Ct., and d. 
Sept. 21, 1747, ae. 71; Ebenezer, b. Nov. 22, 1677, rem. to Colchester, Ct., as 
early as 1726; Jonathan, b. Dec. 25, 1679, rem. to Colchester, Ct., and d. 
Aug. 8, 1771, ae. 91; Daniel, b. March 22, 1682, d. July 5, 1684; Joseph, b. 
April or May 12, 1684, res. in Hat., and d. s. p., Sept. 9, 1724, ae. 40. He m. 
July 5, 1710, Elizabeth Colton. She m. Joseph Billings; Daniel, b. June 10, 
1686, d. young; Ephraim, b. 2, 1687, d. young. 

2. John, s. of Joseph, (i) d. between 1723 and 1728. He m. (i) Dec. 
23, 1680, Sarah, dau. of Samuel Moody. She d. Sept. 10, 1689; m. (2) 

Ruth , who was alive in 1732. Children — Sarah, b. May 2, 1682; 

John, b. March 21, 1684, d. March, 1691; Joseph, b. Nov. 6, 1685; Samuel, 
b. April I, 1687, res. in Westfield; Son, b. and d. Sept. 9, 1689; Ruth, b. 
April 5, 1693, d. Nov. 15, 1705; Joanna, b. June 12, 1694, m. 1719, Samuel 
Taylor; Esther, b. Feb. 17, 1696; Abigail, b. Sept. 20, 1697, m. (i) Feb. 14, 
1729, Jonathan Atherton; (2) Jan. 24, 1745, Isaac Hubbard of Sunderland; 
John, b. Oct. 1699, d. June 10, 1727, ae. 28; James, b. July 10, 1701. 

3. Martin, s. of Joseph, (i) Hat., whence he afterwards rem. to Hat., 
and later to Suffield, Ct. He m. (i) Dec. 10, 1684, Anna, dau. of Samuel 
Hinsdale. She d. July 19, 1689, ae. 23; (2) Feb. 27, 1691, Sarah, wid. of 
Samuel Lane, and dau. of John Dickinson. She d. Feb. 11, 1732; (3) Oct. 5, 
1732, Sarah, wid. of Ebenezer Smith of Suffield, and dau. of Thomas Huxley 
of Suffield. Children — Martin, b. Oct. 26, 1686, res. in Newington, Ct., and 
d. Nov. 15, 1753, ae. 67. He m. Jan. 3, 1716, Dorothy, dau. of Stephen 
Chester of Wethersfield, Ct. She was b. Sept. 5, 1692; Anna, b. July 14, 
1689, m. 1712, Joseph Severance; Joseph, b. Nov. 8, 1691, an Indian inter- 
preter, was for several years at Fort Dummer, was at the Albany treaty in 
1754, and d. in 1756 on the Oswego expedition. He was buried in Schenec- 
tady, N. Y.; Joanna, b. Feb. 8, 1693, was captured in 1704, by French and 
Indians, and married an Indian chief in Canada; Rebecca, b. Dec. 22, 1695, 
m. Benjamin Ashley of Westfield, and d. 1757, at Onohogwage; Jonathan, 
b. Dec. 17, 1698. 

4. Edward, s. of Joseph, (i) rem. abt. 1713, to Brookfield. He m. 
Dorothy. Children — Joseph, b. Oct. 29, 1692, d. July 22, 1709; Joanna, b. 
Oct. 5, 1694; Thomas, b. Dec. 17, 1696; Dorothy, b. March 6, 1700; Catha- 



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rine, b. Feb. i, 1702; Mary, b. March 29, 1703; Ephraim, b. April 19, 1707, 
sold in 1729, to Thomas Kellogg of Lebanon, Ct., all lands in Brookfield; 
Elinor, b. Jan. 20, 17 10; Edward, b. Aug. 25, 17 13, sold in 1729, to Thomas 
Kellogg of Lebanon, Ct., all lands in Brookfield. 

5. Samuel, s. of Joseph, (i) a deacon in Hartford, Ct., d. 1717. He m. 

Sept. 22, 1687, Sarah Merrill, who d. 1719. Children — Samuel, h. 27, 

1688, m. May 11, 171 1, Hannah Benton; Alargaret, b. Jan. 1690; Abraham, 
b. 1692, m. 1 7 18, Miriam Cook, and d. 17 18; John, b. Dec. 16, 169-; Isaac, 
b. Jan. 169-; Jacob, b. April 17; Benjamin, b. Jan., m. Nov. 9, 1721, 
Abigail Sedgwick; Joseph, b. April 13; Daniel, h. Apr., m. Nov. 27, 1729, 
Deborah Moor. 

6. Stephen, s. of Joseph, (i) removed in 1697 from Had. to Westfield, 
where he d. June 5, 1722. He m. May 8, 1695, Lydia Belding. Children — 
Stephen, b. Feb. 3, 1695; Lydia, b. Jan. 24, 1697, perhaps m. Jan. 17, 1734, 
Benjamin Lewis of Colchester, Ct.; Moses, b. Oct. 26, 1700, d. Sept. 15, 1704; 
Abigail, b. Dec. 27, 1702, m. Benjamin Sheldon; Daniel, b. Dec. 16, 1704, 
m. May 13, 1731, Hannah, dau. of Matthew Noble of Westfield, and d. Jan. 11, 

1756; Ephraim, b. July 2, 1707, prob. m. 1737, Lydia , res. in Northfield, 

Shutesbury, &c., and was slain 1759, in Capt. Smith's Co.; Mercy, b. Oct. 30, 
1709; Noah, h. Feb. 13, 171 1 ; Silas, b. April 7, 17 14, m. May 10, 1739, Ruth 
Root, and d. in Sheffield, Jan. 24, 1792, ae. 77; Amos, h. Sept. 30, 1716, m. 
May 27, 1747, Prudence Sedgwick, and d. in Sheffield, Nov. 26, 1770, 
ae. 54. 

7. Nathaniel, s. of Joseph, (i) rem. abt. 1739 to Amh., and d. Oct. 30, 
1750, ae. 80. He m. June 28, 1692, Sarah, dau. of Samuel Boltwood. She 
was living Jan. 26, 1761. Children — Nathaniel, b. Sept. 22, 1693; Ebenezer, 
b. May 31, 1695; Ezekiel, b. April 15, 1697; Samuel, h. April 4, 1699; Sarah, 
b. March 12, 1701, m. May 26, 1720, Ebenezer Dickinson of Amh., and d. 
March 22, 1743; Abigail, b. March 19, 1703, m. Sept. 7, 1726, Benjamin 
Sheldon of Westfield; Mary, b. March 9, 1706, m. Nov. 14, 1732, Doct. 
Richard Crouch, and d. Dec. 29, 1788, ae. 82; Ephraim, b. Aug. 2, 1709; 
Experience, m. Oct. 15, 1736, Timothy Nash of Shutesbury. 

8. Joseph, s. of John, (2) rem. to S. H. His son John was appointed 
his administrator in 1788, several years after his death. Hem. March 15, 171 1, 
Abigail, dau. of Ebenezer Smith. Children — Abigail, b. Dec. 8, 1711; 
Sarah, b. Jan. 8, 1714, prob. m. Joseph Moody; Ebenezer, b. Dec. 26, 1715; 
Ruth, b. Jan. 18, 1717, m. Dec. 21, 1739, Benjamin Church; Martha, b. 
May 21, 1720, m. Nov. 11, 1742, Nathaniel Ingram; Esther, b. Sept. 19, 
1722; Joseph, b. Dec. 24, 1724; John, b. Oct. 13, 1727. 

9. James, s. of John, (2) d. July 15, 1758, ae. 57. He m. Aug. 11, 1727, 
Experience, dau. of Dea. John Smith. She d. Aug. 23, 1762. Children — 
John, d. unm., Sept. 7, 1771, in 41st yr. ; Experience, m. July 21, 1772, Eli 
Root; Ruth, m. 1757, (pub. Dec. 27,) Joshua Ballard, and d. 1776; Jemima, 
m. Feb. 23, 1769, Stephen Nash, Jr., of Stockbridge, and d. Feb. 17, 1790, 
ae. 53; Jerusha, m. Nov. 14, 1771, Eliakim Smith; Joanna, m. 1765, (pub. 
Feb. 28,) Stephen Goodman, and d. 1831, ae. 89; Mercy, prob. m. Sept. 18, 
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10. Stephen, s. of Stephen, (6) a trader and innkeeper, d. Dec. ir, 1738. 
He m. June 18, 1734, Mary, dau. of Moses Cook. She m. (2) Oct. 30, 1744, 
Moses Nash of West Hartford, Ct., and d. Sept. 21, 1775. Children — Stephen, 
b. July 2, 1736, d. Dec. 1738; Abigail, b. Aug. 10, 1738, m. 1757, Ashbel 
Wells of West Hartford, Ct. 

11. Nathaniel, s. of Nathaniel, (7) was a noted surveyor, and d. Aug. 6, 
1770. He m. (i) March 4, 17 14, Sarah, dau. of John Preston. She d. Oct. 
16, 1756; (2) 1758, (pub. July I,) Mrs. Martha Hammond of Hardwick, 
dau. of Ichabod Allis of Hat. She d. Sept. 13, 1764; (3) 1765, (pub. Oct. 5,) 
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith of Ware. Children — Daniel, h. abt. 171 7; Joel, b. abt. 
1724, res. in Whately, and d. 1798, ae. 74. He m. 1748, (pub. Aug. 7,) 
Joanna, dau. of Samuel Clark of Nh.; Abraham; Gardner; Moses; Prudence, 
h. abt. 1723, m. June 27, 1751, Josiah Parsons, Jr., of Nh., and d. June 27, 
1 79 1, ae. 68; Phebe, m. Nov. 9, 1749, Eleazar Nash of Gr., and d. abt. ^TJT, 
Sarah, d. unm.; Nathaniel, d. Nov. 8, 1756; Abigail, d. Oct. 15, 1756. 

12. Ebenezer, s. of Nathaniel, (7) was a captain, res. in Had., Amh., 
New Salem and Stow, and d. in Had., at the house of his sister, Mrs. Crouch, 
Aug. 17, 1766. He m. (i) Dec. 13, 17 16, Elizabeth, wid. of Philip Panthorn, 
and dau. of John Ingram; (2) 1756, (pub. Sept. 18,) Mrs. Sarah Stevens of 
Stow. Children — Martin, b. Sept. 24, 17 18; Ebenezer. 

13. EzEKiEL, s. of Nathaniel, (7) was a trader in Had, and New Salem. 
He m. Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel Partridge. Children — Elisabeth, d. 1726, 
ae. 2; Dau., d. 1725; Maria, d. 1726; Ezekiel, b. Sept. 22, 1728; Cotton, 
b. Nov. 2, 1732, d. unm., 1756; Giles Crouch, b. May 7, 1733, grad. H. C. 
1751, a physician in Had., d. Aug. 28, 1793; William, b. Feb. i, 1739; 
Samuel, b. Feb. i, 1739; Elizabeth, b. Dec. 20, 1740, d. unm. 

14. Samuel, s. of Nathaniel, (7) S. H., d. abt. May, 1741. He m. May 
22, 1724, Sarah, dau. of Dea. John Smith. She m. (2) Jan. 1749, William 
Montague. Children — Samuel, b. March 17, 1725, m. June 22, 1751, Mary 
Nash, and d. in Westfield, Jan. 19, 1777; Joanna, d. Dec. 19, 1756; Gad; 
Dan; Huldah, d. Oct. 3, 1756; Mary; Lucy; Sarah, d. June 12, 1747. 

15. Ephraim, s. of Nathaniel, (7) Amh., d. March 16, 1777, ae. 67. He 
m. May i, 1741, Dorothy, dau. of Samuel Hawley of Amh. She d. July 26, 
1812, ae. 89. Children — Ephraim, bapt. Jan. 3, 1742; Martin, bapt. Jan. 8, 
1744; Dorothy, bapt. Feb 23, 1746, m. William Field of Leverett, and d. 
Aug. I, 1773, ae. 27; Abigail, bapt. Oct. 16, 1748, m. (i) Ezra Rood; (2) 
Feb. 12, 1801, John Pynchon of Springfield, and d. March i, 1836, ae. 87; 
Jo/in, bapt. April, 1751, d. May 15, 1753; Sarah, bapt. Oct. 7, 1753, m. Sept. 6, 
1773, Jonathan Field of Leverett; Joseph, b. Nov. 28, 1758. 

16. Ebenezer, s. of Joseph, (8) S. H., m. Dec. 15, 1748, Sarah Snow. 
Children — Amos, h. Oct. i, 1749; Lois, h. March 4, 1752; Sarah, b. Aug. 25. 
1754; Seth, b. Sept. 5, 1767. 

17. Joseph, s. of Joseph, (8) S. H., d. Oct. 14, 1810, ae. 8^. He m. 
Dorothy Taylor. She d. Aug. 26, 1803. Children— £//, b. June 2, 1757, 
res. in S. H.; Eliakim, b. Sept. 10, 1759, res. in S. H.; Elijah, b. Aug. 17, 
1761; Joseph, b. May i, 1773. 

18. Daniel, s. of Nathaniel, (11) Amh., d. Jan. 14, 1799. He m. (i) 
1 75 1, (pub. Sept. 21,) Esther, dau. of John Smith of S. H. She d. Dec. 18, 



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1756; (2) 1758, (pub. April 15,) Thankful, wid. of Joseph Hawley of Amh., 

and dau. of Alexander; (3) Sarah, dau. of Josiah Parsons of Nh. She 

was b. May 29, 1723, and d. Feb. 26, 1807. Children — Daniel, bapt. July 
26, 1752; Aaron, bapt. Nov. 16, 1755, grad. Y. C. 1778, was deranged, 
and d. unm., in Amh., Dec. 11, 1830, ae. 76; David, bapt. Nov. 16, 1755; 
Jonathan, bapt. Nov. 16, 1755, d. young. 

19. Abraham, s. of Nathaniel, (i i) Amh., prob. removed before his death 
to Leverett. He m. Dec. 7, 1758, Sarah, dau. of Jonathan Cowls of Amh. 
She d. in Leverett, Oct. 26, 1819. Children — Sybil, b. Sept. 24, 1761, m. 
Oct. 6, 1785, Enos Graves of Leverett; Sarah, bapt. April 15, 1764; Samuel, 
bapt. May 20, 1770, m. Hannah Marsh, and rem. to Waterbury, Vt; Abraham, 
bapt. Dec. 13, 1772. 

20. Gardner, s. of Nathaniel, (11) d. Oct. 6, 1814. He m. Thankful 
Chapin of West Springfield. She d. Feb. 24, 1805. Children — Nathaniel, 
C. Oct. I, 1763; Gardner, b. Sept. 22, 1765, grad. Y. C. 1791, was a clergyman 
in Bradford, N. H., and in Me.; Josiah, b. July 15, 1767; Lucy, b. Nov. 2, 
1769, m. June 27, 1819, Henry Chapin of Springfield, and d. Dec. 10, 1843. 

21. Moses, s. of Nathaniel, (11) d. May 28, 1815, ae. 82. He m. April 3, 
1758, Mary Sheldon of Sheffield, who d. Dec. 22, 1812, ae. 75. Children — 
Whiting; Moses, b. Feb. 16, 1761; Benjamin, b. Aug. 7, 1763; Polly, b. 1766, 
d. unm., Aug. 1785; Abigail Sheldon, bapt. Nov. 4, 1768, m. Feb. 9, 1796, 
Elisha Belding of Whately; Experience, bapt. May 12, 177 1, m. Feb. 2, 1797, 
Aristobulus Smith, and d. 1854; Electa, b. Nov. 1773, m. 1822, Elisha Wait; 
Samuel, bapt. Nov. 9, 1777. 

22. Ebenezer, s. of Ebenezer, (12) Amh., d. at Fort Independence 
in the Revolutionary war. He m. Jan. 13, 1751, Sarah, dau. of Preserved 
Clapp of Amh. She was b. Oct. 4, 1733. She m. (2) April 23, 1778, John 
Nash of Amh. Children — Sarah, bapt. May 13, 1753, m. Joseph BoUes; 
Ebenezer, bapt. July 14, 1754, m. (i) Elizabeth Crocker; Jonathan, bapt. 
Oct. 24, 1760; Betsey, m. Reuben Dickinson, Jr. of Amh. 

23. Ephraim, s. of Ephraim, (15) Amh., d. Jan. 29, 1815. He m. 

Esther , who d. Nov. 30, 1823. Children — John; Ephraim, m. April 7, 

1791, Martha, dau. of Lt. David Smith of Amh., and removed to Weybridge, 
Vt., and thence to Malone, N. Y.; Electa, m. Jan. 15, 1789, Nathaniel Bangs, 
and removed to New Salem; Esther, m. Dec. 21, 1785, Elijah Prouty; Elijah, 
m. Hannah Herrick, rem. to Weybridge, Vt., and thence to the State of 

New York; Elisha, rem. to Weybridge, Vt.; David, m. (i) Ashley; 

(2) Submit, dau. of David Blodgett, Jr., and rem. to Weybridge, Vt., and 
thence to Malone, N. Y.; Joel, b. abt. 1780, m. Elizabeth Alexander of Deer- 
field, and d. in Amh., June 27, 1827, ae. 47; Philomela, m. Feb. 27, 1810, 
Elisha Smead of Weybridge, Vt. 

24. Martin, s. of Ephraim, (15) Amh., d. Nov. 7, 1827, ae. 84. He m. 
(i) Hannah, dau. of Zaccheus Crocker of Shutesbury. She d. Aug. 9, 1812, 
ae. 69; (2) Lucy, wid. of Samuel Hastings, and dau. of Simeon Pomeroy. 
She d. Dec. 23, 1839, ae. 87. Children — Sylvanus, bapt. Sept. 24, 1769, 
d. Nov. 30, 1774; Elisabeth, b. 1771, d. Dec. 4, 1774, ae. 3 yrs.; Dorothy, 
bapt. March 20, 1774, m. Chester Hubbard, and rem. to Wilmington, Vt.; 
Betsey, bapt. May 26, 1776, d. Feb. 15, 1814; Martin, b. Oct. 27, 1778, m. 



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Oct. 31, 1799, Hannah, dau. of Thomas Hastings, and d. in Had., April 14, 
1856; Bela, b. Aug. 24, 1780; Clarissa, bapt. Feb. 2, 1783, m. June 13, 1804, 
Otis Hastings, and rem. to Weybridge, Vt.; Hannah Crocker, bapt. June 23, 
1786, m. Aug. 6, 1807, Otis Cady of Bolton, Ct., and d. Feb. 1839; Sarah 
Beals, bapt. July 23, 1786, m. Samuel Morgan; Achsah, bapt. May 30, 1790, 
m. Dec. 10, 181 2, Thomas Barnes. 

25. Joseph, s. of Ephraim, (15) Amh., d. March 11, 1838, ae. 79. He 
m. Dec. 16, 1781, Jerusha, dau. of Elisha Ingram of Amh. She d. Dec. 5, 
1824, ae. 69. Children — Dau., b. and d. 1782; William, b. May 12, 1784, 
m. Susanna Ingram of Amh.; Mary, h. July 25, 1785, m. Luke Wait of 
Whately, and d. Feb. 19, 1827; Joseph, b. July 16, 1786, m. (i) Nov. 28, 
1809, Joanna, dau. of John Kellogg of Amh., and res. in Amh.; Lucy, b. 
Oct. 25, 1788, m. Feb. 26, 1810, Rufus Crafts of Whately; Rufus, b. July, 
1794, m. June 22, 1820, Nancy Stetson, and d. in Amh., April 9, 1845, ^^- 48; 
Jerusha Ingram, b. Oct. 13, 1798, d. June 27, 1826, ae. 27. 

26. Daniel, s. of Daniel, (18) Amh., d. March i, 1826, ae. 73. He m. 
Dec. 15, 1778, Mercy, dau. of Joseph Eastman of Amh., and d. Jan. 12, 1823, 
ae. 68. Children — Sarah, d. Feb. 25, 1786; Esther Smith, bapt. March 6, 
1780, m. Feb. 22, 1802, Martin Field, Esq., of Newfane, Vt., in which place 
she now (June, 1862) resides; Mercy, bapt. Sept. 22, 1782, m. Alden Cooley; 
Sally, bapt. Dec. 6, 1787; Rufus, bapt. Nov. 23, 1788, d. in Amh., Dec. 2, 
1833, ae. 45. He m. (i) Esther Mayo of Orange. She d. April 18, 1813, 
ae. 28; (2) Oct. 26, 1815, Abigail Chamberlain. She d. May 8, 1824, ae. ^2>'t 
(3) Mary Smith of Had.; Daniel, bapt. Feb. 13, 1791, grad. W. C. 1810, res. 
in Brattleboro', Vt., and was for many years one of the Judges of the Supreme 
Court of Vt.; Charles, bapt. Dec. 9, 1792, m. Oct. 29, 181 2, Tryphena, dau. of 
Caleb Hubbard of Sunderland, and d. in Amh., June 20, 1834, ae. 42; Henry, 
b. Dec. 10, 1794, grad. Y. C. 1815, is a lawyer in Bennington, Vt., and m. (i) 
Jan. 27, 1825, Margaret V. D. S. Hubbell; (2) Oct. 16, 1831, Ann Maria 
Hubbell. 

27. David, D. D., s. of Daniel, (18) grad. D. C. 1775, studied divinity 
with Rev. David Parsons of Amh., was ordained Jan. 10, 1781, as pastor of 
the Cong, church in Framingham, and remained pastor of the same until abt. 
1830. He d. April 13, 1843, ^^- 87. He received the degree of Doctor of 
Divinity from his Alma Mater in 1824. He m. May 27, 1781, Sally 
Bridge, who d. Feb. 14, 1826, ae. 73. Children — Mary, b. Feb. 25, 
1782, m. July 19, 1801, Dr. John Ball Kittredge, and d. Aug. 20, 1836; 
Sally, b. Sept. 28, 1783, m. May 9, 1808, Dea. William Brown, Jr., of Boston; 

Nancy, b. July 16, 1785; Gardner, b. Aug. 20, 1788, m. Wid. Fairbanks, 

and d. April 29, 1842; Martha, bapt. May, 1787; David, bapt. April, 1791; 
Charles, bapt. April, 1793. 

28. Nathaniel, s. of Gardner, (20) m. (i) Drake of Buckland; 

(2) Wid. Moody of Amh. Children — Nathaniel; Chloe; Roswell; 

Molly; Gardner; Charles Austin. 

29. JosiAH, s. of Gardner, (20) m. Hannah Smith of Ashfield. Children — 
Thankful, b. Sept. 8, 1795, m. Sylvester Cook; Merub, b. July 4, 1797, d. 
Sept. 30, 1788; Lucy, b. April 26, 1799, d. ae. abt. 15; Diathena, b. Feb. 12. 
1801 ; Naomi Parsons, b. Jan. 26, 1803, m. Thaddeus Chapin; Josiah, h. Feb. 



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17, 1805, m. Cynthia Chapin; John Preston, bapt. March 22, 1806; Gardner; 
Merub, m. Rice; Priscilla. 

30. Whiting, s. of Moses, (21) res. in Ashfield and Montgomery, but d. 
in Had., Jan. 16, 1838. He m. Elizabeth Cross of Ashfield. Children — 

Spencer, d. young; Richard, m. Hatch of West Springfield; Elizabeth, 

m. Daniel Stearns, and rem. to Wisconsin; Emily, d. young. 

31. Benjamin, s. of Moses, (21) d. July 25, 1811, ae. 48. He m. Dec. 11, 
1788, Patty, dau. of Wareham Smith. She d. Nov. 20, 1835, ae. 67. Chil- 
dren — Marma, b. Sept. 12, 1789, m. Seth M. Warner of Sunderland; Horace, 
b. Sept. 16, 1791, m. Aug. 12, 1813, Almira, dau. of Joel Smith, and d. in 
Amh., Oct. 4, 1858, ae. 67; Amelia, b. Dec. 25, 1795, d. Sept. 8, 1828, ae. 32; 
Elizabeth, h. Oct. 11, 1798, d. unm. April 8, 1861; Martha, b. June 7, 1801; 
Mary, h. Jan. 1804, d. Aug. 18, 1805; Sarah, h. Aug. 25, 1806, d. April 7, 
1807; Charles Austin, b. April 29, 1808, m. Maria Cook; Angeline, b. Feb. 

18, 1811. 

32. Jonathan, s. of Ebenezer, (22) shoemaker in Amh., d. Feb. 28, 
1823, ae. 62. He m. June 5, 1783, Mary Holland of Pelham. She d. March 

5, 1823. Children — Ira, res. in Montague; Chester, b. Jan. 21, 1788, a 
shoemaker in Amh., d. Jan. 7, 1849, ^^- ^i- He m. (i) June, 1808, Lois, 
dau. of Silas Dickinson of Amh. She d. Dec. 13, 1809; (2) Aug. i, 18 16, 
Maria, dau. of Rufus Bixbee of Amh. ; David, res. in Granby. 

33. John, s. of Ephraim, (23) Amh., was a deacon in First church, and 
d. Dec. 6, 1844, ae. 79. He m. (i) Roxana, dau. of Ebenezer Mattoon. 
She d. Sept. 2, 1804; (2) Mrs. Martha Ingram. She d. May 10, 1837. Chil- 
dren — John, b. May 31, 1786, a lawyer in Benson, Vt., m. (i) Harriet Nash; 
(2) May 6, 1847, Ame Stoughton, wid. of Jonathan Dickinson, and dau. of 
John Dickinson, all of Amh.; Son and dau., (twins,) b. and d. Jan. 31, 1788; 
Joanna, b. Jan. 4, 1789, m. Nov. 28, 1809, Joseph Kellogg of Amh., and d. 
Dec. 19, 1852; Prudence, b. Feb. 7, 1791, m. Oct. 27, 1814, Samuel James; 
Elizabeth, h. April 27, 1795, m. Jan. 26, 1820, Hon. Ithamar Conkey of Amh.; 
Roxa Mattoon, h. Dec. 24, 1797, m. Dec. 13, 18 18, William Field of Leverett; 
Eleazar, b. March 16, 1800; Stillman, b. May 31, 1802, d. April 14, 1832, 
ae. 29; Charles, b. March 31, 1804, d. Oct. i, 1804; Henry, b. March 31, 

1804, d. April 16, 1805. 

34. Bela, s. of Martin, (24) grad. W. C. 1800, studied theology with 
Rev. Nathaniel Emmons, D. D. of Franklin, was ordained 1813 over the 
(Cong.) church in Brookfield, Ct., dismissed 18 17, ord. in Avon, Ct., 18 19, 
dis. 1830, on account of ill health, and d. April 30, 183 1. He m. June 6, 

1805, Lydia, dau. of Samuel Candee. She was b. in New Haven, Ct., Nov. i, 
1778, and d. in Avon, Dec. 3, 1843, ae. 65. Children — Cordelia, b. March 17, 

1806, m. Dr. Alfred Kellogg, and d. April 30, 1831; M. A., b. April 23, 1808, 
m. April 30, 1829, Marilla Cooley of Hartford, Ct., and res. in Philadelphia, 
Pa.; Bela C, b. April 27, 1811, m. Oct. 15, 1839, Mary G., dau. of Rev. 
John Bartlett of West Avon, Ct., and res. in Avon; Lucius Storrs, b. Oct. 

6, 1813, d. June 21, 1822; Cynthia Amelia, b. Dec. 12, 1815, m. Dec. 12, 
1838, Rev. James Kilbourn of Sandwich, De Kalb Co., 111.; Mary Elizabeth, 
b. Sept. 18, 1821, m. Sept. 1843, E. M. Woodford of West Avon, Ct.; Martha 
L., b. Dec. 9, 1823. 



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KELLOGG, Giles Crouch, b. Aug. 12, 1781, grad. Y. C. 1800, read law 
with Jonathan E. Porter, Esq., was admitted to the bar in Hampshire County, 
opened an office in Hadley, and there spent his Hfe. By his townsmen he 
was honored with many private and public trusts. For many years he was 
town clerk and treasurer, and for thirteen years Register of Deeds for Hamp- 
shire County. He was often representative to the General Court of the 
State, and was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1853. In the 
war of 181 2, he served as an adjutant in one of the Massachusetts regiments. 
For several years he taught successfully in the Hopkins Academy in Hadley. 
He d. June 19, 1861, ae. 80. He m. 1814, Martha Hunt, dau. of Noadiah 
Warner. She was b. Oct. 9, 1787. Children — Ebenezer White, b. Feb. 
6, 1815; Francis, b. Jan. 25, 1817; Giles, b. March 2, 1819; Maria Catlin, 
b. June 18, 1821; Martha Hunt, b. Oct. 25, 1823; Lucy Warner, b. March 22, 
1826; Anna Marsh b. Aug. 11, 1828; William, b. Aug. 1830, d. March 20, 
1831. 

KELLOGG, Samuel, Hat., d. July 17, 1711. He m. (i) Nov. 24, 1664, 
Sarah, wid. of Nathaniel Gunn of Hartford, Ct., and dau. of Robert Day of 
Hartford. She was slain by Indians, Sept. 19, 1677; (2) March 20, 1679, 
Sarah Root of Westfield. Children — Samuel, b. April 11, 1669; Nathaniel, 
b. June 4, 1671; Ebenezer, b. June 2, 1674; Joseph, b. Sept. 19, 1676, slain 
by Indians, Sept. 19, 1677; John, b. April 25, 1680, res. in Hat., d. prob. 
unm., made his Will in 1755; Thomas, b. Oct. i, 1681, non compos, d. unm. 
in Hat. previous to 1758; Sarah, b. April 14, 1684, m. May 8, 1701, Abraham 
Morton of Hat. 

2. Samuel, s. of Samuel, (i) rem. after 1701 from Hat. to Colchester, Ct., 
and d. 1708. He m. Hannah, dau. of Nathaniel Dickinson, Jr. She d. in 
Colchester, Ct., Aug. 3, 1745. Children — Samuel, b. May 18, 1694; Joseph, 
b. June 18, 1696; Hannah, b. Sept. 11, 1699; Eunice, b. Aug. 3, 1701. 

3. Nathaniel, s. of Samuel, (i) rem. after 1699 from Hat. to Colchester, 
Ct., and d. Aug. 22, 1757, ae. 86. He m. (i) Margaret, who d. Dec. 15, 1747, 
in 71st yr. ; (2) May 29, 1748, Widow Priscilla Williams of Colchester. 
Children — Margaret, b. Feb. 15, 1698; Editha, b. Nov. 13, 1699; Nathaniel, 
b. Aug. 8, 1703; Sarah, b. Dec. 27, 1706; Lydia, b. May 29, 1710; Ezra, 
b. Sept. 6, 1724. 

4. Nathaniel, s. of Nathaniel, (3) res. in Colchester, Ct., and d. April i, 
1762, ae. 59. He m. July i, 1725, Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Williams. She 
was b. in Colchester, Feb. 13, 1703. Children — Charles, b. Sept. 17, 1726; 
Elizabeth, b. July 8, 1729; Sarah, b. Feb. 22, 1732; Delight, b. Oct. 5, 1734; 
Margaret, b. Jan. 17, 1737. 

5. Ezra, s. of Nathaniel, (3) Hat., d. in Colchester, Ct., Jan. 5, 1754, 
ae. 29. He m. Ruth, who m. (2) Nov. 4, 1757, Henry Stiles, and d. 1812, 
ae. 86. Children — Sarah; Russell, b. July 16, 1750; Oliver. 

KELSEY, Matthew, m. Sarah. Child— Elijah, b. Feb. 28, 1762. 

KING, Elisha, b. Nov. 11, 1717, s. of Benjamin of Nh., who was s. of 
John of Nh., res. in Had. 1762-4, but rem. to Hat. where he d. 1785 or 
1786. He m. May 20, 1753, Jemima Graves. Children — Mary, m. June 4, 
1779, Dea. Moses Warner; Jemima, non compos. 



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KING, Thomas, b. July 14, 1662, s. of John of Nh., settled in Hat., but 
rem. to Hartford, Ct., where he d. Dec. 26, 1711, ae. 49. He m. (i) Nov. 17, 
1683, Abigail, dau. of Jedediah Strong of Nh. She d. July 24, 1689, ae. 23; 
(2) 169 1, Mary, dau. of Robert Webster of Hartford. She d. in Hartford, 

Sept. 27, 1706; (3) , who d. Jan. 2, 1712. Children — Thomas, 

b. Dec. 3, 1684, d. young; Abigail, b. Jan. 31, 1687; Mary, b. Oct. 5, 1691, 
per. m. 1711, Thomas Clapp; Thomas; Robert. 

KING, William, m. Nov. 12, 1684, Sarah Allison. Children — Thomas, 
b. Jan. 3, 1686; Elizabeth, b. March 29, 1690, prob. d. Jan. 11, 1715. 

KNEELAND, Edward, Jr., m. Dec. 31, 1788, Betsey Peck. Children — 
Hannah; Joseph; Samuel, bapt. Aug. 31, 1794; Betsey, b. Feb. 8, 1795; 
Edward, bapt. Oct. 23, 1796; Lucinda, bapt. Oct. 13, 1799; Elmira; Lydia; 
Electa. 

KNIGHT, Benjamin, m. Sarah, who d. June 2, 1754. Children — Catha- 
rine, h. May 11, 1748; Lucius, b. May 30, 1750. 

1. LANE, John, probably s. of Samuel of Suffield, d. 1745 or 1746. He 
m. Susanna, dau. of Samuel Strong. Children — John, b. Sept. 12, 1717; 
Elizabeth, b. Oct. 26, 1719, m. Jacob Taylor of Granby; Samuel, b. Nov. 13, 
1 72 1, a soldier of So. Had. 1756. 

2. John, s. of John, (i) m. Olive. Children — John, b. Nov. 15, 1754; 
Samuel, b. Dec. 7, 1757; Ruth, b. Aug. 15, 1760; Elizabeth, b. Oct. 6, 1762; 
Jonathan, b. Dec. 18, 1764. 

LAWRENCE, John, after the birth of his children removed to Brook- 
field, and was slain by Indians, 1694. He m. Oct. 16, 1684, Sarah, dau. 
of Samuel Smith. She m. (2) Aug. 15, 1705, Ebenezer Wells of Hatfield. 
Children — John, h. Oct. i, 1686, d. Jan. 1687; daughter, b. and d. Nov. 15, 
1687; Mary, h. Nov. i, 1688, m. Jan. 29, 1708, John Allis, and d. Nov. 8, 
1 7 13; Child, b. and d. Jan. 16, 1689; Deliverance, b. June 20, 1693, m. 
Dec. I, 1715, John Belden; Sarah, b. Sept. 8, 1694, m. Aug. 19, 1714, 
Samuel Smith. 

LAWRENCE, Stephen, s. of Eleazar, d. Feb. 6, 185 1. He m. Nov. 2, 
1842, Ethelinda, dau. of Wm. Smith. Children — Julia Ann, h. Jan. 11, 1846, 
d. Aug. 24, 1848; George Smith, b. Sept. 23, 1847, d. Sept. 7, 1850; William 
Smith, b. May 29, 1849. 

LEVENS, or LEAVENS, Andrew, d. Feb. 19, 1698. 

1. LEWIS, William, came over from England in the Lion, arrived at 
Boston, Sept. 16, 1632, was admitted freeman Nov. 6, 1632, belonged to the 
Braintree company, which in Aug., 1632, rem. from Braintree to Cam- 
bridge. He was in 1636 one of the earliest settlers of Hartford, and subse- 
quently a founder of Hadley, and representative for Hadley, 1662, and for 
Northampton, 1664. Prior to Nov. 29, 1677, he had removed to Farmington, 
Ct., where he d. Aug. 2, 1683. He m. Felix, who d. in Had., April 17, 1671. 
Child — William. 

2. William, s. of William, (i) was in 1644 a resident of Farmington, 
and the first recorder of the town on its incorporation in 1645. Though one 



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of the original "engagers," there is no evidence that he ever removed to Had. 
He d. in Farmington, Aug. i8, 1690. He m. (i) Mary Hopkins, dau. of 
the wife of Richard Whitehead of Windsor, Ct. Savage supposes her the 
dau. of William Hopkins, Esq., of Stratford, Ct. He m. (2) Nov. 22, 1671, 
Mary Cheever, b. Nov. 29, 1640, dau. of the famous schoolmaster, Ezekiel 
Cheever of New Haven, &c. After the death of Lewis, she m. Jan. 3, 1692, 
Dea. Thomas Bull, and d. Jan. 10, 1728, ae. 87. Children — Mary, b. May 6, 
1645, m. Benjamin Judd of Farmington; Philip, bapt. Dec. 13, 1646, res. in 
Hartford and Fairfield; Samuel, b. Aug. 18, 1648, res. in Farmington; Sarah, 
h. abt. 1652, m. Samuel Boltwood; Hannah, m. (i) Samuel Crow; (2) 
Daniel Marsh; William, bapt. March 15, 1656, m. Phebe More, resided in 
Farmington, and d. 1737; Felix, bapt. Dec. 12, 1658, m. Thomas Selding; 
Ebenezer, m. Elizabeth, resided in Wallingford, Ct., and d. abt. 17 10; John, 
b. May 15, 1665, d. abt. 1694; James, b. July 10, 1667, a trader, ran away to 
Jamaica; Elizabeth, b. Oct. 20, 1672, d. 1674; Ezekiel, b. Nov. 7, 1674, grad. 
H. C. 1695, and was a merchant of Boston, where he d. Aug. 14, 1755, ae. 81. 
Hem. (i) March 18, 1702, Mary Breaden; (2) Oct. 11, 1704, Abigail Kilcup; 
Nathaniel, b. Oct. i, 1676, res. in Farmington, and d. Feb. 24, 1752, ae. 75. 
He m. (i) Nov. 25, 1699, Abigail Ashley; (2) July 4, 1726, Thankful Lyman; 
Abigail, h. Sept. 19, 1678, m. Dec. 10, 1696, William Wadsworth of Farming- 
ton, and d. 1707; Joseph, b. March 15, 1679; Daniel, b. July 16, 1681. 

3. NoADiAH, s. of Noadiah of Farmington and gr.-s. of William, (2) was 
b. Nov. 24, 1736. He m. 1759, Irene, dau. of Preserved Clapp of Amh. She 
d. Oct. 10, 1830, ae. 89. Children — Elisha, d. April 16, 1760; Susannah, b. 
abt. 1762, m. Elihu Dickinson of Amh., and d. March 12, 1819, ae. 57; Irene, 
b. April 20, 1763, m. April 23, 1795, Simeon Clark of Amh., and d. May 11, 
1855, ae. 92; Abi, m. Feb. 15, 1795, Elijah Hubbard; Elisha, m. Ziba Bry- 
ant; Salome, m. Aug. 16, 1792, Moses Nash of Amh.; Elizabeth, m. Oct. 13, 
1799, Benjamin Cooley of Whately; Mary, m. March 5, 1797, Daniel Heath; 
Rachel, m. Seth Belding of Whately. 

LOOMIS, John, m. Mary. Children — John, b. Oct. 19, 1670; John, b. 
July 22, 1676, d. Jan. 20, 1677; Mary, b. Dec. 14, 1677. Savage says he 
was prob. son of Joseph the second of Windsor, and that after 1683 he rem. 
to W^indsor, Ct., and according to Stiles, m. Aug. 30, 1705, Esther Gillett, 
and had children — John, b. Feb. 12, 1707; Esther, b. Sept. 13, 1708; Sarah, 
b. Sept. 26, 1710; Damaris, b. Dec. i, 1712; John, b. Sept. 21, 1713; Abel, 
b. Aug. 3, 1716. 

LOOMIS, Thomas, Hatfield, d. Aug. 12, 1688. Hem. March 31, 1680, 
Sarah, dau. of Daniel White. She m. (2) Nov. 12, 1689, John Bissell. 
Children — John, b. Jan. i, i68i; Thomas, b. April 20, 1684. 

LOTRIDGE, James. ChWd— Esther, b. Nov. 26, 1797. 

LOVELAND or LOVEMAN, William, m. Nov. 12, 1795, Parthena 
Gilbert. Child, prob. by former wife — William, b. Nov. 28, 1789. 

LYMAN, Elijah, s. of Gideon of Nh., bapt. Aug. 8, 1736, d. April 7, 1783. 
He m. Esther Pomeroy. Children — Elijah, bapt. Sept. 7, 1777, d. Aug. 24, 
1778; Esther, m. Elijah Arms, Jr.; Martha, m. 1795, Jacob Smith. 



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LYMAN, Gideon, s. of Gideon of Nh., b. abt. 1730, m. Eunice, dau. of 
Noah Clark. Children — Gideon, b. Jan. 26, 1758; Eunice, b. Nov. 8, 1760, 
d. Nov. 9, 1760. 

LYMAN, Israel, b. Feb. 7, 1746, d. June 8, 1830. He m. Jan. 4, 1770, 
Rachel Beals, b. in Willington, Ct., June 8, 1747. She d. Dec. 27, 1824. 
Children — Sarah, b. Sept. 12, 1770, m. Stephen Johnson, and d. Sept. 19, 
1835; Rachel, b. March 10, 1772, m. Elijah Montague, and d. Dec. 27, 1803; 
Zadoc, b. March 26, 1774, d. Dec. 8, 1849; Israel, b. Aug. 9, 1775, d. Aug. 10, 
1775; Israel, b. Oct. 17, 1776, d. Aug. 18, 1830; Achsah, b. April 27, 1778, m. 
Chester Clark, and d. Nov. 21, 1819; Cynthia, b. April 8, 1780, m. Aaron 
Graves Lyman of Northfield, and d. Dec. 2, 1839; Amaziah, b. Feb. 13, 1782, 
d. Aug. 12, 1858; Hannah, b. Oct. 9, 1783, m. Perez Smith; Elijah, b. Nov. 13, 
1785, d. June 30, 1786; Elijah, b. May 23, 1787; Enos, b. Jan. 2, 1790, d. 
Feb. 23, 1848; George, b. Dec. 13, 1792. 

LYMAN, John, b. in Nh., Oct. 2, 1693, s. of John, d. Jan. 3, 1783. He 
m. (i) 1718, Abigail, dau. of Joseph Mosely of Westfield and Glastenbury, 
Ct. He m. (2) Feb. 15, 1753, Theoda, wid. of Isaac Sheldon of Hartford. 
She d. 1763. Children — Zadoc, b. 1719; Mindwell, b. July 29, 1721, m. 
Ebenezer Pomeroy, 3d; 7o/j«, b. Oct. 7, 1723, res. in Nh., and d. Nov. 4, 
1797, ae. 74, m. Hannah Strong; Abigail, h. abt. 1725, burnt to death in the 
house Dec. 8, 1742; Dorcas, b. abt. 1727, m. (i) Noah Clapp; (2) 1753, 
Josiah Moody of S. H.; Sarah, b. abt. 1730, m. Dec. 30, 1756, Supply Clapp; 
Hannah, b. abt. 1733, burnt to death Dec. 8, 1742; Elinor, b. Oct. 29, 1735, 
m. (i) Dec. 19, 1759, Stephen Pomeroy; (2) Sept. 13, 1775, Oliver Morton; 
Caleb, bapt. July 2, 1738, rem. toCazenovia, N. Y., m. 1763, Mehitable Strong. 

1. LYMAN, Phinehas, s. of Gideon of Nh., d. April 27, 1792, ae. abt. 67. 
He m. (i) April 5, 1750, Joanna Eastman, who d. Feb. 5, 1759, in 29th yr. ; 
(2) Elizabeth, wid. of Elisha Hawley. Children — Phinehas, b. Jan. 22, 1750, 
committed suicide by hanging, April 23, 1779; Timothy, b. Aug. 15, 1753; 
Elihu, b. Sept. 23, 1756, committed suicide by hanging, prior to 1792. 

2. Timothy, s. of Phinehas, (i) studied medicine with Dr. Hunt of 
Nh., and d. June 12, 1792, ae. 42. He m. June i, 1780, Elizabeth Pomeroy, 
who m. after his death Ebenezer Clark of Lunenburgh, Vt. Children — 
Joanna, prob. b. May 4, 1782, m. Abel Brown of Spr., and abt. 1839 rem. to 
Wisconsin; Elizabeth, bapt. March 28, 1784, a cripple; Naomi, b. March, 
1787, m. Asa Clark of Lunenburgh, Vt.; Elihu, b. July, 1789, went to Vt., 
and thence to Wisconsin; Phinehas, b. Feb. 20, 1786. 

MARKHAM, William, b. abt. 1621, was a kinsman of Nathaniel Ward, 

and d. abt. 1690. He m. (i) , dau. of George Graves; (2) Elizabeth, 

prob. dau. of Gov. John Webster. She d. abt. 1688. Children, by ist wife — 
Priscilla, m. abt. 1675, Thomas Hale. By second wife — William, slain by 
the Indians, near Northfield, Sept. 4, 1675; Lydia, m. May 16, 1682, Timothy 
Eastman of Sufifield; John, b. July 3, 1661, d. Sept. 12, 1664; Mercy, b. 
Sept. 22, 1663. 

I. MARSH, John, Hartford, 1639. was one of the first settlers of Had- 
ley, but rem. thence first to Northampton, and then to Hartford, where 
he died 1688. He m. (i) Anne, dau. of Gov. John Webster. She d. 



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June 9, 1662; (2) Oct. 7, 1664, Hepzibah, wid. of Richard Lyman of Nh., 
and dau. of Thomas Ford. She d. April 11, 1683. Children — John, m. 
Nov. 28, 1666, Sarah Lyman, and d. in Hartford, Ct., about 1727; 
Samuel, b. abt. 1645; Joseph, bapt. Jan. 24, 1647; Joseph, bapt. July 15, 
1649; Jonathan, b. abt. 1650; Daniel, b. abt. 1653; Hannah, m. Jan. 28, 
1675, Joseph Loomis; Grace, m. Jan. 26, 1673, Timothy Baker of Nh., and 
d. May 31, 1676; Lydia, b. Oct. 9, 1667, m. Dec. 8, 1692, David Loomis of 
Windsor. 

2. Samuel, s. of John, (i) res. in Hat., where he was freeman 1690, 
representative 1705 and 1706, and d. Sept. 7, 1728, ae. 83. He m. May 6, 
1667, Mary Allison, who d. Oct. 13, 1726, ae. 78. Children — Mary, b. Feb. 
27, 1668; Samuel, b. Feb. 11, 1670; John, b. Nov. 6, 1672; Rachel, b. Oct. 15, 
1674, m. John Wells; Grace, b. Jan. 7, 1677, m. Thomas Goodman; Mary, 
b. May 24, 1678, m. Joseph Morton; Thomas, b. Jan. 10, 1680; Hannah, 
b. Sept. 18, 1681, m. Richard Billings; Elizabeth, b. July 31, 1683, ^™- i7i4> 
Maynard Day of Hartford, Ct.; Ruth, b. June 16, 1685; Ebenezer, b. May i, 
1687. 

3. Jonathan, s. of John, (i) was freeman 1690, representative 1701, 
and d. July 3, 1730, ae. 80 yrs. He m. 1676, Dorcas, wid. of Azariah Dick- 
inson. She d. Aug. 15, 1723, ae. 69. Children — Dorcas, b. Dec. 29, 1677, 
m. July 4, 1700, Ichabod Porter; Ann, b. Sept. 13, 1680, m. June 21, 1698, 
Samuel Cook; Mary, b. Feb. 9, 1683, m. William Dickinson; Jonathan, b. 
Aug. 7, 1685, grad. H. C. 1705, was minister of Windsor, Ct., and d. Sept. 8, 
1747, ae. 62. He m. July 3, 1710, Mrs. Margaret Whiting; Sarah, h. Dec. 4, 
1687, m. Nov. 1 7 16, Noah Cook; Hannah, b. Feb. 12, 1690, m. Oct. 17, 1711, 
Samuel Dickinson; Daughter, b. July 27, 1692, d. July 29, 1692; Son, b. Sept. 
14, 1698, d. Sept. 1698. 

4. Daniel, s. of John, (i) freeman 1690, representative 1692, and often 
after, d. Feb. 24, 1725, ae. 72. He m. Nov. 5, 1676, Hannah, wid. of 
Samuel Crow, and dau. of William Lewis of Farmington. Children — Daniel, 
b. Oct. 29, idyj, d. unm. Feb. 15, 1770, ae. 92; John, b. March 9, 1679; 
Joseph, b. Jan. 16, 1685, grad. H. C. 1705, was minister of Braintree, and d. 
March 8, 1726, ae. 41. He m. Anne Fiske; Ebenezer, b. April 22, 1688; Job, 
b. June II, 1690; Hannah, b. May 17, 1694, m. Dec. i, 1731, Daniel Kent; 
William, h. Jan. 3, 1697. 

5. Thomas, s. of Samuel, (2) res. in Hat. and Ware, and d. 1759. He 
m. 1702, Mary Trumbull of Sufheld, Ct. Children — Thomas, b. May i, 1703, 
d. unm. 1728; Mary, b. Oct. 27, 1704, m. 1726, Moses Smith; Samuel, b. 
1706; Rachel, b. 1708; Ruth, b. Feb. 15, 1710; Judah, b. July 25, 1712; 
Joseph, b. April 14, 17 14; Ephraim, h. Jan. 5, 171 7; Daniel, b. June 12, 
1 7 19, insane; Martha, b. April 12, 1721. 

6. Ebenezer, s. of Samuel, (2) rem. to Sunderland, and d. 1747. He 
m. Elizabeth. Children — Ebenezer; Elizabeth, b. June 4, 17 10; Ephraim, 
b. June 12, 1 71 2, d. Aug. i, 17 14; Esther, b. July 15, 17 14; Ephraim, b. 

1718; Dorothy, b. 1723, m. Gunn; Mary, b. 1725; Thankful, b. 1728; 

Hannah, b. 1733. 

7. John, s. of Daniel, (4) d. Sept. 2, 1725. He m. (i) Jime 27, 1704, 
Joanna Porter; (2) Feb. 2, 1715, Hannah Barnard; (3) Sarah Williams, 



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who after his decease prob. m. July 28, 1732, James Grey, and d. June i, 
1759. Children — John, b. Aug. 25, 1710; Abigail, m. (i) Oct. i, 1736, 
Dr. Waitstill Hastings of Hat.; (2) Col. Bulkley of Colchester, Ct.; (3) 

Rev. Little of Colchester, Ct.; Martha, m. Feb. 24, 1743, Moses Graves; 

Anne, m. Dec. 20, 1744, Elisha AUis; John, d. July 3, 1726, ae. 3; Judith, 
b. 1725, d. Nov. I, 1725, ae. 8. mos. 

8. Ebenezer, s. of Daniel, (4) d. 1772. He m. (i) 1710, Mary Parsons, 
who d. July 2, 1759; (2) Miriam, who d. July 30, 1765. Children — Elisha, 
b. March 27, 1713, grad. H. C. 1738, minister in Westminster, d. July, 1784, 
in Lancaster, from the effects of injuries received by falling from his horse in 
Roxbury; Ebenezer; Hannah, m. Samuel Ely of Lyme, Ct.; Jonathan, res. 
in Ct. ; John. 

9. Job, s. of Daniel, (4) a captain, d. Aug. 29, 1746. He m. (i) Sept. 24, 
1 7 13, Mehitable Porter, who d. July 13, 1739; (2) 1742, Rebecca Pratt. 
Children — Daughter, b. and d. Oct. 18, 1714; Moses, b. March 20, 1718; 
Samuel, b. April 19, 1721; Daniel, b. Jan. 28, 1725; Perez, b. Oct. 25, 1729, 
grad. H. C. 1748, was a physician in Pittsfield; Joseph, b. Nov. 6, 1743, 
d. Sept. 22, 1746. 

10. William, s. of Daniel, (4) d. Nov. 3, 1727. He m. Feb. 28, 1722, 
Hannah, dau. of Experience Porter. She m. (2) Maj. Joseph Storrs. Chil- 
dren — William, d. 1726; William, b. 1727, d. unm., in Mansfield, Ct. 

11. Ebenezer, s. of Ebenezer, (6) d. May 29, 1795. He m. Dec. 4, 

1746, Sarah Eastman, who d. Jan. 31, 1794. Children — Timothy, b. July 6, 

1747, d. May 12, 1751; Daniel, b. June 26, 1749, d. April 30, 1751; Timothy, 
b. Oct. 5, 1751, m. Mercy Smith, and d. Oct. 19, 1796; Sarah, b. July 20, 
1754, m. Dec. 9, 1779, Nathaniel Dickinson, Jr., Esq., of Amh., and d. Dec. 
9, 1801; Ebenezer, b. Sept. 8, 1757, d. Jan. 25, 1761; Elijah, b. Dec. 25, 1760, 
d. Jan. II, 1761; Ebenezer, b. Jan. 5, 1762, d. unm. abt. 1818; Mary, b. and 
d. May 9, 1765; Susanna, b. Jan. 26, 1766, d. Feb. 26, 1766. 

12. MosES, s. of Capt. Job, (9) subsequent to the American revolution 
rem. to Worthington, and d. Oct. 4, 1796. He m. Nov. 2, 1739, Hannah 
Cook. Children — Moses, b. Oct. 22, 1740, d. Aug. 16, 1746; Hannah, h. 
Oct. 2, 1744, d. Aug. 12, 1746; Moses, b. June 11, 1747, d. Nov. 16, 1757; 
Hannah, b. Feb. 2, 1749, d. Sept. 15, 1753; Job, h. May 4, 1752, d. Jan. 26, 
1754; Mehitable, m. 1780, Samuel Cook, and prob. d. in Morristown, Vt.; 
Hannah, m. Daniel Marsh, and d. in Belchertown; Job, b. abt. 1756; Joseph, 
b. Oct. 26, 1754. 

13. Samuel, s. of Capt. Job, (9) d. Oct. 2, 1760. He m. Dec. 5, 1745. 
Phebe Porter, who d. Oct. i, 1779, ae. 60. Children — Daughter, b. and d. 
Aug. 23, 1746; Phebe, m. Benoni Dickinson of Northfield; /?^fc^cca,m. Eleazar 
Cook, who rem. to St. Albans, Vt.; Samtiel. 

14. Daniel, s. of Capt. Job, (9) d. Jan. 4, 1810, ae. 84. He m. 1751, 
Hannah, dau. of Timothy Parsons of Durham, Ct. She d. Feb. 9, 1800, ae. 
74. Children — Mehitabel, b. Dec. 3, 1751, d. Aug. 30, 1752; William, b. 
Oct. 26, 1753, was a soldier at the capture of Cornwallis, and d. unm., in 
Warren; Sarah, m. Joseph Field of Warren; Eliphalet, b. Feb. 2, 1761, 
res. in Coleraine and Belchertown; Parsons, b. Sept. 7, 1766, res. in Cole- 
raine and Belchertown. 



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15. Job, s. of Moses, (12) grad. Y. C. 1777, established himself as a phy- 
sician in Worthington, but returned to Had., and d. July 26, 1797. He m. 
Sept. 10, 1783, Elizabeth, dau. of Oliver Smith. She d. June 7, 1823, ae. 64. 
Children — Elizabeth, b. March 22, 1784, m. Dec. 17, 1805, Wm. Smith, and d. 
Dec. 18, 1856; Joseph, b. Feb. 16, 1786; Timothy, d. young; Moses, d. 
young; Moses, d. May, 185 1; Ethelinda, m. Ebenezer Harrington of Worces- 
ter, and d. in Had., Aug. 5, 1840. 

16. Joseph, s. of Moses, (12) rem. to Brookfield, Vt., and was there 
killed by the falling of a tree, Aug. 1783, ae. 28. He m. Mindwell Pomeroy. 
She m. 1784, Ebenezer Clark of Lunenburgh, Vt. Children — Sally, b. June 
10, 1782, m. 1800, Lemuel Holmes of Lunenburgh, Vt.; rem. to Malone, N. Y., 
where she was living in 1853; Joannah, b. Jan. 1784, [Jan. 12, 1785?] m. 
Daniel Clark of Lunenburgh, Vt., rem. to Huntsburg, Ohio, and there 
res. in 1853. 

17. Samuel, s. of Samuel, (13) d. 1798. He m. 1775, Abigail Briggs. 
Children — Augustus; Phebe Porter; Samuel; Lucinda. 

18. Joseph, s. of Dr. Job, (15) m. (i) Jan. 26, 1814, Roxa, dau. of 
Stephen Johnson. She d. Nov. 20, 1828; (2) Oct. 13, 1829, Roxana, dau. of 
Luther Wright of Easthampton. She was b. March 30, 1798, and d. April 29, 
1836; (3) Feb. 13, 1839, Catharine, dau. of Nathaniel Cooledge of Worcester 
and Hadley. She d. Aug. 20, 1842; (4) April 7, 1844, Harriet, wid. of 
George Newhall of Amh., and daii. of William Boltwood of Amh. Children — 
Elvira Minerva, b. Sept. 5, 1814, m. 1834, Willard M. Kellogg of Amh.; 
Mary Lyman, b. Feb. 18, 1818, m. 1840, William Watson Dickinson of Amh.; 
Margaret, b. July 28, 1820, m. May, 1844, Lucius Nash; Henry Martyn, b. 
Dec. 21, 1827, m. May 10, 1854, Almira Sophronia, dau. of John Alden 
Morton; Charles, b. Nov. 24, 1845. 

MATTHEWS, Silas, Amherst, rem. abt. 1800 to Leverett. Children — 
Salome, b. Sept. i, 1772; Elijah, b. May 27, 1777; David, b. Dec. 27, 1779; 
Aaron, b. Oct. 27, 1781; Huldah, b. Dec. 7, 1784. 

1. MATTOON, Eleazar, b. in Deerfield, March i, 1690, s. of Philip of 
Springfield and Deerfield, res. for several years in Northfield, whence prior 
to 1739 he rem. to Amh., where he was deacon in the (Cong.) church, and d. 
Feb. 1767, ae. 78. Children — Elizabeth, h. Nov. i, 1718, m. Joseph Day of 
West Springfield, and d. Oct. 13, 1776, ae. 58; Ebenezer, b. Dec. 21, 1720, 
Sarah, h. Feb. 21, 1723, m. March 27, 1746, Ephraim Marsh of Montague, 
and d. April 9, 1797, ae. 74. 

2. Ebenezer, s. of Eleazar, (i) Amh., d. April 27, 1806, ae. 87. He m. 
(i) 1747, Dorothy, dait. of Dr. Nathaniel Smith of Amh. She d. June 3, 
1756; (2) 1759, Sarah, dau. of John Alvord of Nh. She was b. March 2, 
1726, and d. Feb. 27, 1803, ae. 76. Children — Dorothy, bapt. April 16, 1749, 
m. Stephen Smith of Amh.; Elizabeth, bapt. July 21, 1751, m. Oliver Clapp 
of Amh.; Ebenezer, bapt. Aug. 24, 175s; Sarah, b. abt. 1761, d. April 11, 1803, 
ae. 42; Eleazar, bapt. Aug. 19, 1764, d. unm.; Roxana, h. Aug. 31, 1766, 
m. 1785, John Kellogg of Amh., and d. Sept. 2, 1804, ae. 37; Lovisa, b. abt. 
1770, m. Eli Dickinson of Amh., and d. Jan. 31, 1845, ae. 75. 



94 MATTOON MERRICK. 

3. Hon. Ebenezer, s. of Ebenezer, (2) Amh., grad. D. C. 1776, was 
Representative and Senator in General Court, Member of Congress, Sheriff of 
Hampshire County, Adjutant General of Mass. With the exception of his 
eye sight, he retained all his faculties until the close of his long life. He d. 
Sept. II, 1843, ae. 88. He m. July 7, 1779, Mary, dau. of Noah Dickinson of 
Amh. She d. July 30, 1835, ae. 77. Children — Mary Dickinson, b. April 4, 
1780, m. Dec. 24, 1807, Daniel Dwight, Esq., of Westmoreland, N. H.; 
Ebenezer, b. Sept. 29, 1781, m. Dec. 30, 1804, Lucina Mayo of Orange; Noah 
Dickinson, b. Sept. 19, 1783, grad. D. C. 1803, lawyer in Amh. and Painsville, 
O., and is supposed now (1861) to be a resident of Unionville, O. He m. 

Billings; Dorothy Smith, b. June 25, 1785, m. April 20, 1815, Dr. Timothy 

J. Gridley of Amh., and d. Feb. 16, 1820, ae. 34; Fanny, b. Sept. 1787, d. 
Jan. 28, 1790, ae. 2; Fanny, b. June, 1790, d. Sept. 4, 1792, ae. 2. 

MEACHAM, James, m. (i) June 23, 1756, Lucy Rugg; (2) May 4, 1758, 
Ruth Hubbard. Children — Asa, b. 1759; Ruth, b. 1761; James, b. 1761; 
Anna, b. July 6, 1764; David, b. June 13, 1766; Ashbel, b. 1768, (bapt. 
April 24;) Seth, b. 1771, (bapt. Feb. 10;) Benjamin, b. Dec. 30, 1773; Esther, 
b. Feb. 1777. 

1. MEEKINS, Thomas, Hat., d. Dec. 10, 1687. He m. (i) Sarah, who 

d. Jan. 21, 1651; (2) Elizabeth , Feb. 14, 1651, who d. May 12, 1683. 

Children — Joseph, bapt. in Boston, May 3, 1639; Sarah, b. in Braintree, 
April 24, 1641; Thomas, b. June 8, 1643; Hannah, bapt. in Roxbury, March 
13, 1647; John, b. Feb. 28, 1649, d. May 10, 1649. He had also, as Savage 
supposes, dau. Mary, who m. (i) Nathaniel Clark of Nh. ; (2) Dec. 14, 1669, 
John Allis of Hat.; (3) abt. 1691, Samuel Belden; and Hannah, who m. 
Joseph Belknap, and d. Dec. 26, 1688. They, together with the heirs of his 
only son, shared his property. 

2. Thomas, s. of Thomas, (i) Hat., was slain by the Indians, Oct. 19, 
1675. He m. Mary, dau. of Thomas Bunce of Hartford. She was b. Sept. 17, 
1645, and m. (2) July 20, 1676, John Downing. Children — Sarah, b. Feb. 25, 
1666, m. Peletiah Jones; Mary, b. March 28, 1670, m. James Lewis of 
Hartford; John, b. Jan. 12, 1674 [1672?]; Thomas, b. Nov. 8, 1673, m. Wid. 
Sarah Wells, and in 171 1 was a resident of Hartford; Mehitable, b. Aug. 1675, 
m. Thomas Dickinson, Jr. 

3. John, s. of Thomas, (2) Hat., prob. d. 1754, as his will executed 1753, 
was presented for probate Feb. 1754. He m. April 24, 1696, Ruth Belknap. 
Children — Hannah, b. Jan. 18, 1698; Ruth, h. Jan. 6, 1700, m. Zechariah 
Billings; Joseph, b. March 20, 1703, d. childless abt. 1756; Mary, b. Oct. 17, 
1705, m. Thomas Miller; Martha, b. Feb. i, 1708, was unm. in 1756; Lydia, 
d. Dec. 24, 1711; Thom.as,h. Oct. i7i8,m. Feb. i8,t742, Martha Smith, and 
d. 1793. 

MERRICK, James, b. Dec. 22, 1729, s. of James of Monson, settled in 
Amherst, and d. Oct. 30, 1813, ae. 85. He m. Oct. 1754, Esther Colton of 
Longmeadow. She d. Sept. 20, 1803, in 75th yr. Children — Mary, b. June 
II, 1755, m. Feb. 7, 1782, Nathaniel Sikes of Walpole, N. H.; Lucy, b. March 
27, 1757, m. Elijah Yale of Amh., Jan. 25, 1 788, and d. Nov. 14, 1824, ae. 57 ; 
Sarah, b. Oct. 29, 1758, m. Feb. 1782, Henry Chandler; James, b. Sept. 8, 
1760, d. in infancy; Samuel, b. Sept. 8, 1760, d. young; James, b. May 8, 
1762, d. unm. in Amh., July 8, 1825, ae. 63; Esther, b. Sept. 11, 1764, m. 



MERRICK MONTAGUE. 95 

Nov. 26, 1789, Judah Clark of Amh., and d. Aug. 30, 1849, ^^- 84; Samuel, 
b. May, 1767, d. ae. 8; Aaron, b. May, 1770, m. Mary Howe, June 22, 1800, 
d. in Amh., Dec. 3, 1843, ^^- 73- 

MIGHILL, Samuel, s. of Rev. Thomas, b. in Scituate, 1685, grad. H. C. 
1704, taught the Grammar School in Had., and d. in So. H., April 11, 1769. 
He m. 1709, Sarah Dickinson. Child — Sarah, b. April 12, 17 10, m. Jan. 18, 
1739, Moses Gunn. 

MIGHILL, Samuel, perhaps the same with the above, formerly of Hart- 
ford, m. 1 7 14, Sarah Prentice, and in Nov. 1728 deserted his wife and rem. to 
Had. She in 1733 sued for divorce. They had no children. 

1. MONTAGUE, Richard, b. abt. 1614, s. of Peter, s. of WiUiam, s. of 
Robert, of Bourney, in Parish of Burnham, England, is said in 1646 to have 
rem. from Wells, Me. to Boston, and thence in 1651 to Wethersfield, Ct. In 
1659 or 1660 he settled in Had. and d. Dec. 14, 1681. He m. Abigail Down- 
ing of Norwich, Eng. She d. Nov. 8, 1694. Children — Alary, b. abt. 1642, 
m. Nov. 25, 1668, Joseph Warriner, and d. July 2, 1689, ae. abt. 47; Sarah, 
b. June 15, 1646, d. in Boston, June 19, 1646; Martha, b. June 16, 1647, 
m. (i) Dec. I, 1671, Isaac Harrison; (2) Henry White; Peter, b. July 8, 
1651, d. s. p., March 27, 1725, ae. 73. He m. (i) Sept. 1679, Mary, wid. of 
John Smith, and dau. of William Partridge. She d. May 20, 1680: (2) Sept. 
16, 1680, Mary, wid. of Noah Coleman and dau. of John Crow. She d. Oct. 
12, 1720; (3) April 22, 1721, Mary, wid. of Preserved Smith, and dau.of Chileab 
Smith; Abigail, m. Dec. 8, 1671, Mark Warner; John. 

2. John, s. of Richard, (i) d. abt. 1732. Hem. March 23, 1681, Hannah, 
dau. of Chileab Smith. Children — John, b. Dec. 31, 1681; Richard, b. March 
16, 1684, settled in Wethersfield, Ct., and d. Dec. 24, 1751, ae. 67. He m. 
July 28, 1715, Abigail Camp; Hannah, b. Aug. 8, 1687, d. Nov. 1688; Hannah, 
b. March 21, 1689, d. April 19, 1689; Peter, b. May, 1690; William, b. Dec. 16, 
1692; Satmiel, b. April 2, 1695; Hannah, b. May 28, 1697, m. Josiah Willard 
of Wethersfield; Luke, b. Oct. 4, 1699; Nathaniel, b. Oct. 6, 1704. 

3. John, s. of John, (2) d. Sept. 28, 1722, ae. 40. He m. (i) Jan. 17, 
1 712, Mindwell Lyman of Nh., prob. dau. of Thomas, and if so, b. April 10, 
1681. She d. April 4, 1713; (2) Sept. 29, 1714, Abigail Smith. Children — 
Abigail, b. March 20, 1713, m. March 16, 1735, Nathan Moody; Mindwell, 
b. Sept. 1714, d. Dec. 2, 1715; John, b. Jan. 5, 1716; Jemima, b. Jan. 28, 
1719, m. March 24, 1741, John Church; Alary, b. Nov. 8, 1721, m. Oct. 24, 
1743, Jonathan Ingram. 

4. Peter, s. of John, (2) So. H. His estate was settled 1749, but 
inventory was not presented until Feb. 1756. Hem. Dec. 15, 1715, Mary 
Hubbard. Children — Mary, b. March 4, 1717, m. (i) Daniel Alexander of 
Nh.; (2) John Brown; (3) J. Clark; An7ta, b. Oct. 31, 1718, m. Nathaniel 
Cole of Hat. and Belchertown; Elisabeth, b. Nov. 13, 1720, m. (i) Mon- 
tague; (2) James Smith; Peter, b. Jan. 2, 1723, per. d. at Louisbourg, 1745; 
Moses, b. Nov. 17, 1724; Rachel, m. Nov. 29, 1753, Stephen Warner of 
Granby; Experience, m. (i) 1751, Jonathan Pierce; (2) March 10, 1756, 
[1757?] Philip Ingram of Amh.; Adonijah, d. unm. in Amh. in 1754. 



96 MONTAGUE. 

5. William, s. of John, (2) d. Dec. 22, 1767, ae. 75. He m. (i) Jan. 24, 
1716, Sarah, dau. of Timothy Eastman. She d. Sept. 29, 1747; (2) Jan. 5, 
1749, Sarah, wid. of Samuel Kellogg, and dau. of Dea. John Smith. 
Children — Sarah, h. Oct. 26, 1717, m. John Stanley of Killingworth, Ct.; 
William, b. April 9, 1720, d. Oct. 19, 1745. ae. 25; John, b. Sept. 14, 1723, 
a Canada soldier, d. Oct. 6, 1746, ae. 23; Joseph, b. Dec. 31, 1725; Hannah, 
b. March 16, 1729, d. Nov. 5, 1745, ae. 16; Timothy, b. Feb. 23, 1732. 

6. Samuel, s. of John, (2) Sunderland, deacon, d. Jan. 31, 1779. He 
m. (i) June 24, 1716, Elizabeth White. She d. Oct. 15, 1753; ni. (2) June 
13, 1754, Mary, wid. of Jonathan Billings, and dau. of Joseph Root. Chil- 
dren — Samuel, b. June 30, 1720, rem. to Vt.; John, b. Jan. 10, 1723, d. unm. 
Feb. 15, 1748; Daniel, b. Jan. 13, 1725, m. Lydia Smith; Giles, b. Jan. 20, 
1727, d. 1732; Richard, b. May 7, 1729, m. Lucy Cooley; Caleb, b. July 27, 
1731, res. in Sunderland, was a Captain in Revolutionary war, and d. Nov. 11, 
1782, ae. 51. He m. Oct. 30, 1751, Eunice Root; Giles, b. Dec. 16, 1733, 
d. Sept. 10, 1734; Elizabeth, b. Sept. 18, 1735, d. 1743; Nathaniel, b. Feb. 13, 
1739, slain in battle at Lake George, Aug. 7, 1757; Ebenezer, b. Oct. i, 1741, 
d. Sept. 26, 1743. 

7. Luke, s. of John, (2) So. Had., d. Aug. 25, 1775, ae. 75. He m. (i) 
Hannah, dau. of Nehemiah Dickinson, Jr. of Had. She d. Sept. 3, 1765; 
(2) Deborah. Children — Luke, b. March 9, 1729, d. Nov. 18, 1752; Hannah, 
b. Jan. 5, 1731, d. unm. Aug. 31, 1773, ae. 41; Abigail, b. Feb. 18, 1733, 
m. March 4, 1756, Josiah Montague, and d. Aug. 28, 1833, ae. 99; Giles, 
b. June 28, 1736, d. May 3, 1738; Mehitable, h. Oct. 3, 1738, m. Dec. 3, [23?] 

1756, Israel Clark, and d. Oct. 23, 1817, ae. 77; Mary, h. Nov. i, 1740, m. 
Titus Pomeroy; Huldah, b. April 20, 1743, m. Samuel Goodman; Miriam, 
b. Jan. 25, 1745. 

8. Nathaniel, s. of John, (2) deacon in Had. church, d. Nov. 16, 1753, 
ae. 49. He m. May 18, 1743, Hannah Ingram. She d. Aug. 28, 1798, ae. 87. 
Children — Hannah, b. Feb. 29, 1744, m. Nov. 15, 1770, Isaiah Carrier of 
Belchertown; Nathaniel, b. July 26, 1745; Esther, b. March 2, 1747, m. Feb. 
21, 177s, Moses Church; Sarah, b. Nov. 21, 1748, d. May 3, 1764, ae. 15; 
Eunice, b. July 25, 1751, m. Feb. 15, 1780, Joseph Church of New Marlboro'; 
Elizabeth, b. Feb. 8, 1753, m. Feb. 23, 1773, Abner Phillips. 

9. John, s. of John, (3) d. April 18, 1783, ae. 67. He m. (i) 1747, 
Thankful Sheldon of Suffield.Ct. She d. April 27, 1758, in 39th yr. Hem. (2) 
Aug. 28, 1758, Rhoda Selden. Children — Abigail, b. Aug. 15, 1748, m. (i) 
Jan. 30, 1777, William Chapin of Springfield; (2) John Ely of West Spring- 
field; John, b. May 6, 1750; Lois, b. June 29, 1752, d. July 21, 1752, ae. 21 
days; Elisha, b. June 8, 1753, was run over by a cart and killed Nov. 12, 

1757, ae. 4; David, b. Nov. 11, 1755, d. near West Point Oct. 26, 1781, ae. 26; 
Elisha, b. March 6, 1758, d. March 13, 1758; Seth, b. April 6, 1762, d. April 8, 
1762; Seth, b. April 26, 1764, d. Dec. 17, 1764; Jedediah, b. July 24, 1766. 

10. Moses, s. of Peter, (4) captain, So. Had., d. Dec. 18, 1792, ae. 68. 
He m. 1748, Sarah Graves of Sunderland. She d. Oct. 17, 1810. Children — 
Penelope, b. July 16, 1749; Peter, b. Nov. 18, 1751; Sarah, b. March 4, 1754; 
Moses, b. May 7, 1756; Irene, b. Aug. 28, 1758; Selah, b. Feb. 17, 1761; 
Seth, b. July 2, 1763; Mary, b. Sept. 14, 1765; Lucinda, b. April 25, 1768; 
Elijah, b. April 21, 1771. 



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11. JosiAH, s. of Peter, (4) Granby, d. July 11, 1810, ae. 84. He m. 
March 4, 1756, Abigail, dau. of Luke Montague. She d. Aug. 28, 1833, 
ae. 99. Children — Luke, b. June 20, 1757; Lucretia, b. Jan. 9, 1759, m. 
Waitstill Dickinson of Amh.; Abigail, b. April 4, 1761; Lovisa, b. March 18, 
1763; Beiilah, b. Jan. 2, 1768; Hannah, b. Aug. 8, 1770; Giles, b. May 20, 
1774. 

12. Joseph, s. of William, (5) Granby, d. Aug. 10, 1786. He m. March 
21, 1752, [1753?] Sarah Henry. She d. Oct. 16, 1800, ae. 77. Children — 
Elizabeth, b. Feb. 4, 1754, m. Aaron Dickinson of Granby, and d. Nov. 1842; 
Hannah, b. Jan. 3, 1756, m. Noah Ferry of Granby, and d. June 2, 1845, 
ae. 89; William, b. Sept. 23, 1757, grad. D. C. 1784, was an Episcopal clergy- 
man in Boston and Dedham, and d. July 22, 1833, ae. 75. He m. Jane 
Little; John, b. March 6, 1760, m. Melinda Chapin; Joseph, b. Oct. 2, 1763, 
grad. D. C. 1788, d. May i, 1849, ae. 85. He m. Mrs. Mary Abbott. 

13. Timothy, s. of William, (5) So. Had., d. Feb. i, 1800, ae. 67. He 
m. Mary Smith of Ashford, Ct. Child — Timothy, b. Sept. 27, 1772, m. Mind- 
well, dau. of Benoni Chapin of Chicopee. 

14. Nathaniel, s. of Nathaniel, (8) d. Nov. 4, 1784, ae. 39. He m. 
Oct. 21, 1773, Sarah Goodrich. She m. (2) Aug. 19, 1792, John Chester 
Williams, and d. Feb. 5, 1798. Children — Son, b. Aug. 7, 1774, d. Aug. 8, 
1774; Sarah, b. Dec. 15, 1775, d. Sept. 17, 1777; Mary, b. Aug. 26, 1777, 

m. Kingsley; Stephen, b. Sept. 24, 1779; Elijah, b. June 24, 1781, 

rem. to Batavia, N. Y. 

15. John, s. of John, (9) Lieut., d. June 14, 1808, ae. 53. He m. March 
4, 1773, Sibil Hall. Children — Seth, b. Oct. 8, 1774, d. in Hartford, Ct.; 
Lucinda, h. June 6, 1777; Thankful, b. Dec. 2, 1778, m. (i) June 24, 1795, 
Stephen Rider; Sibil, b. Dec. 4, 1780, m. Eleazar Cowls of Amh.; David, 
b. Nov. 27, 1782, fell and was killed while raising a house in Had., Dec. 1819; 

Caroline, b. March i, 1785, m. Williams; Zebina, b. Nov. 18, 1786, 

d. Sept. 27, 1787; Zebina, b. May 9, 1788, d. in Hartford, Ct., Nov. 18, 181 1; 
Lois, b. Oct. 10, 1791, m. Cotton Smith. 

16. Jedediah, s. of John, (9) d. Aug. 29, 1824, ae. 58. He m. Dec. 26, 
1787, Dorcas, dau. of Josiah Grover, of Ellington, Ct. She was b. Dec. 26, 
1769, and d. Aug. 9, 1858, ae. 89. Children — William, b. Oct. 7, 1789; 
Rhoda, b. June 25, 1791, d. June 26, 1829; Heman, b. March 18, 1793, m. 
Martha Smith, and d. March 23, 1827; Sarah, b. Dec. 27, 1794; Abigail, b. 
April 29, 1797, d. Oct. 7, 1802; John, b. June 5, 1799, d. July i, 1824; Anna, 
b. May 26, 1801, m. Sherman Sabin of Belchertown; Abigail, b. Feb. 21, 
1803, d. Aug. 21, 1804; Ephraim, h. May 6, 1805, a deacon of Cong, church 
in Belchertown. He m. Jan. 13, 1829, Laura Sabin; Elizabeth, h. Feb. 26, 
1807; Harvey, b. Jan. 30, 1809, res. in Belchertown, m. Jane A. Moody; 
Sylvester, b. Jan. 10, 1812, d. April 23, 1850. 

17. Stephen, s. of Nathaniel, (14) d. May 18, 1851. He m. Nov. 20, 
1 80 1, Grace Grant, dau. of Daniel White. Children — Sarah Goodrich, b. 
Sept. 9, 1803, d. unm. Dec. 2, 1839, ae. 36; Sophronia, b. May 15, 1807, d. 
April 10, 1827, ae. 19; Mary, h. Feb. 2, 1809, d. May 8, 1848, ae. 39; Daniel 
Nathaniel, b. June 9, 181 1, m. May, 1840, Mary Pierce; Henry, b. July 30, 
1813, m. Oct. 19, 1836, Abigail Kingsley; Susan Grant, b. Feb. 12, 1817, 



98 MONTAGUE MOODY. 

m. Jan. i8, 1838, Elijah Ayres of Amh.; Stephen Stone, b. Dec. 8, 1818, m. (i) 
Sept. 24, 1841, Mary C. Kellogg; (2) Oct. 2, 1844, Lucy W. Kellogg; Harriet 
Maria, b. Nov. 30, 1820, m. Nov. 30, 1842, Edmund Bartlett; Sabra Ward, 
b. Dec. 28, 1822, m. Aug. 28, 1855, Martin F. Cook; Pamela White, b. March 
9, 1825. 

18. Ephraim, s. of Jedediah, (16) rem. to Belchertown, where he is a 
deacon in the (Cong.) church. He m. Jan. 13, 1829, Laura Sabin, b. in 
Wilbraham, March 4, 1809. Children — William Lewis, b. April 6, 183 1, 
grad. A. C. 1855, m. Aug. 9, 1858, Rebecca W. Pope, has been Tutor and 
is now (1862) Instructor in Latin and French in Amh. Col.; Laura A. M., 
b. July 28, 1835, m. Aug. 5, 1857, Rev. Chester L. Cushman (A. C. 1856) of 
East Townshend, Vt.; John L., h. July 23, 1838; James H., h. March 8, 1841; 
Harlan Page, b. Jan. 5, 1846; Alice Louisa, b. Oct. 28, 1858. 

MOODY, Sarah, wid. of Dea. John of Hartford, d. inHadley, 1671. 

1. MOODY, Samuel, supposed to have been the only child of Dea. John 
Moody of Hartford, and grandson of George Moody of Moulton, Sufifolk Co., 
Eng., d. Sept. 22, 1689. He m. Sarah, dau. of John Deming of Wethersfield, 
Ct. She d. Sept. 29, 1717. Children — Sarah, m. Dec. 23, 1680, John Kel- 
logg, and d. Sept. 19, 1689; John, b. July 24, 1661, settled in Hartford, Ct., 
and d. Nov. 5, 1732, ae. 71 ; Hannah, b. March 5, 1663, d. unm. Jan. 6, 1713; 
Mary, m. (i) June 30, 1689, Alexander Panton; (2) June 29, 1689, James 
Munn; Samuel, b. Nov. 28, 1670; Ebenezer, b. Oct 23, 1675. 

2. Samuel, s. of Samuel, (i) d. Nov. 10, 1744, ae. 82. He m. Sept. 5, 
1700, Sarah, dau. of Samuel Lane of Sufheld, Ct. She was alive in Jan. 
1758. Children — Samuel, b. Sept. 10, 1702; John, b. Sept. 10, 1702; Nathan, 
b. June 27, 1706; Jonathan, h. June 2, 1708; David, b. Dec. 3, 171 1; Sarah, 
b. May 30, 1717, d. May 22, 1719; Sarah, b. Sept. 29, 1720. 

3. Ebenezer, s. of Samuel, (i) d. Nov. 11, 1757, ae. 82. He m. Editha, 
who d. Aug. 19, 1757, in 75th yr. Children — Jonathan, b. Jan. 13, 1703, 
d. April 3, 1703; Mary, b. Dec. 28, 1705, m. 1730, Nehemiah Dickinson of 
Granby, and d. Nov. 15, 1787; Ebenezer, b. Feb. 22, 1707; Sarah, b. Jan. 13, 
1709; Joseph, b. Jan. 13, 1712; Daniel, b. March 12, 1715, d. s. p. in So. H., 
April 20, 1792. He m. 1744, Mercy Morgan of Springfield. She d. Nov. 6, 
[7?] 1786, ae. 73; Josiah, b. 1721; Editha, m. Oct. 23, 1746, Joseph White; 
Miriam, m. Jan. 19, 1748, Reuben Smith. 

4. Samuel, s. of Samuel, (2) Granby, d. Dec. 11, 1765. He m. Oct. 13, 
1729, Mary Hovey. She d. Sept. 15, 1775, in 65th yr. Children — Samuel, h. 
July 2, 1730, d. unm. Dec. 4, 1820, ae. 90; Gideon, b. March 24, 1733, d. 
1755; Thomas Hovey, b. Aug. 31, 1736; Elisha, b. Jan. 14, 1738; Reuben, 
b. Jan. 21, 1740, d. unm. Jan. 1831, ae. 91; Simeon, b. July 4, 1743, d. 1746; 
Simeon, b. Oct. 30, 1747; Enos, b. April 7, 1753. 

5. John, s. of Samuel, (2) Granby, d. 1769. He m. June 24, 1733, 
Sarah Dickinson. Children — John, b. July 8, 1734, d. unm. Oct. 4, 1815, 
ae. 81; Sarah, b. Jan. 9, 1736, d. unm. Nov. 21, 1819, ae. 83; Moses, b. Aug. 
28, 1737, d. unm. 1774; Aaron, b. Oct. i, 1739, d. Oct. 14, 1819, ae. 80. He 
m. (i) Elizabeth Catlin; (2) Hannah, wid. of Aaron Warner; Hannah, b. 
Sept. 17, 1 741, m. Timothy Smith; Joel, b. Oct. 27, 1743, d. in Amh. March 



MOODY. 99 

22, 1824, ae. 80. He m. Rebecca Goodman; Rachel, b. Jan. 13, 1746, m. 
1777, David Church of Gr. ; Lois, b. June 24, 1750, m. Aaron Ayres. 

6. Nathan, s. of Samuel, (2) res. in Amh. and Ludlow, and d. abt. 1791. 
He m. March 16, 1735, Abigail Montague. Children — John, b. Feb. 27, 
1736; Josiah, b. Feb. 24, 1740, d. 1780; Abigail, bapt. 1750, d. 1750; Abigail, 
bapt. 1752. 

7. Jonathan, s. of Samuel, (2) Amh., d. March 9, 1798, ae. 89. He m. 
Nov. 20, 1730, Bridget Smith. She d. March 12, 1786. Children — Huldah, 
b. May 31, 1731, m. Oct. 26, 1751, Oliver Chauncey; Jonathan, b. Jan. 10, 
1734, res. in Amh., and d. April 9, 1804. He m. March i, 1759, Eunice 
Graves of Hat.; Asahel, b. July 7, 1736, res. in Amh., and d. Aug. 9, 1813; 

Lemuel, b. June 27, 1739, res. in Amh., m. Williams, and d. Jan. 22, 

1818; Eldad, b. Oct. 17, 1746, res. in Amh., m. Nov. 21, 1782, Abigail Pratt, 
and d. June 16, 1814; Medad, b. Oct 17, 1746, res. in Amh., m. Rebecca 
Lee, and d. Jan. 8, 1813; Perez, b. Dec. 25, 1749, m. Lucy Ingram. 

8. Ebenezer, s. of Ebenezer, (3) rem. to Belchertown, and d. 1789. 
He m. (i) Feb. i, 1739, Joanna Warner of Belchertown. She d. Nov. 14, 
1772; (2) Wid. Anna Chapin. Children — Elijah, b. Sept. 7, 1739, m. 1762, 
Elijah Wheeler, and d. 1773; Joanna, b. 1742, m. David Warriner, Jr. of 
Wilbraham; Ebenezer, b. 1743, d. young; Ebenezer, b. Sept. 10, 1744, m. Lois 
Smith, and d. in So. H., June 23, 1833, ae. 88; Jerusha, b. 1747, d. unm. 1775; 
Matthew, b. 1749, d. unm. 1779. 

9. Joseph, s. of Ebenezer, (3) So. Had., d. Sept. 15, 1803, in 92d yr. 
He m. Sarah Kellogg, who d. June, 1782, in 69th yr. Children — Joseph, b. 
Feb. 2, 1738, d. Jan. 5, 1757; Lois, b. Oct. 29, 1740, d. Feb. 29, 1741 ; Noah, 
h. March 29, 1742; Eunice, h. Dec. 23, 1746, d. 1746; Silence, b. May, 1748, 
d. 1749; Seth, b. Jan. 16, 1750, d. 1752; Seth, b. Sept. 28, 1752; Daniel, b. 
Jan. 17, 1755. 

10. JosiAH, s. of Ebenezer, (3) So. Had., m. (i) Jan. 17, 1745, Rebecca 
White, who d. Sept. 15, 1751, ae. 27; (2) Dorcas, wid. of Noah Clapp of Nh. 
She d. Nov. 16, 1762, ae. 34; (3) Sarah, wid. of Matthew Clark. She d. 
March 11, 1810, ae. 82. Children — Eliphaz, b. Nov. 23, 1745, d. May 15, 
1752; Josiah, b. Aug. 7, 1748; Rebecca, h. July 21, 1750, d. Sept. 6, 1758; 
Dorcas, b. Aug. 8, 1754; Mercy, b. Oct. 18, 1756; Sarah, b. July 16, 1764; 
Eliphaz, b. Sept. 20, 1766; Sylvester, b. May 20, 1771. 

11. Thomas Hovey, s. of Samuel, (4) So. Had., d. Sept. 8, 1772. He 
m. Eunice. Children — Gideon, b. March 15, 1765; Mary, b. April 28, 1767; 
Eunice, b. April 6, 1769; Martha, b. Feb. 14, 1772. 

12. Elisha, s. of Samuel, (4) Gr., d. Jan. 17, 1825, ae. 87. He m. April 
15, 1766, Elizabeth, dau. of Martin Nash of Gr. She d. July 3, 1833. Chil- 
dren — Elisha, b. March 12, 1767, d. Oct. 16, 1770; Miriam, b. Aug. 19, 
1768, d. unm. July 2, 1801; Samuel, b. April 4, 1770, res. in Gr.; Elisha, b. 
Jan. 14, 1772, d. Jan. 23, 1772; Azor, b. Dec. 26, 1772, d. Sept. 25, 1775; 
Elizabeth, b. June 5, 1774, d. March i, 1795; Finis, b. Dec. 13, lyj^, m. 
Jahiel Warner; Azor, b. Oct. 17, 1778, grad. D. C. 1808, and settled in 

Bainbridge, N. Y.; Sibil, b. Aug. 9, 1780, m. Johnson, and d. April 10, 

1809; Mary, b. Aug. 28, 1782, d. unm. Aug. 12, 1801, ae. 18; Elisha, b. 
Feb. 26, 1786, res. in Gr. 



100 MOODY MORTON. 

13. Simeon, s. of Samuel, (4) Gr., d. July 16, 1815, ae. 67. He m. 

Mercy who d. Sept. 14, 1815, ae. 67. Children — Simeon, h. 1774; 

Lois, b. 1776; Thomas, h. iTjS; Ruth, b. 1781; Levi, b. Feb. 10, 1784; Mercy, 
b. 1786; Reuben, b. 1789; Calvin, h. 1794. 

1. MORTON, Richard, a blacksmith, rem. in 1670 from Hartford to Hat., 

and d. April 3, 17 10. Hem. Ruth , who d. Dec. 31, 17 14. Children 

— Thomas; Richard, d. in Hat., Feb. 4, 1692, m. Jan. 29, 1690, Mehitable, 
dau. of Isaac Graves. She m. (2) William Worthington, and d. in Colches- 
ter, Ct., March 22, 1742, ae. abt. 70; John, b. Jan. 21, 1670, d. April 26, 
1670; Joseph, b. April, 1672; John, b. April, 1674, d. yonng; Abraham^, h. 
May, 1676; Elizabeth, b. March 31, 1680, m. Dec. 27, 1704, John Warner 
of Wethersfield, Ct., and d. 1741; Ebenezer, b. Aug. 11, 1682; Jonathan, b. 
Nov. 2, 1684. 

2. Joseph, s. of Richard, (i) Hat., d. Sept. 28, 1730. Hem. Mary (prob. 
Marsh.) Children — Ruth, b. Dec. 15, 1699, d. Oct. 30, 1730; Elizabeth, b. 
April 4, 1704, m. Samuel Warner of Hat.; Abigail, b. July 18, 1707, d. young; 
John; Thankful, b. May 21, 1713, m. Ephraim Allen of Hat.; Joseph, b. Oct. 
24, 1715, d. prob. abt. 1744, in Amh., leaving no family; Abigail, b. Oct. 18, 
1720; Mary, d. April 10, 1723. 

3. Abraham, s. of Richard, (i) Hat., m. May 8, 1701, Sarah Kellogg. 
Children — Abrahatn, b. May 2, 1703, perhaps settled in Athol; Richard, b. 
Oct. I, 1704, was of Athol in 1750; Sarah, b. April, 1707, m. Samuel Smith; 
Samuel, b. Sept. 8, 1709, m. 1731, Lydia Smith, and was of Athol in 1750; 
Abigail, b. Jan. 6, 1711, d. Feb. i, 1715; Moses; Daniel, b. Dec. 23, 1720; 

Abigail, b. Feb. i, 1723, d. Dec. 24, 1726; Noah, m. Rhoda , and 

settled in Athol. 

4. Ebenezer, s. of Richard, (i) Hat., d. abt. 1760, as is inferred from 
the fact, that his will executed Jan. 1754, was proved April, 1760. He m. 
Sarah Belding. Children — Son, b. 171 1, d. ae. 5 weeks; Dorothy, b. Dec. 6, 

1 71 2, m. (i) Belding; (2) Elnathan Graves, and d. abt. 1801; Lydia, 

b. March 24, 1715, m. 1735, Joseph Bardwell of Belchertown; Elisha, b. 
April I, 1717; Eunice, b. May 14, 1721, m. Elijah Morton; Simeon; Oliver; 
Ebenezer, b. Dec. 8, 1725, m. Azubah, and d. in Hat. abt. 1797; Seth, b. 
Sept. 6, 1729. 

5. Jonathan, s. of Richard, (i) blacksmith in Hat., d. April 23, 1767. 
He m. 1710, Sarah, dau. of Chileab Smith. She d. Oct. 5, 1760, in 73d yr. 
Children — Jonathan, b. Jan. 25, 1711, d. March 10, 171 1; Martha, b. Nov. 18, 
1713; Jonathan, b. July 12, 1716, m. Eleanor, dau. of Joseph Smith, and d. 
abt. 1788; Elijah, b. Nov. 10, 1718, m. Eunice Morton, and d. Oct. 5, 1798; 
David, h. Sept. 12, 1 72 1 ; 5ora/i, b. Oct. 12, 1725, m. 1750, Ephraim Doolittle; 
Mary, b. Sept. 29, 1727, m. Samuel Smith; Lucy, b. Sept, 21, 1732, d. 1766. 

6. John, s. of Joseph, (2) Amh., m. Aug. 4, 1730, Lydia, dau. of Samuel 
Hawley of Amh. She d. abt. 1793. Children — Ruth, b. March 2, 1732, m. 
1758, [pub. June 17,] John Keet of Amh.; Rhoda, b. Aug. 8, 1735, m. April 
24, 1755, Peletiah Smith of Amh.; Thomas, b. Oct. 18, 1739, m. (i) April 29, 
1762, Sarah Barrett; (2) Mrs. Hannah Root; Lydia, b. May 19, 1742, m. 
John Williams of Amh.; John, b. May 13, 1745, m. Lydia, dau. of Samuel 



MORTON NASH. 101 

Ingram of Anih., and d. May ii, 1834, ae. 89; Joseph, b. March 13, 1750, 
m. Wilson of Sunderland. 

7. Daniel, s. of Abraham, (3) rem. from Hat. to Whately, and d. 1786. 
He m. (i) 1743, Esther Bardwell, who d. Oct. 27, 1762; (2) Eleanor Wait. 
Children — Hannah, b. Sept. 7, 1744, m. Matthew Graves, and rem. to Nor- 
wich, Chenango Co., N. Y.; Tabitha, b. Aug. 2, 1747, m. Dr. Charles Doo- 
little of Hardwick; Sarah, b. Dec. 14, 1749, m. OHver Smith of Northfield; 
Mercy, b. Nov. 25, 1751, m. John Lamson of Cummington; Joel, b. Jan. 22, 
1754, rem. to Norwich, N. Y.; Daniel, b. Feb. 12, 1756, res. in Whately; 
Esther, b. Nov. 3, 1758, m. Dr. Lucius Doolittle of Hardwick; Justin, b. 
Sept. 25, 1760, res. in Whately; Consider, b. Oct 12, 1762, res. in Whately; 
Tirzah, m. Wm. Mather, and rem. to Spencertown, N. Y.; Roxa, m. Isaac 
Smith, and rem. to New York. 

1. MURRAY, William, Amh., d. abt. 1784. He m. Feb. 20, 1723, 
Hannah, dau. of John Dickinson of Hat. Children — Elijah, b. Nov. 28, 
1723, d. March, 1742; William, b. July 30, 1726; Dorothy, b. Aug. 4, 1729, 
m. May 9, 1754, Abner Adams; David, b. Nov. 3, 1735; Seth, b. May 21, 
1736; Hannah, b. abt. 1744, m. Nov. 22, 1764, Timothy Abbot of Benning- 
ton, Vt. 

2. William, s. of WilHam, (i) d. abt. 1762. He m. Mercy Scott of 
Sunderland. Children — Elihu, b. Oct. 13, 1753; Elijah, b. June 6, 1756; 
Mercy, b. Sept. 16, 1758; Martha, b. July 14, 1761. 

3. Seth, s. of William, (i) Hat., d. while on a visit in Canandaigua, 
N. Y., Sept. 26, 1795, ae. 59. He m. Dec. 22, 1768, Elizabeth, dau. of Daniel 
White of Hatfield and Bolton, Ct. She d. Feb. 4, 1814, ae. 77. Children — 
Lucinda, b. Dec. 9, 1770, m. Nov. 10, 1790, Isaac Maltby of Hat., (Yale Col. 
1786) who d. 1819. She d. abt. 1836. 

1. NASH, Timothy, s. of Thomas of New Haven, Ct., by trade a black- 
smith, rem. from New Haven to Hartford about 1661, and thence in 1663 to 
Hadley. He was Representative 1690, 1691 and 1695. He d. March 13, 
1699, in 73d yr. He m. abt. 1657, Rebekah, dau. of Rev. Samuel Stone of 
Hartford. She d. March or April, 1709. Children — Rebecca, b. March 12, 
1658, d. young; Samuel, b. Feb. 3, 1660, was killed 1668, by a fall from a 
horse; Thomas; Joseph, h. Jan. 27, 1664, d. unm. in Granby, March 28, 
1740, ae. 76; Timothy; John, b. Aug. 21, 1667; Samuel, b. June 17, 1669, 
d. unm. May 3, 1738, ae. 69; Hope, b. Nov. 26, 1670, m. Jan. 24, 1694, Isaac 
Warner; Ebenezer, b. Oct. 25, 1673; Daniel, m. June i, 1710, Experience 
Clark, and d. March 10, 1760, ae. 84; Mary, d. Dec. 19, 1687; Ephraim, b. 
abt. 1682. 

2. Thomas, s. of Timothy, (i) Hat., d. Jan. 19, 1728. He m. Aug. 
1685, Hannah Coleman, who d. July 4, 1722. Children — John, b. Oct. 28, 
1686; Hannah, b. Sept. 2, 1689, m. Oct. 27, 1712, John Arms; Thomas, b. 
Feb. 26, 1693; Rebeccah, b. April 20, 1699, m. 1720, William Marsh, and d. 
May 12, 1768, ae. 69; Sarah, b. July 9, 1704, d. unm. ^'.'/i:-.. 

3. John, s. of Timothy, (i) blacksmith, representative 1707, 1716, 1719, 
1720, 1724, 1728, 1731, d. Oct. 7, 1743, ae. 76. He m. (i) March 29, 1689, 
Hannah Porter, who d. May 26, 1689; (2) Nov. 27, 1691, Elizabeth Kellogg, 



102 NASH. 

who d. in West Hartford, Ct., July 4, 1750, in 77th yr. Children — Rebecca, 
h. Feb. 27, 1693, d. Nov. i, 1703, ae. 10; John, b. July 2, 1694; Moses, b. 
July 2, 1696, settled in West Hartford, Ct., and d. Jan. 26, 1760, ae. 63. He 
m. (i) Rebecca Graves; (2) Oct. 30, 1744, Mrs. Mary Kellogg; Elizabeth, 
b. Dec. 15, 1698, d. Dec. 31, 1698; Timothy, b. Nov. 13, 1699, settled in Long- 
meadow, and d. March 15, 1756, ae. 56; Abigail, b. April 10, 1702, m. Dec. i, 
1725, Dea. Abraham Merrill of West Hartford, Ct., and d. April 3, 1782, ae. 
82; Stephen, b. Sept. 20, 1704, settled in Westfield, and d. 1764. He m. May 
22, 1728, Elizabeth Smith; Daniel, b. Dec. 8, 1706; Samuel, b. Jan. 29, 1709, 
res. in Farmington, Ct. and Goshen, Ct. He m. (i) Jan. 24, 1734, Margaret 

Merrill; (2) Mrs. '■ Dickinson; Phineas, b. Jan. 18, 1713, d. March 24, 

1 7 13; Enos, b. April 21, 17 14. 

4. Ebenezer, s. of Timothy, (i) removed after the birth of his children, 
to Suflield, Ct., where he d. 1748. He m. July, 1701, Mary, dau. of John 
Scott of Springfield. She d. Oct. 19, 1747. Children — Jonathan, b. May 30, 
1702, d. Nov. 7, 1704, ae. 2; Mary, b. Oct. 29, 1704, m. Nov. 18, 1730, John 
Hovey of Mansfield, Ct., and d. Oct. 3, 1746; Miriam, b. Jan. 27, 1710, m. 
Aug. 24, 1742, Moses Scott of Bemardston. 

5. Ephraim, s. of Timothy, (i) So. Had., d. Nov. 9, 1759, in 78th yr. He 
m. Jan. 10, 1705, Joanna, dau. of Dea. John Smith. Children — Timothy, 
b. Jan. 26, 1707; Ephraim, b. Jan. 16, 1710, d. Feb. 15, 1710; Aaron, b. 
Feb. 23, 1712; Joanna, b. July 4, 1715, d. ae. 4 days; Joanna, b. Aug. 28, 
1716, d. Oct. 20, 1716; Martin, b. Jan. 19, 1718; Eleazar, b. Feb. 10, 1720; 
Elisha, b. Oct. 8, 1729. 

6. John, s. of Thomas, (2) Hat., d. April 7, 1764, ae. 77. Hem. Dec. 29, 
1715, Abilene, dau. of John Field of Hat. She d. July 15, [18?] 1764, ae. 
75. Children — Hannah, b. Sept. 16, 1716, m. Sept. 30, 1736, Ebenezer 
Belding of Ashfield; Noah, b. March 26, 1719, d. March 9, 1795, ae. 75. He 
rfi- (i) i753> Hepzibah Bodman; (2) Abigail Belding; Mary, b. abt. 1721, 
d. Nov. II, 1725, ae. abt. 4; Martha, m. Feb. 11, 1752, Phinehas Warner of 
New Braintree; Abigail, m. Dea. Hezekiah Belding of Amh. ; Daughter, 
m. Carpenter. 

7. Thomas, s. of Thomas, (2) Hat. and Williamsburgh, d. March 12, 
1773, ae. 80. He m. June 8, 1727, Martha, dau. of Joseph Smith of Hat. 
Children — Submit, b. May 18, 1728, d. June 11, 1728; Rebecca, h. Feb. 26, 
1730, d. unm; Submit, b. Feb. 13, 1732, d. unm.; Elisha, b. Aug. 2, 1734, 
d. Dec. 25, 1739; John, b. Oct. 20, 1736, settled in Williamsburgh, and d. 
May 31, 1773, ae. 36. He m. Dec. 27, 1758, Martha Graves; Moses, b. Sept. 
29, 1739, d. unm.; Martha, b. Feb. 21, 1742, d. unm.; Elisha, b. Oct. i, 1744, 
d. Sept. 15, 1827, ae. 83. He m. (i) Aug. [July 14?] 1767, Elizabeth Smith; 
(2) Oct. 8, 1783, Naomi Sheldon; (3) Feb. 27, 1812, Mrs. Sarah Clark; (4) 
May 27, [30?] 1827, Mrs. Mary Johnson. 

8. John, s. of John, (3) rem. to Amh., was deacon in the Cong, church, 
and d. abt. 1778. He m. Nov. 17 16, Hannah Ingram. Children — Jonathan, 
b. July 28, 1 717; David, b. June 6, 17 19; Hannah, b. June 26, 1723; John. 

9. Daniel, s. of John, (3) resided in So. Had. until about the time of 
the American Revolution, when he removed to Shelburne, and d. Aug. 24, 
1 79 1, in 84th yr. He m. Abigail , who d. in Conway, Sept. 6, 180^, ae. 93. 



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Children — Marah, b. July 7, 1731, m. June 22, 1751, Samuel Kellogg of 
So. Had., and d. June, 1811, ae. 80; Joseph, b. March i, 1734, res. in So. 
Had. and Rowe, and d. Dec. 23, 1799, ae. 68. He m. Abigail Cooper; 
Abigail, b. Feb. 17, 1740, m. Jan. 5, 1762, Azariah Alvord, and d. in So. Had. 
March 31, 1782; Daniel, b. March 22, 1742, settled in Great Barrington, and 
d. May 6, 1794. He m. May 3, 1770, Abigail Dewey; Eunice, b. Oct. 8, 
1744, m. Enoch Chapin of So. Had., and d. Nov. 27, 1802; Azubah, b. June 
24, 1747, m. 1 77 1, Joshua Abbott of Conway; Benjamin, b. July 3, 1750, 
rem. from So. Had. to Shelburne, and d. June 17, 1797, ae. 47. He m. Jan. 

1, 1778, Lydia, dau. of Aaron Skinner of Colchester, Ct.; Elihu, b. Sept. 16, 
1752, d. unm. 

10. Enos, s. of John, (3) blacksmith, deacon in Church, d. Aug. 28, 1768, 
ae. 54. He m. Feb. 18, 1736, Joanna Barnard, who d. March 10, 
1788, in 73d yr. Children — Joanna, b. Jan. i, 1737, d. 1740; Enos, d. young; 
Rebecca, m. Sept. 4, 1766, Nehemiah Gaylord; Enos; Josiah, b. Aug. 27, 1749. 

11. Timothy, s. of Ephraim, (5) resided in Granby and Shutesbury. 
He m. Oct. 15, 1736, Experience Kellogg. Children — Joanna, b. Dec. 29, 
1737, m. 1768, Jacob Hastings of Warwick; Samuel, b. Jan. 29, 1739, settled 
in Lunenburgh, Vt.; Timothy, b. Oct. 15, 1740, m. Mary Powers, and settled 
in Lunenburgh, Vt.; Experience, b. Dec. 14, 1743, m. 1764, George Wheeler; 
Mary Crouch, b. May 20, 1747, m. 1768, James Lyman of Northfield, and d. 
March 23, 1777, ae. 29. 

12. Aaron, s. of Ephraim, (5) removed, about 1774, from Granby to 
Brattleboro', Vt. He m. Dec. 2, 1736, Damaris, dau. of William Wait, Jr., of 
Nh. She was b. Feb. 26, 1717. Children — Damaris, b. Nov. 19, 1737, m. 
Rev. Titus Smith of West Suffield, Ct., and d. Aug. 1779, ae. 41; Phebe, b. 
March 22, 1739, m. William Williams of Brattleboro', Vt., and d. 1798; 
Aaron, b. March 24, 1741, rem. from Brattleboro', to EUisburg, N. Y., and d. 
Jan. 17, 1827, ae. 85. He m. Hannah, dau. of Dea. David Nash of So. Had.; 
Sarah, b. Dec. 27, 1744, m. John Ellis of Brattleboro', Vt., and d. Jan. 7, 
1827, ae. 82; Moses, b. Nov. 10, 1750, rem. to Brattleboro', and d. June 25, 
1821, ae. 70. He m. 1772, Grace McCune; Oliver, b. Aug. 20, 1752, res. in 
Brattleboro' and EUisburg, N. Y., and d. Nov. 20, 1835, ae. 83. He m. June 

2, 1777, Mary Hooker; Ebenezer, b. July 20, 1756, d. unm. in Brattleboro', Vt. 

13. Martin, s. of Ephraim, (5) Granby, d. Oct. 9, 1749, ae. 31. He m. 
Oct. 20, 1743, Elizabeth, datx. of William Wait, Jr., of Nh. She was b. 
June 25, 1712, and d. in Brattleboro', Vt., May 6, 1799, ae. 86. Children — 
Elizabeth, b. Sept. 30, 1744, m. April 15, 1766, Elisha Moody of Gr., and d. 
July 3, 1833, ae. 88; Chloe, b. Feb. 26, 1746, m. Daniel Warriner of Brattle- 
boro', Vt., and d. July 4, 1800, ae. 54; Miriam, b. Nov. 26, 1747, rem. to 
State of New York; Martin, b. April 9, 1749, rem. to the West. 

14. Eleazer, s. of Ephraim, (5) Granby, d. May 19, 1775, ae. 55. He 
m. Nov. 9, 1749, Phebe, dau. of Nathaniel Kellogg, Jr. Children — -Ltwy, b. 
Sept. 18, 1750, m. (i) March 5, 1789, Azariah Alvord; (2) Oct. 31, 1813, 
John Stickney, and d. Dec. 24, 1836, ae. 86; Joanna, b. abt. 1752, d. unm. 
May 16, 1816, in 64th yr. ; Ephraim, b. March, 1754, rem. to Brattleboro', Vt., 
and d. Dec. 18, 1816. He m. Feb. 2, 1786, Hannah Wells; Eleazer, b. Aug. 
1755, res. in Granby, and d. June 9, 1836, ae. 80. He m. April 6, 1795, 



104 NASH. 

Abigail Brown of Amh.; Nathaniel, b. 1757, d. unm. July 8, 1834, ae. 77; 
Phebe, b. Jan. 14, 1768, m. July 15, 1789, [1790?] Josiah Smith of So. Had., 
and d. Jan. 11, 1847, ae. 78. 

15. Elisha, s. of Ephraim, (5) Granby, d. March, 1814, ae. 84. He m. 
Lois Frost, who d. Nov. 1820, ae. 83. Children — Samuel, b. Feb. i, 1760, 
d. in Dover, Athens Co., Ohio, Sept. 5, [9?] 1823, ae. 63. He m. (i) 
Vashti Pierre; (2) Jan. i, 1822, Lucy Goodenow; Rebecca, b. Nov. 7, 1762, 
d. unm. March 23, 1796, ae. 34; Lois, b. Jan. 15, 1765, prob. d. unm.; Elisha, 
b. Sept. II, 1766, settled in Williamsburgh, and d. 1827. He m. Elizabeth 
Ludden; Justin, b. April 25, 1768, settled in North East, Erie Co., O., and d. 
March 15, 1851, ae. 82. He m. (i) Ruth Hopkins; (2) May 18, 1743, Betsey 
Nettleton; Adonijah, b. March i, 1770, d. in Argyle, N. Y., June 9, 1849, 
ae. 79. He m. 1801, Sarah Breck; Dorcas, b. Feb. 18, 1772, m. 1797, Joel 
White of So. Had., and d. April 5, 1837, ae. 65; Simeon, b. Sept. 8, 1776, 
res. in So. Had., and d. July 15, 1850, ae. 73. He m. (i) 1801, Amy 
White; (2) March 29, 1827, Mrs. Naomi Chapin; (3) May 26, 1830, Eliza- 
beth Chapin. 

16. Jonathan, s. of Dea. John, (8) Amh., d. Sept. 28, 1796, ae. 79. He 
m. Mary, dau. of Samuel Hawley of Amh. Children — Jonathan, bapt. Aug. 
19, 1744, res. in Amh., m. Anna Hastings, and d. 1796; Joseph, bapt. April 
5, 1747, res. in Whately, m. March 15, 1770, Lucy Allis, and d. May 15, 1804; 
Amos, bapt. 1750, res. in Amh., m. Eunice Pomeroy; Reuben, bapt. Nov. i, 
1752, res. in Amh., m. April, 1780, Lydia Edwards, and d. Jan. 24, 1831; 
Abner, bapt. April 10, 1757, m. (i) Hannah Dickinson; (2) 1813, Sarah 
Munson, and d. in Earlville, N. Y., Aug. 22, 1837; Mary, bapt. July 6, 1760, 
d. unm.; Abigail, m. Dec. 16, 1784, Stoughton Dickinson of Amh.; Samuel, 
d. unm. in Pelham. 

17. David, s. of Dea. John, (8) Amh. and So. Had., d. April 26, 1803, 
ae. 82. He m. (i) Sept. 29, 1742, Jemima, dau. of Samuel Boltwood of 
Amh.; (2) May 9, 1754, Elizabeth Smith. She d. 1765; (3) Experience, 
wid. of Amos Loomis of Southampton, and dau. of Nathaniel Parsons of Nh. 
She was b. Aug. 9, 1729, and d. Feb. 1817, ae. 87. Children — Samuel, bapt. 
Sept. 8, 1745, prob. d. young; David, bapt. Aug. 9, 1747, d. Sept. 25, 1750; 
Hannah, m. Aaron Nash, and d. Feb. 24, 1825; David, b. Feb. 10, 1755, 
m. Lois Alvord, res. for many years in Granby, but rem. before his death to 
Watervliet, N. Y., where he d. Oct. 6, 1832, ae. 77; Abigail, b. June i, 1757, 
m. July 2, 1789, Daniel Moody of Granby, and d. June 4, 1802, ae. 45; 
Jonathan, b. Nov. 5, 1760, grad. D. C. 1789, was ord. as pastor of (Cong.) 
church in Middlefield, Oct. 31, 1792, and dismissed July 11, 1832. He m. (i) 
Oct. 30, 1793, Eunice, dau. of Edward Taylor of Montgomery; (2) June 22, 
1803, Rebecca, wid. of Alpheus Russell, and dau. of Isaac Clark. He d. 
Aug. 31, 1834, ae. 73; Asa, b. Dec. i, 1763, res. in So. H. He m. (i) Oct. 
21, 1792, Kezia Eastman; (2) March 31, 1808, Lydia Bodurtha, and d. May 
25, 1814, ae. 50; Elizabeth, b. March 19, 1765, d. young. 

18. John, s. of Dea. John, (8) Amh. He m. (i) Mary Graves of Hat.; 
(2) April 23, 1778, Sarah, wid. of Ebenezer Kellogg of Amh., and dau. of 
Preserved Clapp of Amh. Children — Levi, d. unm., ae. abt. 20; Judith, m. 
Samuel Boltwood of Amh., and d. April 28, 1832, ae. 76; Miriam, m. June 15, 
1779, Samuel Field; Mary, bapt. Dec. 9, 1759, m. (i) 1779, Firmin Wood; 



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(2) David Stockbridge, and d. June 20, 1832, ae. 75; Child, bapt. Sept. 27, 
1761, prob. d. young; Lucretia, bapt. April 17, 1763, d. in youth; A'lartha, 
bapt. Sept. 16, 1764, d. unm. Oct. 5, 1836; Moses, bapt. Dec. 20, 1767, res. 
in Amh., m. Sally Lewis, and d. Sept. 28, 1841. 

19. Enos, s. of Enos, (10) d. March 30, 1796, ae. 49. He m. (i) Nov. 27, 
1771, Martha, dau. of Samuel Gaylord. She d. Sept. 25, 1788, ae. 41; (2) 
April 28, 1794, Eleanor Stebbins of Springfield. She was b. Sept. 3, 1755, 
and d. in Enfield, Ct. Children — Martha, b. June 5, 1773, m. Eli Smith, and 
d. July 28, 1817, ae. 44; Enos, b. Feb. 10, 1775; Cotton, b. Sept. 27, 1776; 
Erastus, h. Feb. 12, 1780; Lemuel, b. Nov. 18, 1782, d. unm., in U. S. service 
in Burlington, Vt., Dec. 11, 1812, ae. 30; Sarah, b. Aug. 12, 1785, d. unm. 
July 10, 1824, ae. 38; Peggy, b. Oct. 11, 1787, d. Dec. 8, 1787. 

20. JosiAH, s. of Enos, (10) blacksmith, d. March 4, 1814, ae. 64. He 
m. Jan. 30, 1772, Eunice, dau. of Simeon Knight of Ware, Mass , and Rock- 
ingham, Vt. She was b. July 24, 1751, and d. Feb. 14, 1814, ae. 62. Chil- 
dren — Samuel, b. Nov. 13, 1772, d. April 20, 1787, ae. 15; Josiah, b. March 2, 
1775, killed by the kick of a horse. May, 1793, ae. 18; John, b. Nov. 29, 
1776; Elijah, b. Dec. 16, 1778; Timothy, b. July 6, 1781; Eunice, b. Nov. 5, 
1783, d. unm. April 5, 1812, ae. 38; Oliver, b. Oct. 24, 1785; Samuel, h. Nov. 
29, 1788, d. March 5, 1789; Lois, h. Dec. 8, 1789, d. unm.; Joanna, b. Jan. 29, 
1792, m. Jan. 27, 1814, Enos Dickinson of Amh., and d. March 19, 1818, 
ae. 26; Sarah, b. March 25, 1794, m. Jan. 1823, Andrew Scott, and d. in 
Cleveland, O., Jan. 21, 1847, ^^- 5^; Submit, b. June 25, 1797, m. Jan. 31, 
1838, Dea. John Tolman of Ware. 

21. Enos, s. of Enos, (19) Hat., d. Nov. 3, 1823, ae. 48. He m. Feb. 21, 
1797, Sarah Wells of Hatfield. She d. Aug. 1848. Children — Martha, b. 
Sept. 10, 1797, prob. d. Oct. 1798; Abel Wells, h. May, 1799, m. July 13, 1820, 
Mary Mosher, and res. in Whately; Enos, b. March 3, 1801, d. Aug. 13, 1802; 
Patty Gaylord, b. May, 1803, m. Aug. 17, 18 18, Simeon Dickinson; Sally, 
b. April 4, 1805, d. 1805; Sally Chapin, b. June 6, 1806, m. William Blake; 
Daughter, b. Dec. 21, 1807, d. 1807; Enos Barnard, b. July, 1809, res. in 
Rushville, 111., m. Nov. 6, 1838, Katherine Keller; Mary Stebbins, b. Oct. 27, 
181 1, m. Oct. 20, 1 83 1, Samuel Shipman of Had. 

22. Cotton, s. of Enos, (19) d. in Had. He m. Nov. 18, 1804, Phebe, 
dau. of Joseph Smith. Children — Aminta Day, b. April 13, 1808, d. Aug. 28, 
1811, ae. 3; Nancy, b. March 22, i8ri, m. April 19, 1832, Wyman Smith; 
Lorenzo S., b. July 4, 1814, m. Nov. 21, 1838, Pemielia Smith, and res. in 
Granby. 

23. Erastus, s. of Enos, (19) joiner, d. Sept. 20, 1849, ^^- 69. He m. 
June 4, 1804, Penelope Gaylord. Children — Elizabeth Worthington, b. Dec. 
10, 1804, d. Sept. 27, 1807, ae. 2; Martha, b. Jan. 3, 1807, d. Aug. 26, 1807; 
Erastus, b. Nov. 4, 1808; Edwin, b. Nov. 24, 1810, d. Aug. 9, 1824; Lucius, 
b. Jan. 21, 1813, d. Nov. 7, 1813; Lucius, b. Oct. 25, 1814; George Williams, 
b. May 23, 1817, d. Dec. 4, 1831, ae. 14; Elizabeth Worthington, b. Oct. 16, 
1818, m. May 19, 1841, Enos E. Cook; Cotton Gaylord, b. Sept. 10, 1820; 
Martha Smith, b. April 9, 1823, m. Oct. 20, 1843, Addington Daniels. 

24. John, s. of Josiah, (20) followed the business of boating down the 
Conn, river to Hartford, until the building of the Conn. River R. R. in 1849 



106 NASH. 

changed the mode of transportation, when he sold out his boats and gave up 
the business. He d. Jan. lo, 1858, ae. 81. He m. Lephe Packard, b. Feb. 19, 
1777. She d. of disease of the heart, June 7, 1850, ae. 73. Children — Josiah, 
b. May 17, 1799; Eliza, b. Jan. 20, 180 1, m. Nov. 20, 1823, Henry Hodge; 
Walter, b. Dec. 5, 1802, d. Sept. 23, 1804; Mary, b. Nov. 27, 1804, m. June 29, 
1826, Lester W. Porter; Lephe, b. Aug. 30, 1807; Lucinda, b. April 3, 1811, 
m. Dec. 3, 1835, Theodore Clark; John Walter, b. Nov. 26, 18 14; Joanna D., 
b. Sept. 3, 1818, m. Jan. 22, 1837, Frederick Dickinson. 

25. Elijah, s. of Josiah, (20) joiner and farmer, m. (i) Nov. 15, 1803, 
Electa Morton of Hat. She was b. Oct. 25, 1779, and d. Feb. 21, 1813; 
(2) Ruth, dau. of Josiah Cowls of Leverett. She d. June 22, 1846. Chil- 
dren — Harriet, b. March 29, 1804, m. Nov. 23, 1820, Levi Hawley; Lucy, 
b. Feb. 16, 1806, m. Aug. 30, 1843, Josiah Rice of Leverett; Electa, b. Nov. 
19, 1807, d. unm. Jan. 13, 1829; Samuel, b. March 13, 1810; Hiram, b. April 
16, and d. June 6, 1812. 

26. Timothy, s. of Josiah, (20) was a truckman in Boston, where he d. 

March 16, 1822. He m. . Children — Matilda, bapt. June 20, 

181 6; Charles, b. Oct. i, 181 1, m. Rachel Robbins, and res. in Amh.; Julia, 
bapt. Jan. 20, 1816, m. (i) Charles Jones; (2) Orrin Hammond. 

27. Oliver, s. of Josiah, (20) rem. in 1836 to Amh., and there d. 1856. 
He m. (i) 1810, Hannah Dickinson of Amh., who d. May 22, 1832; (2) 

Dec. 27, 1832, Sally, wid. of Kennan, and dau. of Whitcomb. 

She was b. in Princeton, March 21, 1798. Children — Louisa, b. Dec. 10, 
1810, d. Oct. I, 1824; Eunice Knight, b. May 25, 1813, m. May 7, 1840, 
Moses M. Brown of Springfield; Lucretia Montague, b. Aug. 11, 1815; Oliver, 
b. Aug. 4, 1818, m. Roxana Houghton, and d. in Boston, Feb. 7, 185 1; 
Hannah Submit, b. June 6, 1823, m. Frederick Wells; Timothy, b. Oct. 20, 
1833; Horace, b. July 2, 1836; Sarah Louisa, b. Aug. 9, 1839. 

28. Lorenzo S., s. of Cotton, (22) resides in Gr., is a deacon in the 
(Cong.) church, and was in 1859 a Representative to the General Court for 
the District embracing the towns of Amherst, Granby and Pelham. He m. 
Nov. 21, 1838, Pemielia, dau. of Dr. Enos Smith of Gr. She was b. Sept. 20, 
1817. Children — Henry Smith, b. Oct. 22, 1840, d. Sept. 14, 1841; Sarah 
Hawkes, b. Aug. 20, 1842. 

29. Erastus, s. of Erastus, (23) m. (i) April 9, 1832, Achsah W., dau. 
of Jonathan Warner. She d. April 26, 1842; (2) April 19, 1843, Susan, dau. 
of Elisha Hubbard. Children — Maria Williams, b. April 11, 1833; Edwin 
Smith, b. Feb. 21, 1835; Francis Lewis, b. May 9, 1838; Arthur Henry, b. 
July I, 1840, d. Aug. 20, 1841; Isabella Susan, b. April 22, 1844; Margaret 
Louisa, b. May 10, 1846; Erastus Hall, b. May 12, 1848. 

30. Lucius, s. of Erastus, (23) m. (i) May, 1844, Margaret, dau. of 
Joseph Marsh. She d. May, 1846; (2) Nov. 14, 1846, Elizabeth, dau. of 
Moses Marsh. She d. Feb. 28, 1856, ae. 38; (3) Cornelia Johnson. Chil- 
dren — George Williams, b. May 10, 1845; Henry Barnard, b. Dec. 8, 1847, 
d. June 14, 1849. 

31. Josiah, s. of John, (24) m. Nov. 20, 1823, Almira Colt, who d. 
Jan. 31, 1832. Child — Catherine, b. Nov. 16, 1825, m. April 8, 1846, Charles 
D. Hodge. 



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32. John Walter, s. of John, (24) m. May 2, 1837, Almira Bartlett" 
Children — Almira, b. March 16, 1843; Sarah J., b. July 5, 1848; Helen E.' 
h. Aug. 13, 1849, d. Aug. 21, 1855, ae. 6. 

33. Samuel, s. of Elijah, (25) was a farmer, surveyor, Representative to 
General Court 1844, deacon in North Hadley (Cong.) church, and d. 1861. 
He m. May i, 1834, Lurintha Ball of Leverett. Children — Laura E., b. 
July 9, 1835; Martin Samuel, h. March 20, 1838; Jay Elijah, b. March 29, 
1843; Jane Lurintha, b. Sept. 23, 1845; John, b. Oct. 17, 1847; Sarah E., 
b. May 15, 1850, d. May 23, 1851. 

1. NEWTON, Francis. Children — Elizabeth, m. Nov. 6, 1783, Moses 
Kellogg, Jr.; Eleanor, m. 1783, Jonathan Cook, Jr.; Tryphena, m. Jan. 3, 
1790, Solomon Cooke; Sally, m. May 18, 1798, Daniel Russell, Jr.; Francis. 

2. Francis, s. of Francis, (i) m. July 21, 1794, Abigail, dau. of John 
Dickinson. Children — Son, bapt. July, 1796; Theodocia, bapt. Dec. 1, 1801; 
Obed, bapt. Feb. 21, 1802; John, bapt. Feb. 21, 1802. 

NORTHAM, Samuel, s. of James of Hartford, Ct., carpenter, rem. before 
1686 to Deerfield, and thence as early as 1709, to Colchester, Ct. He m. 
Mary Dickinson. Children — Samuel, b. May 4, 1675; Mary, b. Jan. 7, 1676; 
Elizabeth, b. April 11, 1680; Jonathan, b. May 18, 1682. 

OSBORN, Richard, m. Dec. 15, 1796, Lucinda Gaylord. Children — 
Chester, bapt. Dec. 24, 1797; Fanny Gaylord, bapt. May 4, 1800. 

1. PANTON or PANTHERN, Alexander, m. June 30, 1689, Mary 
Moody. She m. (2) June 29, 1698, James Munn. Child — Philip, b. April 
16, 1689. 

2. Philip, s. of Alexander, (i) d. s. p., April 7, 1717. He m. March 27, 
1712, Elizabeth, dau. of John Ingram. She m. (2) Dec. 13, 1716, Ebenezer 
Kellogg. 

PARKER, Eli, Amh., d. Nov. 9, 1829, ae. 93. He m. EHzabeth, dau. of 
John Hubbard. She d. Oct. 13, 1813, ae. 74. Children — Eli, b. abt. 1763, 
m. (i) Salome Dickinson; (2) Fanny Woodward; Levi, bapt. June 14, 
1767, d. ae. abt. 18; Samuel, bapt. Sept. 24, 1769; Deborah, bapt. Jan. 19, 
1772, m. Sylvanus Dickinson; Hannah, m. (i) Thomas Goodale; (2) Simeon 
Pomeroy; Elizabeth, m. Aug. 29, 1776, Moses Hastings. 

I. PARSONS, Rev. David, s. of Rev. David, was b. in Maiden, March 24, 
1712, grad. H. C. 1729, was ord. as first pastor of the Amh. (Cong.) Church, 
Nov. 7, 1739, and d. Jan. i, 1781, ae. 68. He m. Eunice, dau. of Gideon Wells 
of Wethersfield, Ct. She was b. Aug. 6, 1723, and d. Sept. 20, 1796, ae. 73. 
Children — Eunice, bapt. July 19, 1747; David, bapt. Jan. 28, 1749; Eunice, 
bapt. July 28, 1751, m. Solomon Stoddard, Esq., of Nh., and d. Jan. 22, 1797, 
ae. 45; Salome, bapt. Feb. 28, 1753, d. unm. Aug. 22, 1839, ae. 84; Mary, 
bapt. March 27, 1757, m. Nov. i, 1790, Ezekiel Belding of Wethersfield, Ct., 
and d. 1845, ae. 88; Gideon, bapt. June 28, 1759, d. Oct. 14, 1761, ae. 2; 
Gideon, bapt. Nov. 22, 1761, m. April 16, 1787, Huldah Rowe, and d. 1805, 
in Esopus, N. Y.; Leonard Chester, bapt. Nov. 11, 1764, d. while a member of 
the Junior Class in Yale College, Nov. 30, 1785, ae. 24. 



108 PARSONS PARTRIDGE. 

2. David, D. D., s. of David, (i) grad. H. C. 1771, was ord. Oct. 2, 1782, 
as successor of his father, over the ist Cong. Church in Amh., dis. at his own 
request, Sept. i, 1819, and d. May 18, 1823, ae. 74, while on a visit in Weth- 
ersfield, Ct. He received in 1800 from Brown Univ. the degree of Doctor of 
Divinity. He m. Nov. 5, 1785, Harriet, dau. of Ezekiel Williams, Esq., of 
Wethersfield, Ct. She was b. June 26, 1764, and d. June, 1850, ae. 85. 
Children — Ezekiel Williams, b. Feb. 16, 1787, m. June, 1822, Sally Clark, 
and is a physician in Colchester, Ct.; David, b. June 10, 1788, res. in Amh., 
ni. (i) Jan. 21, 1816, Elizabeth Williams; (2) Dec. 16, 1845, Wid. Lucy 
Howell of Hartford, Ct.; Prudence Stoddard, b. Dec. 24, 1789, m. Oct. 7, 
1823, Rev. Marcus Smith; Thomas, b. Oct. 10, 1791, m. March 18, Frances 
Catharine Chappel, res. in New London, Ct., but d. in Colchester, Ct., Aug. 
21, 1832, ae. 41; Harriet, b. Aug. 6, 1793, m. (i) Rev. Royal Washburn of 
Amh.; (2) May 16, 1844, Hon. David Mack of Amh.; Francis, b. Feb. 16, 
1795, grad. Y. C, was a lawyer in Hartford, Ct., m. Dec. 23, 1829, Clarissa 
Brown, and d. 1861; Mary, b. Dec. 8, 1796, m. Sept. i, 182 1, Rev. William 
Williams of Salem; Caroline, b. Sept. 15, 1798, d. unm. in Wethersfield, Ct., 
Jan. 5, 1820, ae. 21; Sophia, b. Aug. 8, 1800, m. May 17, 1837, Rev. Silas 
Aiken, D. D., then of Boston, but now of Rutland, Vt.; William, b. Oct. 30, 
1802, a physician, d. unm. in Canaan, Ct., April 18, 18*30, ae. 27; James, b. 
Nov. 4, 1804, grad. Amh. Col. 1830, m. March, 1832, Mary Eliza Lewis, and 
d. on Staten Island, N. Y., Sept. 3, 1833, ae. 28. 



1. PARTRIDGE, William, came from Berwick upon Tweed, Eng., 
was an early settler of Hartford, Ct., whence he rem. to Had., where he d. 
June 27, 1668. He m. Dec. 12, 1644, Mary Smith of Hartford. She was 
sister of Christopher of Northampton, Joseph of Hartford, Simeon and Wil- 
liam, and d. July 20, [28?] 1680, ae. 55. Children — Samuel, b. Oct. 15, 
1645; Mary, m. (i) Nov. 12, 1663, John, s. of Lieut. Samuel Smith; (2) 
Sept. 1679, Peter Montague, and d. May 20, 1680, ae. abt. 55. 

2. CoL. Samuel, s. of William, (i) was Representative 1685 and 1686, 
Colonel of the Regiment, Judge of Probate, and one of his Majesty's Council, 
and the most important man, after the death of Col. Pynchon, 1703, in all 
the western part of the Province. About 1687 he removed to Hat., where 
he d. Dec. 25, 1740, ae. 95. He m. (i) Sept. 24, 1668, Mehitable, dau. of 

John Crow; (2) Atwater, wid. of John of Salem, and dau. of Rev. 

Seaborn Cotton. Children — William, b. Nov. 16, 1669, grad. H. C. 1689, a 
preacher, d. in Wallingford, Ct., Sept. 1693; Samuel, b. Jan. 21, 1672; Me- 
hitable, b. May i, 1674, d. May 16, 1674; Mehitable, b. Aug. 26, 1675, m. Dec. 
9, 1693, Nathaniel Dwight; Child, b. 1677, d. young; Mary, b. 1678, m. 
Dec. 4, 1695, Josiah Dwight; Jonathan, b. April 5, 1681, d. Sept. 11, 1684; 
Edward, b. April 26, 1683, res. in Hat.; Jonathan, b. Sept. 18, 1685, d. Jan. 
24, 1686; John, b. 1686, grad. H. C. 1705, and d. in Spr. 1717; Elizabeth, b. 

Oct. 7, 1688, m. (i) May 9, 1709, John Hamlin, Jr.; (2) Hamlin; (3) 

Johnson of Woodstock, Ct. ; (4) Payson of Middletown, Ct. 

3. Samuel, s. of Col. Samuel, (2) d. betw. 1735 and 1738. He m. 1695, 
Mrs. Mary Atwater, dau. of Rev. Seaborn Cotton. She was b. 1670, and d. 
June 23, 1729, ae. 59. Children — William, b. Jan. 9, 1696, d. March 16, 



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1698; Samuel, b. June i, 1696; Mary, b. June 15, 1698, m. Isaac Mattoon of 
Northfield; Elizabeth, b. Sept. 22, 1701, m. Ezekiel Kellogg of New Salem; 
Dorothy, b. March 2, 1703, d. March, 1703; Cotton, b. Oct. 13, 1705; Mehet- 
able, b. Oct. 8, 1707, m. Thomas Barnard of Tolland, Ct.; William, b. Sept. 15, 
1710, prob. grad. Y. C. 1729, and rem. to Nova Scotia, where he was Secre- 
tary of State. 

4. Edward, s. of Col. Samuel, (2) Hat., d. Dec. 26, 1757, ae. 74. He 
m. May 14, 1707, Martha, dau. of Rev. William Williams of Hat. She d. 
Nov. 26, 1766. Children — Elizabeth, b. Oct. 14, 1708; Martha, b. Oct. 9, 
1 7 10; Oliver, b. June 13, 17 12. 

5. Cotton, s. of Samuel, (3) d. Sept. 28, 1733, ae. 27. He m. Margaret, 
dau. of Moses Cook. She m. (2) Samuel Gaylord. Children — Samuel, b. 
July 3, 1730; Sybil, b. Oct. 7, 1732, m. Josiah Dickinson. 

6. Oliver, s. of Edward, (4) Hat., d. July 21, 1792, ae. 80. He m. 
1734, Anna, dau. of William Williams of Weston. She d. Dec. 21, 1802, 
ae. 85. Children — William, b. Aug. 15, 1735, d. Aug. 30, 1735; Anna, b. July 

27, 1736, m. Bull; Oliver, b. Aug. 19, 1738, d. Sept. 9, 1738; Martha, 

b. Nov. 8, 1739; Mercy, b. Feb. 15, 1742; Elizabeth, b. March 15, 1744; 
Sophia, b. Aug. 3, 1746; Samuel, b. Sept. 5, 1748; Oliver, b. April 15, 1751, 
unm., was a physician in Stockb ridge; William, b. April 30, 1753, a farmer 
in Pittsfield; John, b. May i, 1755; Pamela, b. Sept. 21, 1757, d. Jan. 10, 
1759; Pamela, b. Jan. 15, 1761. 

7. Samuel, s. of Cotton, (5) Hat., m. Jan. 18, 1754, Abigail Dwight. 
Children — Esther, b. March 26, 1761, m. John AUis of Hat., and d. Dec. 22, 
1834; Cotton, b. Dec. i, 1765; Samuel, b. Nov. 4, 1767, d. young; Samuel. 

8. Cotton, s. of Samuel, (7) Hat., m. (i) May 4, 1788, Sophia, dau. of 

Dea. Arms of Deerfield; (2) June 23, 1796, Hannah, dau. of Rev. 

Jonathan Lyman, D. D. of Hat. Children — Dwight, b. 1789, m. April 5, 
1807, Elizabeth Sabin, and d. in Phelps, N. Y., ae. 32; Theodore, b. 1791, 
res. in Newark, N. J.; Sophia Arms, b. 1798, m. Moses Morton; Eunice, b. 
1800; Hannah Huntington, b. 1802, m. David S. Whitney of Nh.; Joseph 
Lyman, b. 1804, grad. W. C. 1828; Abigail Dwight, m. (i) Aug. 26, 1835, 
Rev. Levi Pratt of Medford; (2) Lebbeus Ward; Fanny, b. March 22, 181 1, 

m. Brainerd of St. Albans, Vt.; George Cotton, grad. A. C. 1833, a 

clergyman in 111.; Harriet, m. Alfred Woodruff. 



PARTRIDGE, Samuel, Hat., m. Feb. 21, 1792, Caroline Adams of West 

Springfield. She d. Jan. 19, 1798. Children — Clarissa, b. 1793, m. 

Sergeant of Stockbridge; Caroline, b. July 31, 1795, m. Harvey Ely of 
Rochester, N. Y. 

1. PERKINS, Elisha, d. abt. 1720. He m. Feb. 27, 1713, Sarah, dau. 
of Samuel Smith. She m. (2) May 29, 1724, Benjamin Church. Children — 
Son, b. and d. 1713; Son, b. and d. 1715; Elisha, b. Jan. 5, 1716; John, b. 
Sept. 9, 1 7 19. 

2. Elisha, s. of Elisha, (i) m. Eunice , who d. Oct. 7, 1744. Chil- 
dren — Sarah, b. Aug. 28, 1741; Eunice, b. Sept. 12, 1742; Sibil, b. Feb. 28, 
1744. 



110 PERRY PIERCE. 

PERRY, John, rem. after 1745, to Amh., m. April i, 1737, Rebecca 
Warner; (2) 1743, Elizabeth Meacham of New Salem. Children — Rebecca, 
b. May 5, 1738; Mary, b. Jan. 26, 1740. 

PETTY, John, res. in Amh., and d. abt. 1790, m. , dau. of Benjamin 

Rhodes. Children — Mary and Thankful, (twins,) bapt. Aug. 31, 1760; 

Joseph, m. Wales; Lucretia, bapt. July 31, 1768, m. Joseph Robbins 

of Amh.; Rachel, bapt. Aug. 19, 1770. 

1. PHELPS, Charles, s. of Nathaniel, was b. in Northampton, Aug. 15, 
1717, rem. to Had. in 1743 or 1744, and thence to New Marlboro', Vt. He 
d. April, 1789. He m. (i) April 24, 1740, Dorothy, dau. of Hezekiah Root. 

Shed. Sept. 11, 1777; (2) abt. 1779, . Children — Solomon, h. 1742, 

grad. H. C. 1762, a preacher, became deranged, and d. unm. 1785 or 1786; 
Dorothy, m. July 9, 1772, Lemuel Warner; Abigail, m. June 6, 1776, John 
Williams of Wethersfield, Vt.; Charles, b. 1744; Timothy, b. Jan. 25, 1747, 
m. June 6, 1776, Zipporah Williams, res. in Halifax, Vt., and d. July 3, 
1817, ae. 70; Joseph, d. Dec. 18, 1749, ae. 3 weeks. Experience, m.. (i) March 
II, 1784, Caleb Cooley; (2) Aaron Dickinson of Whately; John, d. Dec. 14, 
1761, ae. 5; Lucy, d. Jan. 27, 1757, ae. 3. 

2. Charles, s. of Charles, (i) d. Dec. 3, 1814, in 72d yr. He m. June, 
1770, Elizabeth, dau. of Dr. Moses Porter. She d. Nov. 11, 181 7, ae. 70. 
Children — Moses Porter, afterwards called Charles Porter, b. Aug. 8, 1772, 
grad. H. C. 1791, d. Dec. 21, 1857, ae. 85; Charles, b. Dec. i, 1776, d. Dec. 8, 
1776; Elizabeth Whiting, b. Feb. 4, 1779, m. Rev. Dan Huntington. 

PIERCE, John, m. Bathsheba. Child — John, b. June 24, 1748. 

PIERCE, Jonathan, m. abt. 1751, [pub. Dec. 21,] Experience Montague. 
She m. (2) 1757, Philip Ingram of Amh. Child — John, b. July 8, 1752. 

1. PIERCE, JosiAH.s. of Samuel, s. of Samuel, s. of Thomas, b. in Wobum, 
grad. H. C. 1735, rem. first to Mansfield, and thence to Had., where he was 
town clerk and teacher. He sometimes preached, though he does not appear 
to have been ordained. He d. Feb. 10, 1788, ae. 79. Hem. Nov. 17, 1743, 
Miriam Cook, who d. June 27, 1795, in 79th yr. Children — Josiah, b. Oct. 
II, 1745; Hannah, b. Nov. 19, 1747, d. unm. Jan. 31, 1841, ae. 93; Samuel, 
b. Nov. II, 1749, m. April 3, 1794, Anna Cook, and d. s. p., Jan. 12, 1796, 
ae. 46. His wife d. March i, 1825, ae. 67; William, b. June 21, 1752, d. 
unm. Jan. 11, 1832, ae. 79; David, b. Sept. 27, 1754, went with Arnold to 
Canada, and there d. unm. Dec. 28, 1775, ae. 21; Miriam, b. March i, 1757, 
m. 1783, her cousin Josiah Pierce of Charlemont. 

2. Josiah, s. of Josiah, (i) d. March 22, 1834, ae. 88. He m. 1771, 
Lucy, dau. of Walter Fairfield. She was b. Feb. 26, 1745, and d. April 6, 
1845, ae. 100. Children — Lucy, b. July i, 1773, d. Sept. 26, 1775, ae. 2; 
Dolly, b. Oct. 29, 1774, m. Oct. 21, 1794, Rufus Shumway; Anne, b. May 17, 
1776, m. Oct. 10, 1798, Andrew Dunakin; Lucy, b. April 26, 1778, m. Dec. 24, 
1799, Elijah White; David, b. March 3, 1780; Elihu, b. Jan. 27, 1782; Job, 
b. Julys, 1785. 

3. David, s. of Josiah, (2) d. March 6, 1850, ae. 70. He m. May 9, 1825, 
Miriam, dau. of Samuel Cook. Children — Eliza, h. Feb. 13, 1826; William 



PIERCE PORTER. Ill 

Martin, b. Dec. 30, 1827, grad. A. C. 1853; Sarah, h. Nov. 23, 1829; John 
Nelson, b. Dec. 8, 1833; Almira, b. April i, 1835, d. April 6, 1836; Charles, 
b. Aug. 19, 1839, d. May 26, 1841. 

PIXLEY, William, removed in 1668 to Nh., and thence abt. 1680, to 
Westfield, where he d. Oct. 9, 1689. He m. (i) Nov. 24, 1663, Sarah Law- 
rence; (2) 1681, Sarah, who d. Dec. 25, 17 13. Children — Sarah, b. Jan. 11, 
1665, m. Dec. 9, 1680, John Lee of Westfield; Thomas, b. June 6, 1667, d. in 
Westfield, 1731; William, b. June 27, 1669; Joseph, b. Nov. 18, 1671; Joseph, 
b. March 9, 1676, res. in Westfield and Housatonnuck; Ebenezer, b. May 3, 
1678, d. in Westfield, 1716; Anthony, b. July 4, 1681, d. April 25, 1697- 
Mary, d. 1735. 

PLIMPTON or PLYMPTON, Peter, s. of John, bapt. in Dedham, 
March 16, 1652, rem. to Deerfield, thence as early as 1679 to Hatfield and still 
later to Marlborough, where he d. March 27, 1717. He m. July 2, 1677, Mary 
Mundan. Children — Hannah, b. March 28, 1679; Mary, b. March 8, 1681. 

1. POMEROY, Ebenezer, b. May i, 1723, s. of Ebenezer, Jr. of Nh., 
d. in 1800 or 1801. He m. Mindwell, dau. of Capt. John Lyman. She d. 
Oct. 9, 1797, in 77th yr. Children — Ethan; Eunice, m. Jan. 6, 1774, Eben- 
ezer Clark; Abigail, m. Capt. John Woods: Elizabeth, bapt. Dec. 23, 1753, 
m. (i) June i, 1780, Dr. Timothy Lyman; (2) Ebenezer Clark; Mindwell, 
bapt. April 11, 1756, m. (i) Joseph Marsh; (2) 1793, Ebenezer Clark; 
Ebenezer, hapt. Nov. 19, 1758; Solomon, bapt. Feb. 8, 1761; Hannah, m. 
1786, John Colton; Rhoda, m. 1793, Daniel Warren. 

2. Ethan, s. of Ebenezer, (i.) Children — Dau., b. March 9, 1779; 
Esther, bapt. April 4, 1779; Jacob Parsons, b. 1780; Ethan, bapt. Oct. 14, 
1787. 

POMEROY, Simeon, s. of Samuel, was b. in Nh., June 5, 1725, settled 
in Amh., and d. June 22, 1812, ae. 87. He m. March 27, 1747, Abigail Smith, 
who d. Dec. 10, 1820, ae. 94. Children — Abigail, b. Nov. 22, 1747, m. Justus 
Williams of Amh., and d. Nov. 20, 1832, ae. 85; Eunice, b. Nov. 24, 1749, 
m. Amos Nash; Lucy, b. Jan. 22, 1752, m. (i) Sept. 15, 1774, Samuel Hast- 
ings; (2) Martin Kellogg, and d. Dec. 23, 1839, ae. 87; Simeon, b. April 24, 
1754, m. Dec. 30, 1779, Mary Hastings; (2) Hannah, wid. of Thomas Good- 
ale; Mary, b. Sept. 10, 1756, d. young; Jerusha, b. Feb. 6, 1760, m. Jan. 23, 
1783, Philip Edwards; David, b. March 12, 1762, m. Sabra, dau. of David 
Blodgett of Amh., and d. Aug. 6, 1825, ae. 63; Mary, b. Aug. 12, 1764, m. 
Jan. 16, 1794, Nathaniel Edwards of Amh., and d. 1795; Dorcas, b. Oct. 13, 
1767, m. Oct. 26, 1794, Justus Clark of Amh., and d. July 22, 1849, ^6. 81; 
Samuel, b. Nov. 19, 1769, d. Sept. i, 1777 ; Moses, b. April 10, 1773, d. Sept. 
2, 1777. 



1. PORTER, Samuel, s. of John of Windsor, Ct., was among the first 
settlers of Had., where he d. Sept. 6, 1689. He m. Hannah, dau. of Thomas 
Stanley of Hartford, Ct. She d. Dec. 18, 1708. Children — Samuel, b. April 
6, 1660; Child, b. and d. April 26, 1662; Thomas, b. April 17, 1663, d. May 
27, 1663; Hezekiah, b. Jan. 7, 1665; John, b. Dec. 12, 1666; Hannah, b. 



112 PORTER. 

1670, m. March 29, 1689, John Nash; Mehitable, b. Sept. 15, 1673, m. Nathan- 
iel Goodwin of Hartford, Ct., and d. Feb. 6, 1726, ae. 52; Experience, b. 
Aug. 5, 1676; Ichabod, b. June 17, 1678; Nathaniel, b. Nov. 15, 1680; Thomas, 
b. abt. 1683. 

2. Hon. Samuel, s. of Samuel, (i) at one time Representative, an ex- 
tensive trader with England, and afterwards Judge and Sheriff of the County, 
d. July 29, 1722, leaving to his family an immense estate of over ;£io,ooo. 
He left upwards of £534 in goods including 196^ shipped for him at London, 
and sixteen hundred and forty two acres of land in Brookiield, valued at £518. 
He had bills of credit on hand to the amount of £403. He m. (i) Feb. 22, 
1683, Joanna, dau. of Capt. Aaron Cook. She d. Nov. 13, 1713, ae. 49; (2) 

, who survived him. Children — Samuel, b. May 25, 1685; 

Joanna, b. Dec. 24, 1689, [1687?] m. 1704, John Marsh; Aaron, b. July 19, 
1689; Moses, b. June 28, 1690, was living in 1709; Sarah, b. Dec. 12, 1692, 
m. Dec. 5, 1711, Josiah Goodrich of Wethersfield, Ct., and d. July, 1726, ae. 
^2; Mehitable, h. Sept. 12 1694, m. Sept. 24, 1 713, Job Marsh, and d. July 13, 
1739, ae. 44; Miriam, b. Aug. 3, 1696, d. Oct. 15, 1703, ae. 7; Eleazar, b. 
Feb. 25, 1698; Hannah, b. July 2, 1699, d. Aug. 12, 1699; Nathaniel, b. July 
12, 1700, d. Nov. 1700; Ruth, h. Nov. 10, 1701, m. 1720, Rev. Stephen Steel 
of Tolland, Ct.; Mary, b. Nov. 4, 1703, prob. m. Rev. Solomon Williams of 
Lebanon, Ct.; Daughter, b. and d. Oct. 20, 1705; Son, b. and d. Dec. 5, 1706. 

3. Hezekiah, s. of Samuel, (i) rem. abt. 1707 to East Hartford, Ct., and 
d. Jan. 3, 1752, ae. 88. He m. (i) May 20, 1686, Hannah Cowles, probably 
dau. of Samuel Cowles of Farmington, Ct. She d. Sept. 5, 1701; (2) Han- 
nah , who d. Dec. 18, 1708; (3) 1714, Esther, wid. of Nathaniel Smith, 

and dau. of Thomas Dickinson. Children — Hezekiah, b. June 10, 1687; 
Timothy, b. April 12, 1689; Hannah, b. July 20, 1691; Abigail, b. Aug. 27, 
1693; James, b. Feb. 24, 1696; Isaac, b. Nov. 24, 1698; Jonathan, b. Nov. 30, 
1701, d. Jan. 15, 1702; Mary, b. Oct. 20, 1703; Joseph, b. Oct. 11, 1704; 
David, b. Sept. 27, 1706; Sarah, b. 1708; Mabel, h. 17 10. 

4. John, s. of Samuel, (i) res. in Hat., Lebanon, Ct., and Hebron, Ct., 
and d. Jan. 4, 1747. He m. April 3, 1690, Mary, dau. of Thomas Butler of 
Hartford, Ct. Children — John, b. Jan. 26, 1691; Mary, b. May 4, 1692; 
Joseph, b. 1702; Daniel, b. 1706, d. 1707. 

5. Experience, s. of Samuel, (i) rem. abt. 1725 to Mansfield, Ct., where 
he d. Aug. 28, 1750, ae. 74. He m. May 26, 1698, Abigail, dau. of Samuel 
Williams of Roxbury. She was b. July 12, 1674, and d. April 20, 1765, ae. 

90. Children — Theoda, b. Aug. 15, 1699, m. 1719, Walbridge; Hannah, 

b. March 25, 1701, m. (i) 1722, William Marsh; (2) May, 1735, Joseph 
Storrs of Mansfield, and d. Aug. 28, 1741; Experience, b. Dec. 15, 1702, m. 
Nov. 29, 1725, Abigail Safiford, and d. Oct. 28, 1744. ae. 41; John, b. Dec. 27, 
1704, m. Jan. 13, 1732, Abigail Arnold; Abigail, b. March 19, 1707, m. Oct. 
18, 1742, Nehemiah Estabrook, and d. July 31, 1770; Nathaniel, b. Aug. 26, 
1709, m. Sept. 10, 1730, Elizabeth Storrs, and rem. to Lebanon, N. H., but d. 
in Hatfield, Nov. 4, 1779, ae. 70; Martha, b. Jan. 11, 1712, d. Feb. 18, 1712; 
Eunice, b. Dec. 30, 1712, m. Nov. 12, 1731, Huckins Storrs; Mehitable, b. 
July 30, 17 15, m. April 30, 1741, Thomas Barrows, and d. March 25, 1742; 
Martha, b. Nov. 21, 1717, m. Sept. 4, 1738, Cornelius Storrs. 



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6. IcHABOD, s. of Samuel, (i) Hat., m. July 4, 1700, Dorcas Marsh. 
Children — Dorcas, b. 1703; Mehitable, b. July 20, 1706; Son, b. and d. April 
28, 1707; Hannah, b. July 21, 1708; Mary, b. April 24, 1711; James, b. 
Sept. 19, 1714; Sarah, b. Feb. 2, 1718. 

7. Samuel, s. of Samuel, (2) d. Nov. 16, 1748, ae. 63. He m. 1708, 
Anna Colton of Springfield. Shed. May 11, 1761, ae. 81. Children — Samuel, 
b. Dec. 2, 1709, grad. H. C. 1730, minister of (Cong.) church in Sherburn, 
Mass., where he d. 1758, ae. 49; Anna, b. May 13, 1712, m. 1754, Jonathan 
Mills, and d. 1755; Joanna, b. Jan. 2, 1716, m. 1737, Joseph Hubbard; 
Sarah, b. Feb. 9, 17 18, m. 1740, Rev. Samuel Cook; Phebe, b. Jan. 19, 1720, 
m. 1745, Samuel Marsh; Moses, b. Jan. 13, 1722; Miriam, b. Jan. 30, 1724. 

8. Aaron, s. of Samuel, (2) grad. H. C. 1708, was ordained Feb. 11, 
1713, pastor of (Cong.) church in Medford, where he d. Jan. 23, 1722. He 
m. Oct. 22, 1 7 13, Susanna, dau. of Major Stephen Sewall of Salem. Children 
— Aaron, b. July 9, 1714, d. young; Susanna, b. March i, 1716, m. Aug. 4, 
1739, Rev. A. Cleveland; Margaret, b. July 18, 171 7; Joanna, b. March 22, 
1719, m. Jan. i, 1735, Josiah Cleveland. 

9. Eleazar, s. of Samuel, (2) d. Nov. 6, 1757, ae. 59. He m. Sarah 
Pitkin, prob. dau. of William Pitkin, Jr., and if so, b. Dec. 9, 1702. She d. 
June 6, 1784, ae. 82. Children — Jerusha, b. Feb. 24, 1722, d. Aug. 5, 1726, 
ae. 4; Eleazar, b. Oct. 28, 1723, d. Aug. 6, 1726, ae. 2; Sarah, b. April 18, 
1726, m. (i) Aug. 23, 1744, Rev. Chester Williams; (2) Feb. 17, 1756, Rev. 
Samuel Hopkins, D. D., and d. Feb. 5, 1774; Eleazar, b. June 27, 1728; 
Jerusha, b. Aug. 11, 1730, m. 1758, Col. Ebenezer Williams of Pomfret, Ct.; 
Elizabeth, b. Nov. 15, 1732, d. Sept. 14, 1755, ae. 22; Mary, b. May 2, 1736, 
d. Sept. 4, 1736; William, b. April 13, 1738, d. Nov. 28, 1738; Mehitable, 
b. Dec. 13, 1739, d. Nov. 7, 1755, ae. 15; Elisha, b. Jan. 29, 1742; William, 
h. April 13, 1746, d. Oct. 5, 1755, ae. 9; Mary, b. Sept. 16, 1748, m. Oct. 4, 
1770, Rev. Jonathan Edwards, D. D. of New Haven, Ct. 

10. James, s. of Ichabod, (6) Hat., d. April 25, 1792, ae. 78. He m. (i) 
Feb. 22, 1737, Hannah Wait, who d. Nov. 10, 1740; m. (2) Eunice. Chil- 
dren — Hannah, b. Nov. 2, 1740; Hannah, b. Nov. 23, 1745, m. Abel AUis of 
Somers, Ct.; Jonathan, b. June 5, 1747, d. July 5, 1747; Jonathan, b. April 

16, 1752, m. Ruth Chapin of Somers, Ct.; Submit, h. March 15, 1754, m. 

Chapin; David, b. July 5, 1757, rem. to Williamsburgh ; Silas, h. 

Aug. 18, 1759, res. in Hat. 

11. Moses, s. of Samuel, (7) was slain at Lake George, Sept. 8, 1755, 
ae. 33. He m. Elizabeth, dau. of Nathaniel Pitkin of Hartford, Ct. She was 
b. Oct. 4, 1719, and d. Oct. 2, 1798, ae. 78. Child — Elizabeth, b. Nov. 15, 
1747, m. June, 1770, Charles Phelps. 

12. Hon. Eleazar, s. of Eleazar, (9) grad. Y. C. 1748, was a Justice of the 
Peace 1779, Judge of Probate 1779, and d. May 27, 1797, ae. 68. He m. (i) 
Aug. 6, 1754, his cousin Anne Pitkin, who d. Nov. 7, 1758, ae. 24; (2) Sept. 

17, 1 761, Susanna, dau. of Rev. Jonathan Edwards of Northampton. She 
was b. June 20, 1740, and d. May 2, 1803, ae. 62. Children — Elizabeth, b. 
Aug. 29, 1755, d. Oct. 14, 1755; Anne, b. Sept. 25, 1756, m. Selah Norton, 
and d. 1850; Elizabeth, b. Oct. 17, 1758, m. Jan. or June 25, 1777, Elisha 
Hills of Hartford, Ct.; Eleazar, b. June 14, 1762; William, b. Dec. 9, 1763; 



114 PORTER. 

Jonathan Edwards, b. May 17, 1766, grad. H. C. 1786; Moses, b. Sept. 19, 
1768; John, b. July 27, 1772, d. Aug. 7, 1772; Pierpont, b. June 12, 1775. 

13. Elisha, s. of Eleazar, (9) grad. H. C. 1761, Sheriff of Hampshire 
Co., d. May 29, 1796, ae. 54. He m. (i) May 13, 1762, Sarah, dau. of Rev. 
David Jewett of Rowley. She was b. Aug. 25, 1741, and d. April 5, 1775; 
(2) March 19, 1778, Abigail, dau. of Hon. John Phillips of Boston. She was 
b. Feb. 14, 1743, and d. March 2, 1791, ae. 48. Children — Sarah, b. April 29, 
1763, m. Oct. 7, 1781, David Hillhouse, and d. March 19, 1831; Samuel, b. 
April 15, 1765; David, b. June 13, 1767, drowned June 8, 1775, ae. 7; Mary, 
b. April 8, 1769; Lucy, b. Oct. 18, 1770; Patience, b. April 19, 1773. 

14. Eleazar, s. of Eleazar, (12) rem. first to Hartford, Ct., and thence to 
Sturbridge, where he d. May 2, 1849, ^s- 86. He m. 1783, Sarah Keyes, b. 
1760, who d. March 26, 1837, ^^- 1^- Children — David Keyes, b. Feb. 25, 
1784, res. at Sturbridge; Susanna, b. Dec. 20, 1785, d. unm.; Sarah, b. March 
4, 1788, m. Samuel Pettis; Edwin, b. Jvme 11, 1790, res. in Richmond, Va.; 
Henry, h. Aug. 3, 1793, d. ae. ^^; Sidney, h. Sept. 29, 1795, res. in Sturbridge; 

Maria, b. July 2, 1797, m. Dr. Woodward; Eleazar, b. Aug. 26, 1799, 

res. in Stamford, Ct.; Horace, b. June 11, 1802 or 1803, d. ae. 27. 

15. William, s. of Eleazar, (12) a physician, d. Nov. 6, 1847, ae. 88. He 
m. (i) Dec. 9, 1788, Lois, dau. of Dea. John Eastman. She d. Dec. 12, 1792, 
ae. 28; (2) June 10, 1794, Charlotte, dau. of Hon. William Williams of 
Dalton, Mass. She d. Nov. 13, 1842, ae. 72. Children — Daughter, h. Oct. 14, 
1789, d. in infancy; John, b. Oct. 24, 1790; William, b. Nov. 14, 1792, grad. 
W. C. 1813, a lawyer at Lee, Mass., where he d.; Eleazar Williains, b. May 
29, 1795, d. Feb. 29, 1797, ae. i; Caroline Williams, b. May 19, 1797; Mary 
Edwards, b. Dec. 11, 1799, d. May 13, 1803; Lois Eastman, b. Feb. 8, 1801; 
James Bayard, b. Feb. 10, 1803, a merchant; Jeremiah, b. Dec. 27, 1805, 
grad. W. C. 1825, a (Cong.) clergyman in Chicago, 111.; Charles, b. July 28, 
1808, d. July 30, 1808. 

16. MosEs, s. of Eleazar, (12) d. May 22, 1854, ae. 85. He m. Aug. 30, 
1 79 1, Amy, dau. of Benjamin Colt. She d. Feb. 14, 1843, ae. 71. Children — 
Benjamin Colt, b. June 8, 1792, d. June 3, 1793; Elizabeth, b. June 2, 1794; 
Benjamin, b. Oct. 25, 1795; Sophia, b. Nov. 6, 1797; Moses, b. Oct. 13, 1799; 
Amy, b. Sept. 20, 1801; Susannah Edwards, b. Jan. 18, 1804, d. Nov. 20, 
1805; Eleazar, b. Jan. 21, 1806; Susannah, b. Jan. 30, 1808, m. Rev. Luther 
Farnum, and d. in Batavia, 111., Jan. 27, 1849, ^^- 4°; Lucretia Colt, b. 
May 15, 1810; Delia Dwight, b. July 7, 1812; Jonathan Edwards, b. April 6, 
1815. 

17. Pierpont, s. of Eleazar, (12) d. Jan. 15, 1805, ae. 29. He m. 1796, 
Hannah Wiggins of East Windsor, Ct. Children — Jerusha, b. July 22, 1797; 
Lucretia, b. Nov. 23, 1798; Frederic, b. Dec. 30, 1800; Lester, b. 1803. 

18. Hon. Samuel, s. of Elisha, (13) State Senator, 1817, d. April 23, 
1841. He m. Oct. 26, 1786, Lucy Hubbard. She d. Jan. 23, 1848, ae. 83. 
Children — Margaret, b. Feb. 9, 1787, m. Oct. 11, 1810, Rev. Seth Smith of 
Genoa, N. Y.; Abigail, b. Oct. 18, 1788; Lucy, b. April 13, 1791, m. Nov. 11, 
1812, Nathaniel Coolidge, and d. June, 1825; Elisha, h. May 27, 1794, unm.; 
Polly, b. April 4, 1796, d. Dec. 13, 1847; Pamela, h. May 7, 1797, m. Dec. 
S, 1822, Dudley Smith. 



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POTTER, Ephraim, s. of Ephraim, b. in Marlboro', March 6, 1807, m. 
Oct. 6, 1835, Delia, dau. of Enos Smith, Jr. Children — Ellen Augusta, b. 
Oct. 12, 1836; Ephraim Henry, b. March 2, 1839; Mary Louisa, b. Dec. 16, 
\?,42; Abby Jane,h. ]n\y 26, ■i?,^<~,; Eugene Emerson, h. Dec. 31, 1847; Martha 
Everlyn, b. June 2, 1852, in New Salem. 

1. PRESTON, John, alive in 1728, m. March 25, 1678, Sarah Gardner, 
who was living in 1728. Children — Sarah, h. Dec. 10, 1678, d. Dec. 21, 1678; 
Sarah, b. July 10, 1681, d. May 29, 1683; Child, b. and d. April 20, 1683; 
Mercy, b. June 6, 1684, d. March 11, 1692; John, b. July 31, 1686; Daughter, 
b. and d. April 25, 1688; Samuel, b. Feb. 27, 1690, d. Jan. 19, 1711; Sarah, 
b. Nov. 8, 1693, m. March 4, 17 14, Nathaniel Kellogg. 

2. John, s. of John, (i) rem. to So. Had., and d. March 2, 1728. He 
was "the first person buried on the south side of Mount Holyoke." He m. 
Dec. 2, 1 7 14, Mary, dau. of Luke Smith. Children — Samuel, b. Oct. 29, 
1715; John, b. Dec. 26, 1716; Mary, b. Jan. 29, 1718, m. Ephraim Smith of 
So. Had.; Jonathan, b. April 2, 1720; Hannah, b. March 26, 1722, d. March 
26, 1745, ae. 27,; Sarah, b. June 16, 1724, m. 1749, Silas Smith of So. Had.; 
Benoni, b. Oct. i, 1728, m. Nov. 24, 1757, Mary Cook, res. in So. Had., and 
d. abt. 1803. 

3. Samuel, s. of John, (2) So. Had., d. Jan. 18, 1799, ae. 83. He m. 
Tryphena Woodbridge, who d. Aug. 18, 1777, ae. 46. Children — Samuel, b. 
April 21, 1759; Emereniana, b. Dec. 5, 1760, d. young; Tryphena, b. Nov. 29, 
1762, d. young; John, b. Dec. 26, 1764; Mary, b. Sept. 21, 1767. 

4. John, s. of John, (2) Granby, d. Feb. 2, 1759. He m. Hannah. 
Children — Mary, h. Dec. 27, 1743; John, b. May 25, 1746; James, h. June 25, 

1748, m. Martha , who d. Nov. 4, 1835. He d. in Gr., Jan. 28, 1801, 

ae. 52; Hannah, b. June 18, 1751; Sarah, h. June 2, 1754; Moses, b. Sept. 20, 
1756; Jabez, b. Sept. 10, 1759. 

5. Jonathan, s. of John, (2) So. Had., d. 1792, in 73d yr. He m. Eunice, 
dau. of William Wait, Jr. of Northampton. She was b. May 21, 1722. Chil- 
dren — Jonathan, b. Sept. 9, 1743; Hannah, b. July 4, 1746, m. Church, 

and d. 1833, ^^- 87; Gardner, b. Sept. 15, 1749, d. in So. Had., May 26, 
1834, ae. 85; Eunice, b. May 25, 1752; Job, b. June 18, 1756; Lucina. 

6. John, s. of John, (4) Gr., d. July 9, 1815, ae. 69. He m. Martha, 
who d. Sept. 29, 1811, ae. 66. Children — John, b. Oct. 25, 1767; Joel, b. 
Sept. 9, 1769; Jeriel, h. July 26, 1771; Clarina, b. Nov. 2, 1773; Rachel, 
b. July 31, 1776; Sophia, b. Oct. 21, 1778; Roxa, b. March 12, 1781; Justin, 
b. June 21, 1783; Azubah, b. Nov. 17, 1787. 

PRIOR, Nathaniel Collins, s. of Frederick of East Windsor, Ct., 
was b. Jan. 21, 1804, and d. Nov. 29, 1857, ae. 53. He m. April, 1835, Mary, 
dau. of Enos Smith. Children — Enos Parsons, b. Oct. or Nov. 14, 1836; 
Cynthia Rebecca, b. Oct. 6, 1840; Frederick Smith, b. July 26, 1842; Helen 
Adelaide, b. June i, 1845. 

PRUTT, Arthur, a negro, said to have been the slave of Rev. Isaac 
Chauncy, m. Joan. Children — George, b. Aug. 1722, d. in Whately, 1794, 
ae. 72; Elenor, b. Aug. 1724; Ishmael, b. Jan. 1726; Ccesar, b. June, 1727^ 



116 PRUTT RUGG. 

lived with Josiah Chauncy, Esq.; Abner, b. Aug. 1729; Zebulon, b. Aug. 
15, 1731, was the slave of OHver Warner, and d. in Amh., Dec. 2, 1802; 
Chloe, b. July 20, 1738. 

RAULF, Benjamin. Child — Azubah, b. April 7, 1802. 

RAWSON, Rev. Grindal, b. Sept. 6, 1707, s. of Rev. Grindal of Mendon, 
grad. H. C. 1728, was ord. Oct. 3, 1733, first pastor of the church in So. Had., 
resigned in 1741, and was inst. Sept. 18, 1745, as pastor of the church in 
Hadlyme, Ct., where he d. March 29, 1777. He m. May 19, 1738, Dorothy, 
dau. of Rev. Isaac Chauncy. She d. 1780. Children — Grindall, b. Feb. 7, 
1739, grad. Y. C. 1759, was a preacher, m. 1768, Sarah Holmes; Charles, 
b. Nov. II, 1740, a physician, d. in R. I., ae. 23; Wilson, b. Dec. 4, 1742, 
d. young; Hooker; Chatmcy, d. young; Dorothy, d. young. 

RAYMOND, Josiah, m. Eunice, dau. of Dea. Noah Cook of Nh. She 
was b. June 4, 1721. Children — Abigail, b. Feb. 10, 1748; Josiah, b. May 8, 
1750; Eunice, h. June 3, 1753; Dau., b. Sept. 16, 1755; Jonathan, b. Jan. 18, 
1 761; Jonathan, b. July 2, 1763. 

REYNOLDS, Samuel. Child — Joanna, bapt. 1805. 

REYNOLDS, Thomas. Children — Sophia, bapt. May 22, 1803; Edwin, 
bapt. July 17, 1806; Mary, bapt. April i, 1810. 

RICHMOND, David, came from Dighton. Child— Thankful, b. Dec. 22, 
1777, m. Oct. 9, 1796, Enos, s. of David Hitchcock of Brookfield. Enos 
Hitchcock, b. Jan. 16, 1774, res. in Brookfield, and d. July 14, 1814. His 
widow d. in Had., June 27, 1853, ^.e. 76. 

RIDER, Stephen, m. 1795, Thankful Montague. Children — Charles, 
b. Jan. 8, 1796; Ansel, b. Oct. 28, 1797; Stephen, b. Sept. i, 1799; Matilda, 
b. Sept. 8, 1 801; Thankful, b. Aug. 17, 1803. 

ROOD, Simeon, m. March 5, 1767, Ruth Hawley, and rem. as early as 1789, 
to Brookfield, Vt. Children — Simeon, b. Feb. 25, 1768; John, b. ^June 4, 
1770; Ruth, b. April 19, 1772; Samuel, b. Feb. 25, 1775, d. Nov. 7, 1776; 
Sam,uel, b. Nov. 18, 1776; Mary, b. Jan. 22, 1779; Giles, b. April 24, 1781; 
Solomon, b. Aug. 22, 1783; Sarah, b. Oct. i, 1785; Betsey, b. Sept. 15, 1787. 

ROOKER, William, d. abt. 1705. He m. May 30, 1687, Dorothy, dau. 
of Samuel Smith. Children — Daughter, b. and d. March 28, 1687; William., 
b. Feb. 10, 1688; Samuel, b. June 24, 1692; William,, b. April 8, 1695, d. abt. 
1739, leaving neither wife nor child; Sarah, b. Jan. 24, 1698; Dorothy, b. 
Sept. 27, 1703, m. Dec. 21, 1727, Joseph Taylor. 

ROSEVELT, Jacob. Children — Susanna; Jacob; Sarah. 

"■ ROWE, John, Granby, m. Mehitable. Children — John, b. Feb. 24, 1754; 
Lois, b. July 24, 1756; Elijah, b. Nov. 7, 1758. 

I. RUGG, Samuel, from Lancaster, m. Hannah. Children — Gideon, 
b. Feb. II, 1 7 18, d. in S. H.; Phineas, b. May 17, 1721; Lydia, b. Jan. i, 
1723, m. Feb. 6, 1745, Jonathan White; John, b. Feb. 7, 1725; Hannah, b. 
March I, i727,m. Dec. 25, 1746, Eleazar Goodman ; Thankful b. Sept. 21, 1729. 



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2. John, s. of Samuel, (i) rem. from So. Had. to Bennington, Vt. He m. 
1750, Sarah HoUiday, who d. June 17, 1765, in 40th yr. Children — Thankful, 
b. April 2, 1753; Hannah, b. June 10, 1755; Moses, b. Feb. i, 1758; Miriam, 
b. Feb. I, 1758; Sarah, b. Feb. 12, 1761; Phineas, b. July 11, 1763. 

1. RUSSELL, John, b. abt. 1597, glazier, Cambridge, freeman March 3, 
1636, town clerk in 1645, constable in 1648, rem. early to Wethersfield, and 

thence to Hadley, where he d. May 8, 1680, ae. 83. Hem. (i) ; 

(2) Dorothy, wid. of Rev. Henry Smith of Wethersfield, Ct. She d. 1694. 
Children — John, b. abt. 1626; Philip. 

2. John, s. of John, (i) grad. H. C. 1645, ord. abt. 1649, ^^ pastor of the 
church in Wethersfield, Ct., and there remained until the settlement of Had- 
ley, when he removed and was pastor of said church until his death, Dec. 10, 
1692, in the 66th yr. of his age. He m. (i) June 28, 1649, Mary Talcott; 
(2) Rebecca, dau. of Thomas Newbury of Windsor, Ct. She d. Nov. 21, 

1688, in 57th yr. ; (3) Rebecca, wid. of Rev. John Whiting of Hartford, Ct. 
She d. Sept. 19, 1730. Children — John, bapt. Sept. 23, 1650, d. Jan. 20, 1670; 

Jonathan, h. abt. 1655, grad. H. C. 1675, m. Martha , was ord. Sept. 19, 

1683, pastor of the church in Barnstable, and d. Feb. 21, 171 1, ae. 56; Samuel, 
b. Nov. 4, 1660, grad. H. C. 1681, m. Abigail, dau. of Rev. John Whiting of 
Hartford, Ct., was in 1687 ord. as pastor of the church in Branford, Ct., and 
d. June 25, 1731, ae. 70; Eleazar, b. Nov. 8, 1663, was alive in 1687; Daniel, 
b. Feb. 8, 1666, d. Dec. 17, 1667. 

3. Philip, s. of John, (i) glazier. Hat., d. May 19, 1693. He m. (i) 
Feb. 4, 1664, Joanna, dau. of Rev. Henry Smith, who d. Dec. 29, 1664; 
(2) Jan. 10, 1666, Elizabeth, dau. of Stephen Terry. She was slain by the 
Indians, Sept. 19, 1677; (3) Dec. 25, 1679, Mary, dau. of Edward Church. 
She d. in Sunderland, May i, 1743. Children — Joanna, b. Oct. 31, 1664, 
d. Dec. 29, 1664; John, b. Jan. 2, 1667; Samuel, b. abt. 1669, slain 1677, 
while on the way to Canada; Philip, b. Jan. 24, 1671; Stephen, b. Oct. 12, 
1674, slain by the Indians, Sept. 19, 1677; Samuel, b. Dec. 31, 1680, was of 
New York in 1720; Thomas, b. Feb. 12, 1683, slain Aug. 1704 in Deerfield; 

Mary, b. Feb. 10, 1685, d. March ; Mary, b. May 21, 1686, m. Joseph 

Root, and d. in Sunderland, Jan. 23, 1738; Philip, b. June 21, 1688; Daniel, 
b. Oct. 8, 1691. 

4. Daniel, s. of Philip, (3) was an early settler of Sunderland, where he 
d. June 28, 1737. He m. Jerusha, dau. of John Dickinson. She m. (2) 
1744, Simon Cooley of Sunderland. Her estate was divided in 1782. Chil- 
dren — Jonathan, b. Aug. 2, 17 14; Mary, b. Nov. i, 17 16; Philip, b. 1722, 
d. young; Jerusha, m. Ebenezer Clark; Mary, b. 1725, m. 1743, David 
Ballard; Sarah, b. 1730, m. Jedediah Clark; Martha, b. 1734, d. young. 

5. Jonathan, s. of Daniel, (4) Sunderland, m. 1743, Mary, dau. of 
Nathaniel Smith. Children — Daniel, b. 1744; Jonathan, b. 1746; Martha, 

h. 1748, m. Cooley; Mary, b. 1750, m. Ashley; Philip, b. 

1752; and prob. also, Israel; Samuel; John; Spencer; Persis. 

SAMPSON, Phinehas. Child — Eliza, bapt. June 22, 1800. 

SCOTT, Edward, m. Nov. 22, 1670, Elizabeth Webster, who d. May 16, 

1689, ae. abt. 40. Children — Elizabeth, b. Oct. 11, 1671; Sarah, b. Jan. 14, 



118 SCOTT SELDEN. 

1674; Thomas, b. Sept. 10, 1675; John, b. Jan. 13, 1677; Ebenezer, b. June 
II, 1681; Bridget and Ann, (twins,) b. July 16, 1682; Hannah, b. March 14, 
1689. 

1. SCOTT, William, Hatfield, m. Jan. 28, 1670, Hannah, dau. of William 
Allis. Children — Josiah, b. June 18, 1671; Richard, b. Feb. 22, 1673; 
William, b. Nov. 24, 1676; Hannah, b. Aug. 11, 1679; Joseph, b. March 
21, 1682; John, b. July 6, 1684, d. Feb. 8, 1692; Mary, b. 1686; Mehitable, 
b. Sept. 9, 1687, d. Sept. 18, 1687; Jonathan, b. Nov. i, 1688, d. Nov. 15, 
1688; Abigail, b. Nov. 23, 1689. 

2. JosiAH, s. of William, (i) Hat., m. Sarah Barrett. Children — Josiah, 
b. Nov. 29, 1699, settled in Whately; Sarah, b. Sept. 9, 1701; Hannah, b. 

May 30, 1704; Benjamin, b. May 31, 1708, m. Jemima , res. in Whately, 

and d. 1792; Mehitable, b. May 4, 1711; Moses, b. Feb. 3, 1713; Ruth, b. 
Nov. 25, 1 7 15. 

3. Richard, s. of William, (i) rem. after 1713, from Hat. to Sunderland. 
He m. Jan. 15, 1702, Elizabeth, dau. of Stephen Belding. Children — Mary, 
b. April 29, 1703; Jonathan, b. Aug. 11, 1705; Elizabeth, b. Oct. 9, 1707; 
Rachel, b. July 3, 17 10; Experience, b. Oct. 27, 17 13; Reuben, b. 17 19; Mehit- 
able, b. 1722; Stephen, b. 1725. 

4. William, s. of William, (i) rem. after 1717, from Hat. to Sunderland. 

He m. (i) Mary , who d. Dec. 7, 1711; (2) 1715, Elizabeth . 

Children — William, b. Jan. 16, 1702, res. in Sunderland; John, b. June 3, 
1704, res. in Sunderland; Samuel, b. March 3, 1707, res. in Sunderland; 
Mary, b. Oct. 23, 1709; Esther, b. Sept. 12, 171 5, m. Dea. Noah Wright; 
Absalom, b. April 28, 1717, res. in Sunderland and Leverett, and d. 1797; 
Joshua, b. i7i9,m. 1747, Elizabeth Cooley, and res. in Sunderland; Jerusha, 
b. 1723; Abigail, b. 1729. 

5. Joseph, s. of William, (1) Hat., m. Feb. 13, 1707, Lydia Leonard. 
Children— Lydia, b. Feb. 24, 1708, m. John Allis; Aliriam, b. Dec. 14, 1713, 

m. (i) '' ■ '■" Allis; (2) Benton of Hartford, Ct., and d. May 26, 1711;; ^ 

Ebenezer, b. June 15, 1716, d. Dec. 25, 1735; David, b. Aug. 18, 171 ^."tti. 
Dec. 13, 1739, Esther Belding; Hepzibah, b. Jan. 12, 1719; Joseph, b. abt. 
1722, m. Margaret ; Martha; Leonard, (dau.,) b. abt. 1726; Submit. 

SCOVIL, Ebenezer, b. Nov. 27, 1707, s. of John of Middletown, Ct., 
kept the upper ferry, and d. Nov. 26, 1731, ae. 24. 

SELDEN, Joseph, bapt. Nov. 2, 1651, s. of Thomas of Hartford, settled 
about 1678, in Hadley, whence he removed about 1684 to Deerfield, but prior 
to 1689 returned to Hadley, and before 1700 removed to Lyme, Ct., where 
he d. July 14, 1724, ae. 72. He m. Feb. 11, 1677, Rebecca, dau. of Edward 
Church. She d. June 9, 1726, ae. 65. Children — Rebecca, b. Feb. 12, or 
March 5, 1678, m. James Wells of Haddam, Ct.; Hester, b. April 11, 1680, 
d. July 21, 1681; Joseph, b. May 10, 1682, res. in Haddam, and d. April 3, 
1729, in 47th yr.; Thomas, h. 1684, res. in Haddam, and d. Sept. 12, 1754, in 
70th yr. ; Mary, b. March 5, 1689; Esther, b. May 2, 1691, m. Jabez Chapman 
of Haddam; Samuel, b. May 17, 1695, res. in Lyme, Ct.; Sarah, bapt. July 20, 
17 12. Mr. Savage says that he had dau. Mercy, who m. Isaac Spencer. It 
may be that Mercy and Mary are the same. 



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1. SELDEN, Thomas, bapt. Aug. 30, 1645, s. of Thomas of Hartford, 
d. Nov. 24, 1734, ae. 89. He m. Felix, dau. of William Lewis of Farmington, 
Ct. She was alive in 1738. Children — John, b. June 16, 1675; Thomas, 
b. Nov. 12, 1677, slain at Deerfield Feb. 29, 1704; Ebenezer, b. March 2, 1679. 

2. John, s. of Thomas, (i) d. Dec. 3, 1744, ae. 69. He m. March 24, 
1698, Sarah Harrison. Children — John, b. April 16, 1699, d. Aug. 21, 1703; 
Isaac, b. July 14, 1701; Mary, b. Sept. 27, 1703, m. (i) July 23, 1723, John 
Taylor; (2) March 22, 1728, William White; Joseph, b. March 17, 1706, 
d. April II, 1706; Obadiah, b. March 17, 1706, d. April 8, 1706; Sarah, b. 
June 29, 1709, m. Jan. 20, 1737, Abel Stockwell of Springfield; Jonathan, 
b. May 20, 1711. 

3. Ebenezer, s. of Thomas, (i) d. 1740, ae. 61. He m. Elizabeth, dau. 
of John Clark of Middletown, Ct. She was b. 1685, and was alive in 1746. 
Children — Joseph, b. Aug. 4, 1711, d. Aug. 12, 1711; Elizabeth, b. Feb. 9, 
1 7 13, m. Jan. i, 1736, Diodatus Curtis; Esther, b. May 27, 17 15, unm. in 1745 ; 
Ruth, b. Sept. 23, 1717, m. May 20, 1741, Aaron Warner of Amh.; Ebenezer, 
b. May 17, 1720, m. Nov. 15, 1753, Jerusha Pomeroy, res. in 1754, in Agawam; 
Joseph, b. July 20, 1722, res. in 1754, in Agawam; Mary, b. Sept. 3, 1725, 
d. April 28, 1745, ae. 19; Hannah. 

4. Isaac, s. of John (2) d. May 27, 1764. He m. Oct. 14, 1725, Esther 
Ingram. She d. June 28, 1766. Children — Child, b. and d. Aug. 5, 1726; 
Abigail, b. Sept. 10, 1727, m. 1755, Oliver White; Azariah, h. July 8, 1730, 
m. Feb. 19, 1752, Lavinia Wood; Thomas, b. Sept. 22, 1732, m. Nov. 13, 
1760, Jane Farrand; Rhoda, b. Feb. 8, 1735, m. Aug. 28, 1758, John Monta- 
gue; Jabez, b. March 27, 1737, m. 1769, Anne Parish; Martha, b. Jan. 16, 
1742, m. Jan. 7, 1761, Asa Wood. 

5. Jonathan, s. of John, (2) Granby, d. May 30, 1776. He m. Oct. 6, 

1732, Mercy Ingram. She d. July 29, 1780. Children — Mercy, b. Jan. 20, 

1733, m. 1754, Eliph. Green; Bitterne, (dau.) b. Aug. 3, 1735; 5ara/i, b. May 
20, 1737; Child, b. March, 1739, d.; Jonathan, b. July 15, 1740; Martha, b. 
Jan. 9, 1742; John, d. Sept. 23, 1746. 

1. SEYMOUR, Nathan, removed to Vt. He m. April 27, 1780, Eliza- 
beth, dau. of Orange Warner. Children — Mary, b. Nov. 11, 1780; William, 
b. Aug. 19, 1782; Samuel, b. Feb. 3, 1785; Horace, b. Jan. 22, 1787; Fanny, 
b. July 17, 1789; Nathan, b. March 31, 1792; Henry, b. March 25, 1797. 

2. Samuel, s. of Nathan, (i) d. Jan. 22, 1854. He m. (i) 1810, Mary 
Clary of Leverett; (2) 1820, Sarah Clark of Deerfield; (3) Dec. 1828, Lu- 
cinda Montague. She d. Oct. 15, 1831; (4) June 2, 1833, Asenath, dau. 
of Silas Smith of So. Had. She was b. March 3, 1787. Children — Elizabeth, 
b. June I, 1813, m. Sept. 1840, Samuel C. Wilder; Samuel, b. April 15, 1818, 
d. June 12, 1853; Sarah, b. Sept. 26, 1827, m. 1847, Isaac Woodruff. 

3. Horace, s. of Nathan, (i) d. May 22, 1829. He m. 1813, Mary 
Standish of Preston, Ct. She d. July 11, 1829. Children — Lovisa Cooley, 
b. Jan. 16, 1814, m. Edwin Cook, and res. in Mich.; Sarah Ann, b. June 12, 
1815, d. Aug. 5, 1834; Henry, b. Oct. 20, 1816, grad. A. C. 1838, Union Theo. 
Sem. in N. Y. City, 1842, settled over Orthodox church in Deerfield, March i , 
1843, dis. March 14, 1849, inst. over church in East Hawley, Oct. 3, 1849. 
He m. (i) May 9, 1844, Laura Isabella Fisk of Shelburne; (2) Aug. 11, 



120 SEYMOUR SMITH. 

185 1, Sophia Williams of Ashfield; Levi Dwight, b. April 26, 18 19, pursued 
medical studies in Pittsfield, and res. in Greenfield. He m. Nov. 14, 1842, 
Lucy Ann Clark of New York City; Susan Elvira, b. Nov. 23, 1822, m. Jan. 
21, 1848, James M. Hosford, Esq. of Genesee, 111.; Rebecca Elvira, b. Oct. 13, 
1824, m. Edwin Bliss of Kendall, N. Y., and d. Nov. 30, 1827. 

4. Henry, s. of Nathan, (i) Children — Maria Sophia, b. July 10, 1821; 
Rebecca Moore, b. March 20, 1823, d. Aug. 15, 1828; Edwin Henry, b. Feb. 11, 
1826; Harriet Rebecca, b. Oct. i, 1829; Caroline Mary, b. Oct. 18, 1833; 
Horace Dwight, b. July 14, 1836. 

SMITH, Eleazar, m. Agnes. Children — Rebecca, d. June 20, 1745; 
Dorothy, b. June 13, 1746; Rebecca, b. April 11, 1748. 

SMITH, Eliakim, d. in the army at Watertown, Aug. 27, 1775, ae. 40. 
He m. (i) June 17, 1760, Mehitable Smith, who d. April 16, 1770, ae. 30; 
(2) Nov. 14, 1771, Jerusha Kellogg. She d. Sept. 22, 1823, ae. 84. Children 
— Rebecca, b. Sept. 17, 1763, d. Sept. 8, 1766; Eliakim, b. Sept. 13, 1767; 
Rebecca, b. April 6, 1770, m. Aug. 9, 1792, Timothy Hopkins. 

1. SMITH, Joseph, sergeant, b. March, 1657, eldest s. of Joseph of 
Hartford, Ct., rem. abt. 1680, to Hadley, was freeman 1690, and d. Oct. i, 
1733, ae. 76. He m. Feb. 11, 1681, Rebecca, dau. of John Dickinson. She 
d. Feb. 16, i73i,ae. 73. Children — Joseph, h. Nov. 8, \6ii; John, h. Oct. 24, 
1684, d. Aug. 27, 1686; John, b. Jan. 5, 1687; Rebecca, b. June 11, 1689, 
m. Feb. 1712, Joseph Smith; Jonathan, b. Oct. 28, 1691; Lydia, b. Sept. 15, 
1693, m. Dec. 26, 1720, Joseph Chamberlain; Benjamin, b. Jan. 22, 1696,- 
m. Elizabeth Crafts. She was b. April 17, 1691, and d. Feb. 9, 1764, ae. 72. 
He d. July i, 1780, ae. 84; Elizabeth, b. Dec. 22, 170 1, d. Feb. 15, 1728. 

2. Joseph, s. of Joseph, (i) d. Oct. 21, 1767. He m. 1715, Sarah Alex- 
ander. She d. Jan. 31, 1768. Children — Alexander, b. Oct. 11, 171 7; 
Edward, b. March 26, 17 19; Reuben, b. April 2, 1721; Sarah, b. Nov. 9, 
1722, m. Dec. 3, 1747, Windsor Smith, and d. Sept. i, 1772, ae. 49; Thomas, 
b. Dec. 6, 1725. 

3. John, s. of Joseph, (i) deacon, rem. in 171 1 to Hat., and in 1736 to 
Belchertown, where he d. 1777, ae. 90. He m. 1709, Elizabeth, dau. of 
Thomas Hovey. She d. 1758, ae. 70. Children — John, b. Dec. 21, 1710; 
Abner, b. Sept. 10, 1712, m. (i) Oct. 2, 1736, Martha Warner; (2) Mary 
Pomeroy, rem. to Springfield, and d. Nov. 19, 1766, ae. 54; Elizabeth, b. 
Sept. 19, 1714, m. April 20, 1736, Walter Fairfield of Belchertown; Daniel, 
h. prob. 1716, m. 1742, Abigail Sacket, and d. in Belchertown, May 31, 1800, 
ae. 84; Miriam, b. Oct. 30, 1718, m. Oct. 3, 1739, Jesse Warner; Samuel, 
b. 1721; Joseph, m. Eunice Bascom, and d. in 1803, in Lyme, N. H.; Elijah, 
b. 1723; Rachel, b. Jan. 4, 1727, m. Aaron Hannum of Belchertown, and d. 
1811, ae. 85; Sarah, b. Sept. 27, 1729, m. Abner Dickinson of Whately; 
Rebecca, b. May 4, 1732, m. Oliver Graves of Whately. 

4. Jonathan, s. of Joseph, (i) made his will Nov. 1768, which was 
proved 1778. He left all his estate to Dea. David Nash. He m. 17 18, 
Abigail, dau. of Nathaniel Alexander of Nh. Children — Jonathan, b. Aug. 27, 
1719, alive in 1738; Abigail, b. July 19, 1723; Elizabeth, b. Feb. 17, 1729, 
m. May 9, 1754, Dea. David Nash of So. Had. 



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5. Alexander, s. of Joseph, (2) Amherst, d. Sept. 21, 1787, ae. 69. He 
m. 1743, [pub. April,] Rebecca Warner of Westfield, who d. Nov. 26, 1801, 
ae. 87. Children — Nathaniel Alexander, b. Feb. 22, 1744; Hannah, b. Jan. 12, 
1746, m. Oliver Lovell of Rockingham, Vt.; Joseph, b. Jan. 4, 1748, d. Jan. 22, 
1748; Joseph, b. April 11, 1750; Rebecca, b. March 4, 1751, d. March 10, 1752; 
Rebecca, b. Dec. 3, 1753, m. (i) Lemuel Childs of Deerfield; (2) Martin 
Cooley of Sunderland, and d. Aug. 29, 1809, ae. 55; Elias, b. Feb. 11, 1756; 
Samuel, b. Sept. 4, 1758. 

6. Edward, s. of Joseph, (2) Amherst, d. 1795, ae. 76. He m. Hamutal, 
dau. of Benjamin Ellsworth of E. Windsor, Ct. She was b. Jan. 11, 1726. 
Children — Benjamin, b. March 26, 1750; Timothy, b. Aug. 10, 1752; Hewitt, 
bapt. Oct. 13, 1754, d. unm., in Amh., Jan. 30, 1823, ae. 70; Tryphena, bapt. 

April 24, 1757, m. Locke of Williamson, N. Y.; Sarah, bapt. April 5, 

1761, m. Nov. 29, 1787, Thomas Munsell of E. Windsor, Ct.; Roxana, bapt. 
Oct. 7, 1764, m. William Rice of Amh.; Lucy, bapt. May i, 1768, d. unm. 
1797. 

7. Reuben, s. of Joseph, (2) So. Had. He m. (i) Jan. 19, 1749, Miriam 
Moody, who d. Feb. 16, 1770; (2) Sibil, wid. of Elijah Smith of Belchertown, 
and dau. of Daniel Worthington of Colchester, Ct. Children — Jonathan, b. 
Oct. 16, 1749; Reuben, b. March i, 1752, d. 1759; Abigail, h. March i, 1754; 
Miriam, b. Aug. 31, 1756; Reuben, b. Feb. 21, 1759; Persis, b. July 24, 
1761; Selah, b. May 21, 1764. 

8. Thomas, s. of Joseph, (2) rem. to Williamstown. He m. Oct. 15, 
1754, Rhoda Worthington of Colchester, Ct. She was b. Sept. 25, 1730, 
and d. May 8, 1784, ae. 53. Children — Rhoda, b. Feb. 8, 1755; Lydia, b. 
Feb. 27, 1757, m. Nov. 10, 1779, Seth Smith, and.d. Aug. 23, 1828, ae. 72; 
Daniel, b. Oct. 26, 1759, m. Lucy Cook, and rem. to Williamstown; Thomas, 
b. Dec. 3, 1761; Ephraim, b. Sept. 27, 1764; Mehitable, bapt. Feb. i, 1767, 
d. Sept. 1775; Loojnis, bapt. Aug. 17, 1769, d. Sept. 14, 1779. 

9. John, s. of John, (3) Hatfield, d. 1751. He m. Mary. Children — 
Caleb, b. July 9, 1733; Benjamin, b. March 15, 1735; Mary; Elizabeth, m. 
1758, Paul Smith; John, rem. to the West; Joel, d. unm. in Hat.; Edward, 
b. 1747, rem. abt. 1793, from Belchertown, where he was deacon, to Shel- 
burne; Submit, m. Asa Wait; Hannah, m. 1779, Elihu Dickinson. 

10. Elijah, s. of John, (3) Belchertown, d. April 21, 1770, ae. 47. He 
served as captain in French war in 1756, and was deacon in Belchertown. 
He m. 1 75 1, Sibyl, dau. of Daniel Worthington of Colchester, Ct. She m. 
(2) Reuben Smith, and d. May 26, 1828, ae. loi. Children — Asa, b. 1752, 
d. 1835, in Halifax, Vt.; Sibyl, m. Jan. 1774, Dea. Joseph Bardwell of So. 
Had.; Sarah W., m. Dec. 1777, Elijah Bardwell of Goshen; Elijah, b. 1758, 
d. in Greenfield, in 1843; Elizabeth, m. April, 1778, John Cowles, Jr.; Ethan, 
h. Dec. 19, 1762, grad. D. C. 1790, was a (Cong.) minister in Haverhill, N. H., 
Hopkinton, N. H., Hebron, N. Y., Poultney, Vt., Hanover, and d. in Boyl- 
ston, Sept. 1849, ^6- 86. He m. Bathsheba, dau. of Rev. David Sanford of 
Medway; Jacob, b. 1764, res. in Hadley, was deacon in the church, and d. 
April 5, 1852; William, b. 1766, rem. to Scipio, N. Y.; Josiah, rem. to Scipio, 
N. Y. 



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11. Nathaniel Alexander, s. of Alexander, (5) Amherst, d. April 4, 
1839, ae. 95. He m. (i) Jan. 17, 1771, Sarah, dau. of Thomas Hastings of 

Amh. She d. Oct. 7, 18 10, ae. 66; (2) Oct. 13, 181 1, Irene, wid. of 

Lovell, and dau. of Chapin of E. Windsor, Ct. She d. July 23, 1835, 

ae. 83. Children — Sally, b. July 17, 1776, m. April 2, 1801, Thomas Reed of 
Amh.; Nathaniel Alexander, b. March 17, 1781, d. Oct. 10, 1781, ae. 6 mos. 

12. Joseph, s. of Alexander, (5) m. Eunice, dau. of Nathan Goodman of 
Hat. Children — Nathan, b. Dec. 4, 1776; Sereno, b. March 27, 1779; Docia, 
b. Sept. 16, 1783; Parks, b. Sept. 2, 1788; Chester, b. Oct. 12, 1791; Joseph, 
b. Feb. 12, 1796. 

13. Elias, s. of Alexander, (5) Amherst, d. March 2, 1826, ae. 70. He 
m. Jan. i, 1788, Philothea Debell. Children — Alexander; Rodney, d. Feb. 3 
1809, ae. 19; Fanny, bapt. April i, 1792, d. unm. in Milwaukee, Wis., July 
28, 1850; Prudence, bapt. June 21, 1795, d. unm. in Milwaukee, Wis., July 24, 
1850; Elias, bapt. Aug. 27, 1797, d. Dec. 20, 1804; Philothea, bapt. Sept. 15, 
1799, "^- Charles Ripley; Sidney, bapt. Sept. 19, 1802; Clarinda, bapt. 
July 29, 1804, m. Keeler. 

14. Samuel, s. of Alexander, (5) Amh., d. Nov. 8, 1834, ae. 76. He m. 
Feb. 10, 1782, Sabra, dau. of John Debell of Rockingham, Vt. She was b. 
Jan. 24, 1759, and d. Sept. 28, 1849, ^^- 9°- Children — Melinda, b. March 18, 
1784, d. July 23, 1801; John, b. Jan. 14, 1786, d. Jan. 7, 1791; Laurana, b. 
May 9, 1788, m. John Russell of Northampton; John Debell, b. Oct. 25, 1790, 
m. June 11, 1813, Relief Thayer, and d. May 5, 1836; Sibyl Kilbourn, b. 
Feb. 3, 1793, m. Cotton Smith of Amh.; Hannah, b. Aug. 18, 1796, m. 
Frederick A. Palmer of Amherst; Samuel, b. Jan. 2, 1801, d. June 17, 1829. 

15. Benjamin, s. of Edward, (6) Amh., d. July 14, 1819, ae. 69. He m. 
Dec. 26, 1783, Elizabeth Rush. Children — Elizabeth, bapt. June 2, 1785, 
d. unm. Sept. 28, 1839, ae. 54; Spenser, b. July 5, 1787, m. (i) Jan. 16, 1816, 
Betsey Rust, who d. May 30, 1823, ae. 30; (2) Wid. Lydia Kellogg, who d. 
Nov. 25, 1830, ae. 45; (3) Oct. 9, 1843, Mary Mack. He d. in Amh., Dec. 31, 
1849, ae. 62. 

16. Timothy, s. of Edward, (6) Amherst, d. Oct. 24, 1814, ae. 62. He 
m. (i) Eunice Munsell. She d. abt. June, 1788; (2) Sabra Munsell. She 
d. Jan. 17, 1815. Children — Timothy, bapt. May 18, 1788, m. Mary Bissell, 
and res. in Amherst; Daniel, bapt. Jan. i, 1792, m. Nancy Williams of 
Ashfield; Hervey, bapt. Sept. 28, 1795, m. Eliza Ferry of Amherst, and d. in 
Amh., Nov. 6, 1830. 

17. Thomas, s. of Thomas, (8) m. Catharine. Children — Mehitable, 
b. Dec. 24, 1785; Eunice, b. June 12, 1787, d. June 12, 1787; Roswell, b. 
June 24, 1788, d. July 31, 1802; Stephen, b. Jan. 3, 1790; Susanna, b. Oct. 
16, 1791; Patty, b. Nov. 28, 1793; Walter, b. Dec. 15, 1795, d. April 18, 
1797; Christopher, b. June 9, 1798; Salome, b. July i, 1800, d. Aug. 19, 1802. 

18. Benjamin, s. of John, (9) was drowned abt. 1803, while crossing 
the Conn, river. Children — Caleb, b. Sept. 24, 1760; Erastus; Rachel, b. 
Jan. 31, 1764; Daughter; Daughter; Benjamin, bapt. March 17, 1771, kept 
tavern in Nh. and Had. 

19. Sereno, s. of Joseph, (12) m. Jan. 29, 1807, Betsey, dau. of David 
Stockbridge, and d. Jan. 22, 1852, ae. 72. Children — Edmund, b. Dec. 19, 



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1808; Theodocia, b. May 26, 1810, ni. George Allen; Chester, b. March 22, 
1811; Maria, b. Feb. 19, 1813, m. Francis Forward of Belchertown; Eliza- 
beth, b. May, 1816, d. July 16, 1819, ae. 3; Hinsdale, b. March 2, 1819; Rufus 
d. ae. 4 mos. 

20. Hon. Joseph, s. of Joseph, (12) was a State Senator, 1853 and 
1854. He m. Jan. 28, 1818, Sophia, dau. of Caleb Smith. Children — 
Nathan Emilius, b. Nov. 15, 18 18, d. Oct. 15, 1820; Edward Chester, b. 
June I, 1820; Mary Wilson, b. April 10, 1822; Joseph Emilius, b. June 3, 
1824, d. Nov. 8, 1832; William Parks, b. April 4, 1826, d. Sept. 16, 1836; 
Harriet Cornelia, b. Nov. 30, 1827; Julia Maria, b. April 28, 1830; Charles 
Porter, b. April 10, 1832; Sophia Louisa, b. March 17, 1834; Joseph Henry, 
b. Oct. 22, 1835; James William, b. June i, 1838. 

21. Caleb, s. of Benjamin, (18) m. Nov. 25, 1784, Olive Hibbard. 
Children — Elizabeth, b. Feb. 5, 1785; Chester, b. Oct. 17, 1786; Cotton, b. 
March 5, 1790; John, b. Feb. 19, 1792; Melinda, b. July 15, 1794; Sophia, 
b. Oct. 8, 1796, m. Jan. 28, 1818, Joseph Smith; Olive, b. Feb. 7, 1799; 
Caleb, b. July 5, 1801. 

22. Erastus Smith, s. of Benjamin, (18) m. Aug. 17, 1791, Lydia 
Hibbard. Children — Clarissa; Sophia; Lydia; Erastus; Sarah; Zebina; 
Thaddeus, Representative, i860; Elizabeth, bapt. April 6, 1806; Catharine 
Amelia, bapt. Sept. 20, 1807; Child, bapt. April 24, 1793, d. ae. 4 days. 

23. Edmund, s. of Sereno, (19) m. June 5, 1833, Sarah C, dau. of Elihu 
Smith. Children — Elizabeth, b. July 7, 1835; Martha Hitchcock, b. June 28, 
1837; H^nryPar^^, b. Aug. 21, 1839, grad. A. C. i860, and d. Dec. 17, 1861, 
ae. 22; Sarah Maria, b. Oct. 19, 1841; Edmund Hiibbard, h. Dec. 10, 1843, 
d. Feb. 2, 1844; Edwin Clapp, b. July 8, 1845; George Edmund, b. March 18, 
1847; William Hubbard, b. Dec. 27, 1849, d. Jan. 27, 1859, ae. 9; Joseph 
Chester, b. Oct. 11, 1852, d. Feb. 6, 1859, ^^- ^■ 

24. Chester, s. of Sereno, (19) m. May 29, 1844, Mary Ann Warner, 
dau. of Sylvester Smith. Children — Edward Warner, h. Sept. 3, 1847; Enos, 
h. Feb. 19, 1849; Mary Elizabeth, b. Nov. 11, 185 1; Rufus May, b. Feb. 6, 
1855; Helen Maria, b. Nov. 25, 1857. 

SMITH, Samuel, Lieut., with wife Elizabeth and children, Samuel, ae. 9, 
Elizabeth, ae. 7, Mary, ae. 4, and Philip, ae. 1, sailed for New England, the 
last day of April, 1634, in the Elizabeth of Ipswich. He and his wife were 
each then called thirty two years of age. He came from Wethersfield, Ct., 
where he was a leading man, to Hadley, where he held important offices both 
in church and state. He is supposed to have died in 1680, ae. abt. 78. His 
inventory was taken Jan. 17, 1681. He m. Elizabeth, who d. March 16, 
1686, ae. 84. Children — Samuel, h. abt. 1625, prob. rem. to New London, Ct., 
and thence prior to 1664 to Va., and if so, m. Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. .Henry 
Smith of Wethersfield; Elizabeth, b. abt. 1627, m. abt. 1646, Nathaniel Foote; 
(2) William Gull; Mary, b. abt. 1630, m. (i) John Graves; Philip, b. abt. 
1633; Chileab, b. abt. 1635; John. 

2. Philip, s. of Samuel, (i) was one of the first men of his time, in the 
town of his adoption, a lieutenant, deacon, and representative, and d. Jan. 
10, 1685, "murdered with an hideous witchcraft," according to Cotton Mather. 



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He m. Rebecca, dau. of Nathaniel Foote of Wethersfield. She m. (2) Oct. 2, 
1688, Maj. Aaron Cook, and d. April 6, 1701. Children — Samuel, b. Jan. 
1659; Child, d. Jan. 22, 1661; John, b. Dec. 18, 1661; Jonathan; Philip; 
Rebecca, m. abt. 1686, George Stillman of Had. and Wethersfield, and d. Oct. 7, 
1750; Nathaniel; Joseph; Ichabod, b. April 11, 1675. 

3. Chileab, s. of Samuel, (1) was freeman 1673, and d. March 7, 1731, 
ae. 95. He m. Oct. 2, 1661, Hannah, dau. of Luke Hitchcock of Wethers- 
field. She d. Aug. 31, 1733, ae. 88. Children — Hannah, b. July 7, 1662, 
m. March 23, 1681, John Montague; Samuel, b. March 9, 1665; Luke, b. 
April 16, 1666; Ebenezer, b. July 11, 1668; Nathaniel, b. Jan. 2, 1670, d. 
Jan. 1670; John, b. Oct. 8, 1671, m. 1691, Martha Golding, and d. s. p. abt. 
1750; Son, d. 1673; Hester, b. March 31, 1674, m. Oct. 20, 1696, Nathaniel 
Ingram; Daughter, d. March, 1677; Elizabeth, b. Feb. 2, 1679, m. Oct. 26, 
1698, James Smith; Mary, b. Aug. 16, i68i,ni. (i) Dec. 15, 1697, Preserved 
Smith; (2) April 22, 1721, Peter Montague; Chileab, d. Aug. 1682; Chileab, 
b. Feb. i8, 1685; Sarah, b. April 26, 1688, m. April 13, 1710, Jonathan 
Morton. 

4. John, s. of Samuel, (i) was slain by the Indians in Hatfield meadow. 
May 30, 1676. He m. Nov. 12, 1673, Mary, dau. of William Partridge. She 
m. (2) Sept. 1679, Peter Montague, and d. May 20, 1683. Children — John, 
b. May 15, 1665; Samuel, b. Dec. 7, 1667, killed by falling from a horse, 
June 19, 1681; Joseph, b. Nov. 16, 1670; Benjamin, b. 1673, settled in 
Wethersfield, Ct.; Marah, h. 1677, m. March 10, 1696, John Day. 

5. Samuel, s. of Philip, (2) deacon, purchased in 1706, property in East 
Hartford, Ct., and d. Aug. 28, 1707, ae. 48. He m. (i) Nov. 16, 1682, Mary, 
dau. of Samuel Church of Hartford, Ct. She d. June 18, 1700; (2) Jan. or 
June 24, 1701, Mary Smith. Children — Samuel, b. April 9, 1687; Mary, b. 
Dec. 28, 1689, m. John Keeney; Rebecca, b. Nov. 20, 1691; Samuel, b. Dec. 
18, 1694, idiot, was alive in 1721; Mehitable, b. May 9, 1696, m. Ebenezer 
Taylor of Granby; Benoni, b. June 10 or 12, 1700; Tim-othy, b. June i, 1702; 
Edward, h. Nov. 17, 1704; Mercy. 

6. John, s. of Philip, (2) deacon, d. April 16, 1727, ae. 66. He m. Nov. 
29, 1683, Joanna, dau. of Joseph Kellogg. She survived her husband. 
Children — John,h. Dec. 3, 1684; Joanna, b. Sept. i, 1686, m. Jan. 10, 1705, 
Ephraim Nash; Rebecca, b. Aug. 5, 1688, m. Jan. 11, 1710, Samuel Crow; 
Joseph, b. July 19, 1690; Martin, b. April 15, 1692, m. 1715, Sarah Wier, and 
res. in Wethersfield, Ct.; Eleazer, b. Sept. 25, 1694, d. Oct. 3, 1721, ae. 27; 
Sarah, b. Nov. 18, 1696, d. Dec. 28, 1697; Sarah, b. Nov. 9, 1698, m. (i) 
May 22, 1724, Samuel Kellogg; (2) Jan. 1749, William Montague; Prudence, 
b. March 15, 1701, m. (i) March i, 1722, Timothy Nash of Longmeadow; 
(2) Dea. Ichabod Hinckley, and d. April 18, 1774, ae. 72; Experience, b. 
April 19, 1703, m. Aug. II, 1727, James Kellogg, and d. Aug. 23, 1762, ae. 
59; Elizabeth, b. Oct. 12, 1705, m. May 22, 1728, Stephen Nash of Westfield, 
and d: 1790; Mindwell, b. May 25, 1708, m. May 3, 1732, Benoni Sacket. 

7. Jonathan, s. of Philip, (2) Hatfield, d. Oct. or Nov. 1737. He m 
Nov. 14, 1688, Abigail, dau. of Joseph Kellogg. She survived her husband 
and was living in Amherst in 1742. Children — Jonathan, b. Aug. 10, 1689 
Daniel, b. March 3, 1692, deranged, d. in Amh., Nov. 16, 1760, ae. 68 
Abigail, b. April 20, 1695, m. Jonathan Parsons; Stephen, b. Dec. 5, 1697 



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Prudence, b. May i6, 1700; Moses, b. Sept. 8, 1702, m. Nov. 1726, Mary- 
Marsh, prob. moved to Ware River, and d. abt. 1749. Administration on his 
estate was granted July 4, 1749; Elisha, b. July 10, 1705, and d. in Whately 
in 1-]?,^^; Elizabeth, b. May 8, 1708, m. Nov. 6, 1728, [1729?] Richard Chauncy, 
and d. in Whately, May 22, 1790, ae. 82; Ephraim, b. March 24, 1711, m. 
Martha, dau. of Joseph Scott, and settled in Athol; Aaron, b. Feb. 7, 1715, 
m. Abigail, dau. of Joseph Scott, and settled in Athol. 

8. Philip, s. of Philip, (2) rem. first to Springfield, and thence abt. 
1704, to E. Hartford, Ct., and d. Jan. 25, 1725. He m. (i) July 9, 1687, 
Mary, dau. of Samuel Bliss of Springfield. She d. Dec. 23, 1707, in 57th yr.; 
(2) Sept. 1708, Mary Robinson, who d. May 17, 1733, in 60th yr. Children — 
Philip, b. May i, 1689, d. unm. 1712; David, b. April 23, 1691; Daughter, 
b. June II, and d. June 12, 1693; Daughter, b. June 11, and d. June 16, 
1693; Martha, b. Sept. 27, 1694, m. Thomas Wiard; Aaron, b. Feb. 14, 1697; 
Mary, b. Feb. 23, 1699; Samuel, b. abt. 1702, d. in East Hartford, Aug. 28, 
1777, ae. 75; Rebecca; Ebenezer, b. Jan. i, 1707; Nehemiah, b. July 17, 1709; 
Hannah, b. Nov. 20, 171 1. 

9. Nathaniel, s. of Philip, (2) Hatfield, d. 1740 or 1741, as appears 
from the fact, that his will made 1740, was proved Jan. 1741- He m. Feb. 6, 
1696, Mary, dau. of Nathaniel Dickinson. She d. Aug. 16, 1718, ae. 45. 
Children — Nathaniel, b. Jan. i, 1698; Mary, b. Dec. 11, 1700, m. Jonathan 
Dickinson; Joshua, b. Nov. 2, 1702; Rebecca, b. April 4, 1705, m. Jonathan 

Wells; Hannah, b. March 7, 1707, m. Wright; Martha, b. Jan. 31, 

1709, m. Benjamin Wait, and d. 1794; Lydia, b. March 16, 1711, m. Samuel 
Morton; Jerusha, b. Jan. 9, 1713; m. Simeon White, and d. abt. 1809. 

10. Joseph, s. of Philip, (2) grad. H. C. 1695, teacher in Hopkins Gram- 
mar School, also in Springfield and Brookfield, was ord. May 10, 1709, pastor 
of the church in Cohanzy, N. J., and Jan. 15, 1715, pastor of the 2d church 
in Upper Middletown, Ct. He d. Sept. 8, 1736, ae. 62. He m. Esther Par- 
sons, b. Dec. 24, 1672, who d. May 30, 1760, in 89th yr. Children — Martha, 
b. Sept. 17, 1699, m. Nov. 30, 1721, Richard Hamlin; Joseph, m. Dec. 20, 
1726, Elizabeth Buckley; Mary, m. Dec. 10, 1729, Rev. Samuel Tudor of 
East Windsor, Ct., and d. June 15, 1785, ae. 76. 

11. IcHABOD, s. of Philip, (2) d. Sept. 6, 1746, ae. 70 or 71. He m. July 
19, 1698, Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. Aaron Cook. She d. Oct. 10, 175 1, ae. 73. 
Children — Philip, b. May 2, 1699; Aaron, b. Sept. 20, 1700; Nathaniel, b. 
Feb. 16, 1702; Rebecca, b. Nov. 9, 1703, m. Oct. 21, 1726, William Smith; 
Moses, b. April 30, 1706; Bridget, b. March 15, 1708, m. Nov. 20, 1730, 
Jonathan Moody of Amherst; Miriam, b. Aug. 22, 1710, m. Nov. 16, 1738, 
David Moody; Elizabeth, b. Sept. 10, 1712, m. (i) Dec. 4, 1735, Noadiah 
Lewis; (2) Aug. 14, 1743, Elisha Ingram of Amh.; Samuel, b. Aug. 4, 1715, 
m. Rebecca, and in 1759 res. in Sandisfield; Experience, b. Jan. 27, 17 17; 
Elisha, b. Jan. 23, 1721, was of Amh. 1761, and Had. 1770, 

12. Samuel, s. of Chileab, (3) shoemaker, d. Aug. 4, 1724, ae. 60. He 
m. March 9, 1687, Sarah Bliss, who was alive in 1742. Children — Samuel, 
b. Nov. 25, 1687, d. Jan. 18, 1688; Sarah, b. April 10, 1689, m. Feb. 27, 1713, 
E. Perkins; Samuel, b. Aug. 11, 1691; Peletiah, b. March 8, 1694; William; 
b. Dec. 21, 1696; Lydia, b. Nov. 30, 1699, m. June 12, 1724, Samuel Smith, 
Hannah, b. Oct. 18, 1701, unm.; Elizabeth, b. Jan. 23, 1704, d. March 18, 



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1712; Esther, h. June 14, 1706, m. Feb. 22, 1727, Daniel Belding of Deer- 
field; Margaret, b. Jan. 24, 1710, m. March 6, 1734, Samuel Church. 

13. Luke, s. of Chileab, (3) captain. His will made 1736, was proved 
Jan. 1748. He m. 1690, Mary Crow, who d. June 19, 1761, ae. 89. Chil- 
dren — Luke, b. Feb. 12, 1691, d. June 15, 1693; Son, b. April 5, 1692, d. ae. 
4 days; Mary, m. Dec. 2, 1714, John Preston; Hannah, b. March i, 1694, 
m. Nathaniel Dickinson; Luke, b. May 21, 1697; Samuel, b. May 23, 1699; 
Jonathan, b. March 4, 1702; Ruth, b. April 8, 1703, m. Feb. 13, 1724, Israel 
Dickinson; David, b. July 7, 1707; Joseph, b. March 22, 17 10; Sarah, b. 
May 5, 1 7 13, m. Aug. 9, 1734, James Smith, a Baptist minister of Granby. 

14. Ebenezer, s. of Chileab, (3) a weaver, d. abt. 17 16. His inventory 
was presented 1716, and his estate settled 1717. He m. Oct. 1691, Abigail 
Broughton. Children — Abigail, b. Oct. 10, 1692, m. March 15, 1711, Joseph 

Kellogg; Martha, b. Nov. 10, 1694, m. Read; Ebenezer, b. March 20, 

1697, settled in Norwalk, Ct.; John, b. May i, 1699; Nathan, b. Aug. 14, 
1701, settled in Norwalk, Ct.; Eliakim, h. Jan. 13, 1704, settled in Norwalk, 

Ct.; Eunice, b. June 9, 1706, m. Olmsted; Joseph, b. Sept. 18, 1708; 

Ephraim, b. Jan. 27, 1730, settled in Stamford, Ct.; Dinah, b. July 8, I7I3^ 
m. Hoyt. 

15. Chileab, s. of Chileab, (3) d. Nov. 8, 1746, ae. 61. He m. Dec. 19,. 
1710, Mercy Golding. She d. Aug. [6?] 1756, in 69th yr. Children — Peter^ 
b. Oct. 31, 1711; Chileab, b. Sept. 27, 1713, d. Aug. 14, 1715; Mercy, b. 
May 25, 1715, m. March 24, 1739, Nathaniel Coleman of Hat. and Amh., and 
d. May 16, 1798, ae. 83; Phinehas, b. June 5, 1717, m. Mary; Martha, b. 
Jan. 16, 1719, m. Feb. 18, 1742, Thomas Meekins; Windsor, b. Nov. 12, 
1720; Thankful, b. July 12, 1722, m. Moses Dickinson of Amh., and d. Oct, 

18, 1802, ae. 80; Chileab, b. May 25, 1724, d. before 1730; Mary, b. Dec. i, 
1725, m. May 31, 1748, Moses Billings of Sunderland; Chileab, b. July 8, 
1730, d. Oct. 24, 1752, ae. 22. 

16. John, s. of John, (4) called "Orphan John," d. Jan. 20, 1724, ae. 58. 
He m. 1687, Mary, dau. of John Root of Westfield. She survived her hus- 
band. Children — Son, b. 1688, d. same day; Mary, b. May 7, 1689, m. June 

19, 1712, Thomas Sheldon of N. H., and Suffield, Ct., and d. 1771, ae. 82; 
Abigail, b. Oct. 26, 1691, m. Sept. 29, 1714, John Montague; Mercy, b. July 3, 
1694, m. Nov. 22, 1711, Joseph Eastman; John, b. Feb. i, 1697; Rachel, b. 
Aug. 4, 1699, m. Aug. 14, 1724, John Smith, s. of Ebenezer of Granby, and 
d. Sept. 20, 1724, ae. 2^; Hezekiah,h. Dec. 21, 1702; A^oo/t, b. May 16, 1707. 

17. Joseph, s. of John, (4) Hatfield, d. Feb. 6, 1752, ae. 81. He m, 
Dec. 15, 1696, Canada Waite. She d. May 5, 1749, ae. 72. Children — Mary^ 
b. Sept. 24, 1697, m. Joseph Field of Sunderland; Martha, b. Oct. 19, 1699, 
m. Thomas Nash; Benjamin, b. Nov. 17, 1701, slain June 18, 1724; John^ 
b. Dec. 26, 1703, d. abt. the middle of July, 1705; Sarah, b. Oct. 14, I707^ 
m. Elisha Smith; Esther, b. June 2, 17 10, m. Jonathan Field of Sunderland; 
Hannah or Anna, b. July 22, 1712, m. Moses Dickinson; Eleanor, b. Dec. 9, 
1 71 7, m. Jonathan Morton; Joseph, b. Nov. 21, 1720; Samuel, m. Mary, res. 
in Hat., and d. abt. 1779 or 1780. 

18. John, s. of Dea. John, (6) d. Dec. 25, 1761, ae. 77. He m. Esther^ 
dau. of Ephraim Colton of Longmeadow. She d. ae. abt. 84. Children — 



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Philip, b. Oct. 12, 1712, m. 1743, Alice Jones, and d. s. p., abt. 1800; Eph- 
raim, h. Nov. 17, 1714; John, b. Jan. 20, 1717; Phinehas, b. April 12, 1719; 
Silas, b. Feb. 2, 1722; Eleazar, b. Jan. 27, 1725; Esther, b. Nov. 27, 1726; 
Josiah, rem. to Brookfield, Vt., and d. ae. abt. 66. 

19. Joseph, s. of Dea. John, (6) rem. to Sunderland, but returned to 
Hadley, and there d. He m. Feb. 1712, Rebecca, dau. of Joseph Smith. 
'Children — Joseph, b. Jan. 22, 1715, d. Dec. 29, 1735; Rebecca, b. May 29, 
1717; Joanna, b. Aug. 27, 1719, m. (i) June 17, 1737, Joshua Olds; (2) 
May 19, 1743, Benjamin Wright; Lydia, b. Feb. 28, 1722; Elisha, bapt. 
Oct. 3, 1726, d. Aug. 27, 1744; Elisha, b. Oct. 3, 1726, d. 1810, ae. 84. 

20. Jonathan, s. of Jonathan, (7) captain, rem. from Hat. to Amherst, 
and d. abt. 1778. He m. June 6, 1722, Hannah, dau. of Benoni Wright of 
Hatfield. Children — Jonathan, b. abt. 1728; Martin; David; Noah, b. 
Oct. 8, 1742; Hannah, m. 1753, David Dickinson; Abigail, b. abt. 1723, 
m. Jan. 2, 1755, Joseph Church of Amh., and d. March 22, 1815, ae. 92; 
Rebecca, m. June 16, 1757, Elijah Baker of Amh.; Jerusha, perhaps, who m. 
May. 

21. Stephen, s. of Jonathan, (7) rem. to Amh., and thence to Sunder- 
land, where he d. abt. 1760. Children — Stephen; Joel; Titus, res. in Leverett; 
Mary, b. abt. 1727, m. 1753, Daniel Shattuck of Hinsdale, N. H., and d. 
Sept. 3, 1788, in 6ist yr. 

22. Philip, s. of Ichabod, (11) Hatfield, m. Jan. 11, 1722, Sarah White, 
per. dau. of John White of Hat.; (2) 1734, John Burk. Children — Simeon, 
Tcilled by the fulling mill wheel, April 25, 1735; Oliver, b. Jan. 18, 1727, 
'd. April 26, 1728. 

22^. Aaron, s. of Ichabod, (11) was of Amh. 1739, but d. in Shutesbury, 
July 5, 1759, ae. 58. He m. Nov. 26, 1724, Mehitable, dau. of John Ingram, 
and perhaps m. (2) Abigail, for it appears from Records of ist Chh. of 
Amherst, that Aaron and Abigail Smith had baptized to them, there, Abner, 
Aug. 16, 1747. Children — Son, b. Sept. 16, and d. Sept. 17, 1725; Jemima, 

b. Aug. 18, 1726, prob. m. Whiton, and d. Feb. 14, 1774; Philip, b. 

1729, d. in Shutesbury, Nov. 21, 1759, ae. 30; Aaron, b. 1732. An old family 
record says he was missing in a battle March, 1758, ae. 25 yrs. and ten mos. 
He was in Maj. Roger's Rangers, and taken near Ticonderoga, March 13, 
1758. 

23. Nathaniel, s. of Ichabod, (11) was the first physician of Amh., 
•whither he removed as early as 1731, and d. July 21, 1789, ae. 84. He m. 
Nov. II, 1726, Mehitable, dau. of John Ingram. She d. July 21, 1789, ae. 84. 
Children — Nathaniel, b. Aug. 23, 1727, d. Sept. 9, 1727, ae. 17 days; Dorothy, 
b. Feb. 23, 1729, m. 1747, (pub. June 14,) Ebenezer Mattoon of Amh., and 
d. June 3, 1756, ae. 27; Rebecca, b. July i, 1731, m. April 8, 1756, Jonathan 
Smith, Jr. of Amh., and d. Sept. 5, 1807, ^^- 7^- 

24. MosES, s. of Ichabod, (11) Amh., d. May 12, 1781, ae. 75. He m. 
1732, Hannah, dau. of Samuel Childs of Deerfield. She d. Jan. 26, 1778, 
ae. 67. Children — Moses, b. Dec. 10, 1733; Simeon, b. Aug. 26, 1735; 
Hannah, b. July 18, 1737, m. Oct. 6, 1774, Daniel Church; Catharine, b. 
Aug. 13, 1739, m. Robert Emmons, and d. April i, 1779, ae. 39; Azubah, 



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b. Sept. 30, 1741, d. Oct. 10, 1743; Elizabeth, b. Sept. 10, 1743, m. Aug. 13, 
1767, Elisha Nash of Hatfield, and d. April 29, 1782, ae. 38; Amasa, b. 
April 23, 1746, res. in Deerfield; Samuel, b. June 19, 1748, went to sea, and 
d. early in Kingston, Jamaica; Noadiah, b. Sept. 26, 1751 ; Oliver, b. Nov. 7, 
1755, d. of measles, during the revolution, in White Plains, N. Y. 

25. Experience, s. of Ichabod, (11) Granby, m. Mercy Eastman. 
Children — Mercy, b. Aug. 19, 1746, d. 1748; Mercy, b. Sept. 27, 1748; Asa, 
b. Sept. 29, 1750; Rebeckah, b. Jan. 22, 1753; Ruth, b. April 22, 1755; Martha, 
b. Oct. 5, 1757; Jemima, b. Oct. 18, 1758. 

26. Samuel, s. of Samuel, (12) deacon, Sunderland, d. 1755 or 1756. 
He m. (i) 1716, Esther, dau. of Eleazar Warner; (2) Jan. 16, 1724, Sarah, 
dau. of Samuel Billings of Hatfield. Children — Esther, b. 1719, m. Nehemiah 
Church; Nathan, b. 1721; Miriam, b. 1723; Moses, b. 1724, settled in Lev- 
erett; Margaret, b. 1727, d. 1745; Rebekah, b. 1730, m. Jonathan Church; 
Lydia, b. 1731; Caleb, b. 1733. 

27. Peletiah, s. of Samuel, (12) Amherst, m. 1721, Abigail, dau. of 
William Wait of Nh. Children — Elizabeth, b. May 19, 1722, m. Moses 
Smith; Peletiah, b. Feb. 14, 1724; Abigail, b. Sept. 14, 1726, m. March 27, 
1747, Simeon Pomeroy of Amh., and d. Dec. 10, 1820, ae. 94; Lucy, b. Nov. 7, 
1728, d. May 8, 1737. 

28. William, s. of Samuel, (12) South Hadley, d. 1770. In his will 
made and proved 1 770, he names his wife Elizabeth, the heirs of his daughter 
Elizabeth, deceased, grandchild Charles Chapin and his wife Silence. Chil- 
dren — Jerusha, b. June 25, 1727; Rebecca, b. Sept. 21, 1731; Elizabeth, 
b. July 10, 1734, m. March 27, 1755, William Negus, and d. prior to 1770. 
One of his daughters probably d. June 25, 1740. 

29. Luke, s. of Luke, (13) rem. to Sunderland, but before his death, 
returned to Had. He m. (i) Sarah; (2) April 14, 1739, Sarah Hamilton. 
Children — Sarah, h. 1721; Hannah, b. 1723; Eleazar, b. 1725; Abigail, 
b. 1729, m. Joseph Cook of South Had. and Had.; Asahel, b. 1731; Abiel, 
(dau.) b. 1735, was of South Had., 1756. 

30. Samuel, s. of Luke, (13) d. Aug. 22, 1763, ae. 64. He m. June 12, 
1724, Lydia Smith. She d. Feb. 6, 1786, in 85th yr. Children — Samuel, 
b. Sept. 7, 1724, d. 1746; Lydia, b. April 7, 1728, m. Nov. 17, 1750, Gad 
Alvord, and d. prior to 1786; Josiah, h. Aug. 26, 1729, m. Dec. 26, 1751, 
Abigail Eastman, res. in So. Had., and d. Aug. 29, 1779, ae. 50; Mary, b. 
March 3, 1733, [Rec] m. March 16, 1749, Josiah White; Reuben, h. Sept. 23, 
1733, d. Nov. II, 1733; Rebecca, h. March 25, 1740, m. Job Alvord, and was 

living in 1833; Phebe, b. March 25, 1742, m. Dickinson, and d. before 

1786. 

31. Jonathan, s. of Luke, (13) deacon, d. April 4, 1774. He m. (i) 
Dec. 16, 1725, Rebecca, dau. of Nehemiah Dickinson. She d. Oct. 3, 1726, 
ae. 27; (2) Jan. 31, 1734, Mehitable Cook. She d. Nov. 3, 1766. Children — 
Oliver, b. Sept. 23, 1726; Enos, b. Nov. 19, 1734, d. Feb. 11, 1738, ae. 3; 
Rebecca, b. Oct. 27, 1736, m. Jan. 24, 1760, John Cook, and d. July 30, 1761; 
Seth, b. Feb. 6, 1738, d. Feb. 15, 1738, ae. 9 days; Mehitable, b. March 24, 
1740, m. June 17, 1760, Eliakim Smith; Anne, b. June 22, 1742, m. Nov. 15, 
1770, Timothy Eastman, and d. Dec. 7, 1777, ae. 35; Enos, b. June 28, 174S; 



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Jonathan, b. Jan. 28, 1747; Seth, b. June 24, 1751; Ebenezer, b. and d. June 
24, 1751; Perez, b. Sept. 20, 1754. 

32. David, s. of Luke, (13) deacon, resided for a few years in Amh., but 
after a short absence returned to Had., where he d. Aug. 6, 1771, ae. 64. He 
m. Hannah, dau. of Josiah Willard of Wethersfield, Ct. She d. in West- 
hampton, Jan. 27, 1809, ae. 87. Children — Elizabeth, bapt. April 8, 1741, 
m. (i) Sept. 16, 1762, Josiah Smith; (2) Jan. 4, 1770, John Cook; Hannah, 
m. Jan. 31, 1771, Coleman Cook; Theoda, m. Aug. 13, 1769, Nathaniel Dick- 
inson of Amh.; Mary, b. July 21, 1754, m. Feb. 24, 1778, Peter Montague; 

Eunice, b. Oct. 11, 1756, m. 1792, Reuben Wright of Nh.; Naomi, m. 

Wallace; Willard, b. Oct. 30, 1761; Jerusha, m. Oliver Atwell. 

33. Joseph, s. of Luke, (13) d. June or July, 1797, ae. 88. He m. May 
24, 1739, Miriam, dau. of Benjamin Church. She d. abt. 1794. Children — 
Gideon, b. April 12, 1740; Miriam, b. Jan. 12, 1742, d. unm., Sept. 1794, 
ae. 52; John, b. Jan. 17, 1744; Joseph, b. April 19, 1751. 

34. John, s. of Ebenezer, (14) deacon, Granby, d. June 17, 1774, ae. 75. 
He m. (i) Aug. 14, 1724, Rachel, dau. of "Orphan John" Smith. She d. 
Sept. 20, 1724, ae. 25; (2) April 6, 1727, Mary, dau. of William Dickinson. 
She d. March 5, 1781, in 78th yr. Children — Nathan, b. abt. 1731; Abigail, 
m. Dr. Samuel Vinton of So. Had., and d. Aug. 11, 1793. 

35. Peter, s. of Chileab, (15) Amh., d. abt. 1787, as appears from the 
fact, that his will dated 1771, was proved 1787. He m. Amy Bissell of Wind- 
sor, Ct., who d. Aug. 1796. Children — Chileab, b. Oct. 27, 1747; Elisha, b. 
March 14, 1749; Child, bapt. Dec. 24, 1751. 

36. Windsor, s. of Chileab, (15) d. Dec. 31, 1788, ae. 68. He m. (i) 
Dec. 3, 1747, Sarah, dau. of Joseph Smith. She d. Sept. i, 1772, in 50th yr. ; 
(2) Oct. 20, 1773, Lydia, wid. of Hopestill Hastings. Children — Martha, b. 
Oct. II, 1749, m. (i) April 16, 1795, Dea. Hezekiah Belding of Amh.; (2) 
July 6, 1 81 5, Col. Asaph White of Erving's Grant; Sarah, b. Dec. 30, 1751, 
m. Nov. 16, 1775, Perez Cook; Chileab, b. May 21, 1754; Mercy, b. Oct. 26, 
1756, m. Sept. 23, 1779, Timothy Marsh; Windsor, b. Dec. 22, 1758; Electa, 
b. Nov. 17, 1761, d. March 20, 1763; Electa, b. Feb. 13, 1764, m. May 16, 
1782, Holcomb Granger; Naomi, b. June 28, 1767, d. Dec. 18, 1775, ae. 8. 

37. John, s. of "Orphan" John, (16) m. Elizabeth. Children — Eliza- 
beth, h. Feb. 14, 1728, m. PhinehasSmith; rimo^/iy, b. Dec. 6, iy2g; Benjamin, 
b. May 16, 1732, of Granby, 1761, became a tory, and went to Halifax, 
N. B.; Titus, b. June 23, 1734, grad. H. C. 1764, a tory, went to Halifax; 
Seth, b. Aug. 21, 1736, m. Thankful; Israel, b. April 2, 1739; Lucy, b. 1746, 
d. 1763; Ruth, (?) m. John Ayres. 

38. Hezekiah, s. of "Orphan" John, (16) Granby, made his will 1780, 
which was proved Dec. 1790. He m. May 10, 1728, Dorcas Dickinson. 
Children — Rachel, b. Aug. 13, 1729, m. Nov. 22, 1748, Thomas Wait; Esther, 
m. Dickinson, and was alive in 1812; Hezekiah, b. Sept. 17, 1751. 

39. Noah, s. of "Orphan" John, (16) d. 1767. He m. Mary . 

Children — Noah, b. Feb. 8, 1732, m. (i) 1756, Mary Kilboume of Newfane, 
Vt.; (2) 1754, Sarah Stephenson of Spr.; Warham, b. March 19, 1735; Josiah, 
b. June 26, 1737, d. Oct. 8, 1765; John, b. Jan. 18, 1740; Mary, m. James 
Hunt, to whom she was pub. June 16, 1769. 



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40. Ephraim, s. of John, (18) So. Hadley, m. Mary, dau. of John Preston 
of So. Had. Children — Ephraim, m. Thankful Goodman; Eli; Darius; 
Simeon; Luther; Joanna, m. Samuel Goodman; Lois, m. William Taylor. 

41. John, s. of John, (18) d. March 24 or 25, 1795, ae. 78. He m. Eliz- 
abeth, dau. of Nathaniel Edwards of Nh. She was b. Nov. 29, 1723, and 
d. March 12, 1795, ae. 72. Children — Beriah, rem. to Woodstock, Vt.; Joel, 
res. for a time in Greenfield, but rem. thence to the West; John, b. abt. 1751 ; 
Elizabeth, m. Reuben Judd of So. Had., and d. March 31, 1781; Martha, 

in. Thayer, and rem. to State of N. Y.; Lucy, m. Enos Pomeroy of 

Had. and Buckland; Sabra, m. Badger. 

42. Phinehas, s. of John, (18) rem. to Wilmington, Vt. He m. 1754, 
Eleanor Bell. Children — Medad, b. Feb. 2, 1755; Esther, b. Dec. 22, 1756; 
Phinehas, b. 1761, d. 1767. 

43. Silas, s. of John, (18) m. (i) 1749, Sarah, dau. of John Preston; 
(2) Rebecca Allen. Children — Philip, m. Achsah Chapin, (see the Chapin 
genealogy) d. in Springfield; Perez, b. 1753; Silas, b. Nov. 30, 1754; Sarah, 
m. Hugh McMaster of Palmer. 

44. Eleazar, s. of John, (18) deacon, res. in Longmeadow and Amherst, 
and d. Jan. 4, 1816, ae. 90. He m. (i) Lydia Thomas of Lebanon, Ct. She 
was b. Jan. 29, 1725; (2) Abigail, dau. of Thomas Hale of Longmeadow. 
She was b. Feb. 9, 1735, and d. June 24, 1812, in 77th yr. Children, all but 
youngest, by ist wife — Lydia, b. June 8, 1750, d. Nov. 7, 1774; Lucina, b. 
Feb. II, 1752; m. Chileab Brainerd Merrick of Wilbraham; Eleazar, b. 
Feb. 28, 1754, d. Oct. 22, 1757; Ithamar, b. June 13, 1756, m. Lucy Nevers 
of Springfield, and d. Sept. i, 1844, ae. 88; Eleazar, b. June 20, 1758, d. 
March 14, 1759; Sarah, b. Sept. 10, 1760, m. Dec. 4, 1783, Medad Dickinson 
of Amh., and d. Oct. 11, 1784, ae. 24; Ethan, b. April 24, 1763, m. Nov. 7, 
1785, Tabitha, dau. of Thomas Hastings, and d. March 22, 1821, ae. 57; 
Achsah, b. Aug. 20, 1765, m. April 27, 1786, Levi Cook of Amh. and Ashfield, 
and d. June 5, 1809, ae. 43; Eleazar, b. Oct. 25, 1767, m. Mabel Bartlett; 
Justin, b. Aug. 12, 1770, m. Experience Clark of Nh.; Seth, b. July 12, 1775. 

45. Jonathan, s. of Jonathan, (20) Amherst, d. April 20, 1814, ae. 86. 
He m. April 8, 1756, Rebecca, dau. of Dr. Nathaniel Smith of Amh. She d. 
Sept. 5, 1807, ae. 76. Child — Jerusha, b. April 27, 1764, m. June 13, 1780, 
Col. Elijah Dickinson of Amh., and d. April 6, 1853, ae. 88. 

46. Martin, s. of Jonathan, (20) Amherst, d. 1780. He m. Jan. 4, 
1760, Lucy, dau. of Preserved Clapp of Amh. She m. (2) Daniel Shattuck 

of Hinsdale, N. H., and d. in Randolph, Vt. Children — Levi, m. Holland 

of Pelham; Josiah, m. Sally, dau. of John Field; Solomon; Jonathan, bapt. 
Nov. 6, 1768; Martin, bapt. Oct. 7, 1770, rem. to Massena, N. Y.; Stephen, 
bapt. March 21, 1773; Wright, bapt. Feb. 19, 1775; Phineas, rem. to Ran- 
dolph, Vt. 

47. David, s. of Jonathan, (20) Amherst, d. Nov. 23, 1807. He m. 
Mary, dau. of Moses Warner of Amh. She d. July 25, 1826. Children — 
Elijah, m. Martha Burt, and d. in Amh., Sept. 12, 1848; Mary, m. Lucius 
Wait of Hat.; David, m. Jan. 5, 1804, Anna Nash, and d. in Amh., Oct. 31, 
1833, ae. 70; Martha, bapt. Nov. 26, 1769, m. April 7, 1791, Ephraim Kellogg 
of Amh.; Moses, m. Nov. 20, 1794, Tamar Pettis; Oliver; Eli, per. m. Oct. 7, 
1802, Thankful Dickinson. 



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48. Noah, s. of Jonathan, (20) Amherst, d. Feb. 22, 1830, ae. 87. He 
m. abt. 1766, Mary, dau. of Edward Elmer. She d. Sept. 4, 1833, ae. 88. 
Children — Hannah, b. Jan. 3, 1767, m. Jan. 28, 1785, Martin Cook, and d. 
1846, ae. 79; Jonathan, b. Dec. 17, 1768, m. Feb. 7, 1799, Ruth Jurdon, and 
d. Dec. 27, 1843, ^®- 75' Reuben, b. Sept. 14, 1770, m. April 14, 1796, Marga- 
ret Carpenter, and still (1862) resides in Goshen; Noah, b. June 6, 1772, 
m. Jerusha Cowls; Andrew, b. April 20, 1774, m. Rachel McClary of Massena, 
N. Y.; Polly, b. April 17, 1776, m. July 6, 1797, Martin Baker of Amh.; 
Rebecca, b. Jan. 2, 1779, m. Dec. 3, 1809, John Strong of Amh.; Sarah, 
b. Dec. 4, 1782, m. Feb. 9, 1806, Jonathan Hubbard of Amh., and d. March 21, 
1828, ae. 46; Abigail, b. Dec. 4, 1782, m. Simeon Smith of Amh., and d. 
Dec. 1838, ae. 56. 

49. Stephen, s. of Stephen, (21) Amh., d. Aug. 9, 1813. He m. Doro- 
thy, dau. of Ebenezer Mattoon of Amh. Children — Dorothy, m. Nov. 21, 
1793, Enos Baker of Amh.; Prudence; Arad; Perez, rem. to Massena, N. Y. ; 
Gideon. 

50. MosES, s. of Moses, (24) rem. from Amherst to Waitesfield, Vt. 
Children — Moses; Elijah; Selah; Samuel; Hannah. 

51. Simeon, s. of Moses, (24) Amherst, d. March 23, 1777. He m. 1763, 
Rachel, dau. of Nathaniel Strong of Nh. She was b. Feb. 5, 1 73 2, and d. Sept. i, 
1797, ae. 65. Children — Simeon, b. May 5, 1764, m. Jerusha Cooley; Asa, 
b. Sept. 6, 1766, m. July 3, 1788, Sarah Moody; Electa, b. Jan. 21, 1769, 
m. Sept. 10, 1794, Seth Montague of So. Had.; Rachel, b. Dec. 14, 1772, 
m. Jan. 27, 1791, Elijah Moody; Sylvanus, b. June 28, 1775, res. in Hat. 

52. NoADiAH, s. of Moses, (24) Amherst, d. Sept. 23, 1799, ae. 48. He 
m. Nov. 3, 1779, Sarah Lee. Children — Sarah, b. July 26, 1780, d. July 10, 
1797, ae. 16; Catharine, b. May 21, 1782, m. Nov. 1805, Ira Edwards, and 
rem. to Morristown, Vt.; Moses, b. May 11, 1784, grad. W. C. 1811, m. April, 
1816, Lois Lee, and d. in Amh.; Samuel, b. March 9, 1786, m. May 7, 1807, 
Mary Hastings, and rem. to Marion, N. Y. ; Oliver, b. March 30, 1788, grad. 

W. C. 1812, d. unm. in New York City; Martin, b. Aug. 9, , d. unm. in 

Johnson, Vt., July 27, 1855; Calvin, b. Aug. 12, 1792, rem. to Johnson, Vt.; 
Abel, b. April 28, 1794, m. Achsah Edwards, and d. in Amh., Jan. 12, 1840, 
ae. 46; Mary, b. June i, 1796, m. April 2, 1820, Dexter Dickinson, and d. 
Sept. 25, 1839, ae. 43. 

53. Peletiah, s. of Peletiah, (27) rem. after 1773, from Amh. to Charle- 
mont. He m. April 24, 1755, Rhoda Morgan. Children — Reuben, bapt. 
March 14, 1756; Rhoda, b. Aug. 3, 1760; Sarah, bapt. Sept. 19, 1762; Mary, 
bapt. Oct. 25, 1765; Aaron, bapt. Dec. 2, 1770; Phinehas, bapt. Dec. 26, 
1773; Samuel. 

54. Oliver, s. of Jonathan, (31) deacon, d. July 22, 1808, ae. 81. He 
m. June 2, 1757, Elizabeth Eastman. She d. Aug. 13, 181 1, in 79th yr. 
Children — Elizabeth, h. Dec. 29, 1758, m. Sept. 10, 1783, Doct. Job Marsh, 
and d. June 7, 1823; Elihu, b. Oct. 3, 1761; Joanna, b. July 12, 1764, m. 
Dec. 14, 1792, Gad Cook; Naomi, b. Feb. 5, 1767, d. Dec. 7, 1787, ae. 20; 
Oliver, b. Oct. 29, 1769; Timothy Eastman, h. Jan. 22, 1773, d. April 8, 1776, 
ae. 3; Rebeckah, b. Dec. 9, 1775, m. Rev. John Smith of Haverhill, N. H. 



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55. Enos, s. of Jonathan, (31) d. March 14, 1836, ae. 90. Hem. Nov. 15, 
1770, Mary, dau. of John Dickinson. She d. Feb. 7, 1815, ae. 64. Children 
— Mehitable, b. Sept. 13, 1771, d. Sept. 5, 1776, ae. 4; Mary, b. Aug. 20, 1773, 
d. Jan. 12, 1777, ae. 3; Enos, b. Sept. 13, 1775, d. Jan. 18, 1777, ae. i; Enos, 
b. Nov. 7, 1777; Mehitable, b. Jan. 24, 1780; William, b. March 5, 1782; 
Jonathan, b. Dec. 27, 1784; Sylvester, b. April 15, 1789; Elijah, b. Feb. 17, 
1 79 1, d. Feb. 27, 1 791; Mary, b. Nov. 15, 1793, m. Rufus Kellogg of Amh. 

56. Jonathan, s. of Jonathan, (31) prob. grad. H. C. 1768, was settled, 
Jan. 23, 1788, over church in Chilmark, dis. Feb. 4, 1827, and d. in Had., 
April 14, 1829, ae. 81. He m. Oct. 25, 1789, Anna, dau. of Rev. Abraham 
Williams of Sandwich. She d. in Chilmark, Oct. 26, 1807. Children — 
Eloisa, b. Jan. 13, 1791, d. unm. in Greenfield, July 5, 1855, ae. 64; Erastus, 
b. Nov. I, 1794, unm. 

57. Seth, s. of Jonathan, (31) deacon, d. June 30, 1828, ae. 75. He m. 
Nov. 10, 1779, Lydia, dau. of Thomas Smith. She d. Aug. 23, 1828, ae. 71. 
Children — Ebenezer, b. Aug. 4, 1781, d. June 15, 1782; Ebenezer, b. Jan. 21, 
1783, d. Jan. 22, 1783; Seth, h. July 4, 1785; Ephraim, b. June 17, 1787, 
d. Jan. 8, 1788; Ephraim, b. Oct. 8, 1788; Elijah, b. Oct. 24, 1791; Worth- 
ington, b. Oct. 11, 1795; Lydia, b. March 12, 1795, m. July 3, 1826, William 
Owen Gadcomb of St. Albans, Vt., and d. Feb. 13, 1856, ae. 60. 

58. Perez, s. of Jonathan, (31) d. Nov. i, 1824, ae. 70. He m. Feb. 15, 
1786, Lovisa, dau. of Stephen Noble of Westfield. She d. June 19, 1823, 
ae. 69. Children — Anna, b. Dec. 19, 1786, m. Ashley Williams, and d. 
Oct. II, 1828; Lovisa, b. Oct. 12, 1790, m. David Smith, and d. March 31, 
1842, ae. 51. 

59. Gideon, s. of Joseph, (33) rem. to Vt. He m. (i) May 20, 1763, 
Margaret Church. She d. Jan. i, 1781; (2) March 3, 1784, Sarah Fairfield. 
Children — Lwcy, b. March 26, 1764, d. Oct. 12, 1775, ae. 11 ; /re«e, b. June 22, 
1768; Samuel, b. Oct. 18, 1770, d. ae. 5; Sophia, b. March 29, 1773; Lucy, 
b. Nov. II, 1777. 

60. John, s. of Joseph, (33) d. Feb. 1818, ae. 78. He m. Dec. 5, 1764, 
Marah, dau. of Westwood Cook. She d. Dec. 22, 1822, ae. 79. Children — 
Martha, b. May 25, 1765, m. (pub. Aug. 20,) 1791, Timothy Stockwell, and d. 
Aug. 20, 1793; William, bapt. April 5, 1767; Eli, b. Nov. 25, [22?] 1769; 
Stephen, b. June 19, 1774, a blacksmith, rem. to Williamstown, and d. May, 
1838, ae. 64; Mary, b. March 6, 1784, m. David Smith, and d. Aug. 23, 1823, 
ae. 39. 

61. Joseph, s. of Joseph, (33) d. Sept. 13, 1842, ae. 91. He m. June 10, 
1775, Nancy Day of Springfield. She was b. May 22, 1754, and d. Aug. 27, 
1845, ae. 91. Children — Hannah, b. Aug. 28, 1775, m. Nov. 18, 1814, Andrew 
Holt, and d. July 25, 1855, ae. 79; Phebe, b. Dec. 8, 1777, m. Nov. 18, 1804, 
Cotton Nash; Samuel, b. Aug. 13, 1780; Anson, b. June 27, 1787 

62. Nathan, s. of John, (34) deacon in Granby, d. Aug. 21, 181 1, ae. 80. 
He m. Eunice, dau. of James Smith. She d. Sept. 19, 1822, ae. 87. Children 
— Mary, b. Sept. 18, 1754; Ebenezer, b. Feb. 4, 1756; Nathan, b. April i, 
1757; John, b. March 11, 1758, d. March, 1758; Jared, b. March 17, 1759; 
Martha, b. Feb. 7, 1761; John, b. Sept. 14, 1762, unm., killed by the fall of 
a tree; James, b. March 14, 1764; Sarah, b. Oct. 20, 1765; Elisha, b. July 



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II, 1767, drowned at So. Hadley Canal, 1789; Eunice, b. June 24, 1769; 
William, b. April 29, 1771, d. unm.; Abigail, b. Nov. 24, 1772, d. 1776; 
Samuel, b. Aug. 4, 1775; Elihu, b. March 21, 1777, educated (prob. graduated 
D. C. 1801) minister in Castleton, Vt.; Benoni Mandeville, b. Jan. 26, 1779. 

63. Elisha, s. of Peter, (35) Amherst, d. March 25, 1823, ae. 74. He m. 
Feb. 1782, Ursula, dau. of Dea. John Billings. She d. Aug. 30, 1832. Chil- 
dren — Jerusha, bapt. Jan. 26, 1783, m. July 27, 1809, Jonathan Bridgman 
of Amherst; Lucretia, bapt. March 21, 1784; Achsah, bapt. Oct. i, 1786, 
m. March i, 1809, David Moody of Amh.; Peter, bapt. March 31, 1788; 
Polly, bapt. Oct. 25, 1789, d. Aug. 16, 1796, ae. 6 yrs.; Elisha, bapt. Nov. 6, 
1791, rem. to China, Mich., and d. March 20, 1846, ae. 54. 

64. Chileab, s. of Windsor, (36) d. Aug. 25, 1804, ae. 50. He m. March 
2, 1775, Tabitha Clark, who d. Sept. 12, 181 7, in 67th yr. Children — 
Erastus, b. May 29, 1775, m. Sarah Williams, and d. March 5, 1832, ae. 57; 
Lucretia, b. Feb. 5, 1777, m. (i) Samuel Gaylord; (2) Samuel D. Ward of 
Brimfield; Cotton, b. April 22, 1779, d. April 20, 1780; Son, b. and d. March 
25, 1781; Lucinda, b. April, 1782, in. Col. Sylvester Goodman; Joanna, 
b. Dec. 1784, m. Hon. Estes Howe; Cotton, bapt. May 20, 1787, d. in Amh. 

65. Windsor, s. of Windsor, (36) d. Jan. 1835, ae. 76. He m. Elizabeth. 
Children — Abigail, b. Feb. 3, 1781; Elizabeth, b. Dec. 1783; Obadiah, bapt. 
May, 1787; Melinda, b. March 11, 1789, m. Rev. Cyrus W. Gray of Stafford, 
Ct.; Henry, b. Nov. 1791; Electa, bapt. Feb. 23, 1794; Roger Robbins, bapt. 
Feb. 14, 1797; Horace, bapt. Oct. 1798; Charles, bapt. May 16, 1802; Fred- 
eric, bapt. May 27, 1804; Miranda, bapt. Jan. 5, 1806. 

66. Timothy, s. of John, (37) Granby, d. Feb. 13, 1794. He m. Hannah, 
who d. Nov. 6, 1802. Children — Lucy, b. Aug. 19, 1764, d. unm. 1838; 
Hannah, b. Sept. 9, 1766, d. ae. 9; Joel, b. July 28, 1769, res. in Granby; Timo- 
thy, b. April 27, 1 77 1, d. in Granby, 1837; Moses, b. Feb. 21, 1775; John, 
b. July 10, 1777, res. in Granby; Hannah, b. Aug. 12, 1780, d. Oct. 1846. 

67. Israel, s. of John, (37) Granby, m. Abigail. Children — Chloe, b. 
Nov. 10, 1762; Israel, b. Dec. 15, 1764; Simeon, b. Dec. 5, 1766. 

68. Warham, s. of Noah, (39) d. Oct. 30, 1802. He m. Martha, who d. 
Jan. 22, 1802. Children — Josiah, b. July 11, 1766; Patty, b. July 24, 1768; 
Lois, b. Nov. 8, 1770; Justin, b. May 26, 1775, m. Anna. 

69. John, s. of John, (41) d. Aug. 11, 1840, ae. 89. He m. (i) Dec. 8, 
1774, Ruth, dau. of Jonathan Cook. She d. July 10, 1785, ae. 33; (2) May 
10, 1787, Maria, dau. of Josiah Dickinson. She d. May 21, 1808, ae. 46; 
(3) Sept. 21, 1808, Betsey, wid. of Lemuel Brown, and dau. of John Dickin- 
son. She d. June 22, 1832, ae. 57. Children — David, b. Jan. 4, 1775, d. 
Sept. 12, 1779; Alethea, b. June 12, 1782, m. Doct. Reuben Bell, and d. 1861; 
David, b. Nov. 3, 1783, m. (i) Mary, dau. of John Smith; (2) Lovisa, dau. 
of Perez Smith; Infant, b. and d. July, 1785; Ruth, b. May 30, 1788, m. 
Jan. 29, 1812, Ephraim Smith, and d. April 27, 1857; Orlando, b. Dec. 10, 1789, 
m. Nov. 7, 1814, Dorothy Arms, was a merchant, post-master, and town clerk, 
and d. Sept. 1857; Dudley, b. Nov. 4, 1793; Maria, b. Nov. 28, 1795, m. 
Dec. 3, 1817, Elijah Smith; Elizabeth Edwards, h. March 27, 1798, m. April 6, 
1 8 19, Sylvester Smith; Clarissa Cook, b. Aug. 5, 1804, m. Charles C. May 
of New York City. 



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70. Silas, s. of Silas, (43) deacon in South Hadley, d. March 23, 1813. 
He m. 1780, (pub. March 18,) Asenath, dau. of Phinehas Chapin of Spring- 
field. She d. Nov. 31, 1835, ae. 85. Children — Horace, b. Feb. 16, 1781; 
Rufus,h. March 2, 1782; AWe«, b. Dec. 8, i-]?>y, Child, h. and d. Aug. 29, 1785; 
Asenath, b. March 3, 1787, m. Jan. 2, 1833, Col. Samuel Seymour; Laura, b. 
March 10, 1789, m. Nov. 23, 1812, Zebina Judd of So. Had.; Warren, b. Sept. 
25, 1790, d. April 2, 1820; Hiram, b. Sept. 23, 1793. 

71. Elihu, s. of Oliver, (54) d. March 9, 1821. He m. (i) Jan. 15, 1792, 
Lucretia, dau. of Jonathan Cook. She d. March 6, 1793, ae. 31; (2) Eliza- 
beth, dau. of Edmund Hubbard Children — Lorenzo, b. Feb. 11, 1790; 
Naomi, b. Nov. 8, 1792, m. William Stall; Lucretia, b. Dec. 24, 1794, m. 
Salmon Morton Dickinson of Amh.; Giles, b. Jan. 22, 1797, d. Feb. 26, 1797; 
Giles Eastman, b. Jan. 14, 1798; Sophia, b. March 15, 1800; David, b. Aug. 
8, 1802; Sarah, b. Nov. 21, 1805. 

72. Oliver, s. of Oliver, (54) d. Aug. 13, 1851, ae. 81. He m. June 4, 
1806, Anna, dau. of Nathan Dickinson, Jr., of Amh. Children — Thankful D., 
h. April 4, 1807; Oliver Eastman, b. Feb. 21, 1809, d. Nov. 13, 1810; Mar- 
garet Prentiss, b. June 6, 1813, m. Sept. 6, 1838, Rev. E. W. BuUard of 
Fitchburg, and d. Dec. 2, 1841, ae. 28; Oliver Eastman, b. Sept. 20, 1815; 
James Fowler, b. Aug. 24, 1819, d. Oct. 10, 1852, ae. 33. 

73. Enos, s. of Enos, (55) d. Jan. 24, 1822, ae. 45. He m. Dec. 10, 

1804, Polly, dau. of Elisha Dickinson. She d. Nov. 9, 1849. Children — 
Roswell, h. Nov. 30, 1805, d. Aug. 30, 1807; Mary, b. Sept. 23, 1807, m. April 
31, 183s, Nathaniel Collins Prior; Hannah, h. June 23, 1809, m. Joseph 
Enterton; Delia, b. June 22, 1812, m. Ephraim Potter; Roswell, b. April 5, 
1815; Enos Dickinson, b. July 25, 1817; Lucius, b. June 5, 1819, d. Oct. 22, 
1819; Mehitable Morgan, h. Dec. 28, 182 1, m. Joseph Howe. 

74. William, s. of Enos, (55) d. June 12, 1840, ae. 58. He m. Dec. 17, 

1805, Elizabeth, dau. of Dr. Job Marsh. She d. Dec. 18, 1856, ae. 72. 
Children — Elizabeth Marsh, b. Oct. 15, 1806, d. unm.; William Dickinson, 
b. Sept. 5, 1808; Julia, b. July 17, 1810, d. unm. May 23, 1829, ae. 18; 
Charles, b. May 17, 1812; Ethelinda, b. March 11, 1814, m. Nov. 2, 1842, 
Stephen Lawrence; Theodore, b. Feb. 15, 181 7, d. Jan. 16, 18 19; Sarah Ann, 
h. Jan. 10, 1820; Caroline, b. Feb. 13, 1823. 

75. Jonathan, s. of Enos, (55) d. Dec. 2, 1856, ae. 61. He m. Dec. 15, 
1814, Cynthia, dau. of Moses White. Children — Jonathan Dwight, b. Feb. 11, 
1818; George, b. Aug. 4, 1820, d. Nov. 29, 1821; George, b. Nov. 13, 1823, 
d. April 19, 1824; Jane, b. Nov. 13, 1823, d. Dec. 1825; Sophia, h. Aug. 4, 
1825, m. April 3, 1851, Ebenezer Watson Dickinson; Jane, b. April 9, 1827; 
George Barlow, b. Aug. 9, 1831. 

76. Sylvester, s. of Enos, (55) deacon in ist church, is the person, by 
whose solicitations Mr. Judd was induced to commence the History of Hadley, 
and from whom he obtained ten-fold more information and assistance in the 
prosecution of the work, than from any one beside. He m. (i) Jan. i, 181 2, 
Polly, dau. of Lemuel Warner. She d. Aug. 19, 1817, ae. 24; (2) April 6, 
1819, Elizabeth Edwards, dau. of John Smith. Children — Rodney, b. Aug. 6, 
1812; Henry, b. Dec. 14, 1814, d. Nov. 3, 1815; Mary Ann, b. April 23, 1817, 
m. May 29, 1844, Chester Smith. 



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77. Seth s. of Seth, (57) grad. Y. C. 1803, was a clergyman in Genoa, 
N. Y., where he d. Jan. 30, 1849, ^^- 63. He m. Nov. 29, 1810, Margaret, 
dau. of Gen. Samuel Porter. Children — Samuel Porter, b. June 20, 181 2; 
Margaret, b. Feb. 15, 1814, d. Feb. 18, 1814; Margaret, b. May 21, 1815, 
m. Sept. 13, 1842, Isaac Peck of Genoa, N. Y., and d. Dec. 28, 1849; Lydia, 
b. April 17, 1817, d. Sept. 14, 1831; Lucy, b. Aug. 3, 1821, d. Feb. 12, 1844; 
Julia, b. Aug. 11, 1823, d. unm. Aug. 9, 1851; Abigail, b. April 17, 1825, 
res. in Had.; Harriet, b. Jan. 31, 1827, d. May 16, 1831; Susan Hubbard, 
b. Nov. 6, 1828, m. Nov. 23, 1852, Daniel H. Dickinson. 

78. Ephraim, s. of Seth, (57) m. Jan. 29, 181 2, Ruth, dau. of John 
Smith. She d. April 27, 1857. Children — Theodore Worthington, b. Oct. 30, 
181 2; Ephraim Orlando, b. Aug. 11, 1814; Lydia Maria, b. June 2, 1816; 
Mehitable Worthington, b. July 3, 1818; John Edwards, b. Sept. 26, 1821; 
George Dickinson, b. Jan. 16, 1824; Seth Pomeroy, b. Aug. 11, 1830. 

79. Elijah, s. of Seth, (57) d. June, 1861. He m. Dec. 3, 1817, Maria, 
dau. of John Smith. Children — Susan Partridge, b. Sept. 17, 1818; Mary 
Ann, b. July 5, 1821, d. Aug. 10, 1828; Lydia, b. Oct. 16, 1824; Mary Ann, 
b. Jan. 8, 1829; Maria Dickinson, b. Nov. 23, 1831. 

80. Rev. Worthington, D. D., s. of Seth, (57) grad. W. C. 1816, was 
for many years pastor of the (Cong.) church in St. Albans, Vt., and at the 
time of his decease. President of Vermont University. He d. in St. Albans, 
Feb. 30, 1856, ae. 60. Hem. July i, 1823, Mary Ann Little of St. Albans, Vt. 
Children — Mary Ann, b. Oct. 26, 1825; Julia Elizabeth, b. May 22, 1827, 
d. June 9, 1828; Jane Worthington, b. May 3, 1829; Ellen Maria, b. Jan. 9, 
1830; Edward Worthington, b. Dec. 16, 1832; Arthur Hampden, b. Nov. 3, 
1834; Alfred Little, b. Nov. 3, 1836; Sarah Elizabeth, b. Sept. 19, 1838, 
d. March 17, 1840; Elizabeth Little, b. July 14, 1840; Robert Leighton, b. 
Aug. 7, 1841; Charles Sidney, b. Dec. 26, 1843; /I w«a Porter, b. Jan. 3, 1845; 
William, Kingman, b. June 12, 1847; Sarah Lydia, b. Sept. 25, 1851. 

81. William, s. of John, (60) a blacksmith, rem. to Williamstown, and 
d. Sept. 1803, ae. 37. He m. Nov. 7, 1787, Persis, dau. of Aaron Cook. She 
d. Aug. 30, 1847, ae. 85. Children — Joanna, b. Feb. 9, 1788, m. 1805, Amasa 
Shattuck of Williamstown, and d. Sept. i, 1847, ae. 59; Dennis, b. Feb. 7, 

1790, d. unm. 1852; Pamelia, b. March, 1792, m. (i) Daniel Cook; (2) Lucius 
Crane; Martha, b. April, 1794, m. Nathan B. Towne of Williamstown. 

82. Eli, s. of John, (60) d. Oct. 4, 1839, ae. 70. He m. (i) Nov. 17, 

1791, Martha, dau. of Enos Nash. She d. July 28, 1817, ae. 44; (2) Sept. 10, 
1818, Hannah, dau. of Timothy Stockwell. Children — Lorinda, b. Oct. 13, 

1792, m. John, s. of Caleb Smith, and d. Aug. 17, 1829; Martha, b. Sept. 23, 
1794, d. unm. Dec. 20, 1821; Joanna, b. April 28, 1797, m. Horace Judd; 
Almira, b. Sept. 17, 1799, d. unm. Sept. 23, 1848; Edwin, b. June 23, 1802; 
Sophronia, b. Sept. 13, 1804, d. unm.; John, b. March 29, 1809, m. July 7, 
1836. Harriet Ellis; William, b. Jan. 5, 181 1, m. Laura Fuller; Mary, b. 
May 13, 1820; Jeriah Stockwell, b. June 11, 1822; George, b. Jan. 11, 1825. 

83. Samuel, s. of Joseph, (61) a physician, rem. to Williamstown, and 
d. June 9, 1852, ae. 72. He m. Jan. 1800, Betsey Towner. She was b. 1784, 
and d. March 17, 1850, ae. 66. Children — Albert Gallatin, b. Jan. 12, 1800; 



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Sally, b. Nov. 19, 1801; Betsey, b. 1802, d. in infancy; Betsey Adeline, b. 
Nov. 3, 1803, m. Rev. Wm. Bradley of Newark, N. J.; Samuel, b. June 8, 
1805, d. 1810, ae. 5; Daughter, b. and d. 1807; Nancy Emeline, b. Jan. 1808, 
d. May 17, 1845, ae. 37; Francis Towner, b. 1810, m. Doct. James Wilson of 
Washington, D. C; Hannah E., b. Sept. 3, 1812, m. Rev. Samuel Day of 
Bellows Falls, Vt.; Mary A., b. Aug. 1814, m. Oilman Darling of Holden; 
Samuel Augustus, b. April, 1816, d. Oct. 3, 1834; Sarah Augusta, b. April, 
1816, m. Doct. Jonathan Ford, and d. Dec. 1843, ^e. 27; Henry, b. 1814, 
d. Aug. 1831, ae. 17; Harriet, b. 1814, d. in infancy; Andrew Murray, b. 
Nov. 1826, m. Laura Hosford of Williamstown. 

84. Anson, s. of Joseph, (61) m. May, 1810, Betsey Mead, who d. July 14, 
1814, ae. 28; (2) March 2, 1816, Sally Purdy, who d. April 20, 1856, ae. 69. 
Children — William, b. June 14, 1817; George Purdy, b. April 18, 1819, 
m. Oct. 4, 1847, Florence Rogers; Caroline, b. Jan. 17, 1821, d. Feb. 11, 1856, 
ae. 35; Albert Douglass, b. March 10, 1823, m. 1849, Adeline Hurd; Orlando, 

b. May 2, 1825, m. July 30, 1848, Andrews; Anson, b. July 30, 1827; 

Joseph, b. Sept. 17, 1830, m. 1852, Sarah Snow. 

85. Justin, s. of Warham, (68) m. Anna. Children — Flavia Ann, b. 
Oct. 10, 1797; Cordelia, b. Jan. 19, 1800; Oliver, b. Jan. 20, 1802; Calvin, 
b. May 28, 1804; Wareham, b. Jan. 22, 1806, d. Feb. i, 1806. 

86. Dudley, s. of John, (69) merchant, d. May 27, 1858, ae. 64. He m. 
Dec. 5, 1822, Pamela, dau. of Elisha Porter. Children — Samuel Porter, b. 
June 26, 1824, d. Aug. 26, 1825; Lucy, b. Sept. 18, 1826, d. Aug. 16, 1828; 
Dudley Porter, b. Aug. 31, 1828, d. Oct. 29, 1828; John, b. Oct. 11, 1829, 
grad. A. C. 1849; Sarah Hillhouse, b. Aug. 7, 1831; Abby Phillips, b. Aug. 26, 
1833; Clarissa, b. Jan. 11, 1836; Lucy, h. May 8, 1839; Samuel Dudley, 
h. May 30, 1843. 

87. Horace, s. of Silas, (70) deacon and Colonel, res. in Amh., and 
d. Nov. II, 1862, ae. 81. He m. (i) March 5, 1805, Rebecca Moody. She 

w-as b. March 28, 1783, and d. Nov. 30, 1821, ae. 38; (2) King of Suffield, 

Ct. Children — Mary Berintha, b. Dec. 2, 1806, m. Dec. 2, 1824, James B. 
Wood, and d. Aug. 11, 1841, ae. 34; Cordelia, b. Aug. 15, 1808, m. May 25, 
1830, Joseph Fuller of Suffield, Ct., Silas Moody, b. May 8, 1810; Asenath, 
b. July 8, 1812; Josiah White, b. June 3, 1819. 

87^. RuFUS, s. of Silas, (70) Huntington, m. Jan. 31, 1808, Salome Clark, 
b. Sept. 17, 1786. Children — Philetus, b. Nov. 10, 1808, m. Sept. 29, 1836, 
Mary E. Bates of Springfield, and d. Nov. 21, 1853; Almena, b. Oct. 3, 1810, 
m. Oct. 7, 1847, Daniel F. Lyman of Easthampton; Bethia Chapin, b. July 
10, 1814, m. June 6, 1843, Franklin Burt of Chesterfield, Phinehas Clark, b. 
Oct. 19, 1816, m. May 24, 1848, Amanda Sadler of Ludlow, and d. Aug. 14, 
1853, ^^- 36; Paulina, b. Sept. 14, 1819, m. Nov. 6, 1847, Ezra H. Corning of 
Chicopee Falls; Warren, b. Aug. 13, 1822, d. Sept. 4, 1823; Minerva, b. Jan. 
17, 1825, m. Oct. 7, 1853, Elbridge Hazen. 

88. Allen, s. of Silas, (70) So. Hadley, d. Sept. 2, 1848, ae. 64. He m. 
Jan. 181 1, Polly Bartlett. She was b. Oct. i, 1786, and d. May 8, 1850, ae. 
63. Children — Silas Allen, b. Dec. 11, 1813, m. Nov. 5, 1835, Olive, dau. of 
Col. Eliphaz Moody; Mary Bartlett, b. July 30, 1816, d. Dec. 30, 1836, ae. 20; 
Luna Chapin, b. April 21, 1819, m. Dec. 30, 1846, Horace Rice, Jr. of Chicopee; 



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Clarissa Delphia, b. April 3, 1822, m. Oct. i, 1848, John Beckwith; Frances 
Eliza, b. Jan. 3, 1825, m. Dec. 15, 1848, Elisha Pomeroy, Jr. 

89. Hiram, s. of Silas, (70) So. Hadley, was for many years engaged 
in boating on the Conn, river, but of late has devoted his attention to agri- 
culture. He has been much employed in town business, and has been 
Representative to the General Court. He m. June 2, 181 7, Mary, dau. of 
Col. Eliphaz Moody of So. Had. She was b. Aug. 13, 1796. Children — 
Rebecca Allen, b. April 7, 1819, m. Oct. 6, 1842, Moses Gaylord; Child, b. 
Jan. 7, 1821, d. young; Edwin, b. June 26, 1822, a farmer in So. Hadley, 
m. Feb. 26, 185 1, Sarah Jane, dau. of Dr. Lucius Wright of Westfield. She 
was b. Feb. 24, 1814. No children; Hiram, b. July 24, 1824; Mary Jane, 
b. Dec. 26, 1826, m. Feb. 23, 1848, William Stacy; Julia Avis, b. Feb. 7, 
1831, m. Sept. 5, 1850, John Lyman; Eliza Augusta, b. Dec. 8, 1832; m. 
Dec. 15, 1853, Jotham Graves; Emily Wright, b. June 8, 1834; Josiah 
Moody, b. Nov. 21, 1837, d- Sept. 8, 1839. 

90. Lorenzo, s. of Elihu, (71) d. Feb. 20, 1827, ae. 37. He m. Hannah, 
dau. of Medad Dickinson of Amh. She was b. March 10, 1788. Children — 
Medad D., b. July 21, 1818, d. Dec. 19, 1820; Pliny Edwards, b. July i, 
1820, d. Nov. 7, 1820; Medad, b. Nov. 2, 1822; Lorenzo, b. Sept. 20, 1825, 
d. Aug. 29, 1828. 

91. Giles Eastman, s. of Elihu, (71) m. Sept. 25, 1821, Martha K., 
dau. of Enos Hitchcock. Children — David R., b. Dec. 3, 1822, d. July 31, 
1827, ae. 4; Charles Hitchcock, b. July 7, 1825, m. Sarah Eliza, dau. of William 
Cushman; Francis, b. Jan. 31, 1828, d. Jan. 8, 1846, ae. 17. 

92. RoswELL, s. of Enos, (73) m. (i) Nov. 28, 1843, Louisa, dau. of 
Henry Tuttle of West Springfield. She was b. April 3, 1824, and d. May 2, 
1844, ae. 20; (2) Nov. 10, 1846, Elizabeth Ely of Charlestown, N. H. She 
was b. Oct. 14, 18 — . Child — Emma Elizabeth, b. Nov. 19, 1849. 

93. Enos Dickinson, s. of Enos, (73) m. Nov. 25, 1840, Adeline, dau. 
of Elihu Cook. Children — Lucius, b. Nov. 22, 1842; Clara Adeline, b. 
June 25, 1845, d. July 30, 1849, ^6. 4; Orra Louisa, b. Sept. 13, 1847, d. Aug. 
6, 1849, ^6- I ; George Ely, b. May 12, 185 1 ; Lucy Jane, b. April 17, 1855. 

94. William Dickinson, s. of William, (73) m. Oct. 9, 1844, Louisa, 
dau. of Isaac Sylvester Taylor of Nh. She was b. April 29, 18 12. Children — 
Henry Dwight, h. Aug. 31, 1845; Horace William, b. Feb. 9, 1847; J'^b Marsh, 
b. Aug. II, 1849, d. Dec. 13, 1849; Edward Taylor, b. Nov. 21, 1851, d. Sept. 
15. 1855. 

95. Charles, s. of William, (74) m. Dec. 6, 1838, Eliza Maria French, 
b. Aug. 26, 1818. Children — Charles Frederick Harrington, b. March 7, 1840; 
Theodore French, b. Dec. 13, 1841. 

96. George Barlow, s. of Jonathan, (75) m. Nov. 20, 185 1, Maria 

Mann, b. Oct. 5, 1832. Children — Francis Dwight, b. Sept. ; Charlotte 

Carrina, b. Feb. 12, and d. March 16, 1854; Eugene Jonathan, b. Nov. 28, 
1856, d. Feb. 23, 1859, ae. 2; Cynthia Maria, b. March 27, 1859. 

97. Rodney, s. of Sylvester, (76) entered A. C. in Class of 1833, but 
remained only a short time. He m. Oct. 20, 1841, Rebecca, dau. of Elijah 
Kilbourn of Walpole, N. H. She was b. Aug. 21, 1815. Children — Eliza- 
beth Rebecca, b. Nov. 7, 1842, d. Feb. 23, 1847, ^^- 41 Mary Ellen, b. March 4, 



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1845; William Henry, b. July 23, 1848, d. Aug. 17, 1848; Maria May, b. 
Nov. 27, 1850; Arthur h. Sept. 18, 1852; Sylvester, b. Oct. 23, 1854, d. Sept. 

15, 1857, ae. 2; John Kilbourn, b. May 18, 1857, d. July 16, 1857. 

98. Edwin, s. of Eli, (82) m. Jan. i, 1839, Mary Ann, dau. of Noah 
Edson. Children — Eliza Ann, b. Nov. 29, 1839; Henry Edson, b. Sept. 12, 
1843. 

99. Jeriah Stockwell, s. of Eli, (82) m. Oct. i, 1845, Sophia Lewis, 
dau. of Winthrop Cook. Children — Mary, b. Sept. 4, 1846; George Franklin, 
b. July 17, 1848; Ebenezer Dennis, b. Aug. 21, 1851; Louisa Hannah, b. 
March 30, 1858. 

100. George, s. of Eli, (82) m. (i) May 27, 1852, Catherine Mary, dau. 
of Benjamin Carlisle. She d. Jan. 27, 1856, ae. 28; (2) April 13, 1858, 
Mary, dau. of Rufus Dickinson of Amh. Children — Frances Mary, b. April 

16, 1853; J'uliO' Catharine, b. July 20, 1855; Herman Kellogg, b. March 23, 
i860. 

loi. Silas Moody, s. of Horace, (87) is a cabinet-maker in Northamp- 
ton. He m. Jan. 6, 1832, Theodocia, dau. of Abner Hunt of Nh. She was 
b. May 19, 181 1. Children — Watson Loud, b. July 28, 1834, res. in Nh., in 
company with his father. He m. Oct. 28, 1856, Eunice A. Brewster of Cum- 
mington; Thomas Hunt, b. Aug. 21, and d. Dec. 3, 1836; Harriet Louisa, b. 
March 16, 1838, d. Sept. 8, 1839; Louisa Helen, b. March 25, 1841; George 
Hunt, b. Oct. 25, 1844; Mary Jane, b. Sept. 16, 1850. 

102. JosiAH White, s. of Horace, (87) Nh., was by trade a printer, 
for several years publisher of the Northampton Courier, but at the time of 
his death, a clerk in the office of Superintendent of the Conn. River Rail 
Road. He d. May i, 1854. He m. May 27, 1841, Jane S. Damon of Nh. 
Children — Isaac Damon, b. Aug. 6, 1845; Jine, b. April 13, 1853. 

103. Hiram, s. of Hiram, (89), is a merchant in So. Hadley Falls. He 
m. Jan. 17, 1848, Harriet Sophia Coney. Children — Ellis Dwight, b. July 10, 
1849, d. April 22, 1851; Harriet Victoria, b. July 11, 1850, d. Oct. 10, 1852, 
ae. 2; Jenne Belle, b. Nov. 21, 1858. 

1. SMITH, Samuel, b. Jan. 27, 1639, s. of Rev. Henry Smith of Weth- 
ersfield, resided from 1666 to about 1679, in Nh., and then rem. to Hadley, 
where he d. Sept. 10, 1703, ae. 64. He m. Mary, dau. of James Ensign. 
Children — Samuel, m. Nov. 18, 1685, Joanna McLathlin, res. in Nh. and 
Suffield, Ct., and d. Sept. i, 1723; Sarah, m. Oct. 16, 1684, John Lawrence; 
Dorothy, bapt. 1667, m. May 30, 1687, William Rooker; Ebenezer, bapt. 
1668; Ichabod, b. Jan. 24, 1670; Mary, b. Jan. 18, 1673, m. Aug. 20, 1696, 
William Barnes; James, b. June 12, 1675; Preserved, b. Aug. 1677. 

2. Ebenezer, s. of Samuel, (i) rem. abt. 1698 from Had. to Suffield, 
and d. Sept. 15, 1728. He m. Sarah, wid. of James Barlow, and dau. of 
Thomas Huxley of Suffield. She m. (2) Oct. 5, 1732, Martin Kellogg of 
Suffield. Children — Sarah, b. Sept. 17, 1694, m. 1714, John Barber of Spring- 
field; Dorothy, b. Dec. 21, 1696; Ebenezer, b. April 2, 1699; Nathaniel, b. 
March 3, 1702; Joanna, b. June 8, 1703; Jonathan, b. Aug. i, 1705; Dorcas, 
b. Nov. 19, 1707; Mary, b. March 26, 1710, d. 1711 ; Mary, b. May 24, 1713, 
d. 1716. 



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3. IcHABOD, s. of Samuel, (i) deacon, rem. abt. 1699 to Suffield. He 
m. Mary Huxle3^ Children — Child, b. Feb. i, 1693, d. Feb. 13, 1693; Mary, 
b. May 20, 1696; Hannah, b. Jan. 21, 1698; Samuel, b. Nov. 5, 1700, m. 
Nov. 8, 1725, Jerusha Mather, and d. Aug. 25, 1767, ae. 66; Ichabod, b. Jan. i, 
1708, m. Jan. i, 1731, Elizabeth Stedman, and d. Feb. 26, 1749, ae. 41; 
James, b. March 15, 1711; Joseph, b. Jan. i, 1717. 

4. James, s. of Samuel, (i) rem. abt. 1706, to East Haddam, Ct. He 
m. Oct. 26, 1698, Elizabeth, dau. of Chileab Smith. Children — Elizabeth, 
b. July 26, 1699; James, b. Dec. 30, 1700; Noah, b. Aug. 24, 1702; Samuel, 
b. April 28, 1704; Chileab, b. Feb. 11, 1706; Hannah, b. July 3, 1708; Eben- 
ezer, b. Feb. 26, 1710; Mindwell, b. April 22, 1714. 

5. Preserved, s. of Samuel, (i) d. 1713. He m. Dec. 15, 1697, Mary, 
dau. of Chileab Smith. She m. (2) April 22, 1721, Peter Montague, and was 
living in 1746. Children— Mary, b. Jan. 3, 1699, d. 1714; Ebenezer, b. Nov. 
9, 1700, d. young; Preserved, h. Nov. 9, 1700; Ebenezer, b. Feb. 4, 1703; 
Samuel, b. Oct. i, 1705, d. in Northfield, Dec. 21, 1799; Chileab, b. May 21, 
1708; James, b. Sept. 23, 1710, m. Aug. 9, 1734, Sarah Smith; Moses, b. 
Oct. 30, 1712, d. 1736. 

6. Ebenezer, s. of Preserved, (5) was killed at the raising of Ebenezer 
Moody's house in So. Hadley, June, 1729, ae. 26. He m. Nov. 9, 1726, 
Hannah, dau. of Samuel Boltwood. She d. Oct. 23, 1733, ae. 28. Children 
— Preserved, b. March 13, 1728, d. at Cape Breton, Oct. 29, 1745, ae. 17; 
Hannah, b. Feb. 11, 1730, per. m. July 7, 1748, Moses Cook of Amh. 

7. Chileab, s. of Preserved, (5) So. Hadley and Ashfield, was at the 
age of eighty years, by his sons ordained as a Baptist minister. He d. Aug. 
19, 1800, ae. 92. He m. (i) Jan. 28, 1732, Sarah Moody. She d. Dec. 23, 
1789, ae. 87; (2) Jan. 5, 1792, Rebecca Butler. Children — Alary, b. Jan. 22, 
1732; Ebenezer, b. Oct. 4, 1734; Moses, b. Aug. 10, 1736; Sarah, b. Aug. 24, 
1738; Jemima, b. March 15, 1740, m. Jan. 19, 1764, Dea. Isaac Shepard of 
Ashfield, and d. in Stockton, Chautauque Co., N. Y.; Chtleab, b. Oct. 24, 
1742, d. May 25, 1843, ^^- ^oo;Enos,h. July 31, 1744, d. 1746; Miriam, b. and 
d. 1746; Miriam, b. May 21, 1747, m. Ephraim Jennings; Enos, b. July 24, 
1749; Son, b. and d.; Eunice, b. 1757, m. Randall. 

8. James, s. of Preserved, (5) Granby, was a Baptist preacher, and 
appears to have been alive in 1799. He m. Aug. 9, 1734, Sarah, dau. of 
Luke Smith. Children — Eunice, b. Sept. 28, 1735; Sarah, b. Oct. 26, 1737; 
Sarah, b. Aug. 8, 1742; Mary, b. Dec. 9, 1747. 

SMITH, Simon, b. in Hartford, Aug. 2, 1662, s. of Joseph, m. May i, 
1689, Hannah, wid. of John Haley, and dau. of Samuel Bliss. Children — 
Hannah, b. Jan. 31, 1690; Lydia, b. Aug. 7, 1691; Simon, b. 1693; Elizabeth, 
h. 1697; Margaret, b. 1699. In addition to the above, perhaps he had in 
Hartford, Ebenezer, b. 1703; Margaret, b. 1705, d. young; Elisha, b. 1706; 
Jemima, b. 1708; Martha, b. 17 10. 

I. SNOW, Josiah, from Norwich, Ct., m. Mary, who m. (2) Dec. 15, 
1748, Ebenezer Kellogg of So. Had. Children — Ebenezer, b. Aug. 14, 1738; 
Josiah; Jabez, b. March 11, 1743. 



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2. JosiAH, s. of Josiah, (i) So. Hadley, m. (i) Dec. 8, 1757, Azubah 

Dickinson; (2) . Children, by second wife — Josiah, b. June 18, 

1762; Azubah, b. March 8, 1764; Josiah, b. July 26, 1766; Lucy, b. Sept. 2, 
1768; Lydia, b. May 18, 1772; Elizabeth, b. Aug. 17, 1774. 

1. STANLEY, Thomas, was at Hartford, 1636, whence he removed to 
Had. in the first settlement of the town, and was there buried Jan. 30, 1663. 

He m. Bennett , who subsequently m. Gregory Wolterton, and d. 1665. 

Children — Nathaniel, b. abt. 1638; Hannah, m. Samuel Porter, and d. Dec. 18, 
1708; Mary, m. John Porter of Windsor, Ct.; Sarah, m. John Wadsworth 
of Farmington. 

2. Nathaniel, s. of Thomas, (i) rem. prior to 1669, to Hartford, Ct., 
and d. Nov. 14, 1712, in 74th yr. He m. 1659, Sarah Boosey. She was b. 
abt. 1640, and d. Aug. 8, 1716, ae. 76. Children — Nathaniel, b. Jan. 5, 1665; 
Sarah, b. Aug. 24, 1669, d. Nov. 28, 1689; Joseph, b. Feb. 20, 1671, d. March 
18, 1676, ae. 5; Hannah, b. Sept. 30, 1674, d. Oct. 31, 1681, ae. 7; Mary, b. 
Oct. 8, 1677; Susanna, b. April 13, 1681, d. Sept. 18, 1683, ae. 2; Nathaniel, 
h. July 9, 1683. 

STICKNEY, John, b. in Stoughton, abt. 1742 or 1743, while a butcher's 
boy, learned of one Dunbar, near Boston, the new style of music, and came 
up into the Connecticut valley, and taught the same in Northampton, South 
Hadley, Hartford, Wethersfield, New Haven, and other places. In the face 
of not a little opposition, he persevered, until he had banished the old and 
introduced the new method of singing. He finally settled in South Hadley, 
worked on the farm in summer and in winter taught singing school, in most 
of the towns in the region, until he was about sixty-five years of age. He 
d. in 1826 or 1827, ae. 84. He m. (i) Elizabeth Howard of Stoughton; 
(2) Lucy, wid. of Azariah Alvord. Children — Jonas, b. June 10, 1769, 
d. July 23, 1771; John, b. April 3, 1772, a physician in Canada; Chester, 
b. July 3, 1779, d. Nov. 1779; Caleb Howard, b. April 2, 1785, d. Jan. 26, 
1786; Caleb H., h. 1787; Walter, b. Aug. 1790. 

STILLMAN, George, a merchant of enterprise and wealth. Representative 
in 1698, removed in 1704 or 1705, to Wethersfield, Ct., and d. Nov. 17, 1728, 
in 74th yr. He m. abt. 1685, Rebecca, dau. of Lt. Philip Smith. She d. 
Oct. 7, 1750. Children — George; Rebecca, b. Jan. 14, 1688; Mary, b. July 
12, 1689, m. Feb. 5, 1713, Deliverance Blinn of Wethersfield, and d. June 30, 
1735, ae. 46; Nathaniel, b. July i, 1691, m. (i) March 3, 1715, Anna South- 
mayd; (2) Sarah Allyn, and d. in Wethersfield, Jan. i, 1770, ae. 78; John, 
b. Feb. 19, 1693; Sarah, b. Dec. 28, 1694; Martha, b. Nov. 28, 1696; Ann, 
b. April 6, 1699, m. April 27, 1721, Hezekiah May of Wethersfield, and d. 

Nov. 7, 1767, ae. 68; Elizabeth, b. Oct. 19, 1700, m. Blinn; Hannah, 

b. Nov. 7, 1702; Lydia, b. Nov. 7, 1702, m. Nov. 13, 1728, Rev. Daniel 
Russell of Wethersfield, and d. Sept. 3, 1750, ae. 47; Benjamin, b. July 29, 
1705, m. (i) Aug. 29, 1727, Sarah Doty; (2) Catharine Chauncey. 

STOCKWELL, Quintan, rem. from Hat. to Deerfield, and thence to 
Suffield, Ct. He was captured Sept. 19, 1677, at Deerfield, and carried to 
Canada, but returned the subsequent year. He m. Abigail. Children — 
John, b. Oct. 8, 1676; Eleazar, b. in Branford, Ct. 1679. 



STOCKWELL TAYLOR. 141 

STOCKWELL, Timothy, from Conn., d. June 8, 1807, in 66th yr. He 
•m. (i) Aug. 8, 1771, Hannah Goodman, who d. March 9, 1799, in 6ist yr.; 

(2) Sept. 12, 1799, Submit, dau. of Elisha Cook. She m. (2) Wallis. 

Children — Josiah, b. March 8, 1772, d. Aug. 15, 1776, ae. 4; Anne, b. May 
12, 1774, d. Aug. 31, 1775; Jeriah, b. Sept. 30, 1776; Hannah, b. Oct. 2, 
1781. "Old Mrs. Stockwell," mother of Timothy, "d. Oct. 8, 1788, ae. 
over 80." 



1. STRONG, Nehemiah, b. 1694 or 1695, s. of Samuel of Nh., rem. abt. 
1741, to Amherst, and d. Feb. 28, 1772, ae. 78. He m. (i) Hannah, wid. of 
Nathaniel Edwards, and dau. of Jonathan French of Nh. She was b. March 
4, 1697, and m. (i) Sept. 3, 1719, Nathaniel Edwards, who was slain by 
Indians, Aug. 26, 1724. She d. Aug. 31, 1761, ae. 64; (2) April 24, 1764, 
Wid. Catharine Barrett of Sunderland. Children — Nehemiah, b. Feb. 24, 
1730, grad. Y. C. 1755, settled Jan. 21, 1761, as pastor of (Cong.) church in 
Turkey Hills, (Granby,) Ct., and in Dec. 1770, entered on his duties as the 
first Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Yale College. 
After resigning his professorship at Yale College, he studied law, but prac- 
ticed little. He resided for a time in New Milford, Ct., whence he removed 
to Bridgeport, Ct., where he d. Aug. 12, 1807; Mary, b. Feb. 21, 1732, 
m. Aug. 29, 1751, Solomon Boltwood of Amh., and d. Aug. i, 1814, ae. 82; 
Simeon, b. March 6, 1736. 

2. Hon. Simeon, s. of Nehemiah, (i) Amh., grad. Y. C. 1756, Representa- 
tive, 1767 and 1769, Senator, 1793, a lawyer of great eminence, was in 1800 
appointed one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Mass., and d. in oflEice 
Dec. 14, 1805, ae. 69. He received from H. C. in 1805, the degree of LL.D. 
He m. (i) Jan. 12, 1763, Sarah, dau. of Stephen Wright of Nh. She was 
bapt. March 9, 1740, and d. Dec. 3, 1783, ae. 43 ; (2) 1787, Mary, wid. of Wm. 

Barron of Petersham, and dau. of Whiting of Concord. Shed, in West 

Springfield, Feb. 12, 1808, ae. 65. Children — Simeon, b. Feb. 22, 1764, grad. 
Y. C. 1786, was a lawyer in Conway and Amh., and d. in Amh., Sept. 2, 1841, 
ae. 78. He m. Louisa C, dau. of Rev. John Emerson, and was Representa- 
tive, 1809, 1812, 1813, 1814; Sally, b. Oct. 20, 1766, d. Feb. 26, 1777, ae. 10; 
Hezekiah Wright, bapt. Jan. i, 1769, m. Martha Dwight, was a lawyer in 
Deerfield and Amh., and afterwards for several yrs. Post Master in Amh. He 
d. in Troy, N. Y., Oct. 7, 1848, ae. 80; Polly, bapt. June 11, 1775, d. Feb. 28, 
1777; John, b. Aug. 4, 1778, grad. W. C. 1798, m. Dec. 3, 1809, Rebecca, 
dau. of Noah Smith of Amh., and d. in Amh., July 5, 1849, ^^- 7°'' Solomon, 
b. March 2, 1780, grad. W. C. 1798, practiced law in Royalston, Athol, 
Westminster, and Leominster, was a member of Congress, 1815 — 18 19, and in 
18 18, was appointed Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, and in 
July, 182 1, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and retained said office 
until his resignation in Sept. 1842. He d. Sept. 16, 1850, ae. 70. He m. 
Nov. 20, 1803, Sally Sweetser; Lemuel, bapt. Aug. 10, 1783, d. Dec. 13, 1783. 



I. TAYLOR, John, d. Oct. 17, 1713. He m. Dec. 12, 1666, Mary, dau. 
of Thomas Selden. She d. Jan. 7, 1713. Children — Hester, h. Dec. 9, 1667, 
m. May 29, 1689, Eleazar Warner; John, b.Jan. 6, 1670; Thomas, b. June 5, 
1672, m. March 30, 1720, Elizabeth Prest, and d. in So. Had. She d. May, 



142 TAYLOR. 

1741; Stephen, b. 1674; Mary, b. Oct. 12, 1676; Thankful, b. 1680, m. May 
10, 1710, Nathaniel Warner of Suffield, Ct., and d. March 4, 1756; Jacob, 
b. 1685; Samuel, b. Dec. 3, 1688; -Ebenezer, b. March i, 1697. 

2. John, s. of John, (i) rem. to So. Had., and was alive in 1744. He 
m. Feb. 9, 1694, Hannah Gillet, who was living in 1743. Children — John, 
b. May 3, 1695; Joseph, b. March 20, 1697, d. Aug. 6, 1698; Joseph, b. Dec. 6, 
1698; Hannah, b. Jan. 24, 1701, m. April 16, 1730, Nathaniel Hitchcock; 
Samuel, b. Nov. 17, 1703; Twins, b. and d. 1704; Joshua, b. April 14, 1706; 
Mary, b. May, 1708, m. April 16, 1730, James Brownson; Moses, b. May, 
1709, res. in So. Had., 1770, and had Oliver, Reuben, and John; Aaron, 
b. Oct. 1712. 

3. Stephen, s. of John, (i) res. in Hartford, Ct. He m. (i) Oct. 6, 
1703, Esther Richards of Hartford, Ct. She d. 1705; (2) Sept. i, 1709, 
Violet Bigelow. Children — Moses, b. June 3, 1710; Violet, b. Sept. 10, 1712; 
Stephen, b. Jan. 9, 17 15; Jonathan, b. March 3, 1720; Esther, b. Oct. 23, 1725. 

4. Samuel, s. of John, (i) rem. as early as 1731, to So. Had., and d. 
1735. He m. Dec. 17, 1719, Hannah Kellogg, who m. (2) James Dewey. 
Children — Samuel, b. Oct. 30, 1721; Joanna, b. Oct. 9, 1723; Jonathan, 
b. Nov. 21, 1726; Ruth; Paul; Silas. 

5. Ebenezer, s. of John, (i) rem. as early as 1731, to Granby, and was 
alive in 1756. He m. Mehitable, dau. of Dea. Samuel Smith of East Hart- 
ford, Ct. Children — Jacob, b. July 10, 17 18; Ebenezer, b. March 24, 1723, 
m. Experience; Lois; Mary. 

6. John, s. of John, (2) d. 1725. He m. July 23, 1723, Mary Selding, 
She m. (2) March 22, 1728, William White. Children — John, b. Nov. 14, 
1724, d. in infancy; John, b 1725. 

7. Joseph, s. of John, (2) So. Hadley, was alive in 1 764. He m. Dec. 2 1 , 
1727, Dorothy Rooker. Children — Joseph, b. April 2, 1732; William, b. April 
18, 1735; Twins, b. May 9, 1737; Eunice, b. April 30, 1741; Joseph, b. June 
6, 1744. 

8. Samuel, s. of John, (2) So. Hadley, was alive in 1770. He m. May 
25, 1730, Elizabeth Warner of Suffield. Children — Elisha, b. July 10, 1732; 
Elizabeth, h. March 2, 1735; Samuel; Daniel, d. in the army, Jan. 21, 1762. 

9. Joshua, s. of John, (2) So. Hadley, was a soldier in 1759, and d. 1760. 
He m. Nov. 2, 1737, Mercy Rowe of Suffield. Children — Hannah, b. Jan. 17, 
1739, d. prior to 1764; Huldah, b. April 14, 1741, Sarah, b. Dec. 14, 1743; 
Lois. 

10. Aaron, s. of John, (2) was in 1763, warned out of South Hadley. 
He m. Katharine. Children — Phebe; Catharine; Dinah; Eunice. 

11. Jacob, s. of Ebenezer, (5) perhaps resided in Granby. He m. (i) 
Elizabeth Lane, to whom he was pub. Sept. 28, 1751; (2) Wid. Ruth White, 

dau. of Rood. Children — Ithamar, b. 1752, res. in Granby; Susanna, 

b. 1754; Samuel, b. 1756; Shubael, b. 1759, d. in Granby, in 1834; Benoni,- 
b. 1761. 

I. TAYLOR, Stephen, Hatfield, was buried Sept. 3, 1665. Hem. Sarah, 
dau. of John White. She m. (2) Oct. 15, 1666, Barnabas Hinsdale; (3) 
Feb. 3, 1679, Walter Hickson, and d. Aug. 10, 1702. Child — Stephen. 



TAYLOR VINTON. 143 

2. Stephen, s. of Stephen, (i) rem. in 1713, from Hat. to Colchester, Ct. 
He m. Nov. 27, 1700, Patience Brown of Deerfield. Children — Elizabeth, 
b. Sept. 12, 1701, d. Sept. 29, 1701 ; Abigail, b. Oct. 20, 1705, d. Nov. 2, 1705 ; 
Stephen, b. Aug. 4, 1708; Mercy, b. Sept. 12, 171 1. 

TEMPLE, Thomas, rem. to Shutesbury, where he was living in 1758. 
He m. Aug. 12, 1730, Sarah Barnard. Children — Sarah, b. Dec. 23, 1730; 
Elijah, b. July 2, 1732; Thomas, b. Jan. 22, 1734; Archelaus, b. Dec. 10, 
1735; Beulah, b. Nov. 11, 1737; William; John; Mary; Dorcas; Silas; Rosina; 
Frederick. 

TERRY, Stephen, was of Dorchester, 1630, whence he rem. to Windsor, 
and thence to Hadley, where he d. Sept. 1668. His wife d. June, 1647. 
[Elizabeth, per. his mother, d. Aug. 11, 1683, ae. 90.] Children — Mary, 
b. Dec. 31, 1633, m. Dec. 8, 1659, Richard Goodman, and d. 1692; John, 
b. March 6, 1638, m. Nov. 27, 1662, Elizabeth Wadsworth, and res. in 
Windsor, Ct.; Elizabeth, bapt. Jan. 9, 1641, m. Jan. 10, 1666, Philip Russell, 
and was slain by Indians, Sept. 1667; Abigail, bapt. Sept. 27, 1646, m. May 9, 
1667, Joseph Kellogg. 

THOMAS, Joseph, removed after 1677, from Hat. to Springfield. He m. 
Mary. Children — Child, b. and d. Feb. 6, 1675; Joseph, b. Dec. 10, 1676, 
■d. Dec. 21, 1676; Samuel, b. Nov. 9, 1677. 

TILTON, Hon. Peter, came here from Windsor, Ct., was Recorder of 
Hadley from 1661 to 1693, Representative in General Court, 1665-6, 1668, 
1670 — 1679, one of the commissioners, or Associate Judges of the County 
Court, and at a later period one of the "most worshipful Assistants of the 
colony," and last, though not least, a deacon, if not an elder in the church. 

He d. July 11, 1696. He m. (i) May 10, 1641, Elizabeth ; (2) Mary, 

who d. April 16, 1689; (3) Nov. 3, 1690, Sarah, wid. of Dea. Benjamin 
Parsons of Springfield. She had been wid. of John Leonard of Springfield. 
She d. Nov. 23, 171 1. Children — Elizabeth, bapt. June 19, 1642, d. 1655; 
Mary, bapt. Feb. 18, 1643, m. (i) Joseph Eastman of Suffield; (2) Feb. 17, 
1693, James Guernsey; Peter, bapt. Dec. 5, 1647, imbecile, was living in 1707. 

TRAYNER, Francis, m. Feb. 25, 1768, Mary, dau. of John Clark. Chil- 
dren — Nelly, b. Nov. 20, 1769; Daughter, b. Aug. i, and d. Aug. 2, 1771; 
Jane, b. July i, 1772; Elizabeth, b. Nov. 18, 1774; Isabel, b. Dec. 2, 1776, 
d. Sept. 12, 1777; James, b. Aug. 5, 1778; Mary, b. Feb. 13, 1781; William, 
b. June 30, 1784; Son, b. and d. April, 1786; Sarah, b. June 17, 1787. 

I. VINTON, Abiathar, s. of Abiathar, b. in Leicester, Sept. 18, 1732, 
res. in Charlton until abt. 1772, when he removed to Granby, where he d. 
subsequent to 1800. He m. (i) April 14, 1757, Rhoda Wheelock; (2) 

Rachel Caswell; (3) Wid. Smith of Gr. Children — Abiathar, b. May 

20, 1764; Tamar, b. July 30, 1766, m. (i) Asa Newton; (2) Jonas Belknap; 
Simeon, b. Nov. 17, 1768, d. before 1776; Hannah, b. Jan. 25, 1771, m 
Feb. 7, 1797, Ichabod Damon of Chesterfield; Samuel, b. May 17, 1773, 
m. Jan. 27, 181 1, Florinda Hinckley, and rem. in 1803, from Granby to 
Coventry, N. Y., and thence in 1825, to South Bainbridge, N. Y. ; John, m. 



144 VINTON WAIT. 

Emma Wares of Hartford, Ct., and d. in Michigan; Simeon, b. Feb. 25, 1776;. 
Rhoda, b. Sept. 4, 1778, m. April 7, 1803, Joseph Dickinson of Granby. 

2. Abiathar, s. of Abiathar, (i) resided in South Had. until within a 
few years of his death, when he rem. to Amherst, and there d. July, 1833, 
ae. 69. He m. Dec. 22, 1 791, Sarah, dau. of Ezra Day, of So. Had. Children 
— Samuel Finley, b. Sept. 25, 1792, grad. W. C. 1814, an eminent lawyer, rem. 
in 1816 to Gallipolis, Ohio, was member of Congress from 1822 to 1837 and 
from 1843 to 1849. He m. June, 1824, Romaine Madelaine Bureau, 
and d. in Washington, D. C, May 11, 1862, ae. 69; Abigail Smith, b. Feb. 
5, 1794, m. June 19, (Sept. 12?) 1815, Giles Chapin, rem. to Milan, Erie 
Co., Ohio, and d. Nov. 18, 1852, ae. 58; Medad, b. Dec. 4, 1795, m. (i) Jan. 
29, 1829, Eliza, dau. of Nathan Franklin oi Amh.; (2) Jan. 21, 1836, Mary, 
dau. of Ebenezer White, and wid. of Dr. Chester Johnson, res. until 1838 
in Amh., when he rem. to Port Washington, O., where he d. Sept. 29, 1847, 
ae. 51; Plin, b. June 14, 1799, m. Feb. 21, 1828, Lydia P. Wilmarth, and 
res. in Port Washington, O.; Sarah Eliza, b. April 2, 1801, m. (i) May 10, 
1825, Rev. Abner Towne; (2) May 28, 1831, Dr. Robert Safford of Putnam,. 
O.; Clarissa, b. Sept. 17, 1803, m. Nov. 28, 1822, Augustus Eastman of Gr.,. 
and d. March 4, 1840, ae. 36; Alvin, b. Aug. 23, 1807, m. Nov. 24, 1836^ 
Fanny Sweet Heydon, and res. in New Philadelphia, O. 

3. Simeon, s. of Abiathar, (i) Granby, d. June 25, 1824, ae. 48. Chil- 
dren — Rachel, b. Aug. 12, 1802, d. March i, 1815; Lydia, b. Aug. 27, 1804,. 
m. May, 1826, Ephraim R. Barker; David, b. Feb. 12, 1807, m. 1827, Cynthia 
Moody; Ursula, h. March 10, 1809; Simeon, b. Nov. 22, 1811; Rachel, b. 
Dec. 6, 1814, m. May 25, 1833, William Cooley of So. Had. Falls and Chicopee. 

VINTON, Dr. Samuel, s. of Abiathar, b. in Leicester, abt. 1737, m. (i) 

Abigail, dau. of Smith. She d. in So. Had., Aug. 11, 1793; (2) Sybil, 

dau. of Miller, and wid. of Brewer, was for many years a physi- 
cian in So. Had., where he d. 1800 or 1801. 



1. WAIT, Benjamin, Hatfield, was slain in Deerfield, Feb. 29, 1704, 
He m. June 8, 1670, Martha, dau. of John Leonard of Springfield. She, 
together with her daughters, Martha, Mary and Sarah, was in 1677, carried 
captive to Canada, and there her daughter Canada was bom. Children — 
Alary, h. Feb. 25, 1672, m. Dec. 4, 1690, Ebenezer Wells; Martha, b. Jan. 23,. 
1673; Sarah, b. abt. 1675, m. John Belding; Canada, b. Jan. 22, 1678, m. 
Dec. 15, 1696, Joseph Smith, and d. May 5, 1749; John, h. Jan. 17, 1680;; 
Joseph, b. July 17, 1682, d. Jan. 21, 1686; Jeremiah, b. Sept. 24, 1684;. 
Joseph, b. Nov. 11, 1688. 

2. John, s. of Benjamin, (i) Hatfield, made his will 1743, which was 
proved July, 1744. He m. Feb. 12, 1702, Mary, dau. of Stephen Belding. 
Children — John, h. Dec. 3, 1703, m. Sept. 19, 1723, Submit Hastings, and d. 
in Whately, 1776; Martha, b. Feb. 20, 1706, m. Nathaniel Hawks; Mary^ 
b. June 22, 1708; Lydia, b. Oct. 7, 1710, d. young; Lydia, h. July 14, 1712,. 
m. July 15, 1756, Israel Graves; Eunice; Benjamin, b. Jan. 11, 1718; Eleanor, 
h. Dec. 10, 1722; Elisha, b. Oct. 10, 1725, m. Martha Wells of Hardwick,. 
and d. June, 1816; Sarah. 



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2. Jeremiah, s. of Benjamin, (i) Hatfield. His inventory was dated 
Dec. 1733. He m. April 4, 1706, Mary Graves. Children — Benjamin, b. 

April 8, 1707, m. Bathsheba; Mary, b. Nov. 17, 1708, m. Morton; 

Nathan, b. Feb. 15, 1711, m. Hannah, dau. of Richard Billings, and d. in 
Whately, 1798; Gad; Reuben, slain abt. 1756, prob. unm.; Simeon; Miriam. 

3. Joseph, s. of Benjamin, (i) Lieut., Hatfield, d. abt. 1780. He m. (i) 
Nov. 19, 1 7 13, Hannah Billings, prob. dau. of Samuel. Shed. July 15, 1716; 
(2) Sept. 22, 1720, Mary, dau. of Daniel Warner, Jr. She d. Aug. 18, 1792, 
ae. 98, leaving 6 children, 45 grandchildren, 98 great-grandchildren, and 
I great-great-grandchild, making in all 120 descendants. Children — Moses, 
h. Sept. 23, 1714, m. (i) Hepzibah; (2) Miriam Graves, and d. abt. 1784; 
Hannah, b. July 8, 1716, m. Dec. 22, 1737, James Porter; Rhoda, b. Aug. 21, 
1721; David, b. Dec. 7, 1722, m. Martha Bardwell, and d. abt. 1805; Martha, 

b. Oct. 7, 1724; Lucy, b. Sept. 27, 1727, m. (i) Bardwell; (2) Asahel 

Wright; Mary, b. Oct. 17, 1730. 

WALKER, Israel, m. Abigail. Children — Isaiah; Israel; Hannah; 
Elijah; Walter; Susanna; Ephraim, b. June i, 1764; Ebenezer, b. March 30, 
1766. 

1. WALLIS, Daniel, m. (i) Ruth, who d. Nov. 1791; (2) Oct. 18, 
1795, Amy Smith. Children — William; Polly; David; Addi; Elijah, bapt. 
1800; Amy Saxton, bapt. Feb. 21, 1802. 

2. Addi, s. of Daniel, (i.) Children — Ruth Sexton, b. Sept. 26, 1818; 
David, b. Jan. i, 1820, d. Jan. 21, 1823, ae. 3; Sarah, b. May 18, 1823, d. 
Aug. 28, 1824; David, b. July 28, 1825; William, b. July 13, 1827; Sarah 
Sumner, b. Sept. 2, 1830. 

WARD, Isaac, b. March, 1707, s. of Obadiah of Watertown, res. after his 
marriage in Petersham, whence he rem. to Amherst, and about 1775 to 
Leverett, where he d. Oct. 1777. He m. Sybil. Children — Sarah, b. 1735, 
m. Joseph Clary of Leverett, and d. 1815, ae. 80; Isaac, b. 1738, d. unm. in 
the army, 1757; Betsey, b. 1740, m. John Adams, and d. in Rowe, 1837, 
ae. 97; Sybil, b. 1742, m. 1768, Nathan Adams of Leverett, and d. Oct. 29, 
1839, ae. 96; Lucy, h. 1746, m. Gideon Lee, and d. in Leverett, Feb. 17, 1817, 
ae. 71; Mary, h. 1750, m. John Woodbury of Leverett, and d. 1829, ae. 78; 
Grace, h. 1752, m. Nov. i, 1 771, Asa Adams of Shutesbury; 5M5a«na, b. 1755, 
m. (i) Noah Dickinson of Amh.; (2) Nathaniel Wilder of Wendell; (3) John 
Dickinson of Amh., and d. 1838, ae. 83; Nahum, b. 1757, m. 1781, Joanna 
Hubbard of Leverett, and rem. to White Creek, N. Y. ; Lois, b. 1759, m. 
1807, Cady; Lucretia, b. 1761, m. Marsh, and res. in Adams, N. Y. 

WARD, Nathaniel, an early settler of Hartford, and a gentleman of 
good standing in the colony of Conn., was one of the first settlers of Had., 
where he was made freeman, March 26, 1661. He d. childless, naming in his 
will, dated May 27, 1664, and proved Sept. 1664, his kinsman William Mark- 
ham, kinswoman Elizabeth Hawks, sister Cutting, sister Allen, and her 
son Daniel, and kinsman Noyes. He was buried June i, 1664. He m. 
Jane, wid. of John Hopkins of Hartford. 



146 WARD WARNER. 

WARD, Samuel Dexter, m. Jan. 6, 1799, Wid. Lucretia Gaylord. 
Children — Mary Dexter, ha.pt. Jan. 6, 1800; Sarmiel Gaylord, bapt. March 7, 
1802. 

1. WARNER, Andrew, Cambridge, 1632, and Hartford, 1639, was one 

of the first settlers of Hadley, where he d. Dec. 18, 1684. He m. (i) ; 

(2) Esther, wid. of Thomas Selden, who d. 1693, as is inferred from the fact, 
that, her inventory was taken Dec. i, 1693. Children — Andrew, m. Rebecca 
Fletcher, and d. in Middletown, Jan. 26, 1681; Robert, m. (i) Feb. 1654, 
Elizabeth Grant; (2) Mrs. Deliverance Rockwell, and d. in Middletown, Ct., 
April 10, 1690; Jacob; Daniel; Isaac, b. abt. 1645; Ruth, living in 1677, 
and presented to the Court, for wearing silk; Dau., m. John, or Daniel Pratt; 
Mary, m. (i) John Steel; (2) William Hills; John, res. in Middletown, Ct. 

2. Jacob, s. of Andrew, (i) d. Nov. 29, 171 1, ace. to town records, but 
Sept. 29, ace. to grave stone. He m. (i) Rebecca, who d. April 10, 1687; 

(2) Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Goodman. She prob. m. (2) Picket. 

Children — Jacob, h. Nov. 5, 1687, d. 1687 or 1688; Rebecca, b. March 31, 
1690; Jacob, b. Sept. 29, 1691; Mary, b. July 22, 1694, m. April 17, 1720, 
Benjamin Graves of Sunderland; Elizabeth, b. July 20, 1696, d. young; 
John, b. June 10, 1698, d. June, 1698; John,h. March 10, 1700, rem. to New 
Milford, Ct.; Joseph, b. April 30, 1707, rem. to New Milford, Ct.; David, 
b. June 4, 1710, unm., was alive in 1794. 

3. Daniel, s. of Andrew, (i) Hatfield, d. April 30, 1692. He m (i) 
Mary, who d. Sept. 19, 1672; (2) April i, 1674, Martha, dau. of Robert 
Boltwood. She d. Sept. 22, 1710. Children — Mary, b. Feb. 24, 1663; 
Daniel; Sarah, m. Nov. 25, 1685, Isaac Sheldon of Nh.; Andrew, b. June 24, 
1667; Anna, h. Nov. 17, 1669, m. Isaac Hubbard; Mary, b. Sept. 19, 1672, 
per. m. Samuel Sheldon; Hannah, b. Jan. 24, 1675, m. Oct. 14, 1696, Samuel 
Ingram of Hat.; John, b. April, 1677, rem. to Wethersfield, Ct., and d. 1714, 
ae. 38; Abraham, b. Dec. 20, 1678; Samuel, b. April 13, 1680; Ebenezer, 
b. Nov. 5, 1 681; Mehitable, b. Oct. i, 1683, m. Jan. 21, 1703, Preserved 
Clapp; Elizabeth, m. Dec. 26, 1705, Thomas Wells of Haddam, Ct. ; Esther, 
b. Dec. 15, 1686, m. June 26, 1707, Samuel Henry; Martha, b. April 3, 1688, 
d. Nov. 25, 1 68g; Nathaniel, b. Oct. 15, 1690. 

4. Isaac, s. of Andrew, (i) rem. abt. 1686, to Northfield, and thence to 
Deerfield, where he d. 1691. He m. May 31, 1666, Sarah, dau. of Robert 
Boltwood. She m. (2) Dec. 30, 1696, Dea. John Loomis of Windsor, Ct. 

Children — Sarah, b. May 2, 1668, m. French, per. Jonathan French 

of Nh. ; Isaac, b. Jan. 13, 1670; Mary, b. Jan. 6, 1672, m. Crowfoot, 

prob. dau. of Samuel of Had.; Andrew, b. Feb. 24, 1673, per. rem. to Say- 
brook, Ct.; Hannah, b. Nov. 14, 1674; Ebenezer, b. 1676; Daniel, b. Feb. 25, 
1677; Samuel, b. March 14, 1681, m. Nov. 8, 1702, Sarah Field; Ruth, b. 
Oct. 18, 1682; Mercy, b. Sept. 25, 1685, m. Samuel Gilbert of Hebron, Ct. ; 
Ichabod, settled in Mansfield, Ct.; Lydia, m. Dec. 8, 1698, Joseph Brooks; 
Thankful, m. Loomis; Mehitable, m. 1715, Samuel Hitchcock of Spring- 
field. 

5. Jacob, s. of Jacob, (2) d. Oct. 3, 1747. He m. Mary, who d. March 20, 
1756. Children — Moses, b. Sept. 30, 1715; Jacob, h. Nov. 1716; Aaron, b. 
March, 1717; Jonathan, b. July 10, 1718; Orange, b. Oct. 5, 1720; Gideon, 



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b. May 15, 1721 ; Oliver, b. Aug. 10, 1723, d. s. p., May 15, 1786, ae. 56. He 
m. (i) 1754, Hannah Jones of Stockbridge; (2) Nov. 28, 177 1, Eunice, dau. 
of Dea. Jonathan Church of Springfield. She m. (2) June 27, 1785, Dr. 
Seth Coleman of Amh., and d. Aug. 8, 1822, ae. 81; Noadiah, b. Nov. 3, 
1726, d. 1748, while a member of Yale College; Mary, b. Jan. 21, 1731, 
d. young. 

6. Daniel, s. of Daniel, (3) resided in Hat., West Hartford and Hard- 
wick, and d. March 12, 1754, ae. 88. He m. Dec. 12, 1688, Mary Hubbard. 
Children — Mary, b. Aug. 31, 1689, d. Feb. 24, 1692; Daniel, b. March i, 
1693, settled in Hat., and prob. m. (i) Thankful Billings, and (2) Dec. 29, 

1719, Elizabeth Adams of Suffield, Ct.; Mary, b. Aug. 17, 1694, m. Sept. 22, 

1720, Joseph Wait; Hannah, b. 1700, m. Samuel Belding; Jonathan, d. 
May 28, 1763, ae. 59; Sarah, b. Oct. 11, 1707; Joseph, b. Jan. 18, 1710, 
m. Mary, dau. of John Hubbard. 

7. Samuel, s. of Daniel, (3) Hatfield. He m. (i) May i, 1715, Hannah 
Sacket; (2) Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph Morton. Children — Rebecca, b. May 6, 
1716; Jesse, b. May 6, 1718, res. in Belchertown and Conway; Samuel, b. 
Oct. 27, 1722; Nathan; David, b. Feb. 15, 1732; Joshua, b. Dec. 12, 1733, 
settled in Williamsburgh; Hannah; Elizabeth, m. Israel Chapin; Abraham, 
lost at sea; Sarah, m. Elijah Wait. 

8. Ebenezer, s. of Daniel, (3) rem. from Hat. to Belchertown. He m. 
Dec. 15, 1709, Ruth Ely. Children — Ruth, b. July 31, 171 2, d. Dec. 17, 1730, 
ae. 18; Martha, b. June 27, 1715, m. Abner Smith; Moses, b. May 13, 1717, 
m. Jan. 24, 1739, Sarah Porter, and d. in Belchertown; Lydia, b. Feb. 15, 
1720; Eli, b. Aug. 14, 1722; John, b. Jan. 28, 1727; Ebenezer, b. July 29, 
1729, m. Dinah Phelps, and d. 181 2, in Belchertown. 

9. Isaac, s. of Isaac, (4) rem. as early as 1730 to Northfield, and d. Sept. 
8, 1754, ae. 84. He m. Jan. 24, 1694, Hope, dau. of Timothy Nash. Chil- 
dren — Isaac, h. Nov. 12, 1694, d. Feb. 18, 171 1; Daniel, b. Oct. 10, 1697, 
d. April 7, 1698; Sarah, b. April 3, 1699; Rebecca, b. Sept. 5, 1701; Israel, 
b. Dec. I, 1703, d. unm. in Northfield, Nov. 12, 1772, ae. 68; Ruth, h. Feb. 14, 
1706; Ebenezer, b. Jan. 26, 1709, d. in Northfield, Oct. 19, 1768; Ruth, h. 
July 13, 1713. 

10. Daniel, s. of Isaac, (4) d. Dec. 21, 1711. He m. April 13, 1704, 
Sarah Golding. She m. (2) Jan. 6, 17 14, Thomas Horton. Children — 
Martha, b. Oct. 25, 1706, m. June 2, 1727, William White, and d. Oct. 3, 
1787, ae. 81; Comfort, (dau.) b. Dec. i, 1711, d. Jan. 25, 1728. 

11. Moses, s. of Jacob, (5) Amherst, d. May 3, 1772, ae. 58. He m. 
May 18, 1738, Mary Field, who d. 1796. Children — Mary, bapt. May 18, 
1738, m. David Smith of Amh.; Moses, m. Sarah Sellon, and res. in Amh. 

12. Jacob, s. of Jacob, (5) Amherst, d. 1795. He m. Ann. Children — 

Wareham; Jacob, bapt. Dec. 15, 1745, m. Hulet, from Belchertown; 

Anna, bapt. Feb. 23, 1752; Abigail, bapt. Oct. 13, 1754; Esther, bapt. June 
I, 1760, Reuben, prob. m. Nov. 18, 1787, Olive Payne; Sarah. 

13. Aaron, s. of Jacob, (5) Amherst, was a blacksmith, and d. abt. 1787, 
as is inferred from the fact that his inventory was taken on the 6th Dec. of 
that year. Children — Maribee, b. Feb. 23, 1742, m. Aug. 27, 1761, Eli Colton 
of Rowe; Ruth, b. May 23, 1745; Aaron, bapt. Jan. 10, 1748, res. in Amherst, 



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m. Hannah Dickinson, and d. Oct. 12, 1776, ae. 26; Lucy, bapt. 1749, m. 
May 21, 1778, John Emerson of Wendell; Noadiah, bapt. 1751; David, bapt. 
May 27, 1753, d. July 18, 1753; Hannah, bapt. June 30, 1754, m. Jeremiah 
Cady; David, bapt. 1756, m. Mrs. Lucy Orchard, and d. in Amh., Dec. 10, 

1828, ae. 72; Jonathan, m. Dec. 2, 1779, Margaret Elizabeth Sewall; Elisha, 
bapt. 1761, m. Sarah Peck, and d. in Amh., Dec. 10, 1823, ae. 62. 

14. Jonathan, s. of Jacob, (5) d. Dec. 23, 1791, ae. 73. He m. 1745, 
Mary Graves. Children — Lemuel, m. (i) Dorothy Phelps, and d. Aug. 11, 

1829, in 82d yr.; Noadiah, b. 1749; Dau., b. June 29, 1752, d. Aug. 16, 1752; 
Lucy, b. July 4, 1754, d. May 14, 1778. 

15. Orange, s. of Jacob, (5) maltster, d. abt. Jan. 181 1, ae. abt. 90. He 
m. (i) 1749, Elizabeth, dau. of Benjamin Graves of Sunderland; (2) Mrs. 
Lydia Wait, or Coleman of So. Had. Children — William, b. Oct. 9, 1750, 
d. April 24, 1751; Daughter, b. and d. Sept. 25, 1752; Elizabeth, b. Dec. 29, 
1753, m. April 27, 1780, Nathan Seymour; Martha, b. Sept. 11, 1756, m. John 
Crafts of Whately; Elihu, b. Oct. 29, 1758. 

16. Gideon, s. of Jacob, (5) resided in Durham, Ct. and Hadley, and 
d. abt. 1789. Adm. on his estate was granted March 19, 1789. He m. 1749, 
Mary Parsons of Durham, Ct. She d. Dec. 9, 1786. Children — Gideon, 
rem. to Windsor, Vt.; Roxelana, m. (i) Dec. 17, 1772, David White; (2) 
May 20, 1779, Joseph Crafts of Whately; Olive; Gideon, d. Dec. 1766, ae. 12. 

17. Lemuel, s. of Jonathan, (14) d. Aug. 11, 1829, in 82d yr. He m. 
(i) July 9, 1772, Dorothy Phelps. Children — Jonathan, b. Dec. 16, 1773; 
Polly, b. Nov. 22, 177s, d. young; Dorothy, b. March 19, 1777, m. Nov. 15, 
1795, Dea. Wm. Dickinson; Oliver, b. June 27, 1789; Polly, b. Sept. 29, 
1792, m. Jan. i, 1812, Sylvester Smith, and d. Aug. 19, 1817, ae. 24. 

18. Noadiah, s. of Jonathan, (14) m. 1783, Martha Hunt. She was b. 
July 17, 1750, and d. Oct. 25, 1787, ae. 37. Children — Lucy, b. Nov. 15, 
1784, m. 1814, Giles Crouch Kellogg, Esq.; Patty Hunt, h. Oct. 9, 1787, 
m. (i) Robert Cook; (2) Abel Warner. 

19. Elihu, s. of Orange, (15) m. Oct. 31, 1784, Elizabeth Freeman, who 
d. July 25, 1834, in 68th yr. Children — Abigail, b. Dec. 20, 1785, m. Samuel 
Wood; Dau., b. and d. Oct. 21, 1787; Hannah, h. May i, 1789, m. John H. 
Jones; John, b. Aug. 5, 1791, d. Oct. 21, 1801; Harriet, h. July, 1793, m. 
Jonathan Marsh; Elizabeth, h. Aug. 16, 1795; William Freeman, b. April i, 
1797, d. unm. July 9, 1846, ae. 49; Abel, h. Feb. 28, 1799, d. s. p. July 19, 
1831; John, b. Jan. i, 1802, d. while a member of the Junior Class in Dart. 
Col., Jan. II, 1822, ae. 20; Giles, b. Sept. 24, 1803, d. Sept. 15, 1804; Lydia, 
b. Nov. 17, 1805, d. Jan. 4, 1841, ae. 35; Sophia, b. Aug. 22, 1807, d. Dec. 
30, 1809. 

I. WARNER, John, supposed to haVe been the son of William of 
Ipswich, rem. from Ipswich to Brookfield, and thence to Had. He was living 
as late as May 17, 1692, and then gave his real and personal property to his 
three sons, Mark, Eleazar and Nathaniel. He m. Priscilla, dau. of Mark 
Symonds. Children — Mark; John; Nathaniel, b. abt. 1655; Joseph, b. Aug. 
15, 1657, d. 1658; Mehitable, b. April 16, 1659, d. June 12, 1678; Daniel, 
b. April 16, 1661, res. in Ipswich, and d. 1688; Eleazar, b. Nov. 13, 1662; 
Priscilla, m. 1688, Thomas Cummings. 



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2. Mark, s. of John, (i) rem. abt. 1687, from Had. to Nh., and d. May 3, 
1738, ae. 92. He m. (i) Dec. 8, 1671, Abigail, dau. of Richard Montague. 
She d. Feb. 6, 1705; (2) 1713, Mary Root of Westfield, who d. 1732. Chil- 
dren — Abigail, b. Aug. 18, 1675, m. May 4, 1695, Charles Ferry, Jr. of 
Springfield; Mark, h. Feb. 20, 1678. 

3. Nathaniel, s. of John, (i) a weaver, freeman 1683, d. Jan. 15, 1714. 
He m. Feb. 3, 1681, Joanna, dau. of Samuel Gardner. She d. March 18, 
1729. Children — Nathaniel, b. Sept. 28, 1681, slain at Deerfield, 1704; 
John, b. Sept. 3, 1683, rem. to Stafford, Ct.; Samuel, b. and d. Jan. 15, 
1687; Samuel, b. Jan. 24, 1688, rem. to Stafford, Ct.; Daniel, b. Aug. 7, 1690, 
rem. to Stafford, Ct.; Elizabeth, m. Nov. 22, 1709, Samuel Pease of Enfield; 
Israel, b. April 16, 1696, rem. to Springfield, and d. abt. 1746. 

4. Eleazar, s. of John, (i) d. May 8, 1729, ae. 66. He m. May 27, 
1689, Hester, dau. of John Taylor. Shed. Dec. 28, 1748, ae. 82. Children — 
Hester, b. Aug. 3, 1692, m. May 23, 17 16, Samuel Smith of Sunderland; 
Eleazar, b. July 29, 1694; Stephen, b. Nov. 3, 1698; Marah, b. Oct. 30, 1699; 
Joanna, b. Sept. 22, 1706, m. Ebenezer Moody; Ruth, b. abt. 1712, d. unm. 
Aug. 16, 1755, ae. 43. 

5. Mark, s. of Mark, (2) Northampton, d. Aug. 3, 1766, ae. 88. He m. 
April 16, 1701, Lydia Phelps, who d. Nov. 19, 1765, in 83d yr. Children — 
Lydia, b. Feb. 9, 1702, m. abt. 1726, Abner Lyman; Abigail, b. Feb. 6, 1704, 
m. Elisha Noble of Sheffield; Elizabeth, b. April 9, 1706, m. 1737, Joseph 
Bridgman of Belchertown; Mehitable, b. Aug 9, 1708, m. 1731, Noah Bridg- 
man; Downing, b. Dec. 14, 1710, d. Feb. 8, 1729, ae. 18; Mark, b. Dec. 21, 
1712; Mary, b. May 24, 1715, m. 1735, Israel Rust; Daniel, b. 1717; Naomi, 
b. Sept. 26, 1719, m. 1741, Israel Sheldon of Southampton; Elisha, b. Oct. 5, 

1722, m. Mrs. Spaulding, and lived in Chesterfield; Lucy, b. Sept. 25, 1724, 
m. Ebenezer Edwards. 

6. Eleazar, s. of Eleazar, (4) Sunderland, d. abt. 1777,- as appears from 
the fact, that, his will made 1770, was proved Nov. 1777. He m. Martha. 
Children — Seth, b. 1729, m. Martha, and d. before his father, leaving wid. 
Martha, and four children, viz., Eleazar; Gideon; Jonathan; and Martha; 
Eleazar, b. 1733; Jonathan, b. 1736, d. in Albany, 1759; Martha. 

7. Stephen, s. of Eleazar, (4) Granby, d. Sept. 12, 1782, ae. 85. He m. 

1723, Rebecca Ferry of Springfield. Children — Stephen, b. Dec. 16, 1726; 
Eleazar, b. Jan. 15, 1731; Esther, Sept. 26, 1732. 

8. Stephen, s. of Stephen, (7) Granby, d. Sept. 16, 1796, ae. 69. He 
m. (i) Mary; (2) Rachel, dau. of Peter Montague. Children — Mary, b. 
March 4, 1750; Rachel, b. Sept. 12, 1754; Ruth, b. June 16, 1756; Sewall, 
b. June 22, 1758; Rebecca, h. Nov. 15, 1760; Miriam, b. May 15, 1764; 
Eli, b. Dec. 7, 1766; Adonijah, b. May 24, 1769; Jehiel, b. March 27, 1771; 
Nathan, b. Sept. 3, 1774. 

9. Eleazar, s. of Stephen, (7) Granby, d. June 19, 1810, ae. 79. He 
m. 1752, Mary Chapin, who d. Feb. 14, 1813, ae. 87. Children — Mary, b. 
May 28, 1753; Eleazar, b. Jan. 22, 1755; Samuel, b. Dec. 26, 1757, [1756?] 
Violet, b. Aug. 5, 1759; Elisha, b. Aug. 3, [23?] 1761; Asher, b. Oct. 16, 
1763; Esther, b. Oct. 3, 1765; Jeremiah Chapin, b. Sept. 17, 1767, [Sept. 18, 
1766?]; Eunice, b. May 26, 1769; Seth, b. May 30, 1771. 



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WARRINER, Joseph, b. in Springfield, Feb. 6, 1645, s. of William 
Warriner, rem. after 1686, from Had. to Enfield, and d. 1697, ae. 52. He m. 
(i) Nov. 25, 1668, Mary, dau. of Richard Montague. She d. July 22, 1689 
ae. 47; (2) July 12, 1691, Sarah, wid. of Daniel Collins. After his death 
she m. Obadiah Abbee. Children — Mary, b. Nov. 17, 1669, m. 1691, Zech- 
ariah Booth; Joseph, b. Jan. 16, 167 1, d. Nov. i, 1672; Joseph, b. Jan. 6 
1672; Hannah, b. Sept. 10, 1674, m. 1691, Robert Pease, Jr.; Ebenezer, b. 
Jan. 18, 1676; Dorcas, b. June 27, 1678; Abigail, b. Aug. 23, 1680, d. July 
21, 1689; Joanna, b. Nov. 8, 1682, m. 1708, Thomas Colton; Elizabeth, 
b. Sept. 30, 1686; Abigail, b. May 4, 1692; Mary, b. May 4, 1692. 

WAY, Ralph, Jr., negro, m. (i) 1765, Phillis Smith; (2) Nov. 16, 1769, 
Margaret Gregory. Children — Philip, b. Aug. 7, 1766, d. July 11, 1768; 
Nancy, b. July 20, 1768; Ebenezer, b. Aug. 31, 1770; Philip, b. Oct. 3, 1775. 

1. WEBSTER, Hon. John, probably came into Connecticut in 1636, 
or 1637, of which colony he was one of the fathers. He was there a magis- 
trate. Deputy Governor, Governor, and one of the Commissioners of the 
United Colonies. He was an influential member of the church in Hartford, 
took a deep interest in the controversy which agitated that and other 
churches, and was one of the leaders of the Hadley company. He was buried 
in Hadley, April 5, 1661. He m. Agnes. Children — Matthew, res. in Farm- 
ington, Ct., and d. July 16, 1655; William; Thomas; Robert, res. in Middle- 
town and Hartford, and d. 1676. Hem. abt. 1652, Susannah Treat; A n«e,m. 
John Marsh, and d. June 9, 1662; Elizabeth, prob. m. William Markham; 
Dau., name unknown, m.. Jonathan Hunt of Nh. 

2. William, s. of John, (i) d. s. p. in Hadley, abt. 1688. He m. Feb. 17, 
1670, Mary, dau. of Thomas Reeve of Springfield. She d. 1696. 

3. Thomas, s. of John, (i) res. in Nh., Had. and Northfield, and d. 1686. 
He m. June 16,^ 1663, Abigail, dau. of George Alexander of Nh. She d. 
before March, 1690. Children — Abigail, b. Jan. 9, 1668, d. in infancy; 
Abigail, b. Jan. 10, 1669; George, b. Nov. 7, 1670, m. 1696, Sarah Bliss of 
Spr. ; John, b. Feb. 26, 1673; Elizabeth, b. Nov. 26, 1676; Thankful, b. Jan. 
12, 1679, m. 1700, John Bascom; Mary, b. May 25, 1681. 

1. WELLS, John, rem. prob. from Stratford, Ct. to Hatfield, and d. Oct. 
18, 1692. He m. Sarah, who d. abt. 1743. Children — Sarah; Mary; Abigail; 
Hannah, b. Nov. 12, 1665, d. Nov. 24, 1676; Hester, b. April 26, 1668; John, 
b. Sept. 15, 1670; Elizabeth, b. June 21, 1675; slain Sept. 20, 1677; Jonathan, 
b. Dec. 14, 1682; Elizabeth, b. Jan. 10, 1686. 

2. John, s. of John, (1) Hatfield, d. April 21, 1720, ae. 49. He m. 
Rachel, dau. of Samuel Marsh. Children — John, b. March 12, 1700, res. in 
Amherst, and prob. in Hardwick, and d. 1746; Joseph, b. March 4, 1702, 
res. in Amh. and Sunderland; Samuel, b. Nov. 19, 1704, res. in Hatfield; 
Aaron, b. Sept. 2, 1707, d. Aug. 9, 1778, ae. 71; Sarah, b. Jan. 21, 1710; 
Jonathan, b. April 4, 1713, res. in Shutesbury; Noah, b. Jan. 18, 1719; 

I. WELLS, Thomas b. abt. 1620, s. oi^|Wid. Frances Wells, who m. 
Thomas Coleman, came from Wethersfield, and d. between Sept. 30 and Dec. 
14, 1676, ae. abt. 56. He m. Mary. She m. (2) June 25, 1678, Samuel 



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Beldingof Hatfield, and d. before 1691. Children — Thomas, h. June 10, 1652; 
Mary, b. Oct. i, 1653, d. young; Sarah, h. May 5, 1655, m. David Hoyt, April 3, 
1673 ;5'o/t«,b. Jan. 14, 1657, d. in infancy; 5^o«a</io«, b.abt. i658;yo/tn,b. April 
3, 1660, drowned Jan. 20, 1680; 5awM^/, b. abt. 1662; Mary, h. Sept. 8, 1664, 
m. (i) Aug. 16, 1682, Stephen Belding; (2) Jan. 2, 1723, Capt. Joseph 
Field; Noah, b. July 26, 1666; Hannah, b. July 4, 1668, m. July 7, 1687, 
John White of Hat., and d. Dec. 17, 1733, ae. 6$; Ebeneser,h. July 20, 1669, 
Daniel, b. Dec. 11, 1669, (record,) d. June 11, 1670; Ephrtam, b. abt. 1671, 
m. Jan. 23, 1696, Abigail, dau. of John Allis of Hat., res. in New London 
and Colchester, Ct.; Joshua, b. Feb. 18, 1673.* 

2. Thomas, s. of Thomas, (i) rem. abt. 1684 to Deerfield, and there d. 
1691. He m. (i) Jan. 12, 1673, Hepzibah, dau. of Peter Buell of Windsor, 
Ct. She with three of her daughters was in June, 1693, knocked on the head 
and scalped by the Indians, but she and one dau. recovered from their inju- 
ries. She m. (2) Feb. 17, 1699, Daniel Belding. Children — Mary, b. Nov. 
12, 1673; Sarah, b. 1676; Thomas, res. in Deerfield, m. March 29, 1700, 
Sarah Barnard, and d. s. p. 1750; Eleazar, a sailor, d. in Middletown, Ct., 
1723; John, sent to Canada, 1706, slain May, 1709; Daniel; David; Hep- 
zibah, m. John Dickinson. 

3. Jonathan, s. of Thomas, (i) captain, res. in Deerfield, and d. Jan. 3, 
1739. He m. (i) Dec. 13, 1682, Hepzibah, dau. of Geo. Colton. She d. 
Aug. 27, 1697; (2) Sept. 23, 1698, Sarah, wid. of Joseph Barnard and dau. of 
Elder John Strong. She d. Feb. 10, 1733; (3) Lucy. Children — Jonathan, 
b. 1684, m. Mary, and d. abt. 1735; David, b. Jan. 31, 1700, d. 1700. 

4. Samuel, s. of Thomas, (i) Hatfield, d. Aug. 9, 1690. He m. Dec. 11, 
1684, Sarah, dau. of Nathaniel Clark of Northampton. She m. 1693 o^ 1695, 
Thomas Meekins, and rem. to Hartford, Ct. Child — Samuel, b. July 7, 1688, 
m. 1709, Rachel Caldwell, and rem. to Hartford. 

5. NoAH, doubtless s. of Thomas, (i) was in New London, Ct., 1691, 
Colchester, Ct., 1709, and there d. 1712. He m. Mary [per. White, dau. of 
Daniel.] Children — Noah, b. Aug. 5, 1686; Aiary, b. Dec. 10, 1687; Sarah, 
b. Oct. 30, 1692; John; Jonathan; Sam-uel; Hannah. 

6. Ebenezer, s. of Thomas, (i) Hatfield. He m. (i) Dec. 4, 1690, 
Mary, dau. of Benjamin Waite; (2) 1705, Sarah, wid. of John Lawrence. 
Children — Ebenezer, b. Sept. 13, 1691, m. 1720, Abigail Barnard, and d. s. p. 
in Deerfield, 1758; Thomas, b. Sept. 25, 1693; Joshua, b. Aug. 31, 1695; 
Martha, b. Sept. 18, 1697, m. Feb. 4, 1720, Edward Allen; John, b. June 9, 
1700; Jonathan, b. Sept. 26, 1702; Mary, b. Oct. 24, 1707, m. Aaron Graves. 

7. Thomas, s. of Ebenezer, (6) physician, d. in Deerfield, 1744. He 
m. 1736, Sarah Hawks, who d. in Whately, 1783, ae. 82. Children — Eleazar, 
b. 1728; Ebenezer, b. 1730; Joseph, b. 1731; Thomas, an apprentice of Dea. 
Ebenezer Hunt, d. in Nh., 1747; Augustus, b. 1734; Sarah, b. 1736, m. 
Col. William Williams of Pittsfield; Agrippa, b. 1738; Mary, b. 1741, m. 
Lucius Allis of Conway; Rufus, b. Sept. 29, 1743, grad. H. C. 1764, was 
ord. Sept. 25, 1771, pastor of (Cong.) church in Whately, and d. Nov. 8, 
1834, ae. 91. 

8. Joshua, s. of Ebenezer, (6) d. in Greenfield, 1768, in 73d yr. He 
m. 1720, Elizabeth Smead. Children — Joshua, h. Sept. 16, 1721; Ebenezer, 



162 WELLS WHITE. 

b. 1723; Martha, b. 1725, m. 1750, Daniel Nash of Greenfield; Elizabeth, 
b. 1726, d. 1737; Simeon, b. 1728, killed, in Johnson's fight, Sept. 8, 1755; 

Asa, b. 1730; Elisha, h. 1731, m. Graves, and d. in Hat., 1792; Mary, 

b. 1733, m. Holland; Joel, h. 1735; Esther, b. 1736, m. Seth Hawks. 

9. John, s. of Ebenezer, (6) Deerfield and Greenfield, d. abt. 1747, as 
is inferred from the fact, that, adm. on his estate was granted March, 1747. 
He m. Sarah Allen of Windsor. She m. (2) Michael Metcalf, and d. as early 
as April, 1761. Children — Samuel, b. Oct. 28, 1729, m. Margaret McCullis, 
(grandfather of Hon. Daniel Wells of Greenfield, Judge of the Court of 
Common Pleas, and Samuel Wells, Esq. of Northampton, Clerk of the 
Courts;) Sarah, b. 1732, m. Col. Isaac Lyman of Keene, N. H.; John, b. 
1734, m. Tamar Rice; Daniel, b. 1735, killed in Johnson's fight, 1755; Su- 
sanna, b. 1737, d. young; Elijah, b. 1740, m. Hannah Billings; Susanna, 

b. 1743, m. Phelps of Suffield, Ct. ; Thomas, b. 1745, m. Allen 

of Windsor, and res. in Keene, N. H. 

10. Jonathan, s. of Ebenezer, (6) Deerfield, d. May 7, 1735. He m. (i) 
1 7 18, Rebecca Barnard. She was b. Dec. 25, 1686, and d. Nov. 14, 17 18; 
(2) 1723, Mary Hoyt, who d. Nov. 22, 1750. Children — Jonathan, b. 1724, 

d. Oct. 30, 1750; David, b. 1726, d. unm. 1802; Mary, b. 1728, m. 

Childs; Samuel, b. 1730, a Colonel in the militia, res. in Brattleboro', Vt. 
He m. May 20, 1751, Hannah Sheldon; Oliver, b. 1732; Rebecca, b. 1734. 

WEST, Dan, m. June 13, 1771, Mary Cook. She m. (2) Bryant. 

Children — Dan, b. Jan. 10, (16?) 1772; Thomas, b. Nov. 1773, d. Sept. 22, 
1775; Dau., b. July 19 and d. July 24, 1776; Thomas, bapt. Feb. i, 1778; 
Polly, b. Nov. 13, 1779, d. Sept. 18, 1781; Rebekah, h. May, 1782; Polly, 
b. May 2, 1784; Mary, b. May, 1785; Roswell, bapt. Oct. 26, 1788, d. April, 
1790; Roswell, bapt. March 31, 1790; Hannah, b. June 18, 1792, m. Chester 
Gray; Jerusha, bapt. March, 1795. 

WESTCARR, John, physician, came to Had. abt. 1665, and d. Sept. 
1675, in 31st yr. He m. Oct. 17, 1667, Hannah, dau. of Francis Barnard, 
who m. (2) Oct. 9, 1680, Simon Beaman. 

WESTWOOD, William, together with Bridget, his wife, sailed from 
England, in ship Francis, the last of April, 1634, he ae. 28, and his wife 32. 
He was made freeman of Mass., March 4, 1635. He removed in 1636, with 
Mr. Hooker and his company to Hartford, or rather arrived in Hartford 
before Mr. Hooker, and when the first Court was holden at Hartford in April, 
1636, was one of the six men (two from each town) who composed it. One of 
the wealthiest and most prominent of the first settlers of Hartford, he took 
the same position in Hadley, where he d. April 9, 1669, ae. abt. 63. He m. 
Bridget, who d. May 12, 1676, ae. abt. 74. Child — Sarah, b. abt. 1644, 
m. May 30, 1661, Aaron Cook, and d. March 24, 1730, ae. 86. 

I. WHITE, John, came from England, in the ship Lyon, which sailed 
from London, June 22, 1632, and arrived in New England, Sept. 16, follow- 
ing. He settled in Cambridge, was adm. freeman, March 4, 1633, and rem. 
prob. in June, 1636 to Hartford, of which town he was an original proprietor. 
He was one of the first settlers of Hadley, and Representative, 1664 and 
1669. About 1670, he returned to Hartford, where he was an Elder in the 



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South Church, and d. betw. Dec. 17, 1683 and Jan. 23, 1684. He m. Mary, 
who was living in March, 1666. Children — Mary, m. Jan. 29, 1646, Jonathan 
Gilbert of Hartford; Nathaniel, b. abt. 1629; John; Daniel; Sarah, m. (i) 
Stephen Taylor of Hat.; (2) Oct. 15, 1666, Barnabas Hinsdale of Hat.; 
(3) Feb. 3, 1679, Walter Hickson of Hat., and d. Aug. 10, 1702; Jacob, b. 
Oct. 8, 1645, m. Elizabeth Dunce, res. in Hartford, Ct., and d. abt. 1701. 

2. Nathaniel, s. of John, (i) deacon, res. in Middletown, Ct., was 
eighty-five times Representative to the General Court, and d. Aug. 27, 171 1, 
"ae. abt. 82." He m. (i) Elizabeth, who d. 1690, ae. abt. 65; (2) Martha, 
wid. of Hugh Mould of New London, Ct., and dau. of John Coit. She d. 
April 14, 1730, ae. abt. 86. Children — Nathaniel, b. July 7, 1652; Eliza- 
beth, b. March 7, 1655, m. John Clark of Middletown, and d. Dec. 25, 171 1, 
ae. 56; John, b. April 9, 1657, m. Mary [Pierce?] res. in Hartford, Ct., and 
d. July, 1748, ae. 91; Mary, b. April 7, 1659, ^n. (i) Jan. 16, 1678, Jacob 
Cornwall of Middletown; (2) April 13, 17 10, John Bacon, Sen. of Middle- 
town, and d. Nov. 15, 1732, ae. 73; Daniel, b. Feb. 23, 1662, m. March, 1683, 
Susannah Mould, res. in Middletown, and d. Dec. 18, 1739, ae. 78; Sarah, 
b. Jan. 22, 1664, m. John Smith of Haddam, Ct.; Jacob, b. May 10, 1665, 
m. (i) Feb. 4, 1692, Deborah Shepard; (2) Dec. 16, 1729, Rebecca, wid. of 

Thomas Ramney, and dau. of Willett, res. in Middletown, Ct., and 

d. March 29, 1738, ae. 72; Joseph, b. Feb. 20, 1667, m. April 3, 1693, Mary, 
dau. of Hugh Mould, res. in Middletown, Ct., and d. Feb. 28, 1725, ae. 58. 

3. John, s. of John, (i) res. in Hatfield, where he was buried Sept. 15, 
1665. He ni. Sarah, dau. of Thomas Bunce. She m. (2) Nicholas Worthing- 
ton of Hat., and d. June 20, 1676. Children — Sarah, m. Feb. 12, 1678, John 
Graves of Hatfield; John, b. 1663. 

4. Daniel, s. of John, (i) lieutenant, res. in Hatfield, freeman 1690, 
and d. July 27, 1713. He m. Nov. i, 1661, Sarah, dau. of John Crow. She 
d. June 26, 1719, ae. 72. Children — Sarah, b. Oct. 15, 1662, m. (i) March 31, 
1680, Thomas Loomis of Hatfiield; (2) Nov. 12, 1689, John Bissell of Wind- 
sor and Lebanon, Ct.; Mary, d. Sept. 5, 1664; Mary, b. Aug. 5, 1665, m. (i) 

Wells; (2) Barnard; Elizabeth, b. Nov. 13, 1667, m. July 2, 1688, 

Dea. Samuel Loomis of Windsor and Colchester, Ct., and d. Feb. 18, [25?] 
1736, ae. 68; Daniel, b. July 4, 1671; Esther, d. Feb. 1675; Hannah, b. July 
4, 1674, d. in infancy; John, b. Nov. 16, 1676, d. Aug. 1677; Esther, m. 
Dec. 7, 1696, Lt. John Ellsworth of Windsor, Ct. and Ellington, Ct., and 
d. Sept. 7, 1766, ae. abt. 89; Hannah, b. Sept. 1679, m. Dea. Nathaniel Dick- 
inson of Hatfield; Mehitable, b. March 14, 1683, m. Dec. 18, [19?] 1705, 
Jeremiah Bissell of Windsor, Ct. 

5. Nathaniel, s. of Dea. Nathaniel, (2) deacon, rem. abt. 1678 from 
Middletown, Ct. to Hadley, and settled upon the original homelot of his 
grandfather. Elder John White, and there took the oath of allegiance, Feb- 
ruary, 1679. He d. Feb. 15, 1742, ae. 89. He m. March 28, 1678, Elizabeth, 
dau. of John Savage. She was b. June 3, 1655, and d. Jan. 30, 1742, ae. 86. 
Children — Elizabeth, b. Jan. 13, 1679, d. young; Nathaniel, b. Nov. 4, 1680; 
John, b. Nov. 28, 1682; Sarah, prob. d. young; Joseph, b. Feb. 28, 1687; 
Daniel, b. March i, 1690; Jacob, b. Dec. 5, 1691, d. June, [1692?]; Mary, 
b. Oct. 16, 1693, m. Jan. 28, 1719, Israel Dickinson; Elizabeth, b. Nov. 8, 
1695, m. Jan. [June?] 24, 1716, Dea. Samuel Montague of Sunderland, and 
d. 1753, ae. 57; William, b. Aug. 15, 1698; Ebenezer, h. April 9, 1701. 



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6. John, s. of John, Jr., (3) deacon, Hatfield, in his old age, prob. 1742, 
removed to Bolton, Ct., and thence to Hardwick, Mass., where hed. Nov. 13, 
1750, ae. 87. He m. July 7, 1687, Hannah, dau. of Thomas Wells. She d. 
Dec. 17, 1733, ae. 65. Children — John, b. Sept. 26, 1689, m. (i) 1717, Sarah, 
wid. of Thomas Barber, and dau. of Jonathan Ball of Springfield. She was 
b. Aug. 6, 1685, and d. Nov. 3, 1744, ae. 59; (2) 1746, Hannah, dau. of John 
Meekins. He settled in West Springfield, and d. 1759, ae. abt. 70; Mary, 
b. Jan. 3, 1692, d. in infancy; Hannah, b. March 26, 1695, m. July 14, 1720, 
John Hastings of Hatfield; Mary, b. 1697, prob. d. young; Jonathan, b. 

Sept. 18, 1700, m. (i) Esther , who d. March 25, 1727; (2) Anna , 

who d. March 2, 1747; (3) Oct. 6, 1747, Mrs. Anna Wright, who d. Sept. 30, 

1777. He res. in Hat., until 1731, when he rem. to Hebron, Ct., where he 
d. March 28, 1776, ae. 75; Sarah, m. (i) Jan. 11, 1722, Philip Smith of Hat.; 
(2) 1734, John Burk of Hat.; (3) Sept. 5, 1739, Daniel Griswold of Bolton, 
Ct. ; Elizabeth, m. Jan. 19, 1726, Daniel White of Hat., and d. July 4, 1770, 
ae. abt. 65; Martha, b. March 14, 1708, m. Oct. 31, [Nov. i?] 1732, Joseph 
Olmsted of Bolton, Ct. and Enfield, Ct.; David, b. July i, 1710. 

7. Daniel, s. of Daniel, (4) settled in Hatfield, whence in 1704 or 1705, 
he rem. to Windsor, Ct., and d. June 22, 1726, ae. 55. He m. (i) Sarah, 
dau. of Thomas Bissell of Windsor, Ct. She was b. Jan. 8, 1672, and d. 
July 18, 1703, ae. 31; (2) July 6, 1704, Anna, dau. of John Bissell, Jr. of 
Windsor. She was b. April 28, 1675, and d. in Windsor, April 21, 1709, ae. 
34; (3) April 25, 1710, Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel Bliss of Norwich, Ct. She 
was b. Feb. 28, 1687, and d. July 2, 1757, ae. 70. Children — Sarah, b. 1693, 
d. Feb. 24, 1693; Sarah, b. Aug. 20, 1694, m. Sept. 5, 17 16, Daniel Gris- 
wold, Jr. of Windsor and Bolton, and d. in B., Feb. i, 1738, ae. 43; Daniel, 
b. Sept. 5, 1698; Thomas, b. July 10, 1701, grad. Y. C. 1720, was ord. pastor 
of church in Bolton, Ct., Oct. 26, 1725, where he d. Feb. 22, 1763, ae. 61. 
He m. June 17, 1725, Martha, dau. of Jonathan Hunt of Northampton; Joel, 
b. April 6, 1705, m. (i) Ruth, who d. Sept. 4, [15?] 1735, ae. 32; (2) Jan. 22, 
1736, Ruth, dau. of Daniel Dart of Bolton, Ct.; (3) April 8, 1761, Eunice, 
wid. of Roger Wolcott, Jr. of East Windsor, Ct., and dau. of John Colton 
of Longmeadow; (4) 1778, Sarah, wid. of [Shubael?] Conant of Mansfield, 
Ct., res. in Bolton, Ct., where he d. June 28, 1789, ae. 84; Elisha, b. Nov. ii, 
1706, settled in Bolton, Ct., whence he rem. abt. 1744, to East Guilford, (now 
Madison,) Ct., and thence abt. 1749, to Killingworth, Ct., where he d. abt. 

1778. He m. Aug. 31, 1732, Ann, dau. of Ebenezer Field of East Guilford, 

Ct.; Simeon, b. March 11, 1708; Seth, b. March 6, i7i3,m. Elizabeth , 

settled in Providence, R. I., but rem. abt. 1748, to Plainfield, Ct., where he d. 
Jan. 1758, ae. 44; Lucy, b. June 16, 1715, m. (i) Joseph French of Norwich 
and Coventry, Ct.; (2) April 23, 1741, Josiah Wolcott of Coventry, Ct.; 
Elizabeth, b. May 18, 1717, m. Nov. 4, 1734, Samuel French of Norwich, Ct.; 
Oliver, b. March 26, 1720, m. Feb. 21, 1745, res. in Bolton and Saybrook, Ct., 
and d. Sept. 13, 1801, ae. 81. 

8. Nathaniel, s. of Nathaniel, (5) settled in Hadley, whence abt. 1727, 
he removed to South Hadley, and d. May 28, 1762, ae. 81. He m. May 10, 
1709, Esther, dau. of Samuel Strong of Northampton. She was b. April 30, 
1685, arid d. Aug. II, 1756, ae. 71. Children — Nathaniel, b. April 10, 1710; 
Samuel, h. Oct. 22, 171 1, d. Nov. 22, 1711, Timothy, b. Aug. 9, 17 12, d. 



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Aug. 15, 1712, Submit, h. Aug. 21, 1713, m. (i) July 4, 1753, William Judd 
of Nh.; (2) Dec. 4, 1760, Dea. John Clark of Southampton; Esther, b. Dec. 
4, 1715, m. Samuel Dickinson of Granby;yo«a^/zaw. b. Jan. 29, i-jij; Christian, 
b. June 6, 1720, d. July 13, 1720; Child, b. and d. Jan. 2, 1722; Christian, 
h. ]May 9, 1723, d. Dec. 11, 1732, ae. 9; Samuel, b. Oct. i, 1725, d. Oct. 25, 
1745, ae. 20; Child, b. and d. March 17, 1728. 

9. John, s. of Nathaniel, (5) prob. d. prior to 1766. He m. (i) Jan. 5, 
1715, Martha Church; (2) Feb. 27, 1722, Abigail Atherton, who prob. d. 
May 10, 1766. Children — Martha, b. March 18, 1716, m. Nov. 14, 1734, 
Kenry Bartlett; Abigail, m. Feb. 16, [Jan. 19?] 1749, John Brooks of Hat.; 
Ruth, m. (i) Nov. i, 1748, Daniel Rood; (2) 1764, Jacob Taylor of So. Had.; 
Oliver. 

10. Joseph, s. of Nathaniel, (5) deacon, res. in Had. and So. Had., and 
d. before 1770. He m. Feb. 3, 1709, Abigail, dau. of Thomas Craft, or Croft. 
She d. Nov. 15, 1770, ae. 82. Children — Moses, b. Feb. 7, 1710; Abigail, 
b. Aug. 20, 1713, m. July 17, 1734, John Alvord, Jr. of So. Had., and d. 
Nov. 19, 1757, 3^6. 44; Thomas, b. July 20, 1715; Joseph, b. Oct. 4, 1718; 
Mary, b. Oct. 15, 1721, d. July 8, 1726; Rebecca, b. March 11, 1724, m. Jan. 
17, 1745, Josiah Moody of Had. and So. Had., and d. Sept. 15, 1751. a^. 27; 
Alary, b. June 25, 1727, m. Dec. 11, 1744, WilUam Eastman of Granby, and 
d. Nov. 19, 1752, ae. 25; Josiah, b. 1729. 

11. William, s. of Nathaniel, (5) d. May 30, 1774. ae. 75. He m. (i) 
March 22, 1728, Mary, w4d. of John Taylor, and dau. of John Selden. She 
d. Aug. 10, 1735, ae. 32; (2) June 2, 1737, Martha, dau. of Daniel Warner. 
She d. Oct. 3, 1787, ae. 81. Children — Mary., b. Feb. 2, 1729, m. Ebenezer 
Dodd of New Haven and Guilford, Ct.; Sarah, b. Oct. 6, 1730, m. 1764, 
Thomas Chamberlain of Coos, N. H., and d. before 1788; William, b. Oct. 4, 
1732; Daniel, b. Aug. 10, 1734, d. Dec. 10, 1738; Nathaniel, b. Nov. 12, 
1738; Daniel, b. Sept. i, 1740; Martha, b. Aug. 3, 1742, m. April 26, 1770, 
William Cooke, and d. Oct. 14, x8i5, ae. 74; Ebenezer, b. March 16, 1744, 
m. March 13, 1766, Abigail, dau. of Abraham Porter of Hartford, Ct., settled 
in Pittsfield, and d. ]\Iay 15, 1794, ae. 50; John, b. March 28, 1746, d. unm. 
May 22, 1819, ae. 73; David, b. Feb. 18, 1748. 

12. Ebenezer, s. of Nathaniel, (5) d. March 23, 1733, ae. 31. He m. 
Oct. 28, 1730, Ruth Atherton, who d. April 29, 1785, in her 85th yr. Chil- 
dren — Rachel, b. abt. 1731, d. vinm. May 25, 1815, ae. 83; Ebenezer, b. abt. 
1733- 

12^. Daniel, s. of Daniel, (7) captain, rem. with his father's family from 
Hat. to Windsor, Ct., but returned as early as 17 19 to Hat. In 1 731, he rem. 
to Bolton, Ct., whence in 1742 he again returned to Hat. and there d. Dec. 
15, 1786, ae. 88. He m. (i) Oct. 7, 1719, Mary Dickinson of Hat., who d. 
July 8, 1 721; (2) Jan. 19, 1726, Elizabeth, dau. of Dea. John White. She 
d. July 4, 1770, ae. abt. 65. Children — Salmon, b. June 22, 172 1, d. in 
infancy; Daniel, b. Dec. 28, 1726; Mary, b. Aug. 30, 1729, m. Dr. Elijah Paine 
of Hat. and Williamsburgh, and d. April 19, 1804, ae. 74; Salmon, bapt. 
Oct. 31, 1731; Elihii, bapt. April 21, 1734; Elizabeth, bapt. Sept. 5, 1736, 
m. Gen. Seth Murray of Hat., and d. Feb. 4, 1814, ae. 77; Hannah, b. Oct. 26, 
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retained her physical and mental powers, in a good degree, almost to the close 
of life. Children — Simeon, b. 1745, m. Aug. 2, 1770, Hannah, dau. of Elisha 
Hubbard of Hatfield, res. in Williamsburgh, and Rutland, N. Y., and d. 
Aug. 20, 1820, ae. 75 ; Asa, h. 1747, m. Jan. 20, 1785, Zilpah Hayes of Granby, 
Ct., settled in Williamsburgh, and there resided till his death, except a few 
years, from 1812 to 1816, when he lived in Chesterfield. He d. Sept. 15, 
1829, ae. 82; Jerusha, b. 1751, m. Jan. 6, 1789, Arnold Mayhew of Williams- 
burgh, and d. Dec. i, 1839, ae. 88. 

14. Nathaniel, s. of Nathaniel, (8) South Hadley, d. March 23, 1787, 
ae. 77. He m. Nov. 24, 1741, Martha, dau. of Thomas Bascom of Northamp- 
ton. She was b. Sept. 16, 1713, and d. Dec. 6, 1796, ae. 83. Children — 
Timothy, b. 1743, d. unm. Feb. 21, 1789, ae. 46; Samuel, b. Oct. 3, 1747, 
m. Sept. [Oct.?] 1 77 1, Mary Collins, res. in So. Had., and d. Jan. 22, 181 7, 
ae. 69; Nathaniel, b. Nov. 28, 1749, res. in So. Had. until abt. 1794, when he 
rem. to Easthampton, where he d. Oct. 15, 1828, ae. 72. He m. May 14, 
1778, Huldah, dau. of Eliakim Clark; Christian, b. 1751, d. unm. May 5, 
1801, ae. 50; Ezekiel, b. 1754, was a physician in So. Had. where he d. unm. 
Nov. 3, 1789, ae. 35; Ebenezer, b. May 6, 1756, m. Sept. 26, 1793, Ruth, dau. 
of Benjamin Lyman, res. in So. Had. and Ludlow, and d. March 29, 1829, 
ae. 73; Ezra, b. 1758, d. unm. April 7, 1790, ae. 32. 

15. Jonathan, s. of Nathaniel, (8) South Hadley, d. Aug. 2, 1789, ae. 72. 
He m. (i) Dorcas Alvord, who d. Nov. 24, 1744, ae. 24; (2) Feb. 6, 1745, 
Lydia, dau. of Samuel Rugg. She was b. Jan. i, 1723, and d. Nov. 18, 1802, 
ae. 80. Children — Enoch, b. Nov. 8, 1744, d. Nov. 15, 1744; Enoch, b. Feb. 
1747, m. Susannah, dau. of Thomas Goodman of So. Had., res. in So. Had., 
where he was a deacon, selectman and representative, and d. Jan. 10, 1813, 
ae. 65; Phineas, b. 1748, d. in New Haven, Ct., Sept. 5, 1769, while a mem- 
ber of Yale College; Thankful, m. Enos Goodman of So. Had.; Lydia, b. 
1759, m. Darius Smith of So. Had. and Susquehannah, N. Y., and d. March, 
1837, ae. 78; Phebe, m. Gad Alvord of Granby. 

16. Oliver, s. of John, (9) d. June 28, 1789, ae. abt. 65. He m. (i) 
Feb. 17, 1752, Elizabeth Charter, who d. June 29, 1752; (2) 1755, (pub. 
Jan. 18,) Abigail Selden. Children — Son, b. June 6, 1752, d. Aug. 15, 1752; 
Oliver, b. Dec. 19, 1755; Elizabeth, b. Nov. 29, 1757, m. Phinehas Clark of 
Easthampton, and d. March 25, 1847, ^^- 89; Moses, b. Dec. 3, 1759; Jerusha, 
b. March 5, 1762, m. Aug. 1781, Seth Kellogg; Eunice, b. March 18, 1764; 
m. March 2, 1784, George Wells, and rem. abt. 1800, to N. Y. or Vt.; Elihii, 
b. March 8, 1766, d. March 27, 1766; Esther, b. April 2, 1768, m. Jan. i, 1789, 
William Ingram, who rem. to N. Y. ; Abigail, b. Sept. 24, 1770, m. Feb. 11, 
1789, Green Wells of Mapletown, and rem. to Vt. or N. Y. 

17. Moses, s. of Dea. Joseph, (10) South Hadley, a trader, d. prob. in 
1783, ae. 73. He m. July 29, [1738?] Lydia Bellows. Children — Lydia, 
b. March 30, 1739, d. April 19, 1739; Child, b. and d. March 30, 1739; 
Elizabeth, b. 1741, m. Reuben Judd of So. Had., and d. May 9, 1765, ae. 24. 

18. Thomas, s. of Dea. Joseph, (10) South Hadley, d. July 18, 1795, 
ae. 80. He m. Mindwell Alvord, who d. Aug. 25, 1764, ae. 59. Children — 

Joel, prob. m. Anna, and d. 1771; Mindwell, b. 1739, m. (i) Looman; 

(2) Lt. Thomas White, 2d, of So. Had., and d. Oct. 10, 1768, ae. 29; Abigail, 
m. Caleb Ely of So. Had. and Noradch; Aaron, b. May 29, 1744, m. March 6, 



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1770, Thankful, dau. of Jonathan White, and d. in So. Had., Feb. 8, rSio, 
ae. 65; Job, b. abt. 1752, m. (i) Charity, dau. of Benoni Chapin of Spring- 
field; (2) Oct. 6, 1785, Mindwell Clapp, res. principally in Northampton, 
and d. Feb. 12, 1807, ae. 54; Mary, b. July i, 1754- m. Dec. 3, 1780, Perez 
Smith of So. Had., and d. March, 10 1835, ae. 80; Simeon. 

19. Joseph, s. of Dea. Joseph, (10) South Hadley, d. Nov. 1795, ae. 77. 
Hem. Oct. 23, 1746, Editha Moody, prob. dau. of Ebenezer Moody of So. Had. 
She d. July, 1793. Children — Editha, b. Jan. 27, 1748, m. Chamber- 
lain; David, b. Oct. 14, 1749, d. unm. Sept. 1811, ae. 62; Moses, b. April 10, 
1751, m. Abigail, and d. in So. Had., Sept. 15, 1777, ae. 26; Rebecca, b. Jan. 
14, 1753, m. Eleazer Goodman, and rem. to the vicinity of Lake George, N. 
Y. ; Joseph, b. Dec. 13, 1754, m. Dec. 14, 1788, Sally Yoemans of Colchester, 
Ct., res. in So. Had., and d. July 30, 1829, ae. 74; Lois, b. Oct. 20, 1756; Mir- 
iam, b. Aug. 2, 1758, m. Samuel Alvord of So. Had., and d. Feb. 25, 1844, 
ae. 85; Reuben, b. Oct. i, 1761, m. May 18, 1797, Mabel, dau. of Nathaniel 
White, rem. in 1818, from So. Hadley to Belchertown, and d. Feb. 27, 1856, 
ae. 94. 

20. JosiAH, s. of Dea. Joseph, (10) deacon. South Hadley, d. March 29, 
1809. ae. 80. He m. March 16, 1749, Mary, dau. of Samuel Smith of So. Had. 
She d. Sept. 21, 1818, ae. 85 or 86. Children — Maria, b. Aug. 13, 1749. 
d. unm. Aug. 29, 1772, ae. 23; Mary, b. Feb. 13, 1752, m. Phineas Smith; 
Irene, b. March 30, 1755, d. Sept. 12, 1757; Josiah, b. Feb. 22, 1759, d. Feb. 
12, 1760; Josiah, b. March 30, 1761, m. Nov. 22, 1787, Mabel, dau. of David 
Mitchell of So. Had. He was a farmer in So. Had., and d. Feb. 26, 1829, 
ae. 88; Irene, b. Feb. 26, 1763, d. Oct. 2, 1775, ae. 12; Keziah, b. March 30, 
1766, m. Dec. 31, 1799, Joel Clark of So. Had., and d. Nov. 28, 1810, ae. 44; 
Eldad, b. March 31, 1768, m. March 31, 1789, Hannah, dau. of Ezra Day of 
So. Had., and d. in So. Had., April 11, 1823, ae. 55; Medad, b. Sept. 5, 1771, 
d. Oct. 10, 1771; Medad, b. Nov. 25, 1774, d. Sept. 26, 1775. 

20 J. William, s. of WilHam, (11) resided in Hinsdale, N. H., in North- 
field and Springfield, Mass., and d. in Had., Dec. [30?] 1810, ae. 78. He m. 
(i) April, 1757, Lydia, dau. of Ehzur Patterson of Northfield. She was 
b. 1737; (2) Nov. 14, 1765, Martha Chapin of Springfield. Children — Giles, 
m. Sarah Dodd, and rem. to Cobleskill, N. Y., as early as 1797; Sarah; 
Mary; William; Samuel; Gad, m. Flavia. 

21. Nathaniel, s. of William, (11) kept tavern on the "Bay Road," 
and d. March 12, 1821, ae. 82. He m. (i) Nov. 5, 1761, Sarah, dau. of Abel 
Stockwell of Springfield. She was b. March 10, 1742, and d. March 4, 1802, 
ae. 60; (2) Rebecca Shepard of Hartford, Ct. Children — Jarib, b. April 27, 
1763; Sarah, b. March 27, 1765, m. Nov. 16, 1791, Orange Hart Warren of 
Williamsburgh, and d. Dec. 1828, ae. 63; Lydia, b. March 27, 1765, m. Jan. 
8, 1800, Benjamin Burr of So. Had., and d. Feb. 28, 1834, ae. 69; Mabel, 
b. Sept. I, 1767, m. May 18, 1797, Reuben White of So. Had. and Belcher- 
town, and d. Sept. 20, 1855, ae. 88; Lois, b. July 20, [22?] 1770, m. Jan. 16, 
1794, Cotton Mather Warren of Williamsburgh, and d. July 19, 1842, ae. 72; 
Tirzali, b. Aug. 13, 1772, m. Nov. 8, 1797, Phineas Thompson of Palmer. 

22. Daniel, s. of William, (11) captain, d. Nov. 17, 1815, ae. 75. He 
m. June 11, 1772, Sarah, dau. of Aaron Goodrich. She was b. Oct. 10, i747' 
and d. 1837, ae. 90. Children — Zenas, h. Oct. 10, 1773, a farmer, d. unm. 



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Sept. i6, 1844, ae. 71; Judith, b. March 27, 1775, m. March 10, 1806, Eli 
Graves, and d. June 2, 1837, ae. 62; Bethene, b. Feb. 14, 1777, m. Jan. 10, 1798, 
Eli Graves, and d. Aug. 12, 1802, ae. 25; Sarah, b. Jan. 26, 1779, m. Jan. 22, 
1799, John Cook; Permelia, b. Nov. 2, 1780, m. Jan. 23, 1805, Roswell Wells 
of Had. and Waterbu^3^ Vt.; Grace Grant, b. Oct. 18, 1782, m. Nov. 28, 1802, 
Stephen Montague; Silva, b. April 20, 1785, m. Aug. 8, 1813, John Baker of 
Westhampton; Daniel, b. Nov. 6, 1789. 

23. David, s. of William, (11) was a lieutenant in the Expedition to 
Canada, early in 1776, and d. abt. 1778. He m. Dec. 17, 1772, Roxcellany 
Warner. She m. (2) May 20, 1779, Joseph Crafts of Whately. Children — 
Cotton, bapt. July 10, 1774; Luther, bapt. Sept. 10, 1775, m. and rem. to the 
South. 

24. Ebenezer, s. of Ebenezer, (12) d. Oct. 11, 1817, ae. 84. He m. 
Sarah, dau. of Samuel Church of Amh. She d. abt. 1802, ae. abt. 66. Chil- 
dren — Sarah, b. 1770, m. Nov. 1787, John Sumner of Had. and Belchertown; 
Jonathan, b. Oct. 29, 1774; Elijah, b. June 28, 1778. 

25. Daniel, s. of Daniel, (12^) Hatfield, d. Aug. 13, 1805, ae. 78. Hem. 
1754, Submit Morton of Hat., who d. July 21, 1798, ae. 71. Children — Sarah, 
b. March 6, 1755, m. March 24, 1780, Lt. Samuel Smith of Hat., and d. Dec. 
7, 1843, 3-e- 88; Lucy, b. Aug. 23, 1757, m. Jan. 26, 1779, Elijah Smith of 
Hat., and d. June 9, 1839, ae. 81; Hannah, b. June 8, 1759, m. June 22, 
1780, Elisha Hubbard of Hat. and Williamsburgh, and d. March 27, 1824, 
ae. 64; Eunice, b. Oct. 10, 1761, m. March i, 1789, Amasa Wells of Hat., 
and d. April 28, 1824, ae. 62; Submit, b. March 28, 1764, m. Feb. 19, 1783, 
Nathan Bliss of Hat., and d. Aug. 8, 1840, ae. 76; Daniel, b. March 17, 1766, 
m. (i) March 8, 1796, Lucy Allis; (2) Sept. 27, 1815, [1814?] Lucy Burt; 
(3) Sept. 2, 1834, Elizabeth, wid. of Cotton White; (4) Sarah, wid. of Moses 
Burt, and dau. of Ebenezer Fitch of Hat. He was a physician, res. for 
several yrs. in Whitestown, N. Y., but returned to Hat., and d. Jan. 26, 1848, 
ae. 81; Elijah, b. April 26, 1768; John, b. and d. Feb. 27, 1775. 

26. Salmon, s. of Daniel, (12 J) res. in that part of Hatfield which 
became Whately, was a member of the third Provincial Congress in AL-iss., 
and deacon of the church in Whately. He d. June 21, 1815, ae. 83. He m. 
Mary Wait, who d. June 22, i82i,ae. 90 or 91. She was perhaps dau. of Joseph 
Wait of Hat. Children — Salmon, b. Sept. 22, 1760, m. (i) Lydia Amsden 
of Deerfield; (2) Nov. 27, 1799, Anna, wid. of Josiah Allis, was a farmer in 
Whately, where he d. May i, 1822, ae. 61; John, b. Jan. 9, 1762, m. Feb. 7, 
1796, Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel Brown of Worcester, was a farmer, repre- 
sentative, and deacon in Whately, and d. April 2, 1836, ae. 74; Mary, b. 
Jan. 24, 1764, m. March 24, 1785, Ebenezer Arms of Greenfield, and d. in 
Prattsburg, Steuben Co., N. Y., Dec. 26, 1837, ae. 73; Elizabeth, h. Feb. 18, 
1766, m. Oct. 31, 1787, Perez Hastings of Hatfield; Mercy, b. March 3, 
1768, m. Nov. 14, 1798, Asahel Wright, Jr. of Deerfield, and d. Aug. 25, 
1842, ae. 74; Judith, b. Dec. 29, 1770, was for more than twenty years a 
highly successful teacher in Whately, and d. unm. April 18, 1824, ae. 53; 
Thomas, b. April 12, 1773, m. Aug. 30, 1795, Hannah, dau. of Nathan 
Harwood of Windsor, was a farmer and blacksmith in Ashfield, where he 
d. Aug. 17, 1848, ae. 75; Electa, b. Sept. 22, 1775, m. Nov. 27, 1800, Elijah 
Allis of Whately, and d. April, 1S59, ae. 83. 



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26^. Elihu, s. of Daniel, (12^) Hatfield, was in May, 1775, chosen with 
John Dickinson to represent the town in the Provincial Congress, to be held 
at Watertown, on the 31st of May. He d. Dec. 23, 1793, ae. 60. He m. 
Zeruiah, dau. of Ebenezer Cole of Hat. She ni. (2) Feb. 19, 1795, Capt. 
Perez Graves of Hat. She was b. Nov. 30, 1741, and d. Dec. 13, 1820, ae. 79. 
Children — Electa, b. June 4, 1764, m. June 26, 1783, Benjamin Morton of 
Hat., and d. abt. 1835; Ebenezer, b. Feb. 28, 1766, m. Jan. 10, 1793, Mary 
Dickinson, was a farmer in Hat., and d. Jan. 6, 1826, ae. 60; Elihu, b. Dec. 
17, 1767, m. July 5, 1792, Sarah Smith, and d. in Hat., June 26, 18 16, ae. 48; 
Lois, b. Oct. 14, 1769, m. Feb. 19, 1789, Joseph Smith, 2d, of Hat., and d. 
Oct. 10, 1829, ae. 60; Anna, b. Dec. 14, 1771, m. Dec. 30, 1790, Elias Lyman 
of Hartford, Vt., and d. Feb. 11, 1844, ae. 72; Patty, b. Dec. 14, 1773, m. (i) 
March 24, 1795, Elihu Robbins of Hat.; (2) Elisha Clapp of Deerfield, and 
d. abt. 1856; Betsey, b. Jan. 28, [27?] 1776, m. June, 1798, Wyllys J. Cad- 
well of Montpelier, Vt., and d. Sept. 30, 1849, ^^- 731 Nabhy, b. April 30, 
1778, m. Aug. 1804, Isaac Freeman of Montpelier, Vt.; Jonathan Cole, b. 
Feb. 17, 1780, m. Cynthia Parkhurst, was a hatter, settled in Hartford, Vt., 
and d. Aug. 17, 1844, ^6. 64. 

27. Oliver, s. of Oliver, (16) rem. abt. 1800 to Vt. or N. Y. Children — 
Eunice, bapt. in Had., Feb. 6, 1795; Anne, bapt. in Had., Feb. 6, 1795. 

28. Moses, s. of Oliver, (16) d. Nov. 10, 1823, ae. 64. He m. Jan. 17, 
17S8, Chloe Peck. Children — David, b. Sept. 24, 178S; Cynthia, b. Jan. 14, 
1792, m. Dec. 15, 1814, Jonathan Smith; Elihu, b. Sept. 22, 1794. 

29. Jarib, s. of Nathaniel, (21) a farmer in Amherst, d. Feb. 2, 1821, 
ae. 57. He m. Feb. 24, 1794, Ruth, dau. of Thomas Sherman of Bridgewater. 
She was b. July 10, 1763. Children— /ay, b. Jan. 8, 1795, m. June 29, 1823, 
Caroline Wood, was a merchant in Amh., and d. April i, 1825, ae. 29; Orra, 
b. March 8, 1796, m. June i, 1821, Rev. Edward Hitchcock, D. D., LL. D. 
of Amherst College; Bela, b. Feb. 23, 1798, m. (i) Feb. i, 1832, Julia Ann 
Stratton; (2) Harriet Hoppin, and res. near Omaha City, Nebraska; Perez, 
b. Aug. 14, 1799, d. July 31, 1800; Mabel, b. May 8, 1801, d. Aug. 16, 1803; 
Rebecca, b. Feb. 13, 1803, d. Aug. 19, 1803; George, b. July 5, 1806, grad. 
A. C. 1825, a physician, d. unm. in Carlinville, Macoupin Co., 111., Sept. i, 
1834, ae. 28. 

30. Daniel, s. of Daniel, (22) is a farmer, m. Sept. 25, 1816, Dorcas, 
dau. of Eleazar Barrows of Barre. She was b. Sept. 29, 1790. Children — 
Sarah Jane, b. Oct. 2, 181 7, m. April 22, 1840, Enos Foster Cook of Amh.; 
Daniel Sherman, b. Aug. 25, 1819, d. Sept. 20, 18 19; Pamela Wells, b. March 
3, 1824, d. Aug. 25, 1832, ae. 8; George, b. Dec. 2, 1825; Daniel Sherman, 
b. Aug. 10, 1827; Charles, b. July 3, 183 1, is a physician in Chicago, 111.; 
John Baker, b. Dec. 4, 1833, is a druggist in New York. 

31. Cotton, s. of David, (23) res. in Hat. and Had., and d. in Hat., 
May 19, 1826, ae. 52. He m. (i) Oct. 9, 1799, Demis Dickinson, who d. 
Dec. 20, 1801; (2) Feb. 19, 1807, Elizabeth Bancroft of Westfield. She 
m. (2) Sept. 2, 1834, Dr. Daniel White of Hat. She was b. in Westfield, 
Nov. 8, 1787, and d. May 20, 1843, ^e. 55. Children — Sarah, b. Aug. 20, 

1800, m. Taylor; David, b. July 5, 1809; Elizabeth, b. April, 1816, 

m. Rev. Mr. McKee of New York. 



160 WHITE WILLIAMS. 

32. Jonathan, s. of Ebenezer, (24) d. April 13, 1846, ae. 71. He m. (i) 
May 30, 1799, Lydia Atwood, who d. abt. 181 1; (2) Phebe, dau. of Isaac 
Rider. She d. May 15, 1856, ae. 69. Children — Thankful; Pamela, m. 
Charles Warner; Sarah; Ruth, m. Nov. 22, 1824, Samuel Dunakin; Lydia, 
m. John Miller; Susan, m. Nov. 28, 1833, James Wilbur of Hat.; Olive, 

m. Stacey of Davenport, Iowa; Phebe, m. (i) Sept. 1841, Samuel 

Hager of Enfield; (2) June 25, 1857, Stoddard Meekins; Jonathan, b. Dec. 
21, 1817; Emeline, m. Levi Ramsdell of Westfield; Elijah, h. June 23, 1821, 
d. July 2, 1821. 

33. Elijah, s. of Ebenezer, (24) d. Nov. 24, 1856, ae. 78. He m. Dec. 24, 
1799, Lucy, dau. of Josiah Pierce, Jr. She d. Oct. 18, 1855, ae. 77. Chil- 
dren — Josiah, b. Aug. i, 1800, m. Hannah Cushing of Chesterfield, and res. 
in Dover, Wis.; Samuel Sumner, b. May 10, 1803; Ebenezer, b. Sept. 11, 1805, 
m. 1829, Mary Ann Coon, and res. in Dover, Wis.; Delia, b. Jan. 20, 1808, 
m. March 28, 1827, Isaac Stall; Margaret Smith, b. March 20, 1811, m. April, 
1828, Lewis Tower. 

34. David, s. of Moses, (28) d. April 18, 1851, ae. 62. He m. (i) Jan. 15, 
1815, Mary Bumps of Pelham, who d. 1836, ae. 34; (2) Sept. 1836, Celinda 
D., dau. of Abial Bragg of Enfield. She was b. July 4, 1805. Children — 
Cynthia, m. (i) Stephen Atwood; Zenas, m. and lives in Wisconsin; Oliver; 
Sarah Ann, b. April 22, 1822, m. Oct. 18, 1843, Lyman Stocking of Chicopee; 
James Porter; Reuben, b. Feb. 1830; Sylvester, b. Nov. 28, 1832; Harvey, 
b. June 2, 1836; Albert Rensselaer, b. Dec. 1837; Mary Bumps, b. March 26, 
1843. 

35. Elihu, s. of Moses, (28) d. Sept. 5, 1850, ae. 56. He m March 21, 
1820, Ruth, dau. of Isaac Rider of Enfield. She was b. Feb. 27, 1797. 
Children — Eliza Ann, d. ae. i yr. ; George Smith; Henry, b. Feb. 1824, d. 
unm. Jan. 12, 1854, ae. 30; Eliza Ann, b. June 11, 1826, m. June 3, 1846, 
Lewis H. Wilder; Moses, m. Sept. 1848, Jane Berditt; David; Elijah, b. 
Jan. 3, 1830. 

36. George, s. of Daniel, (30) m. March 14, 185 1, Elizabeth S., dau. of 
William Judd of So. Had. She was b. Sept. 12, 1831. Child — Ellen Jane, 
b. Dec. 10, 1855. 

37. Daniel Sherman, s. of Daniel, (30) m. Feb. 24, 1854, Elizabeth W., 
dau. of Chester Powers of New Salem. Child — Edward Sherman, b. Jan. 27, 
1858. 

WILLIAMS, Charles, prob. removed to Colchester, Ct. He m. Eliza- 
beth. Children — Charles, b. Oct. 1691; Weeks, b. Feb. 13, 1693; John, 
b. June 13, 1695; Abraham, b. April 28, 1696, d. 1697; Abraham, b. May 20, 
1698. 

I. WILLIAMS, Rev. Chester, s. of Rev. Ebenezer of Pomfret, Ct., 
grad. Y. C. 1735, was ord. Jan. 21, 1741, third pastor of the church in Had., 
and d. Oct. 13, 1753, in 36th yr. He m. Aug. 23, 1744, Sarah Porter. She 
m. (2) Feb. 17, 1756, Rev. Samuel Hopkins, and d. Feb. 5, 1774. Children — 
Penelope, b. July 18, 1745, m. Nov. 15, 1770, Samuel Gaylord; John Chester, 
b. March 6, 1747; Nehemiah, b. Jan. 27, 1749, grad. H. C. 1769, m. 1775, 
Percy Keyes, was ord. Feb. 9, 1775, pastor of church in Brimfield, where he 



WILLIAMS WOODBRIDGE. 161 

d. Nov. 26, 1796, ae. 47. He possessed to a great extent the confidence of 
his people. As a public speaker, he was universally acceptable. His preach- 
ing was evangelical and plain. A volume of his sermons was published after 
his death; Martha, b. Nov. 27, 1750, m. Nov. 4, 1779, Rev. Nathaniel Em- 
mons, D. D., of Franklin; Sarah, h. Aug. 10, 1752, d. unm. June 9, 1836, 
ae. 83. 

2. John Chester, s. of Rev. Chester, (i) grad. Y. C. 1765, rem. to 
Randolph, Vt., and d. May 18, 1819, ae. 72. He m. Nov. 14, 1770, Lois, 
dau. of Obadiah Dickinson. She d. Sept. 7, 1787. Children — Henry Dick- 
inson, h. Oct. 6, 1771, a carpenter, res. in Randolph, Vt.; Emily, b. May 31, 
1773, d. in Northfield, July 13, 1789, ae. 16; Mary, b. Aug. 17, 1775; Sarah, 
b. July 17, 177S; Child, b. and d. May 10, 1780; Chester, b. June 15, 1781, 
a hatter; Horace, b. Sept. 27, 1785, rem. to Black River, N. Y. 

1. WILLIAMS, Rev. William, was b. in Newton, 1666, grad. H. C. 1683, 
was settled over the church in Hatfield, about 1686, and d. Aug. 29, 1741, 
in 76th yr. He m. (i) Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Seaborn Cotton. She was 
b. Sept. 13, 1665, and d. Aug. 7, 1698, ae. 32; (2) Aug. 9, 1699, Christian 
Stoddard, who d. April 23, 1764, ae. 87. Children — William, b. April 30, 

1687, d. May 5, 1687; William, b. May 11, 1688, m. Stoddard, and 

was minister of Weston; Martha, b. Oct. 10, 1690, m. Edward Partridge; 
Elisha, b. Aug. 26, 1694, Rector of Yale Col., d. in Wethersfield, Ct.; Solo- 
m,on, b. June 4, 1700, minister of Lebanon, Ct.; Elizabeth, b. June i, 1707; 
Israel, b. Nov. 30, 1709; Dorothy, b. June 20, 17 13, m. Rev. Jonathan Ashley 
of Deerfield. 

2. Israel, s. of Rev. William, (i) d. Jan. 9, 1788, ae. 78, having broken 
his skull by falling down his cellar stairs. He m. Sarah, dau. of John Chester 
of Wethersfield, Ct. She d. Sept. 18, 1770, ae. 63. Children — John, b. May 
26, 1732, grad. H. C. 1751, and d Nov. 7, 1751, ae. 19; William, b. June 10, 
1734, d. in Dalton, March i, 1808, ae. 74; Israel, d. April 11, 1823, ae. 79; 
Sarah, m. Marsh, and res. in Ashuelot, N. H.; Eunice, m. Israel Stod- 
dard; Jerusha, m. William Billings; Elizabeth, m. Feb. 9, 1780, Elisha Bil- 
lings; Liicretia, m. Feb. 15, 1786, John C. Williams, and d. 1834, ae. 81. 

1. WOODBRIDGE, Rev. John, was b. in West Springfield, Dec. 25, 
1702, s. of Rev. John Woodbridge, grad. Y. C. 1732, w^as settled over the 
church in So. Had., April 21, 1742, and retained that connection until his 
death, which occurred Sept. 10, 1783, ae. 80. He m. (i) Tryphena, dau. of 
Rev. Benjamin Ruggles. She was b. 1707, and d. Jan. 10, 1749, in 42d yr.; 

(2) Wid. Martha Strong, dau. of Clark of Nh. She d. Aug. 20, 1783, in 

58th yr. Children — Tryphena, b. July 31, 1731, m. S. Preston; John, b. 
July 24, 1732; Benjamin Ruggles. b. Oct. 16, 1733; Jahleel, b. Sept. 13, 1751, 
d. Dec. 31, 1825; ^neas, b. 1752, d. Jan. 6, 1832, ae. 79; Sylvester, b. May 10, 
1754; Caroline, b. Dec. 14, 1756, d. Feb. 27, 1785; Sophia, b. 1761, m. Rev. 
Joseph Strong. 

2. John, s. of Rev. John, (i) So. Hadley, a trader, was for eight years 
in the French war as captain, and a major in the Revolutionary war. He d. 
Dec. 27, 1782, ae. 50. He m. Mary Whitney of Watertown. Children — 
Dorothy, b. May 2, 1763; Lucy, b. Jan. 6, 1765; John, b. July 12, 1769, 
d. Dec. 2, 1835; Martha, b. Jan. 8, 1771; Ruggles, b. June i, 1775. 



162 WOODBRIDGE WRIGHT. 

WOODBRIDGE, Rev. John, was b. in Southampton, Dec. 2, 1784, s. of 
Dr. Timothy Woodbridge, grad. W. C. 1804, was ord. as pastor of the church 
in Hadley, June 20, 1810, and remained in that connection until Sept. 15, 
1830, when he was dismissed to take the pastorate of the Bowery Presby- 
terian Church in New York City. After a short ministry over the last 
named church, Dr. W. was settled in Bridgeport, and New Hartford, Ct., and 
on the 1 6th of Feb. 1842, became the first pastor of the Russell Society in 
Hadley. He was dis. July 15, 1857 from his charge, and has since resided 
in Hadley. He m. Mary Ann, dau. of Thomas Y. Seymour of Hartford, Ct. 
She d. June 16, 1858. Children — Mindwell, b. March 20, 1815, m. Oct. 5, 
1847, George A. Gibbs, Esq., of Chicago, 111., and d. Oct. 3, 1849, ^^- 341 
Mary Ann, b. July 13, 1817, m. (i) Aug. 11, 1840, Aaron Hawley, who d. 
Aug. 19, 1847; (2) July 20, 1850, Rev. Parsons Cook, D. D., of Lynn; Susan 
Augusta, b. Aug. 30, 1819; Emeline, b. Nov. 23, 1821, m. Feb. 2, 1848, Wil- 
liam P. Dickinson, and rem. to Chicago, 111.; Charlotte, b. March 6, 1824, m. 
Aug. 4, 1842, Elisha S. Wadsworth of Chicago, 111.; i?£'feecca, b. March 22, 1826, 
m. Oct. 2, 1850, Erastus S. Williams, Esq., of Chicago, 111.; John, b. March 3, 
1829, m. July 10, 185 1, Elizabeth Butler, and is a lawyer in Chicago, 111.; 
Louisa Christmas, b. Sept. 10, 1831; Elizabeth Octavia, b. Jan. 10, 1836, 
m. Sept. 10, 1853, Rev. Richard H. Richardson of Chicago, 111. 

WOODWARD, Samuel, m. Sarah. Children — Sarah Smith; George 
Douglass, b. Nov. 4, 1800; Sophronia Williams, b. Jan. 17, 1803; Abigail 
Willard, bapt. Oct. 1807; Samuel Williams, bapt. Feb. 4, 1810. 

1. WORTHINGTON, Nicholas, Hatfield, d. Sept. 6, 1683. He m. (i) 
Sarah, wid. of John White, and dau. of Thomas Bunce of Hartford, Ct. She 

d. June 20, 1676; (2) Susanna . She m. (2) 1684, Capt. Jonathan 

Ball of Springfield, and d. March 9, 1727. Children — Elizabeth, m. 

Morton; William, b. abt. 1670, ni. Wid. Mehitable Morton, and d. in Col- 
chester, Ct., May 22, 1753; Mary, b. Jan. 24, 1674; Jonathan; John, b. 
Aug. 17, 1679; Margaret, d. April 8, 1682. 

2. Daniel, s. of Daniel, gr. s. of William, and gr. grandson of Nicholas, 
(i) bapt. Aug. 19, 1733, m. 1772, Margaret Parsons of Palmer. Children — 
Amasa, b. May 9, 1773; Daniel, b. March i, 1775; Elijah, b. Oct. 22, 1776; 
Child, b. Aug. 1782, d. Sept. 19, 1782, ae. 40 days; Elizabeth, b. May 22, 1784, 
d. May 24, 1784; Son, b. Aug. 24, 1785, d. Oct. 24, 1785; Son, b. and d. 
Oct. 4, 1786. 

WRIGHT, Charles, b. in Northampton, Jan. 5, 1719, s. of Samuel, 
res. in Amherst for many years, but prior to 1762 rem. to Pownal, Vt., where 
he d. Dec. 23, 1793. He m. Oct. 19, 1742, Ruth, dau. of Solomon Boltwood 
of Amherst. She d. April 15, 1806, ae. 83. Children — Solomon, b. June 27, 
1743, d. young; Samuel, b. Feb. 8, 1745; Dorcas, b. Dec. 31, 1750, m. Eben- 
ezer Woolcott; Josiah, b. April 9, 1752, res. in Pownal, Vt., and at the date 
of his death, which occurred Jan. 2, 181 7, ae. 64, was Chief Judge of the 
Bennington Co. Court, and a member of the Executive Council; Sarah, 
b. July 18, 1757, m. Abel Russell, and d. in Salem, N. Y.; Esther, b. Nov. 13, 

1760, m. (i) Bates; (2) Kingsley, and d. in Scipio, N. Y.; Solomon, 

b. Dec. 28, 1762, res. in Pownal, Vt., m. Nov. 19, 1782, Eunice, dau. of 



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Thomas Jewett of Bennington, Vt., held various important offices, among 
others, that of Chief Judge of Bennington Co., and d. March 24, 1837, ae. 73. 

1. WRIGHT, Samuel, b. in Northampton, s. of Samuel, m. (i) May 11, 
1757, Penelope Leonard; (2) Nov. 11, 1772, Elizabeth Stevens. Children — 
Paul; Silas, b. May 17, 1760; Ozias, rem. to Maine; Esther, m. Sept. 21, 
1800, Dea. Jason Stockbridge. 

2. Silas, s. of Samuel, (i) res. in Amh. until Feb. 1796, when he rem. 
to Weybridge, Vt., where he d. May 13, 1843, ^^- T^- He m. Sept. 26, 
1 780, Eleanor, dau. of Isaac Goodale of Amh. Children — Samuel, b. Aug. 18, 
1785, m. Feb. 15, 1810, Electa Langdon; Orinda, b. March 19, 1788, m. 
May 31, 1810, Josiah Parker; Lucretia, b. March 16, 1790, m. Chester Elmer; 
Eleanor, b. Sept. 22, 1792, m. Sept. 21, 18 13, Alpheus Bigelow; Silas, b. 
May 24, 1795, grad. Mid. Col. i8i5,m. Sept. 11, 1833, Clarissa Moody, settled 
as an Attorney in Canton, N. Y., was State Senator and Comptroller, Repre- 
sentative and Senator in Congress, Gov. of the State, and d. Aug. 27, 1S47, 
ae. 52; Daniel L., b. April 10, 1799, m. April 26, 1826, Martha Williamson; 
Pliny, b. Dec. 14, 1805. 

WYATT, Israel, removed from Hatfield to Colchester, Ct. He m. Dec. 
10, 1690, Sarah Pratt. Children — Sarah, b. July 8, 1691; Israel, b. Sept. 26, 
1696; Susannah, b. Sept. 26, 1696; Israel, b. Nov. 26, 1700; Hannah, b. 
April 10, 1703. 

YOUNGLOVE, John, removed as is supposed from Ipswich to Brook- 
field, where he was a preacher, though not ordained. About 1675, he came 
to Hadley, and for several years taught the Graminar School. He afterwards 
preached in Suffield, where he d. June 3, 1690. He m. Sarah, who d. Jan. 1 7, 
1710. Children — John; Samuel, b. Feb. 10, 1676, m. July 28, 1696, Abilene 
Hunter; James, b. Oct. 6, 1701, m. Hannah Phelps, and d. in Suffield, Oct. 21, 
1723; Joseph, b. Nov. 26, 1682, m. Anna, and res. in Suffield, Ct.; Sarah, 
m. Sept. 25, 1682, John Taylor of Suffield, and d. June 19, 1683; Mary, 
m. Dec. 2, 1689, Thomas Smith of Suffield, and d. June 24, 1743; Hannah, 
m. Dec. II, 1695, George Norton of Suffield, and d. Nov. 23, 1715; Lydia, 
m. April 26, 1693, George Granger of Suffield. 



ADDENDA 



Bass, Samuel. Children — Elizabeth, bapt. April 30, 1781; Seth, bapt. 
March 23, 1783. 

Beaman, Rev. Warren Harrison, m. April 27, 1841, Elizabeth Lydia» 
dau. of Rev. Samuel Worcester, D. D. of Salem. She was b. Dec. 19, 1814- 
Children — Mary Elizabeth, b. Feb. 19, 1842; Emma W., b. Oct. 4, 1843; 
John Warren, b. Dec. 28, 1845; Anna Jane, b. Jan. 10, 1848, d. 1849; Mina 
D.,h. 1853. 

Blake, William, m. Sarah Chapin, dau. of Enos Nash. Children — 
Francis, b. Sept. 1827, d. 1828; Emily, b. Jan. 11, 1829; Mary Shipman, 
b. June 10, 1834; Sarah Jane, b. Aug. 6, 1837; Catharine Shipman, b. Jan. 
15, 1842. 

Cooledge, Nathaniel, Jr., deacon, merchant. Representative 1828, d. 
April 9, 1835. He m. Nov. 7, 1827, Lois Eastman, dau. of William Porter. 

Cowles, Silas, b. Nov. 4, 1779, s. of David, (10) p. 30, d. He m. Dec. 
22, 1805, Zilpha Shumway. Children — Myra, bapt. 1811, m. May 21, 1829, 
Simeon Clark, of Amherst; Daniel, bapt. ]'8ii, m. Mary Henderson; Lewis, 
bapt. 1815, m. (i) Nov. 14, 1833, Pamela E. Bolles; (2) May 18, 1854, Eliza 
Henderson; £/i'ya^, bapt. 1812; Daui'd 5., bapt. 1816; £wt7;y, bapt. \?>i2>; Asa, 
d.; Elijah, bapt. 1824; Zilpha Gilbert, bapt. 1829. 

Curtis, Rev. Joseph W., d. March 16, 1857. He m. for his second wife, 
Nov. 27, 1836, Lois Eastman, wid. of Dea. Nathaniel Cooledge, Jr., and dau. 
of William Porter. Children — Charlotte Porter, b. Nov. 21, 1838, d. Sept. 10, 
1840; William Porter, b. March 23, 1843, d. March 2, 1844; James Edwards, 
b. Jan. 23, 1845, d. March 2, 1845. 

Downing, John, Braintree, 1673, rem. to Hat. He m. July 20, 1676, 
Mary, widow of Thomas Meekins, Jr. Children — Jonathan, b. Jan. 1677; 
John, b. Oct. 29, 1678. 

Drury, John. Child — ^5^/, b. 1780. 

Dunakin, Andrew, m. Oct. 10, 1798, Anna Pierce. Children — Henry, 
bapt. 1803; Dolly, bapt. 1803; Anna, bapt. 1809. 

DwiGHT, Nathaniel, s. of Timothy, was b. in Dedham, Nov. 25, 1666, 
settled in Hatfield, whence about 1695, he removed to Nh. He d. in Spring- 
field, Nov. 7, 171 1, ae. 44. He m. Dec. 9, 1693, Mehitable, dau. of Col. 
Samuel Partridge of Hat. She d. Oct. 19, 1756, ae. 82. Children — Timothy, 
b. Oct. 19, 1694, m. Aug. 16, 1 7 16, Experience King, and res. in Nh.; Samuel, 
b. June 28, 1696; Mehitable, b. Nov. 11, 1697, d. Dec. 22, 1697; Daniel, 
b. April 29, 1699, grad. Y. C. 1721; Seth, b. Oct. 3, 1702, d. Sept. 12, 1703; 
Elihu, b. Feb. 17, 1704; Abia,h. Feb. 17, 1704, m. Samuel Kent of Suffield, 
Ct.; Mehitable, b. Nov. 2, 1705, m. abt. 1728, Abraham Burbank; Jonatlian, 



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b. March 14, 1708; Ann, b. July 2, 1710, m. 1731, Abel Caldwell of Hartford, 
Ct.; Nathaniel, b. June 20, 1712, m. Jan. 1735, Hannah Lyman, rem. to 
Belchertown, and d. 1784. 

Fox, Joel, m. April 19, 1801, Lucinda Cook, and had besides those chil- 
dren mentioned on page 53, Amy Smith, bapt. April 6, 1806; and Calvin, 
bapt. Aug. 21, 1808. 

Hawley, Levi, b. Nov. 28, 1798, s. of Chester, who was s. of Zechariah, 
who was s. of Samuel, (2) p. 67, m. Nov. 23, 1820, Harriet, dau. of Elijah 
Nash, and d. Feb. 16, 1844. Children — Mary,h. May 23, 1822, m. July 3, 1845, 
Joseph Vincent, of Ashfield; Caroline R., b. Nov. 6, 1824, m. Nov. 27, 1845, 
Enos D. Williams, of Amh.; Harriet W., b. Nov. 3, 1826, m. Zebulon Taylor; 
Levi Parsons, b. Oct. 12, 1828, d. May, 1829; Levi Parsons, b. July 19, 1830 
m. Abigail J. Boise; Julia Electa, b. Feb. 3, 1833, d. Oct. 1851 ; Henry Elijah, 
b. Aug. I, 1836, d. March 2, 1837; Elbertine Maria, b. July 24, 1838; Ellen R., 
b. Oct. 21, 1839; Elijah Knights, b. May 15, 1844. 

Hooker, Joseph, rem. from Had. to Watertown, N. Y., where he d. 

He m. (i) Spur; (2) Mary, dau. of Nathan Seymour. Children by second 

wife — Nancy Spur, m. William Wood of Watertown, N. Y.; Mary, m. 
O. B. Brainerd of Watertown, N. Y. ; Sarah R.,m. Rev. M. L. R.P.Thompson, 
D. D., of Cincinnati, O.; Joseph, b. 1815, grad. at West Point, 1837, served 
with distinction in Mexico as aid-de-camp to Brig. Gen. Hamer, was for a 
few years in U. S. service in California and Oregon, resigned his commission 
in 1853, and became a farmer in Sonora,on the Bay of San Francisco. At the 
breaking out of the Rebellion in 1861 , he tendered his services to the Govern- 
ment, and was soon appointed Brigadier General of Volunteers, and later on 
account of his valor at the battle of Antietam, was made Major General. 

Hodge, John, b. Oct. 19, 1760, s. of George, p. 70, m. March 19, 1789, 
Sarah Dickinson. Children — Son, b. April, 1789; Son, b. April, 1791; 
Child, b. July, 1793. 

Johnson, Stephen, m. April 14, 1791, Sarah, dau. of Israel Lyman. 
She d. Sept. 19, 1835, ae. 65. Children — Betsey; Roxy; Alfred; Chester, 
bapt. March 10, 1798; Sally, bapt. Dec. 29, 1799; Stephen, bapt. May 9, 
1802; Rachel, bapt. June 3, 1804; Letha, bapt. Oct. 12, 1806; Emeline, b. 
Feb. 1809. 

Lyman, Zadoc, prob. s. of Israel, p. 90, and b. March 26, 1774. He 
prob. d. Dec. 8, 1849. Children — Samuel; Watson; Lucretia; William; 
Horace, bapt. Dec. 5, 1802; Zadoc, bapt. 1804; Rodney, bapt. Aug. 3, 1806; 
Charles, b. Nov. 6, 1808. 

Marsh, Calvin, m. Oct. 7, 1800, Anna Smith. Children — Orsamus, 
m. Harriet Smith; Hiram,, bapt. Aug. 30, 1804, m. Betsey, dau. of Jason 
Stockbridge, and res. in Boston; Chapman, bapt. 1806; Calvin, bapt. 1808; 
Oliver; Elizabeth; Ann; Elihu; Merriam. 

Marsh, Timothy, b. Oct. 5, 1751, s. of Ebenezer, (11) p. 92, d. Oct. 19, 
1796, ae. 45. He m. Sept. 23, 1779, Mary Smith. Children — Child, h. and 
d. Oct. 25, 1780; Mary, b. Nov. 1781; Sarah, bapt. Oct. 26, 1783; Clarissa, 
bapt. April 9, 1786; Lois, b. June, 1788. 



166 ADDENDA. 

Porter, James Bayard, s. of William, (15) p. 114, is a merchant. He 
m. Jan. 6, 1836, Susan Parsons. Children — Edward Clarke, b. Dec. 3, 1836, 
grad. Y. C. 1858, delivered the poem at the Bi-Centennial Celebration; 
Charlotte Williams, b. Oct. 6, 1840; William Parsons, b. March 9, 1S44. 

Porter, Jonathan Edwards, b. May 17, 1766, s. of Eleazar, (12) p. 
113, grad. H. C. 1786, and m. Fidelia, dau. of Timothy Dwight of Nh., 
was by profession a lawyer. Children — Dan., b. Aug. 13, 1793; Julia, bapt. 
Maj' 7, 1797; Timothy Dwight, bapt. May 7, 1797; Theodore W., bapt. Oct. 
20, 1799. 

Porter, Mary, dau. of Elisha, (13) p. 114, d. May 13, 1769; L^fcj', of do., 
d. Oct. 18, 1770; Patience, of do., d. April 20, 1773. 

Lucretia, first wife of Elihu Smith, (No. 71) p. 134, d. Ma}^ 7, 1810. Ln- 
cretia, dau. of do., d. May 7, 18 10; Sophia, dau. of do., m. Park Smith of 
Nelson, N. Y.; David, s. of do., d. Aug. 31, 1825; Sarah C, dau. of do., 
d. Jan. I, 1810. By his second wife, Elizabeth Hubbard, whom he m. July, 
181 1, and who d. Oct. 14, 1854, Elihvi Smith had Sarah Cook, b. May 20, 181 2, 
m. June 5, 1833, Edmund Smith; Elizabeth Eastman, b. Nov. 1813, m. Fordyce 
M. Knapp of Cummington; Margaret Gaylord, b. Jan. i, 1816, m. Abel D. 
Forrest of Morrisville, N. Y. 

Shipman, Samuel, s. of Samuel, d. in Had. He m. Oct. 20, 1831, Mary 
Stebbins, dau. of Enos Nash. Children — Sarah Wells, b. Nov. 7, 1832, 
d. Sept. 23, 1848; George Smith, b. June 6, 1836; Mary Warner, b. Aug. 23, 
1838; Lucy Miller, b. Aug. 23, 1838; Ellen ElirMbeth, b. March 8, 1845. 

Stockbridge, Caleb, s. of David, m. (i) 1795, Sarah AUis of Hatfield; 
(2) April 6, 1805, Mrs. Achsah Fairbanks. Children— Ca/c6; Eber; AUis; 
David. 

Stockbridge, Jason, s. of David, deacon in No. Had. church. Represen- 
tative, 1835, d. i860. He m. (i) Sept. 21, 1800, Esther, dau. of Samuel 
Wright; (2) Oct. 26, 1815, Abigail, dau. of John Montague of Sunderland. 
Children by first wife — Samuel, bapt. Aug. 30, 1804; Betsey, bapt. April 25, 
1805, m. Hiram Marsh, and res. in Boston; Jason, b. April 5, 1806. By 
second wife — Levi, Representative, 1855; Henry Smith, grad. A. C. 1845, 
is a lawyer in Baltimore, Md.; Elvira, d. 

Sumner, John, from Belchertown, d. July, 1804. He m. Nov. 1787, 
Sarah, dau. of Ebenezer White. She d. Aug. 1803, ae. 33. Children — 
Zebina, b. April, 1788, d. 1792; Susan, b. July, 1790, d. Dec. 1811, ae. 21; 
Margaret, b. March 29, 1792, m. Nov. 19, 1816, Addi Wallis; Samuel, b. 
April, 1794, d. Aug. 1800; John, bapt. Aug. 27, 1795, d. 1795. 

Warner, Jonathan, b. Dec. 16, 1773, s. of Lemuel, (17) p. 148, m. 
June 22, 1796, Sally Shipman. Children — Elizabeth, bapt. Aug. 17, 1796; 
Emily, bapt. Nov. 5, 1797; Charles, bapt. Feb. 3, 1799; Elizabeth, bapt. 
Jan. 18, 1 801; Dorothy, bapt. 1803; Sally Shipman, bapt. June 2, 1805; 
Henry Phelps, bapt. June 28, 1806; Henry Phelps, bapt. Sept. 18, 1808. 



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INDEX 

TO THE GENEALOGIES. 



ABBEE,Obadiah,i5o. 
Abbott, Daniel, 5. 
Abial, 51. 

Achsah, 5. 

Amos, 5. 

Eliab, 5. 

Ithreain, 5. 

Jacob, 5. 

Joshua, 103. 

Loi, 5. 

Lucy Willard, 5. 

Mary, Mrs., 97. 

Mercy, 5. 

Moses Graves, 5. 

Phila, 5. 

Persis, 5. 

Tiinothy, 10 1. 
Adams, x\bner, ici. 

Asa 36, 48, 145. 

Caroline, 109. 

Elizabeth, 147. 

John, 145. 

Lois, 104. 

Louisa, 43. 

Nathan, 145. 

Rhoda, 45. 

Silas, 48. 

William, Rev., 17. 

34 

Aiken, Silas Rev., 108. 
Alexander, Aaron, 5. 

Abigail, 41, 120, 150. 

Daniel, 95. 

Eliakim, 5. 

Elizabeth, 5, 84. 

Eunice, 5. 

Experience, 5. 

George, 5, 150. 

Hannah, 13. 

Joseph, 5. 

Levi, 5. 

Lewis Porter, 5 

Mary, 5. 

Miles, 5. 

Nathaniel, 5, 13, 120. 

Paul, 5. 

Rachel, 5. 

Sarah, 5, 120. 



Alexander, Thankful, s. 
68. 

,84. 

Allen, Ebenezer, 61. 

Charlotte P., 71. 

Edward, 151. 

Ephraim, 100. 

George, 123. 

John, 58, 79. 

Nathan, Col ,52. 

Rebecca, 130. 

Samuel, 8, 67. 

Sarah, 8, 140, 15 2. 

Thankful, 79. 

Thomas, 34. 

William, Rev., 71. 

, 152. 

Allis, Abel, 6, 113. 

Abigail, 5, 6, 151. 

Alice, 6, 67. 

Bathsheba, 6. 

Daniel, 6. 

Eleazar, 5, 6, 59. 

Elijah, 158. 

Elisha, Jr. , 6 , 40 , 7 7 , 9 ? . 

Elizabeth, 6. 

Experience, 6, 50. 

Hannah, 5, 118. 

Ichabod, 5, 6, 10, 37, 83. 

Jemima, 6. 

John, 5, 6, 10, 50, 88, 
94, 109, 1 18, 151. 

Joseph, 5,6. 

Josiah, 5, 74, 158. 

Julius, 40. 

Lucius, 151. 

Lucy, 104, 158. 

Lydia, 5, 6, 37. 

Martha, 6. 

Mary, 5,6. 

Mehitable, 6. 

Miriam, 6. 

Naomi, 6. 

Nathaniel, 5. 

Rebecca, 5. 6, 60. 

Samuel, 5, 6, 67. 

Sarah, 6, 166. 



Allis, Thankful, 6. 

Thomas, 6. 

William, 5, 6, 118. 

— -, II, 40, 118. 

Allison, Mary, 91 . 

Sarah, 88. 
Almy, Tillinghast, 15. 

Elizabeth, 15. 
Alvord, Abigail, 6. 

Asher, 7. 

Azariah, 6, 103, 140. 

Barbara, 66. 

Bezaleel, 58. 

Dorcas, 6, 156. 

Eliab, 77. 

Fidelia, 45. 

Gad, 128, 156. 

Gideon, 6. 

Jeremiah, 63. 

Jerusha, 6. 

Job, 128. 

John, 693, 155. 

Lois, 104. 

Lucy, 140. 

Luther, 6. 

Maria, 80. 

j\I indwell, 156. 

Moses, 6. 

Phineas, 6. 

Rachel, 6. 

Rebecca, 6. 

Samuel ,157. 

Sarah, 93. 
Amsden, John, 6,30, 155. 

Asahel, 6. 

Elisha, 6. 

Elizabeth, 6. 

Eunice, 6. 

Isaac, 6. 

Lydia, 158. 

Mary, 6.' 

Oliver, 6. 

Simeon, 6. 

Violet, 6. 
Andrews, Elizabeth, 58. 

. 136. 

Anns, Daniel, 6. 

Dorothy, 133. 



Note: — Dash ( ) indicates given name unknown. 



GENEALOGICAL INDEX. 



Arms, Ebenezer, 6, 158. 

Elijah, Jr., 89. 

Eroe, 66. 

Hannah, 6. 

John, 6,. 15, loi. 

Margaret, 6. 

Sarah, 6. 

Sophia, 109. 

William, 6, 67. 

, Dea., 109. 

, II. 

Arnold, Thomas, 7. 

Abigail, 112. 

Betsey, 7. 

Rachel, 7. 
Asenath, Cornelia, 27. 
Ashley, Abigail, 89. 

Benjamin, 81. 

Daniel, 67. 

Jonathan, Rev., 161. 

Samuel, 81. 

; , 55, 84, 117. 

Atchison, Benoni, 7. 

Deliverance, 7. 

Elizabeth, 7. 

John, 7. 

Jonathan, 74. 

Mary, 7. 
Atherton, Abigail, 155. 

Eunice, 20. 

Hope, 7. 

Jonathan, 74, 81. 

Joseph, 7. 

Ruth, 155. 

Sarah, 7. 
Atwater, John, 108. 

Mary, 108. 

, 108. 

Atwell,FannySanford,7. 

George Washington, 7. 

John, 7. 

Oliver, 7, 129. 

Pamela, 7. 
Atwood, Lydia, 160. 

Stephen, 160. 
Austin, Nathaniel, Jr., 72. 

Samuel, Rev., D.D., 71. 
Ayers, Aaron, 7, 99. 

Amos, 7, 39. 

Asa, 7. 

Daniel, 7. 

Eleazar, 7. 

Elijah, 98. 

Esther, 12. 

John, 7, 129. 

Josiah, 62. 

Lydia, 7. 



Ayers, Martha, 7. 
Ruth, 7. 
Samuel, 7. 
Sarah, 7. 
Susanna, 7. 

BACON, Andrew, 7. 
Elizabeth, 7. 
Ira, 78. 

John, 153. 
Bagg. Ann, 52. 

David, 38. 

Ruth, 37. 
Baker, Elijah, 7, 127. 

Eliphalet, 24. 

Enos, 7, 15, 131. 

Hannah, 7. 

Isaac, 56. 

John, 7, 158. 

Martha, 7 

Martin, 7, 131. 

Otis, S. 75. 

Polly, 56. 

Rebecca, 7. 

Sarah, 7, 68. 

Thomas, 35. 

Timothy, 7, 31, 91. 
Baldwin, Joseph, 7, 8. 

Benjamin, 7, 8. 

David, 8. 

Elizabeth, 7, 8. 

Hannah. 8. 

James, 8. 

Jonathan, 8. 

Martha, 8, 67. 

Marv, 8. 

Mercy, 8 

Samuel, 8. 

Sarah 8. 
Ball, Jonathan, 154, 162. 

Lurrintha, 107. 

Melinda, 31. 

Samuel, 59. 

Sarah, 154. 
Ballard, David, 117. 

Jeremiah, 8, 

Jerusha, 8. 

Joshua, 8, 82, 83. 

Louisa, 8. 

Polly, 8. 

Ruth, 8, 26. 

William, 8. 
Bancroft, Elizabeth, 159. 

Nathaniel, 55. 
Bangs, Enoch, 30, 40, 49. 

Nathaniel, 84. 
Barber, John, 138. 

Thomas, 154. 



Bardall, Robert, 63. 
Bardwell, Abigail, 8, 61. 

Chester, Dr., 67. 

Ebenezer, 8. 

Elijah, 121. 

Elizabeth, 8. 

Esther, 11, 10 1 

Hannah, 30. 

Hester, 8. 

John, 8, 60. 

Joseph, 100, 121. 

Lydia, 30. 

Martha, 145. 

Mary, 8. 

Remembrance, 35. 

Robert, 8, 61. 

Samuel, 8. 

Sarah, 8. 

Seth, 37. 

Thankful, 8, 60. 

Thomas, 8, 11. 

.56. 

Barker, Ephraim R.,144. 

Patty, 65. 
Barlow, James, 138. 

Seth, 75. 
Barnard, Abigail, 9, 151. 

Bridget, 9, 36. 

Ebenezer, 9. 

Frances, 8, 152. 

Francis, 8, 9, 35. 

Hannah, 8, 9, 91, 152. 

Joanna, 9, 91, 103. 

John, 8, 9, 10, 23. 

John, Dr., 24. 

Joseph, 8, 9, 19, 151. 

Mary, 8, 9, 24. 

Rebecca, 9, 152. 

Samuel, 8, 9. 

Samuel, Capt., 8. 

Sarah, 8, 9, 143, 151. 

Theodore, 8. 

Thomas, 8, 9, 109. 

> 153- 

Barns, John, 9. 

Mary, 9. 
I Mercy, 9. 

Thomas, 85 

William, 9, 138. 
Barrett, Benjamin, 59. 

Catherine, 141. 

Jonathan, 8. 

Oliver, 30. 

Sarah, 100, 118. 
Barron, W^m., 141. 
Barrows, Abigail, 40. 

Dorcas, 159. 

Eleazar, 159. 



GENEALOGICAL INDEX. 



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Barrows, Thomas, 112. 
Barry, Frances, 65. 
Barstow, Nathaniel, 72. 
Bartlett, Daniel, 9- 
Adeline, 9. 
Abigail, 9. 
Abijah, 78. 
Algernon Sidney, 80. 
Ahnira, 107. 
Asenath, 9. 
Benjamin, 9. 
Caleb, 9. 

Catherine Cooley, 9. 
Charles, 9. 
Clarissa, 9. 
Clarissa Naomi, 9. 
Daniel James, 9. 
Daniel Lewis, 9. 
David Norton, 9. 
Deborah, 29. 
Dexter, 9. 
Ebenezer, 5, 58. 
Edmund, 98. 
Elatah Stockbridge, 9. 
Elijah, 9. 
Elijah H., 27. 
Elijah Henry, 9. 
Elizabeth, 9. 
Hannah Jerusha, 9. 
Henry, 9, i55- 
Henry Leonard, 9. 
Harriet Newell, 9. 
Jerusha, 9. 
John, 9. 
John, Rev., 86. 
Leonard, 9. 

Levi, 9. 

Levi Harvej% 9 

Lewis, 9. 

Lewis Williston 9. 

Lucy, 9. 

Lyman, 9. 

Mabel, 130. 

Mary, 9, 86. 

Mary Ann, 9. 

Minerva, 44. 

Miranda, 9. 

Nancy, 9. 

Nicholas, 9. 

Oliver, 9. 

Patience, 9. 

Polly, 136. 

Robert, 29. 

Roxa, 9. 

Roxana, 9. 

Samuel, 8, 9. 

Sarah, 18. 

Sarah Lane, 9. 

Stillman, 9. 

Theodore, 75. 



Bartlett, Warham, 9. 
William, 9. 
Zebina, 9. 

Barton, , 38. 

Bascom, Thomas, 10. 
David, 10. 
Eunice, 120. 
Joel, 10. 
John, 150. 
Joseph, 79. 
Martha, 10, 156. 
Nathan, 10. 
Thomas, 52, 156. 
Bass, Samuel, 164. 
Elizabeth, 164. 
Seth, 164. 
Bates, John, 80. 
Lucretia, 80. 
Mary E., 136. 

, 25, 162. 

Baxter, Anne, 69. 
Beals, Rachel, 90. 
Beaman, Rev. Warren 
Harrison, 164. 
EUzabeth Lydia, 164. 
Emma W., 164. 
John Warren, 164. 
Mary Elizabeth, 164. 
Mina, 164. 
Simon, 8, 152. 
Beardsley, Sarah, 34. 
Becklev, Sarah, 18. 

Beckwith, , 78- 

John, 137. 
Bedient, Mary, 9, 10. 
Morgan, 10. 
Thomas, 10. 
Beebe, James, 10, 13. 
Mary, 10. 
Rebecca, 10. 
Samuel, 10. 
Beecher, Sarah, 23. 
Beers, Ephraim, 10. 
Beers, Capt., 35. 
Belding, Daniel, 10, 11. 
Aaron, 50. 

Abigail, 10, 11, 44. 102. 
Ann, 10. 
Anna, 10. 
Content, 10. 
Daniel, 67, 126, 151. 
David, II. 
Dorothy, 11, 60. 
Ebenezer, 10, 11, 102. 
Elihu, II. 
Ehsha, 37, 84. 
Elizabeth, 10, 11, 118. 
Esther, 11, 63, 118. 
Ezekiel, 107. 
Hannah, 10, 11, 22. 



Belding, Hepzibah, 10,11. 
Hester, 10. 
Hezekiah, 11, 40, 44i 

129. 
Hezekiah,Dea.,io2,i29. 

Irene, 68. 

John, 5, 6, 10, Hi 401 

88, 144- 
John, Jr., II. 
Jonathan, 11. 35, 47. 

48. 
Joseph, 8, II, 56, 65. 
Joshua, 10, II, 51. 
Lucinda, 11. 
Lydia, 1 1 , 82. 
Martha, 10, 11, 77- 
Mary, 10,11,51,65,144- 
Mehitabel, 10, 67. 
Melinda, 11. 
Mindwell, 11. 
Naomi, 10. 
Nathaniel, 10. 
Noah, II. 
Rhoda, II. 
Richard, 10. 
Samuel, 5, 6, 10, 1 1, 22, 

64,67,76,94,147.151- 
Samuel, Jr., 12, 50. 
Sarah, 10, 11, 44. 5°- 

61, 100. 
Seth, 89. 
Stephen, 10, 11, 118, 

144. 151- 

Submit, 10, II, 48 . 

Thankful, 10, 11. 

William, 6, 10. 

, 37. 100. 

Belknap, Jonas, 143- 

Joseph, 94 

Ruth, 94. 
Bell, Reuben, Dr., 11,12 

Charles, 11. 

Charles Henry, 12. 

Eleanor, 130. 

Elizabeth, 11. 

Frederick, 11, 12. 

John Smith, 11, 12. 

Mary Porter, 12. 

Martha, 7. 

Reuben, Dr., 133. 

Ruth Maria, 11. 

Samuel, 11. 
Bellows, Lydia, 156. 
Benedict, Sarah, 10. 

Sarah H., 71. 

Thomas, 10. 
Benjamin, Caleb, 44. 
Benney, Robert, 30. 

Sarah, 14. 30- 



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GENEALOGICAL INDEX. 



Bent, Joseph, Rev., 33. 

Paulina, 33, 

Benton, , 56, 118. 

Benton, Hannah, 82. 

, 118. 

Berditt, Jane, 160. 
Bidwell, Lj'dia, 53. 
Bigelow, Alpheus, 163. 

Violet, 142. 
Billings, Aaron, 12. 

Ame, 13. 

Benjamin, 12, 64. 

Clarissa, 41. 

Chester, 41. 

Damaris, 12. 

David, 12, 48. 

Ebenezer, 12, 18. 

Ebenezer, Jr., 63. 

Edward, 12. 

Elisha, 161. 

Elizabeth, 12, 41. 

Ethan, 11. 

Fellows, 12, 47. 

Hannah, 12, 42, 66, 

145. 152 
Jerusha, 12, 65. 
Joel, 12, 52. 
John, 12, 13. 
John, Dea., 65, 66, 133. 
Jonathan, 12, 96. 
Joseph, 12, 81. 
Lois, 12, 20. 
Louisa, 44. 
Lucy, 12. 
Lydia, 13, 19. 
Margery, 12. 
Martha, 12, 13. 
Mary, 12, 51. 
Moses, 12, 13, 41, 126. 
Prudence, 57. 
Richard, 12,91, 145. 
Rtith, 12. 
Samuel, 10, 12, 35, 50, 

128,145. 
Sarah, 12, 13,35, 56, 128. 
Silas, 37. 

Thankful, 12, 147. 
Ursula, 12, 133. 
William, 161. 
Zechariah, 12, 94. 

. 94- 

Bisby, William, 16. 
Bishop, Nathaniel, 58. 
Bissell, Amy, 129. 

Anna, 154. 

Jeremiah, 153. 

John, 89, 153, 154. 

Mary, 122. 

Sarah, 154. 

Thomas, 154. 



Bixbee Rufus, 86. 

Maria, 86. 
Blackman, Samuel, 34. 
Blair, Daniel, 78. 

Joseph, Jr., 43. 
Blake, Catherine Ship- 
man, 164. 

Emily, 164. 

Francis, 164. 

Mary Shipman, 164. 

Sarah Chapin, 164. 

Sarah Jane, 164. 

W^illiain, 105, 164. 
Blinn, Deliverance, 140. 

, 140. 

Bliss, Edwin, 120. 

Elizabeth, 154. 

Hannah, 63, 139. 

John, 51. 

Margaret, 52. 

Mar^r, 125. 

Nathan, 158. 

Nathaniel, 52. 

Samuel, 63, 125, 139, 

154- 
Sarah, 125, 150. 

Blockman, Abigail, 74. 
Blodgett, David, 36, 45. 
84, III. 

Jerusha, 39, 40, 77. 

John, 45. 

Luke, 39. 

Sarah ,111. 
Blye, John, 13. 

Mary, 13. 

Oliver, 13. 
Boardman, Clarinda, 16. 

Daniel, 53. 
Bodman, Joseph, 13, 18. 

Anna, 13. 

Hepzibah, 13, 102. 

Lydia, 13. 

Manoah, 13. 

Mary, 13. 

Samuel, 13. 

Sarah, 13. 

William, 13. 
Bodurtha, Lydia, 104. 
Boise, Abigail J., 165. 
Bolles, Joseph, 84. 

Pamela E., 164. 

Sarah, 77. 
Boltwood, Robert, Sergt. 

13- 
Abby, 15. 
Abigail, 13, 14. 
Caroline Amelia, 16. 
Charles Upham, 15. 
Ebenezer, 13, 14. 



Boltwood, Edmund, 16. 
Edward, 15. 
Electa, 16. 
Elijah, 14, 15. 
Elisha, 14, 15. 
Elishaba, 15. 
Eliza, 15. 
Elizabeth, 13, 14. 
Emeline, 15. 
Emily, 14. 
Emily Maria, 16. 
Esther, 14. 
Eunice, 14, 15. 
Eunice Church, 14, 15. 
Fanny Shepherd, 15. 
Frederick Pettis, 15. 
George Shepherd, 16. 
Hannah, 13, 14, 139. 
Harriet, 14, 15, 52. 
Harriet Newell, 16, 93. 
Henry Leonidas, 16. 
Irene, 14. 

Jemima, 13. 14, 104. 
John, 14, 15. 
John Emerson, 16. 
Joseph, 15. 
Judith, 15. 
Keziah, 14. 
Lucinda, 15. 
Lucius, 14, 15, 16. 
Lucius Manlius, Hon., 

15, 16. 
Lucy, 14, 15, 75. 
Lydia, 13, 76. 
Martha, 13, 14, 15, 146. 
Mary, 10. 13, 14, 15, 43, 

62. 
Mary Sheldon, 14, 62. 
Minerva, 15. 
Nancy, 15, 16. 
Olive, 14. 

Oliver Noble, 15, 16. 
Rebecca, 13. 
Rizpah, 16. 

Robert, 10, 13, 16, 146. 
Ruth, 14, 162. 
Samuel, 13, 14, 15, 52, 

76, 82, 89, 104, 139. 
Sarah, 13, 14, 16, 82, 146. 
Solomon, 13, 14, 15, 

16,30,43,77,141,162. 
Thomas Kast, 15. 
Wilham, 13, 14, 15, 16, 

41, 62, 75, 93. 
William, Lieut., 14. 
William Francis, 16. 
William Mynders, 15. 
Bond, Sarah, 21. 
Bonney, Oliver, 16. 
Cynthia, 16. 



GENEALOGICAL INDEX. 



171 



Bonney, Elijah Hay- 
ward, 1 6. 

Elizabeth Harvey, i6. 

Franklin, i6. 

George Washington, i6. 

Mary, 80. 

Mary Jane, 16. 

Oliver Edmund, 16. 

OUver, 80. 

Susan, Jane 16. 
Boosey, Sarah, 140. 
Booth, Zechariah, 150. 
Boreman, Jonathan, 73. 
Bowes, Nicholas, 23. 

. 23- 

Bracy, Thomas, 16 

Hannah, 16. 

Mary, 16. 

Phebe, 16, 35. 

Sarah, 16. 
Bradley, Wm., Rev., 136. 
Bragg, Abial, 160. 

Celinda, 160. 
Brainard, Halsey, 80. 

Maria, 44. 

Mary, 79. 

Urijah, 15. 
Brainerd, O. B., 165. 

, 109. 

Breaden, Mary, 89. 
Breck, Aaron, Dea., 48. 

Sarah, 104. 
Brewer, Daniel, Rev., 18. 

Gaius, 15. 

Lucinda, 15. 

Sybil, 144. 

William, 14. 
Brewster, Eunice A. ,138. 

Mary Ann, 80. 
Bridge, Sally, 85. 
Bridges, Nathaniel, 25. 
Bridgman, James, 5, 33. 

Jonathan, 133. 

Joseph, 149. 

Martha, ^^. 

Noah, 149. 

Oliver, 52. 

Orlando, 11. 
Briggs, Abigail, 93. 

Laura, 27. 
Brook, Remembrance, 

16. 
Brooks, John, 16, 155. 

Abigail, 16. 

Hannah, 16. 

Joseph, 16, 146. 

Lydia, 16. 

Miriam, 16. 

Nathaniel, 6. 

Roxcelana, 16. 



Brooks, Sarah, 16. 
Thankful, 19. 
Uri, 16. 



Broughton, Abigail, 126. 
Brown, James, 16. 

Abel, 90. 

Abigail, 16, 104. 

Asa, 79. 

Betsey, 16. 

Clarissa, 108. 

Douglass, 16. 

Elizabeth, 16, 158. 

Hannah, i6, 171, 172, 
189, 190. 

John, 16, 95. 

Lemuel, 16, 41, 133. 

Mary, 16. 

Mercy, 16. 

Mindwell, 16. 

Moses M., 106. 

Patience, 143. 

Samuel, 158. 

Sarah, 16. 

Thankful, 16. 

William, Dea., Jr., 85. 
Browne, William, 17. 

Abigail, 17. 

Ann, 17. 

Elizabeth, 17. 

John, 17. 

Mary, 17. 

Sarah, 17. 

Zechariah, 17. 
Brownson, James, 142. 
Bryant, Ziba, 89. 

Hannah, 152. 
Buckley, Col., 64. 

Elizabeth, 125. 
Buckman, Benjamin, 67. 
Buel, Frederick A., 16. 

Hepzibah, 151. 
Buell, Peter, 151. 

William, 10. 
Bulkley, Col., 92. 
Bull, Thomas, 29, 89. 

Abigail, 8. 

, 109. 

Builard, Asa, Rev., 46. 

Ebenezer, Rev., 42. 

E. W., Rev., 134. 

John. 37. 
Bumps, Mary, t6o. 
Bunce, Elizabeth, 153. 

Mary, 94. 

Sarah, 153. 

Thomas, 94, 153, 162. 
Burbank, Abraham, 164. 
Bureau, Romaine Mad- 
elaine, 144. 



Burk, John, 64, 73, 127, 

154- 
Burnet, Jonathan, Jr., 

79- 
Bumham, James, 17. 

Allen, 17. 

Elsey, 17. 
Burr, Timothy, 17. 

Asahel, 28. 

Benjamin, 157. 

Catherine, 28. 

Eleanor, 17. 

Elizabeth, 17. 

Esther, 17. 

Mary, 17. 

Nancy, 17. 
Burroughs, Edward, 18. 
Burt, Aurelia, 43. 

Benjamin, 10. 

David, 10, 64. 

Franklin, 136. 

Huldah, 56. 

Jonathan, 9. 

Joseph, 19, 29. 

Lucy, 158. 

Martha, 130. 

Mary, 64. 

Moses, 158. 

Thomas, 56. 

, 80. 

Bush, Aaron, 78 

Jotham, Col., 43. 

Martha, 43. 
Butler, Elizabeth, 162. 

Hope, 55- 

Mary, 112. 

Rebecca, 139. 

Thomas, 55, 112. 

CADDETT,Sarah,2i. 
Cadwell, Abel, 165. 
Wyllys J., 159. 
Cady, Jeremiah, 148. 
Otis, 85. 
Salome, 26. 
Sarah, 21. 



■ 145- 

Caldwell, Abel, 165. 

Rachel, 151. 
Calkin, Sarah, 18. 
Camp, Abigail, 95. 

Laura W., 43. 
Candee, Lydia, 86. 

Samuel, 86. 
Carlisle, Benjamin, 138. 

Catherine M., 138. 
Carpenter, , 102. 

Margaret, 131. 
Carrier, Isaiah, 17, 96 

Benjamin, 17. 



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GENEALOGICAL INDEX. 



Carrier, Hannah, 17. 

Nathaniel, 17. 

Samuel, 17. 

Sarah, 17. 
Cassell, Sarah, 21. 
Caswell, Rachel, 143. 
Catlin, Samuel, 17,32- 

Dorcas, 17. 

Elizabeth, 17, 98. 

Irene, 17. 

Isabel, 7. 

John, 7, 8. 

Lucretia, 17. 

Mary, 17. 

Roxa, 17. 

Samuel Crow, 17. 
Chamberlain, Joseph, 17, 
35, 120. 

Abigail, 85. 

John, 17. 

Mary, 17. 

Mercy, 17. 
Chamberlain, Sarah, 17, 

52. 

Thomas, 155. 

, 6, 122, 157. 

Champion, Epaphrodi- 

tus, 74. 
Champney, William, 41. 
Chandler, Aaron M., 43. 

Henry, 94. 
Chapin, Achsah, 130. 

Anna, Wid., 99. 

Asenath, 134. 

Benoni, 97, 157. 

Caleb, 35. 

Charity, 157. 

Charles, 128. 

Cynthia, 86. 

David, 53. 

Deborah, 54. 

Ebenezer, 19. 

Elijah, 12. 

Elizabeth, 104. 

Enoch, 103 

Esther, 24. 

Giles, 144 

Henry, 84. 

Irene, 122. 

Israel, 147. 

Japhet, 35. 

Martha, 157. 

Mary, 149. 

Melinda, 97. 

Mindwell, 97. 

Naomi, Mrs., 104. 

Phinehas, 134. 

Roselle, 53. 

Ruth, 113. 

Silence, 128. 



Chapin, Sarah, 164. 
Thaddeus, 85. 
Thankful, 84. 
William, 93, 96. 

, 113. 

Chapman, Jabez, 118. 
Chappel, Frances, 108. 
Charter, Elizabeth, 156. 
Chauncy, Rev. Isaac, 
17, 115, 1 16. 
Abiel, 17, 18. 
Abigail, 17, 18. 
Catherine, 17, 18, 140. 
Charles, 17, 18, 55, 76. 
David, 18. 

Dorothy, 17, 18, 116. 
Elizabeth, 17. 
Elizabeth Billings, 18. 
Eunice, 18. 
Isaac, 18. 
Israel, 17. 

Israel, Rev., 17, 18. 
Jerusha, 17, 18. 
Josiah, 17 18, 55, 116. 
Katherine, 18. 
Mary, 17, 18. 
Nathaniel, 18. 
Nathaniel, Rev., 18. 
Oliver, 17, 99. 
Richard, 17, 125. 
Sarah, 17, 18. 
Cheever, Ezekiel, 89. 

Mary, 89. 
Chester, Dorothy, 81. 
John, 161. 
Sarah, 161. 
Stephen, 81. 
Child, Lemuel, 121. 

Samuel, 9. 
Childs, Experience, 73 
Hannah, 127. 
Samuel, 127. 

, 152. 

Church, Richard, 18, 19. 
Abigail, 19, 20, 68. 
Almira, 44. 
Ann, 19. 
Anne, 18. 
Benjamin, 19, 20, 34, 

72, 82, 109, 129. 
Daniel, 20, 127. 
David, 19, 20, 99. 
Diadema, 20. 
Dorcas, 20. 
Ebenezer, 20. 
Eber, 19, 20. 
Edward, 18, 19, 117, 

118. 
Elijah, 33. 
Elisha, 19. 



Church, Elizabeth, 19. 
Esther, 19, 20. 
Eunice, 20, 147. 
Experience, 19. 
Giles, 12, 20. 
Hannah, 12, 18, 19, 20. 
Jesse, 19, 20. 
Joel, 20. 

John, 18, 19, 20, 95. 
Jonathan, 19, 23, 128, 

147- 
Joseph, 19, 20, 68, 96, 

127, 128. 
Josiah, 19, 20. 
Lucius, 45. 
Malachi, 19. 
Margaret, 19, 132. 
Martha, 19, 155. 
Mary, 18, 19, 59, 117, 124. 
Medad, 20. 
Mehitabel, 19, 36. 
Meriam., 19, 20, 129. 
Moses, 19, 96. 
Naomi, 13, 18. 
Nathan, 20. 
Nathaniel, 19, 20. 
Nehemiah, 19, 20, 128. 
Rachel, 19. 
Rebecca, 18, 19, 118. 
Richard, 18, 19, 36, 59. 
Ruth, 19, 20. 
Samuel, 12, 18, 19, 20, 
31, 38, 63, 124, 126, 
158. 
Sarah, 18, 19, 158. 
Susanna, 37. 
Sylvanus, 20. 
Thankful, 20. 
Timothy, 19. 
Waitstill, 19, 20. 
William Harrison, 19, 
20. 

, 115. 

Churchill, Joseph, 36. 

Josiah, 18. 
Clapp, Dorcas, 99. 

Elisha, 159. 

Irene, 20, 89. 

Levi, 78, 79. 

Lucy, 20, 130. 

Mary, 20. 

Mindwell, 157. 

Miriam, 20. 

Noah, 90, 99. 

Oliver, 20, 93. 

Preserved, 20, 84, 89, 
104, 130, 146. 

Sally, II, 20. 

Sarah, 20, 84, 104. 



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Clapp, Supply, 90. 

Thomas, 88. 

Timothy, 20, 52. 

WilHam, 20, 39 
Clark, Achsah, 21. 

Adah, 21. 

Allen, 26. 

Amaziah, 21. 

Ann, 52. 

Asa, 20, 78, 90. 

Asahel, 14, 21, 75. 

Betsey, 65. 

Chester, 90. 

Daniel, 52, 93. 

David, 21. 

Ebenezer, 90, 93, iii 
117. 

Eleanor, 21. 

Eliakim, 156. 

Elijah, 52, 62. 

Elisha, Jr., 41. 

Elizabeth, 119. 

Enoch, 21. 

Enos, 21. 

Esther, 21. 

Eunice, 21, 62, 89. 

Experience, loi, 130. 

Gad, 21. 

Gideon, 57. 

Hannah, 63. 

Huldah, 65, 156. 

Increase, 21. 

Irene, 14. 

Isaac, 104. 

Israel, 20, 96. 

James, 21. 

Jedediah, 117. 

Joanna, 83. 
Joel, 20, 157, 

J . 95- 

John, 20, 21, 119, 143, 

153- 
John, Dea., 51, 155. 
Jonathan, 21 
Joseph, 20. 
Jotham, 20. 
Judah, 21, 95. 

Justus, 21, III. 

Kezia, 21. 
Lois, 21, 30. 
Lucy Ann, 120. 
Luke, 20. 
Mary, 20, 21, 143. 
Matthew, 99. 
Mehitable, 20. 
Moses, 20, 21, 36. 
Naomi, 21. 

Nathaniel, 5, 59, 70, 94, 
151- 



Clark, Noah, 21,36,89. 
Peggy, 21. 
Phene, 21. 
Philomela, 62. 
Phinehas, 156. 
Phyllira, 21. 
Rachel, 21. 
Rebecca, 21, 104. 
Rhoda, 21. 
Rufus, 21. 
Sally, 108. 
Salome, 136. 
Samuel, 83. 
Sarah, 21, 51, 99, 119, 

151- 
Sarah, Mrs., 102. 
Seth, 21. 
Silas Dexter, 16. 
Simeon, 21, 30, 62, 75, 

89, 164. 
Sybil, 7, 20. 
Tabitha, 133. 
Theodore, 106. 
Titus, 20. 
William, 21. 

, 10, 161. 

Clarke, Henry, 21. 

Jane, 21. 
Clary, John, 21, 22, ^^^ 
47- 
Gershom, 21. 
Hannah, 22. 
Henry, 49. 

Joseph, 10, 22,63,145. 
Martha, 22. 
Mary, 21, 119. 
Rachel, 21. 
Samuel, 22. 
Sarah, 21, 22. 
Clesson, Joseph, 6. 

Matthew, 73. 
Cleveland, A. Rev., 113. 

Josiah, 113. 
Clothier, Ann, 52. 
Coats, Reuben, 22. 
Coit, John, 153. 
Cole, see Cowles. 
Ebenezer, 31, 62, 159. 
Elizabeth, 31. 
Esther, 35. 
Nathaniel, 95. 
Persis, 31. 
Polly, 31. 
Sally, 31. 
Samuel, 61. 
Stephen, 31. 
Zeruiah, 62, 159. 
Coleman, Amos, 22. 
Azubah, 22, 42. 



Coleman, Bethia, 22. 

Deborah, 22. 

Ebenezer, 22. 

Eliphalet Beecher, 22. 

Elijah, 22. 

Enos, 22. 

Esther, 22. 

Eunice, 23. 

Fanny, 23. 

Hannah, 22, 52, 10 1. 

John, 22, 51, 70. 

Joseph, 22. 

Lydia, 148. 

Mary, 22, 37. 

Nathaniel, 22, 37, 42, 
126. 

Noah, 22, 32, 95. 

Samuel, 22. 

Sarah, 22, 23, 51. 

Seth, 22, 23. 

Seth, Dr., 147. 

Submit, 22. 

Tabitha, 22. 

Thankful, 22, 23. 

Thomas, 22, 150. 

William, 23. 
Collier, Joseph, 53. 

Mary, 53. 
Collins, Daniel, 150. 

Mary, 156. 

Sarah, 150. 
Colt, Benjamin, Lt., 23. 

Almira, 106. 

Ame, 23, 114. 

Benjamin, 71, 114. 

Betsey, 23. 

Christopher, 23 

Daniel, 23. 

Elisha, 23, 26. 

Ethalinda, 23. 

Lucretia, 23. 
Colton, Anna, 2?, iiz. 

Eli, 147. 

Elizabeth, 81. 

Ephraim, 126. 

Esther, 94, 126. 

John, III, 154. 

John, Rev., 23. 

George, 151. 

Mary, 8. 

Sarah, 59. 
Thomas, 150. 
Combs, Elizabeth, 61. 
Conant, Shubael, 154. 
Coney, Harriet Sophia, 

138. 
Congdon, James, 26. 



174 



GENEALOGICAL INDEX. 



Conkev. Ithamar. Hon., 
86. 

John, 37. 
Cook or Cooke, Aaron, 
9, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 
72, 112, 125, 135. 152. 

Aaron, Maj., 124. 

Abbe Greenwood, 29. 

Abigail, 24, 25, 28. 

Abigail Frank, 28. 

Achsah, 26. 

Achsar, 25. 

Adaline, 28, 137. 

Adelia, 27. 

Albert Hunt, 28. 

Alfred Hunt, 28, 29. 

Alice Georgianna, 29. 

Almon, 26, 27. 

Amanda, 26. 

Amasa, 25. 

Andrew, 25. 

Angeline, 28. 

Ann, 23. 24. 

Anna, 23, no. 

Anne, 25, 26, 28. 

Artemus, 26. 

Arthur Lyman. 29. 

Ashbel, 26. 

Austin, 27 

Austin Eliot, 28. 

Betsey, 26, 27. 

Bridget, 9, 23. 

Caleb, 25. 

Calvin, 26. 

Caroline, 28. 

Catherine, 26, 28. 

Charles, 27. 

Charles Herbert, 29. 

Charlotte, 26. 

Charlotte Sparhawk, 
28. 

Charlotte Smith. 27. 

Chester, 27. 

Clarissa, 24, 27. 

Coleman, 24, 25, 26, 
27, 129. 

Cynthia, 26. 

Dan, 25, 27. 

Daniel, 26, 27, 28, 29, 

135- 
Daniel West wood, 29. 
David, 24, 25. 
David Smith, 26, 27. 
David White, 26. 
Dorcas, 24, 58. 
Edwin, 119. 
Edwin Shipman, 29. 
Elbridge, 27. 
Eleazar, 25, 28, 92. 



Cook or Cooke, Eliezer, 

2u. 

Elihu, 25, 26, 28, 137. 
Elijah, 24, 29. 
Elisha, 24, 25, 26, 28, 

48, 141. 
Elisha, Jr., 38. 
Eliza, 28, 29. 
Elizabeth, 23, 25, 26, 

29. 125. 
Elizabeth Ann, 27. 
Elizabeth S., 27. 
Elizabeth Smith, 27.- 
Elizabeth W., 28. 
Ellen Elizabeth, 28. 
Elmira Fay, 28. 
Elvira, 28, 
Emory Lucius, 28. 
Enos, 25. 

Enos Evander, 28, 105 
Enos Foster, 27, 28, 

159- . 
Ephraim, 27. 
Eunice, 26, 116. 
Evander, 28. 
Erastus, 27. 
Eveline, 27. 
Experience. 26. 
Francis Edward, 29. 
Francis James, 28. 
Francis Luther, 27, 
Franklin, 28, 29. 
Frederick, 26, 27. 
Frederick Louis, 28. 
Gad, 25, 131. 
George Elbridge, 28. 
George P., 28. 
Giles, 25, 27. 
Hannah, 23, 24, 25, 26, 

38, 92. 
Harriet, 46. 
Harriet Amelia, 29. 
Helen Permelia, 29. 
Henry A., 28. 
Henry Martin, 28. 
Henry Robert, 28. 
Herbert Jonathan, 28. 
Herbert Stanley, 28. 
Horace, 27. 
Irene, 25. 
Jabez, 24. 
James, 26, 27, 28. 
James Francis, 28. 
Jane, 23, 24, 28. 
Jane Elizabeth, 28. 
Jerush, 25, 131. 
Joannah, 23,24,25, 112, 
Job, 26. 



Cook or Cooke, John, 24, 

21;. 26 12*^ "'^i -J^- 

jonn Dudley, 27. 
John Elihu, 28. 
Jonathan, 23, 24, 25, 

26, 27, 57, 107, 134. 
Joseph, 24, 25, 128. 
Josiah, 25, 26, 28. 
Judith, 27. 
Julia, 27. 

Juliette Montague, 28. 
Keziah, 25. 
Lewis, 27. 
Levi, 25, 130. 
Linda, 26. 
Loomis, 27. 
Lorinda, 27. 
Louisa, 25, 26. 
Lucinda, 26, 165. 
Lucius Althea, 26. 
Lucius Crane, 28, 29. 
Lucretia, 24, 25, 134. 
Lucy, 25, 28, 121. 
Lucy Warner, 28. 
Marah, 132. 
Margaret, 24, 26, 109. 
Maria, 26, 27, 28, 86. 
Maria R., 27. 
Maria Louisa, 29. 
Martha, 24, 26, 29. 
Martha H., 27. 
Martha Hunt, 28. 
Martha Jane, 28. 
Martin, 25, 131. 
Martin F., 98. 
Mary, 23, 24, 26, 27, 

28, 83, 115, 152. 
Mary A., 28. 
Mary Ann, 27. 
Mary D., 27. 
Mary Jane, 28. 
Mary Maria, 28. 
Mehitable, 23, 128. 
Miriam, 24, 26. 29. 
Miriam, 82, no. 
Moses, 8, 23, 24, 25, 38, 

68, 83, 109, 139. 
Moses, Capt., 24. 
Nancy D., 28. 
Nancy Elvira, 28. 
Nathaniel, 72. 
Noah, 23, 24, 25, 26, 

91, 116. 
Noah, Lt., 25, 26. 
Oliver, 25. 
Pamela, 28. 
Parsons, 25, 26. 
Parsons, Rev., 162. 
Perez, 25, 129. 
Permelia, 27. 



GENEALOGICAL INDEX. 



175 



Cook or Cooke, Persis, 

25- 135- 
Phebe, 25. 
Phinehas, 24, 25. 
Polly Rood, 27. 
Preserved, 25. 
Rebecca, 23, 24, 25, 26. 
Robert, 26, 28, 148. 
Roswell, 26. 
Roswell Dickinson, 28. 
Roswell Wells, 27. 
Rufus, 27, 28. 
Rufus Lyman, 28. 
Ruhamah Deane, 27. 
Ruth, 24, 26, 133. 
Samuel, Rev., 113. 
Samuel, 23, 24, 29, 91, 

92, no. 
Samuel Pierce, 29. 
Sarah, 23, 24, 25, 26, 

47. 72- 
Sarah Ann, 28, 29. 
Sarah Porter, 27. 
Seaborn, Rev., 161. 
Seth, 24, 25, 27. 
Silas, 25. 

Solomon, 25, 26, 107. 
Sophia, 26, 27, 28. 
Sophia L., 27, 138. 
Stephen, 25, 26, 27. 
Submit, 26, 141. 
Susannah, 25. 
Sydenham, 28, 29. 
Sylvester, 26, 85. 
Sylvia, 26. 
Thankful, 24. 
Timothy, 25. 
Tryphena, 26. 
Waitstill, 8, 25, 26. 
Westwood, 22, 23, 24, 

25. 132. 
William, 23, 24, 25, 26, 

155- 

William E., 28. 

William Foster, 28. 

William Smith, 28. 

William Westwood, 23, 
24, 25, 26, 28, 46. 

Winthrop, 26, 27, 138. 

Zenas, 27. 
Cooledge, Catherine, 93. 

Lois Eastman, 164. 

Nathaniel, 93, 114, 164. 
Cooley, Alden, 85. 

Benjamin, 8, 66, 89. 

Caleb, no. 

Daniel, 14, 43. 

Elizabeth, 118. 

Terusha, 131. 

Loi Clark, 29. 



Cooley, Lucy, 96. 
Manila, 86. 
Martin, 121. 
Miriam, 74. 
Oliver, 77. 
Sarah, 8. 
Samuel, 29. 
Simeon, 74. 
Simon, 63, 117. 
Tamesin, 29. 
William, 144. 

. 52, 117- 

Coon, Mary Ann, 160. 
Cooper, Abigail, 103. 

Jacob, 54. 
Corkins, William. 29. 
Corning, Ezra H., 136. 
Cornwall, Jacob, 153. 
Cornwell, John, 70. 
Cotton, Elizabeth, i6i. 

S., Rev., 108, 161. 

Cowan, , 33. 

Cowles, Cowls and Cole, 

Aaron, 31. 

Abia, 30. 

Abigail, 29, 30. 

Abner, 30. 

Anna, 29. 

Asa, 164. 

Azubah, 31. 

Charlotte, 31. 

Chester, 30. 

Chloe, 31. 

Daniel, 164. 

David, 30, 47, 164. 

Deborah, 29. 

Ebenezer, 29, 30. 

Eleazar, 29, 30, 31, 38, 
60, 97. 

Eli, 31. 

Elijah, 30, 164. 

Elisha, 29, 30. 

Elizabeth, 29, 30, 31. 

Emily, 164. 

Enos, 30, 58. 

Esther, 29, 31. 

Eunice, 29, 31, 54. 

Hannah, 29, 31, 74, 112. 

Irene, 31. 

Israel, 30. 

Jerua, 31. 

Jerusha, 30, 31, 130. 

Jonathan, 29, 30, 31, 

54- 55. 84- 
John, 29, 30, 31, 34, 

121. 
Joseph, 121. 
Josiah, 30, 44, 106. 
Justin, 30. 
Kezia, 30. 



Cowles, Keziah, 29. 

Lavina, 31. 

Levi, 30, 49, 65. 

Lewis, 164. 

Lois, 30. 

Lucy, 30. 

Martha, 30. 

Mary, 29, 34. 

Moses, 31, 44. 

Myra, 164. 

Nathaniel, 29. 

Oliver, 21, 30, 37, 40, 
49. 

Orinda, 31. 

Prudence, 30. 

Reuben, 30, 31. 

Rufus, 30. 

Ruth, 106. 

Sally, 30, 31. 

Samuel, 29, 30, 73, 84, 
112. 

Sarah, 29, 30, 31. 

Silas, 31, 164. 

Simeon, 30, 31, 39. 

Solomon, 31. 

Stoughton, 31. 

Submit, 30. 

Sylvester, 31. 

Timothy, 29, 30. 

Wealthy, 31, 43. 

William, 31. 

Zebina, 31. 
Craft, Abigail, 31, 155. 

Benoni, 31. 

Elizabeth, 31, 120. 

Gaius, 31. 

John, 31, 59. 

Joseph, 158. 

Mary, 31, 72. 

Moses, 31. 

Rebecca, 31. 

Rufus, 85. 

Thomas, 31, 155. 
Crafts, Joseph, 32, 148. 

John, 59, 148. 

Mary Parsons, 32. 

Thomas, 60. 
Crane, Lucius, 30, 135. 
Crawford, Julia M., 78. 
Crocker, Elizabeth, 84. 

Hannah, 84. 

Susannah, 77. 

Zacheus, 38, 66, 84. 
Croft, John, 32. 

Thomas, 35, 155. 
Cross, Elizabeth, 86. 
Crossett, Mary A., 46. 
Crouch, Richard, 82. 

Mrs., 83. 



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GENEALOGICAL INDEX. 



Crow, Anna, 32. 

Daniel, 32. 

Elizabeth, 32. 

Esther, 32. 

Hannah, 32, 34, 91. 

John, 22, 34, 55, 58, 
63, 95, 108, 153. 

Mary,i7,22,32,95,i26. 

Mehitable, 32, 108. 

Nathaniel, 32. 

Rebecca, 32. 

Ruth, 32, 55, 63. 

Samuel, 32, 89, 91, 124. 

Sarah, 32, 108. 
Crowfoot, Abial, 32. 

Abigail, 32. 

Charles, 32. 

Daniel, 32, 69. 

Ebenezer, 32. 

Ephraim, 69. 

Joseph, 32. 

Margaret, 32. 

Mary, 32, 46. 

Samuel, 31, 32, 35, 146. 

Sarah, 32. 

Stephen, 30, 32, 60. 

, 146. 

Cummings, Thomas, 148. 

Currier, , 41. 

Curtis, Joseph W., Rev., 
164. 

Diodatus, 119. 

Jonathan, 64. 
Cushing, Hannah, 160. 
Cushman, Chester L., 98. 

Sarah Eliza, 137. 

Wealthy, 44. 

William, 137. 
Cutler, Elihu Pomeroy, 

32. 
Esther, 32. 

Isaac Guernsey, 32, 66. 
Joseph, 66. 
Robert, 32, 33. 
Susan, 32. 
Thomas, 42. 
Cutter, , 46. 

DALE, Mehitable, 
Mrs., 33. 
Green, 33. 
Jeremiah, 33. 
Prudence, 49. 
Samuel, 33. 
Damon, Ichabod, 143. 

Jane S., 138. 
Dana, Amariah, 33. 
Dorothy, 33. 
Eleazer, 33. 
Freedom, 33. 



Dana, Hannah, 33, 41. 

Joseph, 33. 

Lucinda, 33. 

Lucretia, 33. 

Mary, 33. 

Ruth, 33. 

Samuel, 33. 

Sarah, 33. 

Sylvia, 33. 
Daniels, Addington, 105. 

Isaac, 26. 
Darling, Gilman, 136. 
Dart, Daniel, 154. 

Ruth, 154. 
Davis, Herman, 33. 

Philip, 22. 

Sarah, 33. 
Day, Abraham, 78. 

Eli, 78, 80. 

Eunice, 48. 

Ezekiel, 55. 

Ezra, 144, 157. 

Hannah, 157. 

Irene, 78. 

John, 124. 

Joseph, 93. 

Lydia, 80. 

Maynard, 91. 

Mehitable, 52. 

Nancv, 132. 

Robert, 87. 

Samuel, Rev., 136. 

Sarah, 144. 

Sarah H., 80, 87. 

Thomas, 52. 

• 31- 

Dean, Faxon, 33. 

Mehitable, 33. 

Olive, 33. 

Orange, 33. 

Samuel, ^^. 

Sarah, 33. 
Debell, John, 122. 

Sabra, 132. 

Philothea, 122. 
Delano, Betsey, 32. 
Deming, John, 98. 
Dewey, Abigail, 103. 

James, 142. 

Mercy, 57. 

Orville, Rev., D.D., 15. 

Polly, 27. 
Dexter, Horace, 15. 
Dibble, Thomas, 67, 69. 
Dickinson , Aaron ,37,39, 
42, 43, 97, 110. 

Abi, 44. 

Abigail, 30, 31, 32, 34, 
35. 36, 39. 41, 42, 44. 
51, 76, 107. 



Dickinson, Abijah, 40. 
Abner, 35, 120. 
Achsah, 42. 
Adam, 34. 
Adolphus, 41. 
Alanson, 78. 
Albert, 46. 
Alphonzo, 46. 
Ame Stoughton, 43. 
Amy, 39. 
Ann, 21, 34, 37. 
Anna,33,37,4o,42,i34. 
Anne, 33. 
Anne S., 45. 
Ansel, 42. 
Appleton, 46. 
Arthur E., 46. 
Asa, 37, 41, 66. 
Asenath, 37, 4T. 
Austin, 42. 
Austin Lyman, 40. 
Azariah, 31, 33, 34, 35, 

36, 37, 38, 41, 42, 43, 
47, 48, 63, 91. 

Azubah, 37, 40, 41, 42, 

140. 
Baxter, 43. 
Bela, 43. 

Benjamin, 35, 37, 41. 
Benoni, 35, 37. 92. 
Bethiah, 33. 
Betsey, 41, 42, 46. 
Beulah, 37. 
Bissel, 43. 
Caleb Dexter, 47. 
Caroline, 42. 
Catherine, 35, 42, 46. 
Charles, 42, 43. 
Charles Holton, 44. 
Charlotte, 42, 44, 46. 
Chester, 41, 43. 
Chloe, 31, 39, 44. 
Christian, 38. 
Clarine, 46. 
Clarissa, 41, 42. 
Consider, 37. 
Cotton, 38, 42, 46. 
Daniel, 6, 34, 35, 36, 

37, 38, 42, 43, 46, 57. 
Daniel H., 135. 
Daniel Henry, 46. 
David, 33, 36, 37, 40, 

41, 127. 
Demis, 159. 
Dexter, 131. 
Dorcas, 33, 36, 41, 91, 

129. 
Dorothy, 36,38,42,45. 



GENEALOGICAL INDEX. 



177 



Dickinson, Ebenezer, 1 1 , 
31, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 

40, 44, 45, 47, 54, 76, 
82. 

Ebenezer Watson, 134. 
Editha, 35, 38, 40, 52. 
Edward, 42, 46. 
Edwards, 45. 
Edwin, 33. 
Eleanor M., 43. 
Electa, 44, 46. 
Eli, 38, 39, 40, 93. 
Elihu,34,37,38,40, 42, 

89, 121. 
Elihu E., 41. 
Elijah, 36, 39, 40, 42, 

43, 44, 46, 130. 
Elijah Walden, 46. 
Eliphalet, 34, 37. 
Elisha, 35, 36, 38, 39, 

42, 44, 45, 134. 
Elisha B., 46. 
Elizabeth, 34, 35, 41, 

42, 43, 46. 
Emeline, 46. 
Emily, 45, 46. 
Enos,37,39,40,42,io5. 
Esther, 7, 34, 36, 38, 

39, 40, 41,43,45, 105, 

112. 
Eunice, 35, 36, 38, 45. 
Experience, 36, 39. 
Ezekiel, 40, 46. 
Fanny, 41, 42, 44, 46. 
Fidelia, 40, 45. 
Frances Cordelia, 46. 
Frederick, 46, 106. 
Friend, 41. 
Fuller, 33. 
Gad, 45. 
Gardner, 42. 
George, 41, 42, 46. 
Gideon, 35, 36, 37, 39, 

44. 52- 
Gideon, Jr., 45. 
Hannah, 19, 31. 33. 34. 

35. 36, 37. 38, 39. 40, 

41, 42, 43, 46, 56, 
72, 96, loi, 104, 106, 
137, 148. 

Harriet, 45, 46. 
Harriet Newell, 42. 
Harriet Sophia, 46. 
Harvey, 33. 
Henry, 42, 44. 
Henry Kirk White, 33. 
Hepzibah, 35, 37. 
Hezekiah, 11, 33, 34, 
44. 51- 



Dickinson, Hiram, 44. 
Honor, 37. 
Horace, 40, 42. 
Horace Stoughton. 46. 
Horace Westwood, 46. 
Hosmer, 41. 
Irene, 30, 37,40.41,44, 

45- 
Israel, 14,36,38,40,41, 

126, 153. 
James P., 46. 
Jemima, 45. 
Jeremy, 42. 
Jerusha, 36, 43, 44, 45, 

46, 54, 80, 117. 
Joanna, 34, 37. 
Joel, 36, 38. 
Joel L., 40. 
;/John, 8, 16, 22, 32, 33, 

34.35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 
41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 
76, 77, 81, 101, 107, 
117, 120, 132, 133, 
145, 151, 159. 
Joathan, ri, 22, 33, 34, 

35. 36. 38, 39. 42, 43. 

45, 86, 125. 
Jonathan Smith, 44. 
Joseph, 53, 34, 35, 36, 

37. 38, 39. 40, 44. 45. 

66, 85, 144. 
Joseph E., 41. 
Joshua, 36, 40, 42, 44. 
Joshua Prentiss, 45. 
Josiah, 36, 38, 39, 42, 

109, 133. 
J. Smith, 44. 
Judah, 39, 40, 44. 
Judith, 37, 41. 
Juha, 43. 
Lemuel, 37. 
Levi, 30, 33, 37, 41 
Lewis S., 46. 
Lois, 37, 39, 40, 42, 45, 

67, 161. 
Lovina, 44. 
Lucinda, 40, 43, 46. 
Lucius, 40. 
Lucretia, 41, 44, 46. 
Lucy 36, 38, 40, 42, 

43, 44, 45, 46. 
Luther, 33, 39, 42, 44, 

45- 
Luther White, 46. 
Lydia, 35, 36, 37, 41, 

43. 44. 45- 
Lyman, 44. 
Marah, 38. 
Margaret, 45. 



Dickinson, Maria, 38 41, 
44. 46, 133- 
Maria Partridge, 42. 
Martha, 20, 34, 35, 36, 

37. 38. 39. 40, 41. 43. 

44, 45, 60. 
Martha Elizabeth, 26, 

33- 
Martin, 45. 
Mary, 17, 34, 35, 36. 

37. 38, 39. 40. 41. 42. 
43. 45. 46, 48, 55, 94, 

107, 125, 129, 132, 

138, 155, 159. 
Mary Ann, 45, 66. 
Medad, 39, 43, 130, 137. 
Medad, Maj., 40. 
Mehitable, 19, 34, 35, 

36, 37. 38, 76. 
Melinda, 42. 
Mercy, 17, 35, 39, 40, 

85- 
Meriam, 35, 37. 
Moses, 14, 34, 35, 36, 

37,39,40,43.44. 126. 
Moses Billings, 43. 
Nancy, 44, 45, 46. 
Naomi, 38, 39. 
Nathan, 30, 35, 36, 37, 

40, 41, 43, 45, 46. 
Nathan, Jr., 134. 
Nathaniel, 29, 33, 34, 

35. 36, 37. 38. 39. 40, 

43, 48, 60, 125, 126, 
129, 153- 

Nathaniel, Jr., 87, 92. 
Nathaniel Coleman, 42. 
Nehemiah, 19, 29, 33, 

34. 36, 37. 38. 39. 43. 

44, 98, 128. 
Nehemiah, Jr., 96. 
Noadiah, 34. 

Noah, 36, 39, 45. 94. 

145- 
Noble, 41. 
Obadiah, 11, 33, 34, 

36,40,43, 56, 70, 161. 
Olive, 37, 42, 43, 44. 
Oliver, 38, 41. 
Orra, 44. 
Orin R., 41. 
Osman, 41 
Patrick Peebles, 41. 
Perez, 39, 40, 46. 
Phebe, 41. 
Philomela, 40. 
Pliny, 43. 
Polly, 41. 42, 45. 134- 



178 

Dickinson, Prudence, 37. 
Rachel, 39, 44, 46. 
Ransom, 42, 43. 
Rebecca, 34, 35,36,37, 

39, 44, 120, 128. 
Reuben, 31, 35, 36, 39, 

46. 
Reuben, Jr., 84. 
Roger, 37, 52 
Rosalinda, 44. 
Roswell, 39, 42, 44. 
Roxana, 44. 
Rufus, 44, 138. 
Rufus Leonard, 40. 
Ruth, 36, 37, 39, 42, 

46. 
Salina, 44. 
Sally Smith, 43. 
Salmon, 36, 37, 39. 
Salmon Morton, 43, 

134- 
Salome, 41, 45, 107. 
Samuel, 12, 33, 34, 35, 

36, 37. 38, 39. 42, 44, 

51, 72, 91, 155. 
Samuel Collins, 46. 
Samuel, Dea., 9, 23. 
Samuel Fowler, 15, 40, 

46. 
Samuel Steward, 41. 
Sarah, 31, 34, 35, 36,37, 

39. 41. 43. 44. 66, 70, 
81, 95, 98. 165. 

Sarah E., 41. 

Sarah Hunt, 45 

Sarah I., 42. 

Seth, 39, 45, 66. 

Shelah, 37. 

Sibil, 38, 67. 

Sidney, 33. 

Silas, 44, 45, 86. 

Silence, 38. 

Simeon, 33, 39, 44, 45, 

50, 54, 60, 105. 
Solomon, 39. 
Sophia, 42. 
Speedy, 44. 
Stephen, 37, 41, 48. 
Stoughton, 38, 42, 104. 
Submit, 35, 40, 56. 
Susan, 44, 45. 
Susanna, 35, 37, 40, 42, 

43- 
Sybil, 42, 67. 
Sylvanus, 26, 40, 42, 

46, 107. 
Thankful,35,37,38,39, 

40, 43. 44. 130. 
Theoda, 38. 



GENEALOGICAL INDEX. 

Dickinson, Theodocia, 
41- 
Thomas, 32,33, 34,36, 

37, 45, 94, 112. 
Thomas Wells, 37. 
Timothy, 40, 45, 46. 
Violet, 40. 
Waitstill, 38, 41, 97. 
Walter, 43. 
William, 23, 34, 36, 37, 

38, 40, 41, 42, 45, 46, 
91, 129, 148. 

William C, 46. 

William Phelps, 42. 

William P., 162. 

William Watson, 93. 

William Westwood, 46. 

Zebina, 43, 44. 

Zimri, 39, 44. 

, 48, 128, 129. 

, Mrs., 102. 

Doane, Elizabeth, 23. 
Dodd, Ebenezer, 155. 

Sarah, 157. 
Domo, or Domer, Peter, 
32, 46. 

Comfort, 46. 

Martin, 46. 

Martha, 46. 

Mary, 46. 

Sarah, 46. 
Doolittle, Charles, Dr., 

lOI. 

Ephraim, 100. 

Lucius, Dr., 10 1. 
Doty, Sarah, 140. 
Downing, John, 94, 164. 

Abigail, 95. 

Jonathan, 164. 

Mary, 164. 

Drake, , 85. 

Draper, Ichabod, Rev., 

30, 41- 
Drury, John, 164. 

Abel, 164. 
Dudley, Mercy, 5. 
Dunakin, Andrew, no, 
164. 

Anna, 164. 

Dolly, 164. 

Henry, 164. 

Samuel, 160. 
Dwight, Abia, 164. 

Abigail, 109. 

Ann, 165. 

Caroline, 71. 

Daniel, 94, 164. 

Elihu, 61, 164. 

Eunice, 62. 



Dwight, Fidelia, 166. 
Jonathan, 164. 
Josiah, 71, 108. 
Martha, 141. 
Mehitable, 164. 
Nathaniel, 62, 108, 164^ 

165. 
Samuel, 164. 
Timothy, 166. 

EASTMAN, Abigail, 
47, 48, 49, 128. 
Achsah, 48. 
Aloney, 49. 
Anna, 28, 48, 49. 
Anne, 48. 
Augustus, 144. 
Benjamin, 47, 48. 
Beulah, 49. 
Charles Baxter, 49. 
Clarissa, 48. 
David, 48, 49. 
Ebenezer, 39, 47, 48, 

49- 
Elijah, 48. 

Elizabeth, 47, 48, 131. 
Elizabeth Jane, 49. 
Emelia, 49. 
Eunice, 47, 48, 49. 
Grace, 48. 

Hannah, 12, 48, 49. 
Harriet Sophia, 49. 
Henry B., 49. 
Hepzibah, 49. 
Joanna, 47, 90. 
John, Dea., 114. 
John, 30, 47, 48, 49. 
Jonathan, 49. 
Joseph, 30, 38, 42, 43, 

47, 48, 49. 50, 76, 85, 

126, 143. 
Kezia, 47, 48, 104. 
Lena Harriet, 49. 
Lois, 48, 49, 114, 164. 
Lois Root, 49. 
Lucinda, 48. 
Lucius Root, 49, 50. 
Lucy Ann Smith, 49. 
Lydia, 43, 47, 104. 
Martin, 49. 
Mary, 41, 47, 48, 49. 
Mary Louisa, 50. 
Mercy, 47, 48, 128. 
Nathaniel, 47. 
Oman, 49. 
Peter, 47. 
Philip, 47. 
Polly, 48. 
Rachel, 47, 48. 



GENEALOGICAL INDEX. 



179 



Eastman, Rilus, 49. 

Roger, 47. 

Ruth, 40, 47, 48. 

Salome, 48. 

Samuel, 47, 48. 49. 

Samuel Sheldon, 49. 

Sarah, 30, 47, 49- 7°. 
92, 96 

Sarah Ann, 49, 50. 

Sarah Hibbard, 50. 

Sarah Maria, 49. 

Shuah, 47. 

Solomon Keyes, 49. 

Submit, 30, 48, 49. 

Susan, 49 

Tamer, 43. 

Theodore, 49. 

Thomas, 47. 

Timothy, 28,47, 48, 49. 
90, 95, 96, 128. 

Timothy, Jr., 23. 

Timothy Phelps, 49. 

William, 47, 48, 155. 

William Merrick, 49. 

William Smith, 49. 

Zebina, 48. 
Edson, Jacob, 26. 

Mary Ann, 138. 

Noah, 138. 

Nathaniel, 39, 42. 
Edwards, Achsah, 131. 

Alexander, 50. 

Ebenezer, 149. 

Elizabeth, 130, 134- 

Esther, 70. 

Eunice, 50. 

Hannah, 50, 72, 141. 

Ira. 131. 

Jonathan, 50, 67, 77. 

Jonathan, Rev., 113. 

Joseph, 72. 

Lydia, 50, 77. 

Martha, 50. 

Mary, 21, 50, 104. 

Nathaniel, 45, 50, 51, 
57, III, 130, 141, 144. 

PhiHp, 50, in. 

Rebecca, 50. 

Sarah, 50. 
Ellis, Elisha, 77. 

Harriet, 135. 

John, 103. 

Rebecca, 43. 
Ellsworth, Benj., 121. 

Hamutal, 121. 

John, Lt., 153. 
Elmer, Chester, 163. 

Edward, 131. 

Elijah, 57. 



Elmer, Mary, 131. 
Ely, Caleb, 156. 

Elisha, 42. 

Elizabeth, 137. 

Harvey, 109. 

John, 96. 

Lucretia, 23. 

Mary, 22, 78. 

Ruth, 147. 

Samuel, 92. 
Emerson, John, 141, 148. 

Louisa C, 141. 
Emmons, Nathaniel, 
Rev., 86, 161. 

Robert, 127. 
English, Phebe, 27. 
Ensign, James, 138. 

Mary, 138. 
Enterton, Joseph, 134. 
Estabrook, Hobart, 17. 

Nehemiah, 112. 
Evans, John, 67. 
Evens, Elenor, 50. 

John, 50, 70. 

Jonathan, 50. 

Mary, 50. 

Mercy, 50. 

Peter, 50. 
Evetts, Nathaniel, 64. 

,56. 

FAIRBANKS, Ach- 
sah, Mrs., 166. 
Dolly W., 39. 

Jabez, 26. 

, Wid., 85. 

Fairfield, Abigail, 54. 

Lucy, no. 

Mary, 24. 

Sarah, 132. 

Walter, 24, no, 120. 
Farnum, Lima, 68. 

Luther, Rev., 114. 

Sabra, 20. 
Farrand, Jane, 119. 

Margaret, 21. 

Mary, 20. 
Fellows, John, 30. 

Mary, 50. 

Richard, 10, 12, 50. 

Samuel, 50. 

Sarah, 50. 

Ursula, 50. 
Ferguson, Deborah, 9. 
Ferry, Archimedes, 49. 

Asa, 50. 

Charles, 50. 

Charles, Jr., 50, 149. 

Chester, 50. 

Daniel, 50. 



154- 



Ferry, Eliza, 122. 
Experience, 50. 
Hannah, 50. 
Henry A., 75. 
Luther, 50. 
Mary, 50. 
Noah, 6, 50, 97. 
Rebecca, 50, 149. 
Rhoda, 50. 
Field, Aaron, 52. 
Abigail, 51, 52. 
Abilene, 51. 102. 
Amos, 51, 52. 
Ann, 154. 
Benjamin, 50. 
Bethia, 5, 50. 
Catherine, 51. 
David, 51, 52. 
David, Dr., 66. 
Ebenezer, 51, 52 
Editha, 52. 
Eliakim, 51, 52. 
Elisha, 52. 
Elizabeth, 51, 52. 
Esther, 52. 
Eunice, 51. 
Experience, 52. 
Gaius, 51. 
Hannah, 51, 52. 
Israel, 51, 52. 
Jemima, 52. 
Joanna, 51, 52. 
Joannah, 51. 
John, 13, 22, 35, 44 

50, 51, 52, 64, 68, 102 

130. 
Jonathan, 12, 51, 52 

83, 126. 
Joseph, II, 50, 51, 52 

92, 126, 151. 
Joshua, 51. 
Josiah, 51. 
Lydia, 51. 
Martin, 85. 
Martha, 11, 51, 5? 
Mary, 12, 13, 50 

52, 64, 73, 147- 
Medad, 52. 
Mehitable, 52. 
Moses, 51, 52. 
Olive, 42. 
Paul, 51, 74- 
Rebecca, 51, 68. 
Rhoda, 52. 
Samuel, 50, 51, 52, 72, 

104. 
Sarah, 11, 20, 50 51, 

52, 67, 130, 146. 
Seth, 42, 51. 



SI. 



180 



GENEALOGICAL INDEX. 



Field, Simeon, 51. 

Thankful, 51, 52, 61. 

Thomas, 51. 

William, 83, 86. 

Zechariah, 50,51, 52,67, 
68. 

Zenas, 52. 

Zilpah, 52. 

Fillemore, , 53. 

Fisk, Anne, 91. 

Laura Isabella, 119. 
Fitch, Ebenezer, 158. 

. 52. 

Fitts, Adeline, 72. 
Flagg, Harriet M., 27. 
Fletcher, Rebecca, 146. 
Foot, Ebenezer, 23. 

Elizabeth, 10. 

Nathaniel, 8, 10, 35. 
Foote, Azubah, 53. 

Benoni, 53. 

Daniel, 53. 

Dinah, 53. 

Eliezer, 53. 

Elizabeth, 10, 52, 63. 

Ephraim, 52. 

Eunice, 52. 

Ezra, 53. 

Frances, 35. 

John. 53. 

Joseph, 52, 53. 

Josiah, 52. 

Lydia, 53. 

Margaret, 52. 

Martha, 53. 

Mary, 52, 53. 

Nathaniel, 8, 10, 52, 63, 
123, 124. 

Rachel, 53. 

Rosanna, 53. 

Roselle, 53. 

Samuel, 53. 

Sarah, 52, 53. 

Thomas, 53. 
Ford, Hepzibah, 91. 

Jonathan, Dr., 136. 

Thomas, 91. 
Forrest, Abel D., 166. 
Forward, Francis, 123. 

Justus, Rev., 40. 
Foster, Lucinda, 46. 

Thomas W., 24. 
Fowler, Esther, 40. 

Mary, 53. 
Fox, Abraham, 53. 

Amy Smith, 164. 

Calvin, 165. 

Catherine, 53. 

Cynthia, 53. 

Ebenezer, 53. 



Fox, Eliza, 53. 

Eunice, 53. 

Jesse Anson, 53. 

Joel, 26, 53, 165. 

Joseph, 53. 

Joseph Kneeland, 53. 

Martha, 53. 

Mary, 53. 

Nathaniel, 53. 

Patience, 53. 
Franklin, Eliza, 144. 

Elizabeth, 54. 

Francis, 54. 

Henry Johnson, 54. 

Jerusha, 54, 

Mary, 45, 54. 

Nathan, 54, 144. 

Nathaniel, 45. 

Persis, 54. 

Sophia, 54. 
Frary, Abigail, 54. 

Amos, 54. 

Asa, 54. 

David, 54. 

Eleazar, 54, 59. 

Elisha, 54. 

Esther, 54. 

Eunice, 54. 

Hannah, 35, 54. 

Isaac, 54. 

Jerusha, 54. 

John, 54." 

Jonathan, 54, 59. 

Joseph, 54. 

Julius, 54. 

Lydia, 54, 64. 

Martha, 54 

Margaret, 54. 

Mary, 54. 

Mehitable, 54. 

Mercy, 54. 

Moses, 54. 

Nathan, 54. 

Nathaniel, 54. 

Obadiah, 54. 

Phineas, 54. 

Prudence, 29, 54. 

Sampson, 54. 

Samuel, 54. 

Sarah, 54. 

Seth, 54. 

Submit, 54. 

Susanna, 54. 
Freeman, Elizabeth, 148. 

Isaac, 159. 
Frelinghuysen, Char- 
lotte, 71. 
French, Eliza Maria, 137. 

Jonathan, 141, 146. 

Joseph, 154. 



French, Joseph, Jr., 47. 

Samuel, 154. 

Thomas, 51. 

, 146. 

Frink, Cynthia, 26. 
Frost, Lois, 104. 
Fuller, Bethiah, 33. 

Hannah, 62. 

Joseph, 136. 

Laura, 135. 

,69. 

GADCOMB, William 
Owen, 132. 
Gale, Nahum, Rev., 
D.D., 16. 
Gardner, Abigail, 55. 

Elizabeth, 55, 75. 

Hannah, 54,' 55- 

Jacob, 54. 

Joanna, 55, 149. 

Joannah, 55. 

John, 55, 70. 

Joseph, 54. 

Martha, 55. 

Mary, 10, 54, 55. 

Mehitable, 54, 55. 

Nathaniel, 55. 

Samuel, 55, 75, 149. 

Samuel, Jr., 55. 

Sarah, 55, 1x5. 
Gates, Hannah, 29. 

Horace, 46. 
Gaylord, Abigail, 55. 

Benjamin Evans, 56. 

Betty, 56. 

Catherine, 55. 

Chester, 56. 

Chester Williams, 56. 

Cotton, 55. 

Ebenezer, 55. 

Eliphalet, 55. 

Elizabeth, 55, 56. 

Hope, 55. 

Israel, 56. 

Jerusha, 56. 

Joanna, 56. 

John, 55. 

Josiah, 55. 

Keturah, 56. 

Lois, 56. 

Lucinda, 56, 107. 

Lucretia, 146. 

Margaret, 55, 74. 

Martha, 55, 105. 

Mary, 18, 55. 

Meribah, 55. 

Moses, 7, 55, 56, 137. 

Nathaniel, 55. 

Nehemiah, 55, 56, 103. 



Gaylord, Oliver, 55, 56. 

Penelope, 56, 105. 

Rebecca, 56. 

Ruth, 55, 63. 

Samuel, 5, 24, 34, 40, 
55, 56, 74, 105, 109, 
133, 160. 

Sarah, 30, 55. 

Submit, 56. 

Submit Dickinson, 56. 

William, 32, 55, 56. 
Gibbs, George A., 162. 

Hepzibah, 35. 
Gilbert, Henry, 46. 

Jonathan, 153. 

Parthena, 89. 

Samuel, 146. 

Sarah, 51. 

Thomas, 51. 
Gillett, Joseph, 56, 63, 
67. 

Elizabeth, 34, 56. 

Hannah, 56, 77. 142. 

Joe], 53. 

Jonathan, 56. 

Margaret, ir, 56. 

Martha, 56, 62. 

Mary, 56. 

Samuel, 12, 35, 56, 62, 

64, 77- 

Sarah, 56. 
Goddard, Nathaniel, 33. 
Goffe, Lydia, 8. 
Golding, Peter, 56. 

Elizabeth, 56. 

Frances, 56. 

Jane, 56. 

Martha, 124. 

Mary, 56. 

Mercy, 56, 126. 

Sarah, 56, 147. 

Thomas, 56. 

Windsor, 56. 
Goodale, Hannah, in. 

Isaac, 163. 

Marcus Lyon, 45. 

Roxanna, 41. 

Thomas, 107, in. 
Goodell, Isaac, 56. 57. 

David, 57. 

Eleanor, 57, 163. 

Huldah, 56. 

Jemima, 57. 

Mercy, 57, 126. 

Thomas, 57, 107. 
Goodenow, Lucy, 104. 
Goodhue, Josiah, Dr., 42. 
Goodman, Abial, 58. 

Abigail, 57. 

Asa, 57. 



GENEALOGICAL INDEX. 

Goodman, Calvin, 58. 
Clarissa, 58. 
Cleopas, 58. 
Cvnthia, 58. 
E'ldad, 58. 
Eleazar, 17, 57, 58, 116, 

157- 
Elihu, 57. 
Elizabeth, 57, 146. 
Enos, 57, 58, 156. 
Erastus, 58. 
Esther, 58. 
Eunice, 122. 
Grace, 57. 
Hannah, 57, 141. 
Henry, 79. 
Ithamar, 58. 
James. 57. 
Joanna, 57. 
John, 57. 
John Kellogg, 58. 
Josiah W., 78. 
Justin, 58. 
Luther, 58, 78. 
Mary, 57, 58. 
Mercy, 58. 
Miriam, 57. 
Nathan, 57, 58, 122. 
Noah, 57, 58. 
Oliver, 57. 
Oren, 58. 
Phineas, 58. 
Rachel, 36, 57. 
Rebecca, 57, 58, 99. 
Richard, 57, 143, 146. 
Ruth, 24, 57. 
Samuel, 57, 58, 96, 130. 
Simeon, 57, 58. 
Sophia, 58. 
Spencer, 58. 
Stephen, 57, 82. 
Susannah, 57, 156. 
Sylvester, 58, 133. 
Thankful, 57, 130. 
Thomas, 57, 58, 91, 

156. 
Titus, 58. 
Tryphosa, 58. 
Goodrich, Aaron, 24, 58, 

157- 
Dorcas, 30, 58. 
Horace, 42. 
Joanna, 58. 
Josiah, 112. 
Mary, 58. 
Rebecca, 58. 
Sarah, 58, 97, 157. 
Goodwin, Elizabeth, -12, 

58. 
Nathaniel, 29, 112. 



181 

Goodwin, Susanna, 58. 

William, 32, 58. 
Gould, Solomon, 58. 

Bashmotte, 58. 

David, 58, 75. 

Eunice, 122. 

Miriam, 58. 

Noah, 58. 

Rebecca, 68. 

Reuben, 58. 

Samuel, 58. 

Sarah, 52, 75. 
Graham, John, Rev., 17. 
Granger Family, 58. 

George, 163. 

Holcomb, 58, 129. 
Granis Family, 58. 
Grant, Elizabeth, 146. 

Grace, 97. 
Graves, Aaron, 45, 59, 
60, 151. 

Abigail, 59, 60, 61. 

Abraham, 8, 60. 

Achsah 62. 

Asa, 62. 

Azubah, 61. 

Benjamin, 59, 60, 61, 
62, 146, 148. 

Benoni, 61. 

Bethiah, 59. 

Bethula, 61. 

Beulah, 60. 

Catherine, 60 

Daniel, 59, 60, 61, 79. 

David, 8, 60, 61. 

Deliverence, 59. 

Ebenezer, 59, 61. 

Eleazar, 60, 61. 

Eleazer, 11. 

Electa, 61, 62. 

Eli, 158. 

Elias, II, 31. 

Elihu, 62. 

Elijah, 59, 60, 61, 62. 

Elisha, 62. 

Elizabeth, 59, 60, 61, 
148. 

Elnathan, 36, 59, 60, 
62, 100. 

Enos, 62, 84. 

Esther, 31, 52, 61, 79. 

Eunice, 59, 60, 61, 62, 
99. 

Experience, 62. 

Fanny, 62. 

George, 90. 

Gideon 62. 

Grace, 61. 

Hannah, 59, 61, 62. 



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GENEALOGICAL INDEX. 



Graves, Isaac, i8, 51, 
54, 59, 60, 61, 64, 75. 
100. 

Israel, 60, 144. 

Jemima, 59, 60, 61, 87. 

Jerusha, 61. 

Joel, 61. 

John, 5, 54, 59, 60, 61, 

123, 153- 
John Judd, 27. 
Jonathan, 59, 60, 61, 

62. 
Joseph, 59, 60, 61, 62. 
Josiah Dwight, 62 
Jotham, 137. 
Judith, 60. 
Kellogg, 62. 
Levi, 62. 
Lucius, 60. 
Lucy, 60, 61, 62. 
Lydia, 60, 61. 
Margaret, 62. 
Martin, 61, 62. 
Martha, 29, 31, 45, 59, 

60, 61, 62, 66, 102. 
Mary, 54, 59, 60, 61. 

62, 104, 145, 148. 
Matthew, 61, loi. 
Mehitable, 59, 60, 61, 

100. 
Miriam, 60, 145. 
Moses, 59, 60, 62, 78, 

92. 
Nancy, 62. 
Naomi, 62. 
Nathan, 6i. 
Nathaniel, 5, 59, 60, 

61. 
Noah, 60, 61, 62. 
Oliver, 60, 120. 
Patience, 62. 
Penelope, 61. 
Perez, Capt. 159. 
Perez, 56, 59, 60, 61, 

62. 
Phinehas, 61. 
Randall, 62. 
Rebecca, 59, 60, 61, 

102. 
Reuben, 61, 62. 
Rhoda, 61. 
Rufus, 61. 
Ruth, 60. 
Sally, 62. 

Samuel, 59, 60, 61, 62. 
Sarah, 31, 59, 60, 61, 

62, 96. 
Selah, 62. 
Seth, 60. 
Silas, 52, 60, 61. 



Graves, Simeon, 61, 74. 
Solomon, 62. 
Submit, 61, 62, 75, 78. 
Susanna, 62. 
Sybil, 62. 
Thankful, 61. 
Thomas, 59, 60. 
Timothy, 61, 62. 
Walter, 62. 
William, 62. 
William Morton, 45. 
Zebadiah, 61. 
Zeruiah, 62. 



37. 152. 



Gray, Chester, 152. 

Cyrus W., Rev., 133. 
Green, Clark, 62, 66. 

David, 62. 

Eliph, 119. 

Eliphalet, 62. 

Elizabeth, 62. 

Eunice, 62. 

Hepzibah, 62. 

Jared, 62. 

Joel, 62. 

Judith, 62. 

Lucina, 62. 

Lucretia, 62. 

Mercy, 62. 

Phebe, 62. 

Philomela, 62. 

Polly, 62. 

Rhoda, 62. 

Rufus, 14, 62. 

Sybil, 62. 

Timothy, 21, 62, 

Timothy, Jr., 65. 

Zera, 62. 
Gregory, Margaret, 150. 
Grey, James, 63, 92. 

John, 63. 
Gridley, Timothy J., 94. 

Grimes, , 52. 

Griswold, Azubah, 53. 

Daniel, 154. 

Mercy, 56. 

Nathaniel, 53. 
Grout, Susan, 45. 
Grover, Dorcas, 97. 

Hosea, 63. 

Diadema, 63. 

Josiah, 63, 97. 

Leonard, 63. 

Phineas, 63. 

Ruth Marilla, 63. 
Gubtill, Benjamin, 14. 
Guernsey, Isaac, 32, 164. 

James, 47, 143. 
Gull, Anna, 63. 

Elizabeth, 63. 



Gull, Esther, 56, 63. 

Mary, 63. 

Mercy, 63. 

William, 8, 63, 123. 
Gunn, Abel, 63. 

Christian, 63, 74. 

Daniel, 22. 

Editha, 63. 

Elizabeth, 63. 

John, 63. 

Lucretia, 46. 

Mary, 63, 74. 

Moses, 63, 76, 95. 

Nathaniel, 11,63,87. 

Perly, 40, 

Rufus, 63. 

Samuel, 63, 74. 

Samuel, Dea., 74. 

Sarah, 22, 35, 63, 87. 

, 91- 



H 



ADLOCK, Josiah, 

64. 

Hager, Samuel, 
160. 
Hale, Abigail, 130. 

John, 63. 

Joseph, 63. 

Martha, 63. 

Priscilla, 63. 

Samuel, 63. 

Thomas, 63, 90, 130. 

William, 63. 
Haley, Hannah, 63. 

John. 32, 55, 63, 139. 
Hall, Erastus, 75. 

Rebecca, 48. 

Samuel, 69. 

Sybil, 97. 
Halsted, Matthew O., 49. 
Hamer, Brig. Gen., 165. 
Hamilton, Calvin, 65. 

Chauncey, 65. 

James, 78. 

Jude, 45. 

Lydia F., 65. 

Mary, 45. 

Norman, 27. 

Sarah, 128. 

, Wid., 36. 

Hamlin, Giles, 32. 

John, Jr., 108. 

Richard, 125. 

, 108. 

Hammond, Azubah, 42. 

Hannah, 63. 

Martha, 63. 

Martha, Mrs., 83. 

Molly, 63. 

Nathaniel, 63. 



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183 



Hammond, Orrin, io6. 

Timothy, 63. 

, 61. 

Hannum, Aaron, 120. 

Gideon, 30. 
Harrington, Eli W,, Rev., 

44. 
Harris, Hulda, 62. 
Harrison. Isaac, 63, 95. 

Abigail, 19, 63. 

Martha, 63. 

Sarah, 63, 119. 
Harvey, Samuel, 13. 
Harwood, Abigail, 63. 

Benj., 18, 63. 

Bridget, 63. 

Nathan, 158. 

Haskell, , 73. 

Haskins, Fanny, 15. 
Hastings, Aaron, 66. 

Abigail, 64, 65, 66. 

Albert Merwin, 65. 

Abner, 64. 

Anna, 65, 104. 

Benjamin, 59, 63. 

Betsey, 65. 

Charles, 65. 

Chester, 67. 

Content, 65. 

David, 66. 

Dorothy, 64. 

Electa, 66. 

Eli, 66. 

Elihu, 65. 

Elijah, 12, 65, 66. 

Elisha, 65, 66, 

Elizabeth, 64, 65, 66. 

Elsy, 66. 

Ephraim, 65. 

Esther, 65. 

Eunice, 65, 66. 

Eunice Sophia, 65. 

Eurotas, 66. 

Eurotas Parmalee, 65. 

Hannah, 56, 64, 66, 85. 

Hannah Barnard, 64. 

Hepzibah, 64. 

Hopestill, 64, 65, 66, 
129. 

Horace, 66. 

Jacob, 103. 

Jerusha, 12, 65, 66. 

John, 64, 67, 154. 

John, Hon., 65. 

Joseph, 64. 

Judith, 66. 

Justin, 65. 

Lemuel, 64. 

Lucinda, 65 



Hastings, Lucius, 14, 66. 
Lucy, 64, 65, 66, 84. 
Lydia, 64, 129. 
Margaret, 64. 
Mary, 64, 65, 66, 67, 

III, 131. 
Mary A., 66. 
Matilda, 66. 
Mehitable, 64. 
Moses, 65, 66, 107. 
Nancy, 33, 66. 
Olive, 14, 66. 
Oliver, 64, 65. 
Orlando, 65, 66. 
Otis, 66, 85. 
Parker, 45, 66. 
Perez, 65, 66, 158. 
Pickering, 65, 66. 
Polly, 66. 
Polly Sophia, 65. 
Rachel, 66. 
Rebecca, 30, 65. 
Salome, 66. 
Samuel, 64, 65, 66, 84, 

III. 
Sarah, 66, 122. 
Seth, 64, 65. 
Silence, 64. 
Sophia, 41, 67. 
Submit, 64. 66, 144. 
Sybil, 65, 67. 
Sylvanus, 64. 
Tabitha, 64, 65. 
Thankful, 64. 
Thomas, 12, 41, 54, 

63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 85, 

122, 130. 
Thomas, Dr., 10, 16,50, 

56, 64, 65. 
Truman, 65. 
Waitstill, 64, 65, 66. 
Waitstill, Dr., 65, 92. 
Zeruiah, 64. 

Hatch, , 86. 

Hathaway, Prudence, 49. 
Hawkes, Alice, 67. 
Anna, 64, 67. 
Eliezer, 67. 

Elizabeth, 67, 69, 145. 
Gershom, 67. 
Hannah, 67. 
Isaac, 67. 
Joanna, 6, 67. 
John, 64, 67, 69, 70. 
Judith, 67. 
Martha, 67. 
Mary, 67, 70. 
Nathaniel, 67, 144. 
Sarah, 67, 151. 
Seth, 152. 



Hawkes, Thankful, 67. 
Hawks, John, 8, 49. 

Nathaniel, 11, 144. 

. so. 

Hawley, Aaron, 162. 

Abigail, 68. 

Anne, 67. 

Asenath, 68. 

Caroline, 165. 

Chester, 62, 165. 

David, 67, 68. 

Dorothy, 67, 83. 

Elbertine Maria, 165. 

Elijah, 67. 

Elijah Knight, 165. 

Elisha, 90. 

Eliza, 46, 67. 

Elizabeth, 90. 

Ellen R., 165. 

Eunice, 68. 

Harriet, 165. 

Harriet W., 165. 

Henry Elijah, 165. 

John, 67. 

Joseph, 51, 67, 68, 84. 

Julia Electa, 165. 

Levi, 106, 165. 

Levi Parsons, 165. 

Lydia, 67, 100. 

Mary, 67, 104, 165. 

Mehitable, 67, 68. 

Miriam, 67. 

Moses, 67, 68. 

Noah, 67, 68. 

Philip, 44. 

Rebecca, 67, 68. 

Ruth, 116. 

Samuel, 11, 51, 67, 68, 
83, 100, 104, 165. 

Sarah, 67. 

Thankful, 84. 

Thomas, 67. 

Zebina, 44. 

Zechariah, 50, 67, 165. 
Hayes, Betsey, 41. 

Zilpah, 156. 
Haywood, Andrew, 78. 

Henry, 9. 

Haze, , 14. 

Hazen, Elbridge, 136. 
Heath, Daniel, 37, 89. 
Henderson, Abigail, 68. 

Eliza, 164. 

Elizabeth, 52, 68. 

Gideon, 20, 68. 

Horace, 68. 

Ira, 68. 

Luther, 68. 

Mary, 68, 164. 



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GENEALOGICAL INDEX. 



Henderson, Mehitable, 
68. 

Nancy, 68. 

Sarah, 68. 

Seth Smith, 68. 

Susanna, 25, 68. 

Timothy, 68. 

Tryphena, 68. 

Zebina, 68. 
Henry, James, 68. 

Elizabeth, 68. 

Josiah, 68. 

Margaret, 68 

Samuel, 68, 146. 

Sarah, 68, 97. 

Susan, 45, 68. 

William, 68. 
Herrick, Hannah, 84. 
Heyden, Fanny Sweet, 

144. 
Hibbard, George, 68, 69. 

Abigail, 11. 

Albert, 68. 

Chester, 68. 

Clarissa, 68, 69. 

Elias Worcester, 69. 

Elias, 68, 69. 

Eliphaz, 68, 69. 

Elizabeth, 69. 

Emily Jane, 69. 

Henry Harrison, 69. 

Irene, 68. 

Isaiah Washburn, 69. 

John, 68, 69. 

Lucy, 68. 

Lydia, 123. 

Lydia C, 69. 

Olive, 123. 

Phila, 69. 

Phila Elizabeth, 69. 

Richard M., 69. 

Rufus Pomroy, 69. 

Sally, 68. 

Truman, 69. 
Hickson, Walter, 69, 142, 

153- 

Elizabeth, 69. 

Jacob, 69. 

John, 69. 

Sarah, 69. 
Hill, George, Dr., 43. 

John, 58. 
Hillhouse, David, 114. 
Hilliard, or Hillyer, 
Anne, 69. 

Hannah, 69. 

John, 69. 

Joseph, 69. 

Margaret, 32, 69. 

Mary, 69. 



Hilliard, or Hillyer, 
Mehitable, 69. 

Patience, 69. 

Submit, 69. 

Timothy, 69. 

Uriah, 69. 

Warham, 69. 
Hills, Elisha, 113. 

William, 146. 
Hinckley, Florinda, 143. 

Ichabod, 124. 
Hinsdale, Abigail, 70. 

Ann, 69, 70, 81. 

Barnabas, 69, 142, 153. 

Elizabeth, 69, 70. 

Ephraim, 50, 69. 

Experience, 67, 69, 70. 

Gamaliel, 69. 

Isaac, 69. 

John, 69, 70. 

Mahuman, 70. 

Mary, 50, 69, 70. 

Mehitable, 34, 55, 70. 

Robert, 67, 69, 70. 

Samuel, 34, 69, 70, 81. 

Sarah, 69, 70. 
Hitchcock, Charles, 70. 

David, 116. 

Edward, Rev., 159. 

Elam, 80. 

Enos, 70, 116, 137. 

Hannah, 124. 

Luke, 7, 8, 124. 

Martha K., 137. 

Mary, 7. 

Nathaniel, 142. 

Samuel, 146. 

Thankful, 70. 
Hoar, Charles, 30. 

Leonard, 73. 

Hodden, , 67. 

Hodge, Anna, 70. 

Benjamin, 70. 

Charles, 70. 

Charles D., 70, 106. 

Eliza, 70. 

Elizabeth Hervey, 70. 

Emily, 70. 

Esther, 70. 

George, 70, 165. 

Giles, 70. 

Hannah, 70. 

Harriet M., 70. 

Harriet Merrick, 70. 

Henry, 70, 106. 

James W., 70. 

John, 70, 165. 

Lephe Nash, 70. 

Lester Porter, 70. 

Mary, 70. 



Hodge, Mary Guilford, 
70. 

Robert Wilson, 70. 

Samuel, 70. 

Sarah G., 70. 

Susan A., 70. 

Timothy, 70. 

William, 70. 

William Henry, 70. 
Holland, Mary, 86. 

Seneca, 46. 

— I , 130, 152. 

HoUiday, Sarah, 117. 
HoUister, Lt. Joseph, 7. 

Sarah, 7. 

, 61. 

Holmes, Josiah, 6. 

Lemuel, 93. 

Sarah, 116. 
Holt, Andrew, 132. 

Giles, 70. 

Henry, 70. 

Moses Pike, 70. 

William, 70. 
Holton, Cloe, 39. 
Hooker, Joseph, 165. 

Mary, 103, 165. 

Nancy Spur, 165. 

Sarah R., 165. 
Hopkins, Amanda, 70. 

Charles, 72. 

Elizabeth, 71. 

Emily, 72. 

Erastus, 71. 

George, 71. 

Hannah, 71. 

Jane, 145. 

Jerusha, 71. 

John, 71, 145. 

Lewis Spring, 71. 

Lucy, 71. 

Lydia, 71. 

Mabel, 71, 74. 

Margaret, 71. 

Mary, 89. 

Mehitabel, 72, 75. 

Polly, 71. 

Rebecca, 72. 

Ruth, 104. 

Samuel, 71. 

Samuel, Rev., 71, 72, 
74, 113, 160. 

Sarah, 71. 

Sarah Ann Wait, 71. 

Stephen, 71. 

Thomas Thompson, 71. 

Timothy, 72, 120. 

WilHam, 89. 

William Smith, 72. 



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185 



Hoppin, Harriet, 159. 
Horton, Daniel, 56. 
Thomas, 56, 147. 
Hosford, James M., 120. 

Laura, 136. 
Hosington, George, 15. 

Joel, 15. 
Hosmer,' Judith, 37. 
Houghton, Cyrus, 15. 
Eunice, 68. 
Joel, 150. 
Roxana, 106. 
Hovey, Abigail, 72. 
Caleb, 72. 
Daniel, 72. 
Dorcas, 72. 
Ebenezer, 72. 
Elizabeth, 72, 120. 
Hannah, 72. 
Joanna, 72 
John, 72, 102. 
Joseph, 72. 
Martha, 72. 
Mary, 72, 98. 
Miriam, 19, 72. 
Sarah, 72. 

Thomas, 23, 31, 34. 72. 
98, 120. 
Howard, Hezekiah, 11. 

Elizabeth, 140. 
Howe, Benjamin, 62. 
Hon. Estes, 133. 
Joseph, 134. 
Mary, 95. 
Howell, Lucy, 108. 
Nathaniel, W., 23. 
Hoyt, Abigail, 72, 73. 
Benjamin, 72. 
David, 72, 73 151., 
Ebenezer, 72. 
Hannah, 73. 
Jonathan, 51, 72, 73. 
Mary, 51, 72, 73, 152. 
Nicholas, 72. 
Samuel, 72. 
Sarah, 72, 73. 

, 126. 

Hubbard, Abi, 75. 
Anna, 73, 74- 
Ashley, 68. 
Caleb, 85. 
Chester, 75, 84. 
Christian, 74. 
Cornelia, 70. 
Daniel, 63, 73, 74. 
David, 73, 74. 
Dorothy, 75. 
Edmund, 73, 74, 134. 
Edmund, Jr., 55. 
Elihu, 75. 



Hubbard, Elijah, 74, 75, 

89. 
Elisha, 74, 75, 106, 

156, 158. 
Elizabeth, 73, 74- 75- 

107, 166. 
Ephraim, 73. 
Erastus, 75. 
Esther, 73. 
Eunice Noble, 75. 
George, 73. 
Gideon, 74. 
Giles, 74. 

Hannah, 73, 74, 75. 
Harriet, 75. 
Hezekiah, 73. 
Irene, 21, 75. 
Isaac, 14, 63, 73, 74. 

75, 81, 146. 
Israel, 74. 
Jeremiah, 75. 
Joanna, 74, 145. 
John, 73, 74, 107, 147- 
John, Dr., 44. 
John Hancock, 73. 
Jonathan, 73, 131. 
Joseph, 73, 74, 113- 
Joshua, 73. 
L., Dr., 22. 
Lucinda, 73, 75. 
Lucretia, 74, 75. 
Lucy, 21, 74, 75, 114- 
Mabel, 73, 74. 
Margaret, 74. 

Margaret Gaylord, 75. 

Maria, 75. 

Martha, 68, 74. 

Mary, 73, 74, 95- M7- 

Mercy, 73. 

Moses, 71, 74. 

Olive, 123. 

Rachel, 73. 

Rebecca, 73. 

Rodolphus B., 16. 

Roswell, 70. 

Ruth, 73, 94- 

Sally, 75. 

Samuel, 73, 74- 

Sarah, 29, 73, 74. 

Stephen, 14, 75. 

Susan, 75, 106. 

Susanna, 74. 

Timothy, 20. 

Trydhena, 85. 

William, 7, 74. 
Hubbell, Ann Maria, 85. 

Margaret, V. D. S., 85. 
Hudson, Dr., 18. 
Hulet, 147. 



Hull, EHzabeth Spar- 
hawk, 28. 

Jeremiah, 8. 

, 13. 28, 59. 

Humphrey, Mr., 7, 70 

Jonathan, 53. 

Rosanna, 53. 
Hunt, Abner, 138. 

Charles Hopkins, 75. 

Ebenezer, Dea., 151. 

Emily Hopkins, 75. 

Harriet Baker, 75. 

Harriet Mills, 75. 

Helen Emily, 75. 

James, 129. 

John Gould, 75. 

John, 44, 75- 

Jonathan, 150, 154- 

Lewis Frederick, 75. 

Lydia, 11. 

Martha, 87, 148, i54- 

Mary Ann, 75. 

Rachel, 44. 

Sarah, 44. 

Sarah Angeline, 75. 

Timothy Edwards, 75. 

Theodocia, 138. 

-, Dr., 90. 

72- 

Hunter, Abilene, 163. 

Hannah, 75. 

Mary Elizabeth, 75. 

Stephen, 75. 
Huntington, Dan, Rev. 

1 10. 
Hurd, Adeline, 136. 

Hutchinson, . 21. 

Huxley, Mary, 139. 

Thomas, 81, 138. 
Hyde, Andrew, 41- 

Hannah, 8, 13. 

Mary, 41. 
Hyllier, Daniel,'!32. 

NGERSOL Thomas, 



I 



34- 



Ingram, Abigail, 76, 

77- 
Alpheus, 77. 
Anna, 76. 
Artemus, 77. 
Asa, 77. 
Azubah, 76. 
Caroline, 28. 
Charles, 77. 
David 77. 
Ebenezer, 76, 77. 
Elenor, 76. 
Elisha, 76, 77, 85, 125- 



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GENEALOGICAL INDEX. 



Ingram, Elizabeth, 75, 

76, 83, 107. 
Esther, 76, 77, 119. 
Eunice, 76. 
Experience. 76, 77. 
Ezekiel, 77. 
Gershom, 1 1, 77. 
Gideon, 50, 77. 
Hannah, 76, 77, 96, 

102. 
Ira, 77. 
Jadiah, 75. 
Jerusha, 76, 85. 
Joab, 77. 
Joanna, 77. 
John, 13,35.55. 75,76, 

78, 83, 107, 127. 
Jonathan, 76, 77, 95. 
Jonathan Pierce, 77. 
Lodeona, 77. 
Lucinda, 77. 
Lucretia, 77. 
Lucy, 76, 99. 
Lydia, 76, 77, loi. 
Martha, 76, 77. 
Martha, Mrs., 86. 
Mary, 76, 77. 
Mehitable, 76, 127. 
Mercy, 76, 119. 
Naomi, 77. 
Nathan, 77. 
Nathaniel, 76, 77, 82, 

124. 
Oliver, 77. 
Oshee, 77. 
Peter, 77. 
Phebe, 77. 

Philip, 76, 77, 95, no. 
Quartus, 77. 
Rebecca, 76. 
Reuben, 76, 77 
Robert, 77. 
Roswell, 77. 
Samuel, 14, 36, 75, 76, 

77, loi, 146. 
Sarah, 18, 47, 76, 77. 
Susanna, 85. 
Susannah, 76. 
Warren, 77. 
William, 77, 156. 
Zaccheus Crocker, 28, 



JAMES, Samuel, 86. 
Janes, Abel, 59. 
Samuel, 70. 
Jennings, Benjamin, 78. 
Captivity, 77. 
Ephraim, 139. 



Jennings, John, 78. 

Jonathan, 78. 

Joseph, 78. 

Sarah, 78. 

Stephen, 35, 56, 77, 78. 
Jewett, David, Rev., 114. 

Sarah, 114. 

Thomas, 163. 
Jipson, Catherine M., 49. 
Jobson, John, 47. 
Johnson, Alfred, 165. 

Betsey, 165. 

Chester, 165. 

Chester, Dr., 144. 

Cornelia, 106. 

Emeline, 165. 

Humphrey, 70. 

John, 58. 

Letha, 165. 

Mary, 102. 

Mehitable, 70. 

Rachel, 165. 

Roxy, 93, 165. 

Sally, 165. 

Sarah, 165. 

Stephen, 90, 93, 165. 

, 52, 99, 108. 

Jones, Alice, 127. 

Catherine, 42. 

Charles, 106. 

Esther, 79. 

Hannah, 147. 

John H., 148. 

Martha, 26. 

Mary, 59. 

Peletiah, 94. 

Perez, 26, 38, 57. 

Thomas, 59. 

William, 73. 
Joy, Anna, 47. 
Judd, Achsah, 78. 

Albert, 78. 

Alethea Day, 80. 

Alfred, 78, 79. 

Alfred Salathiel, 79. 

Allen, 79, 80. 

Alvin, 78. 

Andrew Thomas, 80. 

Andrew Wright, 78 

Asahel, 78, 79. 

Asaph, 80. 

Azubah, 79, 80. 

Benjamin, 89. 

Betsey, 80. 

Charles Porter, 79. 

Chester, 78. 

Climene, 80. 

Cordelia, 80. 

Daniel Austin, 78. 

Dorcas, 78. 



Judd, Edward Hooker, 

79-. 
Edwm Hervey, 80. 
Edwin Smith, 78. 
Elijah, 79, 80. 
Eliza Ann, 79. 
Elizabeth, 78, 79, 80, 

160. 
Elizabeth Sophia, 80. 
Ellen, 79. 
Ellen Eugenia, 79. 
Elliot Eugene, 79. 
Elnathan, 65. 
Emily Sophia, 79. 
Esther, 79, 80. 
FideHa, 78. 
Frances Jane, 80. 
George Edwin, 79. 
Hannah, 79. 
Harriet Maria, 80. 
Harvey, 78, 79 
Henry Holden, 80. 
Henry M., 79. 
Henry W., 80. 
Hervey, 80. 
Horace, 78, 79, 135. 
Irene, 78. 
Irene Sophia, 79. 
James Madison, 78. 
Jemima, 80. 
Joanna, 79. 
John Dwight, 80. 
John Harrison, 80. 
Jonathan Jones, 80. 
Josiah, 80. 
Laura, 80. 
Levi, 79, 80. 
Levi Harrison, 80. 
Lewis Strong, 79. 
Lorenzo, 80. 
Louisa Irene, 80. 
Lucinda, 78, 79. 
Lucretia, 80. 
Lucy, 78, 79. 
Lucy Asenath, 80. 
Lydia, 78, 79, 80. 
Mahlah, 78. 
Martha, 78. 
Martha Smith, 79. 
Mary, 78. 
Mary Miller, 79. 
Melissa, 78. 
Milton, 80. 
Nabbv, 80. 
Otis, 80. 
Otis Allen, 80. 
Polly, 79. 
Quartus, 78, 80. 
Reuben, 78, 79, 130 

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187 



juad, Ruth, 79. 

Salathiel, 78, 79. 

Sally, 80. 

Samuel, 78, 79. 

Samuel Adolphus, 79. 

Samuel Emerson, 80. 

Sarah, 61, 79, 80. 

Sarah Ellen, 80. 

Silva, 79. 

Simeon, 78, 79, 80. 

Sophia, 79. 

Submit, 78. 

Supplina, 78. 

Sylvester, 80. 

Thankful, 79, 80. 

Theodosia, 78. 

Thomas, 78, 79, 80. 

Thomas, Dea., 78, 79. 

Tirzah, 78, 79. 

Warner S., 46. 

Watson, S., 80. 

Willard, 80. 

William, 80, 155, 160. 

William Asaph, 80. 

Zebina, 79, 80, 134- 
Jurdon, Ruth, 131. 



K 



EELER, 



Keeney, John, 1 24. 
Keet, John, 100. 

Sylvester, 27. 

Thomas, 13. 
Keith, Sylvester, 27. 
Keller, Katherine, 105. 
Kellogg, Aaron, 84. 

Abigail.i 1, 74,81,82,83. 

Abigail Sheldon, 84. 

Abraham, 30, 62, 82, 

83, 84. 
Achsah, 85. 
Amelia, 86. 
Amos, 82, 83. 
Angeline, 28, 86. 
Anna, 81. 
Anna Marsh, 87. 
Bela, 85, 86. 
Bela C, 86. 
Benjamin, 28, 82, 84 

86. 
Betsey, 84. 
Catherine, 79, 81. 
Charles. 68, 85. 86, 87 
Charles Austin, 27, 85 

86. 
Chester, 86. 
Chloe, 85. 
Clarissa, 66, 85. 
Cordelia, 86. 
Cotton, 83. 



Kellogg, Cynthia Amelia, 
86. 
Dan, 83. 
Daniel, 47. 68, 81, 82, 

83, 84, 85. 
David, 84, 85, 86. 
Delight, 87. 
Diathena, 85. 
Dorothy, 75 81, 83,84 
Ebenezer, 20, 76, 81, 

82, 83, 84, 86, 87, 
104, 107, 139. 

Ebenezer White, 87. 

Editha, 87. 

Edward, 81, 82. 

Eleazar, 86. 

Electa, 84. 

Eli, 83. 

Elijah, 83, 84. 

Elikim, 83. 

Elinor, 82. 

Elisha, 84. 

Elizabeth, 13, 20, 81, 

83, 84, 86, 87, loi. 
Emily, 86. 
Ephraim. 65, 67, 81, 

82,83,84,85,86,130. 
Esther, 81, 82, 83, 84. 
Esther Smith, 85. 
Eunice, 87. 

Experience, 82, 84, 103. 
Ezekiel 82, 83, 109. 
Ezra, 87. 
Francis, 87. 
Gad, 83. 
Gardner, 83,84, 85,86. 

Giles, 87. 

Giles Crouch, 83, 87, 

148. 
Hannah, 82,84, 85,87, 

142. 
Hannah Crocker, 85. 
Henry, 85, 86. 
Horace, 86. 
Huldah, 83. 
Ira, 86. 
Isaac, 82. 
Jacob, 82. 

James, 40, 81, 82, 124. 
Jemima, 82. 
Jerusha, 82, 85, 120. 
Jerusha Ingram, 85. 
Joanna, 57, 81, 82, 83, 

85, 86. 
Joel, 83, 84. 
John, II, 43, 74.81, 82. 

83, 84, 86, 87, 93.98, 
John Preston, 86. 
Jonathan, 81, 84, 86. 



Kellogg, Joseph, 12, 76, 
81, 82, 83, 85, 86, 
87, 124, 126, 143. 

Josiah, 84, 85. 

Lois, 83, 86. 

Lucius Storrs, 86. 

Lucy, 83, 84, 85. 

Lucy Warner, 87. 

Lucy W., 98. 

Lydia, 82, 86, 87, 122. 

Margaret, 82, 87. 

Maria, 83, 86. 

Maria Catlin, 87. 

Marma, 86. 

Martha, 76, 82, 84, 85, 
86. 

Martha Hunt, 87. 

Martha L., 86. 

Martin, 35, 66, 75, 81, 
83, 84, 86, III, 138. 

Mary, 13,82,83,85,86, 

102. 
Mary C, 98. 
Mary Elizabeth, 86. 
Mary G., 86. 
Mercy, 82, 85. 
Merub, 85, 86. 
Molly, 85. 

Moses, 82, 83, 84, 86, 
Moses, Jr., 107. 
Nancy, 85. 
Naomi Parsons, 85. 
Nathaniel, 6,13,36,64, 

81, 82, 83, 103,115. 
Noah, 82. 
Oliver, 87. 
Patty, 86. 
Phebe, 83, 103. 
Philomela, 84- 
Polly, 84. 
Priscilla, 86. 
Prudence, 81, 83, 86. 
Rebecca, 81. 
Richard, 86. 
Roswell, 85. 
Roxana, 86. 
Roxa Mattoon, 86. 
Rufus, 85, 132. 
Russell, 87. 

Ruth. 8, 20,81, 82, 87. 
Sally. 85. 
Samuel, 34, 81, 82, 83. 

84, 87, 95, 96, 103. 

124. 
Sarah, 34, 36, 81, 82, 

83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 96, 

99, 100. 
Sarah Beals, 85. 
Seth, 83. 156. 
Silas, 82. 



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Kellogg, Spencer, 86. 

Stephen, 24, 81, 82, 83. 

Stillman, 86. 

Submit, 84. 

Sybil, 62, 84. 

Sylvanius, 84. 

Thankful, 84, 85. 

Thomas, 81, 82, 87. 

Tryphena, 68, 85. 

Whiting, 84, 86. 

Willard M., 93. 

William, 83, 85, 87. 

Wright D., 41. 
Kelsey, Daniel, 59. 

Elijah, 87. 

Enos, 21, 33. 

Matthew, 87. 

Sarah, 87. 
Kennon, Sally, 106. 
Kent, Daniel, 91. 

Samuel, 164. 
Kentfield, Smith, 80. 
Keyes, David, 48. 

Hepzibah, 49 

John, 49. 

Percy, 160. 

Sarah, 114. 

Submit, 48. 
Kilbourn, Elijah, 137. 

James, Rev., 86. 

Mary, 129. 

Rebecca, 137. 
Kilcup, Abigail, 89. 
King, Abigail, 88. 

Benjamin, 59, 87. 

Eleazar, 54, 59. 

Eliakim, 54. 

Elisha, 87. 

EHzabeth, 88. 

Experience, 164. 

Jemima, 87. 

John, 87, 88. 

Mary, 59, 77, 87, 88. 

Robert, 88. 

Silence, 73. 

Thomas, 88. 

William, 88. 

, 59, 136. 

Kingsley, Abigail, 97. 

Enos, 21, 33. 

, 97, 162. 

Kittridge, John Ball, 

Dr., 85. 
Knapp, Fordyce M., 166. 

Solomon, Rev., 27. 
Kneeland, Betsey, 88. 

Edward, 88. 

Electa, 88. 

Elmira, 88. 

Hannah, 88. 



Kneeland, Joseph, 88. 

Lucinda, 88. 

Lydia, 88. 

Samuel, 88. 
Knight, Benjamin, 88. 

Catherine, 88. 

Eunice, 105. 

Lucius, 88. 

Sarah, 88. 

Simeon, 105. 

LAMB, Daniel, 7. 
Lampson, Chas. E,, 
27. 
Lamson, John, 10 1. 
Lane. Elizabeth, 88, 142. 

Family, 88. 

Samuel, 35, 81, 98. 

Sarah, 81, 98. 
Langdon, Electa, 163. 
Lathrop, Capt., 8. 

Luther, 66. 
Lawrence, Deliverance, 
11,88. 

Eleazar, 88. 

Ethelinda, 88. 

John, 88, 138, 151. 

Mary, 5, 88. 

Sarah, 88, iii, 151. 

Stephen, 88, 134. 
Wm. Smith, 88. 
Lawton, Clark, 25. 
Lee, Gideon, 145. 

iohn. III. 
ois, 131. 

Rebecca, 99. 

Sarah, 131. 

Leffingwell, , 34. 

Leonard, Joanna, 37. 

John, 35, 143, 144. 

Joseph, 50. 

Lydia, 118. 

Martha, 144. 

Penelope, 163. 
Levens, or Leavens, 

Andrew, 88. 
Lewis, Abi, 75, 89. 

Abigail, 82, 89. 

Benjamin, 82. 

Daniel, 89. 

Ebenezer, 89. 

Elisha, 89. 

Elizabeth, 89. 

Ezekiel. 89. 

Felix, 88, 89, 119. 

Hannah, 32, 89. 

Irene, 13, 32, 89. 

James, 89, 94. 

John, 89. 



Lewis, Joseph, 89. 

Mary, 89, 108. 

Nathaniel, 89. 

Noadiah, 20, 40, 75, 
76, 89, 125. 

Philip, 89. 

Rachel, 89. 

Sally, 105. 

Salome, 89. 

Samuel, 89. 

Sarah, 13, 89. 

Susannah, 89. 

William, 13, 32, 88, 89, 
91, 119. 

William, Capt., 13, 32. 

Lincoln, , 21. 

Lindsay, Ruth, 30. 
Little, Content, 65. 

Jane, 97. 

Mary Ann, 135. 

, Rev., 64, 92. 

Locke, , 121. 

Lombard, Widow, 12. 

Looman, , 156. 

Loomis, Abel, 89. 

Abner, 52. 

Amos, 104. 

Austin, 43. 

Damaris, 89. 

David, 91. 

Esther, 89. 

John, 13, 89, 146. 

Joseph, 89, 91. 

Lois, 53. 

Mary, 89. 

Noah, 59. 

Lydia, 69. 

Samuel, Dea., 153 

Sarah, 89. 

Thomas, 89, 153. 

, 146. 

Lothrop, Margaret, 79. 

Thomas, 79. 
Lotridge, James, 89. 

Esther, 89. 
Loveland, or Loveman, 

William, 89. 
Lovell, Irene, 122. 

Oliver, 121. 
Ludden, Elizabeth, 104. 
Lyman, Aaron, Dea., 62. 

Aaron Graves, 90. 

Abigail, 90. 

Abner, 149. 

Achsah, 90. 

Amaziah, 90. 

Benjamin, 156. 

Caleb, 90. 

Charles, 165. 

Cynthia, 90. 



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Lyman, Daniel F., 136. 

Dorcas, 90. 

Elias, 159. 

Elihu, 90. 

Elijah, 89. 

Elinor, 90. 

Elizabeth, 90. 

Enos, 90. 

Esther, 89. 

George, 90. 

Gershom Clark, 74. 

Gideon, 89, 90. 

Hannah, 90, 109, 165. 

Horace, 165. 

Isaac, Col., 152. 

Israel, 90, 165. 

James, 103. 

Joanna, 90. 

Joel, 48. 

John, 90, 137. 

John, Capt., iii. 

Jonathan, D.D., 109. 

Lucretia, 165. 

Martha, 89. 

Mindwell, 90, 95, in. 

Naomi, 90. 

Phinehas, 47, 90. 

Rachel, 90. 

Richard, 29, 91. 

Rodney, 165. 

Rufus, 28. 

Ruth, 156. 

Samuel, 165. 

Sarah, 90, 91, 165. 

Seth, 60. 

Simeon, 52. 

Sophia, 28. 

Thankful, 89. 

Thomas, 95. 

Timothy, 90. 

Timothy, Dr., iii. 

Watson, 165. 

William, 165. 

Zadoc, 90, 165. 
Lyon, Abigail, 41. 

Jonathan, 28. 

Prudence, 28. 

MACK, David, 108. 
Mary, 122. 
Maltby, Isaac, 10 1. 
Mann, Maria, 137. 
Markham, Elizabeth, 90. 
Lydia, 47, 90. 
Mercy, 90. 
Priscilla, 63, 90. 
William, 47. 63, 90, 
145, 150. 
Marsh, Abigail, 64, 92. 
Almira Sophronia, 93. 



Marsh, Ann, 23, 91. 
Anne, 90, 92. 
Augustus, 93. 
Betsey, 165. 
Calvin, 165. 
Catherine, 93. 
Chapman, 165. 
Charles, 93. 
Clarissa, 165. 
Daniel, 32, 89, 91, 92. 
Dorcas, 33, 91, 113. 
Dorothy, 91. 
Ebenezer, 43, 47, 91, 

92, 127, 165. 
Elihu, 165. 
Elijah, 92. 
Eliphalet, 92. 
Elisha, 92. 
Elizabeth, 91, 93, 106, 

134- 165. 
Elvira Minerva, 93. 
Ephraim, 91, 93. 
Esther, 91. 
Ethelinda, 93. 
Grace, 57, 91. 
Hannah, 36, 84, 91, 92. 
Harriet, 93. 
Hepzibah, 91. 
Henry Martyn, 93. 
Hiram, 165, 166. 
Job, 92, 112. 
Job. Capt., 92. 
Job, Dr., 93, 131. 134. 
John, 8, 63, 64, 90, 91, 

92, 112, 150. 
Jonathan, 14, 23, 33, 

36, 91, 92, 148. 
Jonnah, 93. 
Joseph, 14, 91, 92, 93, 

106, III. 
Judah, 91, 92. 
Judith, 92. 
Lois, 44, 165. 
Lucinda, 93. 
Lydia, 91. 
Margaret, 93, 106. 
Martha, 60, 91, 92. 
Mary, 30, 36, 91, 92, 

TOO, 125, 165. 
Mary Lyman, 93. 
Mehitabel, 92. 
Merriam, 165. 
Moses, 24, 92, 93, 106. 
Oliver, 165. 
Orsamus, 165 
Parsons, 92, 93. 
Perez, 92. 
Phebe, 92. 
Phebe Porter, 93. 
Rachel, 91, 150. 



Marsh, Rebecca, 92. 
Roxa, 93. 
Roxana, 93. 
Ruth, 91. 
Samuel, 12, 50, 57, 91, 

92, 93, 113, 150. 
Sarah, 24, 43, 63, 91, 

92, 93. 165. 
Susanna, 92. 
Thankful, 91. 
Thomas, 91. 
Timothy, 92, 93, 129, 

165. 

William, 91, 92, loi, 
112. 

33. 145. 161. 

Marshall, Chester, 31. 

Electa, 44. 
Martin, Phebe, 16. 

Mrs., 35. 
Marvin, Hannah, 8. 
Mason, Sophronia, 31. 
Mather, Cotton, 123. 

Jerusha, 139. 

William, 37, loi. 

William E., 27. 
Matthews Family, 93. 

Mary, 45. 

William, 12. 
Mattoon, Dorothy, 93 
131. 

Dorothy Smith, 94. 

Ebenezer 45, 86, 92, 

93. 94. 127, 131. 
Eleazer, 13, 93. 
Elizabeth, 20, 93. 
Fanny, 94. 
Isaac, 109. 
Lovisa, 40, 93. 
Mary, 94. 

Mary Dickinson, 94. 

Natiaaniel, 73. 

Noah Dickinson, 94. 

Phillip, 10, 67, 93. 

Roxana, 86, 93. 

Sarah, 51, 93. 
May, Charles C, 133. 

Dorothy, 33. 

Hezekiah, 140. 
Mayhew, Arnold, 156. 

Wealthy Amanda, 75. 
Mayo, Esther, 85. 

Lucina, 94. 
McClare, Sally, 39. 
McClary, Rachel, 131. 
McCranney, Rachel, 19. 
McCune, Grace, 103. 
McCuUis, Margaret, 152. 
McKee, Rev., 159. 
McLathlin, Joanna, 138. 



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McLean, Mary, 15. 
McMaster, Hugh, 130. 
Meacham, Anna, 94. 

Asa, 94. 

Ashbel, 94. 

Benjamin, 94. 

David, 94. 

Elizabeth, no. 

Esther, 94. 

James, 73, 94. 

Ruth, 94. 

Seth, 94. 
Mead, Betsey, 136. 
Meekins, Ehzabeth, 94. 

Hannah, 94, 154. 

John, 94, 154. 

Joseph, 94. 

Lydia, 94. 

Martha, 94. 

Mary, 94, 164. 

Mehitable, 94. 

Ruth, 12, 94. 

Sarah, 94. 

Stoddard, 160. 

Thomas, 5, 94, 126, 
151, 164. 
Merriam, Mary, 73. 
Merrick, Aaron, 95. 

Chileab Brainerd, 130. 

Esther, 21, 94. 

iames, 94. 
ucy, 94. 

Mary, 53, 94. 

Sarah, 94. 

Thomas, 53. 
Merrill, Abraham, 81,102. 

Asahel, Dr., 78, 102. 

Calvin, 44. 

Elijah, 14. 

Hannah, 8. 

Margaret, 102. 

Sarah, 82. 
Merruil, Hannah, 8. 
Metcalf, Joseph, Rev., 17. 

Michael, 152. 
Mighill, Mary, 5, 63. 

Samuel, 34, 95. 

Sarah, 63, 95. 

Thomas, Rev., 95. 
Miller, Abigail, 55. 

Elizabeth, 19. 

John, 160. 

Joseph, 6. 

Rebecca, 12. 

Sybil, 144. 

Thomas, 94. 
Mills, Jonathan, 113. 
Mitchell, David, 157. 

Mabel, 157. 
Mixter, Jason, 32. 



Montague, Abigail, 95 

96, 97, 99, 149, 166. 
Adonijah, 95. 
Alice Louisa, 98. 
Anna, 29, 95, 97. 
Beulah, 97. 
Caleb, 96. 
Caroline, 97. 
Daniel, 96, 97. 
David, 96, 97. 
Ebenezer, 96, 139, 149. 
Elijah, 90, 96, 97. 
Elisha, 96. 
Elizabeth, 95, 96, 97. 
Ephraim. 97, 98. 
Esther, 96. 
Eunice, 96. 

Experience, 75,95,1 10. 
Giles, 96, 97. 
Hannah, 95, 96, 97. 
Harlan Page, 98. 
Harriet Maria, 98. 
Harvey, 97. 
Heman, 97. 
Henry, 97. 
Huldah, 58, 96, 97. 
Irene, 96. 
James H., 98. 
Jedediah, 96, 97, 98. 
Jemima, 19, 95. 
John, 76, 95, 96, 97, 

119, 124, 126, 166 
John L., 98. 
Joseph, 96, 97, 121. 
Josiah, 96, 97. 
Laura A. M., 98. 
Lois, 96, 97. 
Lovisa, 97. 
Lucinda, 96, 97, 119. 
Lucre tia, 41, 97 
Lucy, 41. 
Luke, 20, 36, 40, 95, 

96, 97. 
Martha, 63, 95 
Mary,76 95,96,97,150. 
Mehitable, 96. 
Mindwell, 95, 97 
Miriam, 96. 
Moses, 60, 95, 96. 

M , 62. 

Nathaniel, 58, 76, 95, 

96, 97. 
Pamela White, 98. 
Penelope, 96. 
Peter, 22, 29, 32, 73, 77, 

95, 96, 97, 108, 124, 

129, 139, 149. 
Rachel, 90, 95, 149. 
Rhoda, 97. 



Montague, Richard, 63, 

95. 96, 149. ISO- 
Robert, 95. 
Sabra 29. 98. 
Samuel, 95, 96, 153. 
Sarah, 95, 96, 97. 
Sarah Goodrich, 97. 
Selah, 96. 

Seth, 96, 97, 131. 
Sibil, 31, 97. 
Sophronia, 97. 
Stephen, 29, 97, 158. 
Stephen Stone, 98. 
Susan Grant, 97. 
Sylvester, 97. 
Thankful, 97, 116. 
Thomas, 95. 
Timothy, 96, 97. 
William, 47, 83, 95, 

96, 97, 124. 
William Lewis, 98. 
Zebina, 97. 

Moody, Aaron, 39, 98, 99. 
Abigail, 99. 
Algenette, 79, 99. 
Asahel, 60, 99. 
Azor, 99. 
Calvin, 100. 
Chester, 17. 
Clarissa, 163. 
Cynthia, 144. 
Daniel, 40, 98, 99, 104. 
David, 98, 125, 133. 
Dorcas, 99. 
Ebenezer, 98, 99, 139, 

149. 157- 
Editha, 98, 157. 
Eldad, 99. 
Elijah, 99, 131. 
Eliphaz, 99. 
Eliphaz, Col., 136, 137. 
Elisha, 98, 99, 103. 
Elizabeth, 99. 
Enos, 98. 
Eunice, 45, 99. 
Finis, 99. 
George, 98. 
Gideon, 98, 99. 
Hannah, 98. 
Huldah, 17, 99. 
Jane, 97. 
Jerusha, 99. 
Joanna, 99. 
Joel, 57, 98. 
John, 36, 98, 99. 
John, Dea., 98. 
Jonathan, 45 , 60 , 98 , 99 , 

125. 
Joseph, 82, 98, 99. 
Josiah, 90, 98, 99, 155. 



GENEALOGICAL INDEX. 



191 



Moody, Julia, 33. 
Lemuel, 99. 
Levi, 100. 
Lois, 99, 100. 
Martha, 99. 
Mary, 37, 98, 99, toy. 
Matthew, 99. 
Medad, 99. 
Mercy, 99, 100. 
Miriam, 98, 99, 121. 
Moses, 98. 
Nathan, 95, 98, 99. 
Noah, 99. 
Olive, 136. 
Perez, 76, 99. 
Philema, Mrs., 65. 
Rachel, 99. 
Rebecca, 99, 136. 
Reuben, 98, 100. 
Ruth, 100. 

Samuel, 81, 98, 99, 100. 
Sarah, 81, 98, 99, 100, 

131. 139- 
Seth, 99. 
Sibil, 99. 
Silence, 99. 
Simeon, 98, 100. 
Sylvester, 99. 
Thomas, 100. 
Thomas Hovey, 98, 99. 

, 17.85- 

Moor, Deborah, 82. 
Moore, Benoni, 6. 

Lois, 7. 
More, Phebe, 89. 
Morgan, Isaac, 55. 

Mercy, 98. 

Rhoda, 131. 

Samuel, 85. 
Morton, Abigail, 100. 

Abraham, 87, 100, 10 1. 

Azubar, 100. 

Benjamin, 159. 

Consider, 10 1. 

Daniel, 100, 10 1. 

David, 100. 

Dorothy, 100. 

Ebenezer, 77, 100. 

Eleanor, 43, 62, 100. 

Electa, 1 06. 

Elijah, 100. 

Elisha, 100. 

Elizabeth, 100, 147. 

Elmira, 93. 

Esther, 101. 

Eunice, 100. 

Hannah, 10 1. 

Joel, 10 1. 

John, 67, 77, 100. 
— John Alden, 93. 



Morton, Jonathan, 54, 
59, 100, 124, 126. 

Joseph,9i, 100, 101,147. 

Justin, 10 1. 

Lucy, 100. 

Lydia, 100, loi. 

Martha, 100. 

Mary, 9, 100. 

Mehitable, 100, 162. 

Mercy, loi. 

Moses, 12, 100, 109. 

Noah, 100. 

Oliver, 56, 90, 100. 

Rhoda, 100. 

Richard, 59, 100. 

Roxa, 10 1. 

Ruth, 100. 

Samuel, 100, 125. 

Sarah, 100, 101. 

Seth, 100. 

Simeon, 35, 100. 

Tabitha, 10 1. 

Thankful, 100. 

Thomas, 100. 

Tirzah, 10 i. 

, 60, 145, 162. 

Moseley, Abigail, 90. 

Elizabeth, 48. 

Joseph, 90. 
Mosher, Mary, 105. 
Mould, Hugh, 153. 

Mary, 153. 

Susannah, 153. 
Mundan, Mary, iii. 
Munn, James, 98, 107. 
Munsell, Eunice, 122. 

Sabra, 122. 

Thomas, 121. 
Munson, Sarah, 104. 
Murray, David, 10 1. 

Dorothy, 10 1. 

Elihu, 101. 

Elijah, 10 1. 

Elizabeth, 10 1. 

Hannah, 10 1. 

Harriet, 10 1. 

Lucinda, 10 1. 

Martha, 10 1. 

Mercy, 101. 

Seth, 10 1. 

Seth, Gen., 155. 

William, 36, loi. 

NASH, Aaron, 102, 
103. 
Abel Wells, 105. 
Abigail, 6,42 102, 103, 

104. 
Abilene, 102. 
Abner, 104. 



Nash, Achsah W., 106. 
Adonijah, 104. 
Almira, 107. 
Aminta Day, 105. 
Amos, 104, III. 
Anna, 130. 
Arthur Henry, 106. 
Asa, 48, 104. 
Azubah, 103. 
Benjamin, 103. 
Catherine, 106. 
Charles, 106. 
Chloe, 103. 

Cotton, 105, 106, 132. 
Damaris, 103. 
Daniel, loi, 102, 103, 

152. 
David, 13, 102, 104. 
David, Dea., 120. 
Dorcas, 104. 
Ebenezer, 101, 102, 103. 
Edwin, 105. 
Edwin Smith, 106. 
Eleazar, 83, 102. 
Eleazer, 103. 
Electa, 106. 
Elihu, 103. 
Elijah, 105, 106, 107, 

165. 
Elisha, 102, 104, 128. 
Eliza, 70, 106. 
Elizabeth, 99, 102, 103, 

104, 105, 106. 
Enos, 9, 33, 55, 102, 

103, 105, 135, 164, 
166. 

Enos, Dea., 56. 
Enos Barnard, 105. 
Ephraim, loi, 102, 103, 

104, 124. 

Erastus, 56, 105, 106. 
Erastus, Jr., 75. 
Erastus Hall, 106. 
Eunice, 103, 104, 105. 
Eunice Knight, 106. 
Experience, 103, 104. 
Francis Lewis, 106. 
George Williams, 105, 

106. 
Hannah, 11, loi, 102, 

103, 104. 
Hannah Submit, 106. 
Harriet, 86, 103, 106, 

165. 
Harriet A., 27. 
Hiram, 106. 
Hope, loi, 147. 
Horace, 106. 
Huldah, 75. 
Isabella Susan, 106. 



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GENEALOGICAL INDEX. 



Nash, Jane Lurintha, 

107. 
Jay Elijah, 107. 
Joanna, 40, 102, 103, 

105. 
Joanna D., 106. 
John, II, 15, 20, 60, 

70, 81, 84, loi, 102, 

103, 105, 107, 112. 
John, Dea., 76, 104. 
John Walter, 106, 107. 
Jonathan, 42, 65, 67, 

102, 104. 
Joseph, loi, 103, 104. 
Josiah, 103, 105, 106. 
Judith, 15, 104. 
Julia, 106. 
Justin, 104. 
Laura E., 107. 
Lemuel, 105. 
Lephe, 106. 
Levi, 104. 
Lois, 104, 105. 
Lorenzo S., 105, 106. 
Louisa, 106. 
Lucinda, 106. 
Lucius, 93, 105, 106. 
Lucretia, 105. 
Lucretia Montague, 

106. 
Lucy, 6, 103, 106. 
Marah, 103. 
Margaret Louisa, 106. 
Maria Williams, 106. 
Martha, 33, 102, 105. 
Martin, 99, 102, 103. 
Martin Samuel, 107. 
Mary, 83, loi, 102, 104, 

106. 
Mary Crouch, 103. 
Mary Stebbins, 105,166. 
Matilda, 106. 
Miriam, 52, 102, 103, 

104. 
Moses, 24, 59, 83, 89, 

102, 103, 105. 
Nancy, 105. 
Nathaniel, 104. 
Noah, II, 102. 
Oliver, 103, 105, 106. 
Patty Gaylord, 105. 
Permelia, 106. 
Phebe, 103, 104, 105. 
Phineas, 102. 
Rebecca, 56, loi, 102, 

103, 104. 
Rebekah, 10 1. 
Reuben, 50, 104. 
Sally, 105, 106. 



Nash, Sally Chapin, 105. 
Samuel, loi, 102, 103, 

104, 105, 106, 107. 
Sarah, loi, 103, 104, 

105, 164. 
Sarah J., 107. 
Sarah Hawkes. 106. 
Sarah Loviisa, 106. 
Simeon, 104. 
Stephen, 102, 124. 
Stephen, Jr., 82. 
Submit, 102, 105. 
Susan, 106. 
Thomas, 22, loi, 102, 

126. 
Timothy, 82, loi, 102, 

103, 105, 106, 124, 147. 
Walter, 106. 

. 51- 

Negus, William, 128. 
Nettleton, Betsey, 104. 
Nevers, Lucy, 130. 
Newbury, Rebecca, 117. 

Thomas, 117. 
Newhall, George, 14, 93. 
Newman, Mark H., 46. 
Newton, Asa, 143. 

Eleanor, 107. 

Elizabeth, 107. 

Francis, 41, 107. 

John, 107. 

Obed, 107. 

Paul, 76. 

Sally, 107. 

Theodocia, 107. 

Tryphena, 26, 107. 
Nims, John, 73, 75. 

. 72 

Noble, Abner, 14. 

Daniel, 32. 

Elisha, 149. 

Eunice, 14. 

Hannah, 57, 82. 

John, 57. 

Lovisa, 132. 

Lucinda, 75. 

Matthew, 82. 

Stephen, 14, 75, 132. 

Thomas, 11, 57. 
Norcross, Emily, 46. 

Joel, 46. 
Norton, George, 163. 

John, 14. 

Selah, 113. 
Northam, Elizabeth, 107. 

Hannah, Wid., 52. 

Isabel, 7. 

James, 107. 

Jonathan, 107. 



Northam, Mary, 107. 

Samuel, 35, 107. 
Nutting, George, 66. 

/^AKES, Experience, 

Olcott, Thomas, 52. 
Olds, Joshua, 127. 
Olmsted, Joseph, 154. 

, 126. 

Orchard, Lucy Mrs., 148. 
Osbom, Chester, 107. 

Fanny Gaylord, 107. 

Richard, 56, 107. 

Ruth, 43. 

Owen, Electa, 65. 

PACKARD,Betsey,4i. 
Lephe, 106. 
Paine, Elijah, Dr., 

155- 
Sarah, 66. 

Palmer, Fred. A., 122. 

Chilion, 7. 
Panton or Panthorn, 

Alexander, 98, 107. 

Philip, 107. 
Panthorn, Philip, 76, 83. 

Elizabeth, 83. 
Pantry, John, 14. 

Mary, 14. 
Parcy, Thankful, 53. 
Parish, Anne, 119. 
Parker, Abraham, 77. 

Deborah, 40, 107. 

Eli, 44, 45, 66, 107. 

Elizabeth, 66, 107. 

Eunice, 49. 

Hannah, 57, 107. 

Josiah, 163. 

Levi, 107. 

Mary, 68. 

Samuel, 44, 107. 
Parkhurst, Cynthia, 159. 
Parmalee, Eunice, 65. 
Parsons, Benjamin, Dea., 

1 43-. 
Caroline, 108. 
David, 12, 85, 107, 108. 
Esther, 125. 
Eunice, 107. 
Experience, 104. 
Ezekiel Williams, 108. 
Ferry, 56. 
Francis, 108. 
Gideon, 107. 
Harriet, 108. 
Hannah, 92. 



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Parsons, James, io8. 
John, 59. 
Jonathan, 54, 61, 64, 

124. 
Joseph, 84. 
Josiah, Jr., 83. 
Kezia, 25. 

Leonard Chester, 107. 
Lydia, 54. 
Margaret, 162. 
Mary, 61, 92, 107, 108, 

148. 
Nathaniel, 62, 104. 
Prudence Stoddard, 

108. 
Rachel S. 46. 
Salome, 107. 
Sarah, 59, 84, 143. 
Sophia, 108. 
Susan, 166. 
Thomas, 108. 
Timothy, 74, 92. 
William', 108. 
Partridge, Abigail 

D wight, 109. 
Anna, 109. 
Caroline, 109. 
Clarissa, 109. 
Cotton, 24, 55, 109. 
Dorothy, 109. 
D wight, 109. 
Edward, 108, 109, 161. 
Elizabeth, 83, 108, 109. 
Esther, 109. 
Eunice, 109. 
Fanny, 109. 
George Cotton, 109. 
George C, Rev., 16. 
Hannah, 109. 
Hannah H., 109. 
Harriet, 109. 
John, 108, 109. 
Jonathan, 108. 
Joseph Lyman, 109. 
Margaret, 55, 109. 
Martha, 109. 
Mary, 95, 108, 109, 124. 
Mehitable, 108, 109,164. 
Mercy, 109. 
Oliver, 40, 109. 
Pamela, 109. 
Samuel, 32,83, 103,108. 

109. 
Samuel, Col., 164. 
Sophia, 109. 
Sophia Arms, 109. 
Sybil, 38, 109. 
Theodore. 109. 



Partridge, William, 95, 

108, 109, 124. 
Pasco, Cornelia A., 27. 

Theodor, 27. 
Patterson, Elizur, 157. 

Jonathan, 67. 

Lydia, 157. 
Payne, Olive, 147. 

Payson, , 108. 

Pease, Jane E., 45. 

Robert, Jr., 150. 

Samuel, 149. 
Peck, Betsy, 88. 

Chloe, 159. 

Huldah, 29. 

Isaac, 135. 

Joseph, 65. 

Nathaniel, 51. 

Sarah, 148. 

Sherman, 72. 

Sybil, 62. 
Peebles, Margaret, 41. 
Peirce, Experience, 77. 
Perkins, Ehsha, 19, 109. 

Eunice, 109. 

E. , 125. 

John, 109. 

Sarah, 109. 

Sibil, 109. 
Perry, Electa, 40. 

Fanny, 68. 

John, 21, no. 

Mary, no. 

Rebecca, no. 
Petit, Theodocia C, 65. 
Pettengill, Susan D., 41. 
Pettis, Samuel, 114. 

Tamar, 130. 
Petty, John, no. 

Joseph, no. 

Lucretia, no. 

Mary, no. 

Rachel, no. 

Thankful, no. 
Phelps, Aaron, 6. 

Abigail, no. 

Anna, 6, 57. 

Charles, no, 113. 

Charles Porter, no. 

Dinah, 147. 

Dorothy, no, 148. 

Elizabeth, no. 

Elizabeth Whiting, no. 

Experience, no. 

Hannah, 163. 

John, no. 

Joseph, no. 

Lydia, 149. 

Mary E., 28. 

Moses Porter, no. 



Phelps, Nathaniel, no. 

Samuel, 21. 

Seth, 56. 

Solomon, no. 

Susan, 49. 

Timothy, 53, no. 

, 152. 

Phillips, Abigail, 114. 

Abner, 96. 

John, Hon., 114. 

Picket, , 146. 

Pierce, Almira, in. 

Anna, 164. 

Anne, no. 

Bathsheba, no. 

David, 29, no. 

Dolly, no. 

Elihu, no. 

Eliza, no. 

Hannah, no. 

Job, no. 

John, no. 

John Nelson, in. 

Jonathan, 77,95, no. 

Josiah, 24, 29, no. 

Josiah, Jr., 160. 

Lucy, no, 160. 

Martin, in. 

Mary, 97, 153. 

Miriam, no. 

Samuel, 25, no. 

Sarah, in. 

Thomas, no. 

William, no. 

William Martin, no. 
Pierre, Vashti, 104. 
Pitkin, Anne, 113. 

Elizabeth, 113. 

Nathaniel, 113. 

Sarah, 113. 

William, Jr., 113. 
Pixley, Anthony, in. 

Ebenezer, in. 

Joseph, in. 

Mary, in. 

Sarah, in. 

Thomas, ni. 

William, in. 
Plimpton, or Plympton, 
Hannah, in. 

John, in. 

Mary, in. 

Peter, in. 
Plunket, Thomas F., 70. 
Pomeroy, Abigail, 72, 
III. 

David, in. 

Dorcas, 21, in. 

Ebenezer, 90, in. 

Elisha, 32, 137. 



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GENEALOGICAL INDEX. 



Pomeroy, Elizabeth, 90, 
III. 

Emily, 49. 

Enos, 130. 

Esther, 32, 88, 89, iii. 

Ethan, iii. 

Eunice, 104, iii. 

Hannah, iii. 

Jacob Parsons, iii. 

Terusha, 50, iii, 119. 

Joshua, 72. 

Lucy, 66, 84, III. 

Mary, 50, iii, 120. 

Medad, 18. 

Mindwell, 93, iii. 

Moses, III. 

Rhoda, III. 

Samuel, iii. 

Simeon, 41, 50, 65, 66, 
84, 107, III, 128. 

Solomon, iii. 

Stephen, 90. 

Titus, 96. 
Pond, Miranda, 45. 
Pooler, Jemima, 78. 
Pope, Rebecca W., 98. 
Porter, Aaron, 112, 113. 

Abigail, 112, 114,155. 

Abraham, 155. 

Amy, 114. 

Anna, 113. 

Anne, 113. 

Benjamin, 114. 

Benjamin Colt, 114. 

Caroline Williams, 114. 

Charlotte, 114. 

Charlotte W., 166. 

Daniel, 112, 114. 

David, 112, 113, 114, 
166. 

David Keyes, 114. 

Delia Dwight, 114. 

Dorcas, 113. 

Edward Clark, 166. 

Edwin, 114 

Eleanor, 71. 

Eleazar, Hon., 113. 

Eleazar, 71, 112, 113, 
114, 166. 

Eleazar Williams, 114. 

Elisha, 113, 114, 136. 

Elizabeth, 1 10, 113, 114. 

Elizabeth Eastman, 
166. 

Ephraim, 134. 

Eunice, 104, 112, 113. 

Experience, 92, 112. 

Fidelia, 166. 

Frederick, 114. 



Porter, Hannah, 22, 10 1. 

Ill, 112, 113. 
Henry, 114. 
Hezekiah, 34, 111,112. 
Horace, 114. 
Ichabod, 91, 112, 113. 
Isaac, 112. 

James, 112, 113, 145. 
James Bayard, 1 1 4, 1 66. 
Jeremiah, 114. 
Jerusha, 113, 114. 
Joanna, 74,91, 112, 113. 
John, 111,112, 114, 140. 
Jonathan, 112, 113. 
Jonathan E., 87. 
JonathanEdwards.i 14, 

166. 
Joseph, 112. 
Joshua, 50. 
Julia, 166. 
Lester, 114. 
Lester W., 106. 
Lois Eastman, 114, 164. 
Lucretia, 114. 
Lucretia Colt, 114. 
Lucy, 114, 166. 
Mabel, 112. 

Margaret, 113, 114, 135. 
Margaret Gaylord, 166. 
Maria, 114. 
Martha, 112. 
Mary, 112, 113,114,166. 
Mary Edwards, 114. 
Mehitable, 92, 112,113. 
Miriam, 112, 113. 
Moses, 23, 70, 112, 113, 

114. 
Moses, Dr., no. 
Nathaniel, 112. 
Pamela, 114, 136. 
Patience, 114, 166. 
Phebe, 92, 113. 
Pierpont, 114. 
Polly, 114. 
Ruth, 112. 
Samuel, 23,74, in, 112, 

113, 114, 140. 
Samuel, Gen., 135. 
Sarah, 23, 71, 112, 113, 

114, 147, 160. 
Sarah Cook, 166. 
Sidney, 114. 
Silas, 113. 

Sophia, 70, 114, 166. 
Submit, 113. 
Susanna, 113, 114. 
Susannah Edwards, 

114. 
Theoda, 112. 
Theodore W., 166. 



Porter, Thomas, 1 1 1 . 11 2. 

Timothy, 112. 

Timothy Dwight, 166. 

William, 18, 48, 113, 
114, 166. 

William Parsons, 166. 
Potter, Abby Jane, 115. 

Delia, 115. 

Ellen Augusta, 115. 

Ephriam, 115, 134. 

Ephraim Henry. 115. 

Eugene Emerson, 115. 

Martha Evelyn, 115. 

Mary Louisa, 115. 
Potwine, Abigail, 66. 

Benjamin, 66. 
Powers, Chester, 160. 

Elizabeth W., 160. 

Mary, 103. 
Pratt, Abigail, 99. 

Hannah, 72. 

John, 72, 146. 

Levi, Rev., 109. 

Rebecca, 92. 

Sarah, 163. 
Prentiss, Joshua, 45. 

Margaret, 45. 

Sarah, 95. 
Prest, Elizabeth, 141. 
Preston, Azubah, 115. 

Benoni, 115. 

Clarina, 115. 

Emereniana, 115. 

Eunice, 115. 

Gardner, 115. 

Hannah, 115. 

Jabez, 115. 

James, 115. 

Jeriel, 115. 

Job, 115. 

John, 55. 83, 115, 126, 
129, 130. 

Joel, 115. 

Jonathan, 115. 

Joseph Strong, 79. 

Justin, 115. 

Lucina, 115. 

Mary, 115, 130. 

Martha, 115. 

Mercy, 115. 

Moses, 115. 

Rachel, 115. 

Roxa, 115. 

Samuel, 115. 

Sarah, 83, 115, 130. 

Sophia, 115. 

S. , 161. 

Tryphena, 115. 
Price, Elizabeth, 8. 

Theodore, 8. 



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Price, Walter, 75. 
Prior, Adelaide, 115. 

Cynthia Rebecca, 115. 

Enos Parsons, 115. 

Frederick, 115. 

Frederick Smith, 115. 

Helen Adelaide, 115. 

Mary, 115. 

Nathaniel Collins, 115, 

Prouty, Elijah, 84. 
Prutt, Arthur, 115. 

Abner, 116. 

Ceasar, 115. 

Chloe, 116. 

Elenor, 115. 

George, 115. 

Ishmael, 115. 

Joan, 115. 

Zebulon, 116. 
Purdy, Sally, 136. 
Putnam, David, 48. 

Mary, 30. 
Putney, Moses, 75. 
Pynchon, Col., 108. 

John, 83. 

Sally, 48. 



Q 



UESTION,Jane,7o. 



RAMNEY, Thomas, 
^53- 
Ramsdell, Levi, 160. 
Rand, William, Rev., 23. 

Randall, , 139. 

Randolph, John, 31. 
Rangers, Rogers, Maj., 

127. 
Raulf, Azubah, n6. 

Benjamin, 116. 
Rawson, Charles, 116. 

Grindall, 17, 116. 

Hooker, 116. 
Raymond, Abigail, 116. 

Eunice, 116. 

Jonathan, 116. 

Josiah, 116. 

Read, , 126. 

Reed, Mary, 49. 

Thomas, 122. 
Reeve, Mary, 150. 

Thomas, 150. 
Reynolds, Edwin, 116. 

Joanna, 116. 

Mary, 116. 

Samuel, 116. 

Sophia, 116. 

Thomas, 41, 42, 116. 



Rhodes, Benjamin, no. 

, 26. 

Rice, Betsey, 31. 

Chester, 62. 

Esther, 73. 

Horace, Jr., 136. 

Josiah, 106. 

Nathaniel, Dea., 72. 

Tamar, 152. 

William, 121. 

, 86. 

Rich, Calvin, 13. 

Lucy, 12. 

Luke, 66. 
Richards, Esther, 142. 
Richardson, Almira, 49. 

Mary, 46. 

Richard H., Rev., 162. 
Richmond, David, 116. 

Thankful, 116. 
Riddel,William,Rev.,7i. 
Rider, Ansel, 116. 

Charles, 116. 

Isaac, 159, 160. 

Matilda, 116. 

Phebe, 160. 

Ruth, 160. 

Stephen, 97, 116. 

Thankful, 116. 
Ripley, Charles, 122. 
Robbins, Elihu, 159. 

Joseph, no. 

Rachel, 106. 
Robinson, Mary, 125. 
Rockwell, Deliverance, 

146. 
Rogers, Florence, 136. 

Robert, 76. 
Rood, Betsey, 116. 

Daniel, 155. 

Esther, 77. 

Ezra, 83. 

Giles, 116. 

John, 1 16. 

Mary, 116. 

Polly, 27. 

Ruth, 27, 116, 142. 

Samuel, 116. 

Sarah, 116. 

Simeon, 27, 116. 

Solomon, 116. 
Rooker, Dorothy, 116, 
142. 

Samuel, 116. 

Sarah, 116. 

William, 116, 138. 
Root, Dorothy, no. 

Eli, 82. 

Eunice, 96. 



Root, Hannah, Mrs., 100. 

Hezekiah, 54, no. 

Jacob, 54. 

John, 70, 126. 

Jonathan, 63. 

Joseph, 96, 117. 

Lois, 49. 

Mary, 12, 96, 126, 149. 

Mehitable, 22, 47. 

Ruth, 82. 

Sarah. 87. 
Rose, Daniel, Jr., 52. 

Thankful, 77. 
Rosevelt, Jacob, 116. 

Sarah, 116. 

Susanna, 116. 
Rowe, Caroline, 68. 

Elijah, 116. 

Huldah, 107. 

John, 116. 

Lois, 116. 

Mehitable, 116. 

Mercy, 142. 
Rugg, Gideon, 116. 

Hannah, 57, 116, 117. 

John, 117. 

Lucy, 94. 

Lydia, 116, 156. 

Miriam, 117. 

Moses. 117. 

Phineas, 116, 117. 

Samuel, 116. 117, 156. 

Sarah, 117. 

Thankful, 116, 117. 
Ruggles, Benj., Rev., 161. 

Tryphena, 161. 
Rush, Betsey, 122. 

Elizabeth, 122. 
Russell, Abel, 162. 

Alpheus, 104. 

Daniel, 36, 117. 

Daniel, Rev., 17, 140. 

Daniel, Jr., 107. 

Eleazar, 117. 

Elizabeth, 117. 

Israel, 117. 

Jerusha, 117. 

Joanna, 117. 

John, 117, 122. 

Jonathan, 58, 117. 

Lucy, 27. 

Martha, 117. 

Mary, 117. 

Persis, 117. 

Philip, 18, 117, 143. 

Rebecca, 104, 117. 

Samuel, 117. 

Sarah, 117. 

Spencer, 117. 



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GENEALOGICAL INDEX. 



Russell, Stephen, 117. 

Tryphena, 44. 

Thomas, 117. 
Rust, Benoni, 44, 66. 

Israel, 149. 

N , 7. 

SABIN, Barnabas, 76. 
Elizabeth, 109. 
Laura, 97, 98. 

Lewis, Rev., 42. 

Sherman, 97. 
Sacket, Abigail, 120. 

Benoni, 124. 

Hannah, 147. 

William, 59. 
Sadler, Amanda, 136. 
Safford, Abigail, 112. 

Robert, Dr., 144. 
Salmon, Dea,, 66. 

Elizabeth, 66. 
Sampson, Phinehas, 117. 

Eliza, 117. 
Sanderson, D wight L. , 1 5. 
Sanford, Bathsheba, 121. 

David, Rev., 121. 
Saunders, Ruth, 31. 
Savage, Elizabeth, 153. 

John. 153. 

Sarah, 21. 
Sawyer, Wid., 53. 
Scott, Abigail, 118, 125. 

Absalom, 74, 118. 

Andrew, 105, 118. 

Ann, 118. 

Benjamin, 118. 

Bridget, 60, 118. 

David, 52, 54, 118. 

Ebenezer, 118. 

Edward, 60, 117. 

Elizabeth, 117, 118. 

Esther, 118. 

Experience, 118. 

Hannah, 118. 

Hepzibah, 118. 

Israel, 31. 

Jemima, 118. 

Jerusha, 118. 

John, 102, 118. 

Jonathan, 67, 68, 118. 

Joseph, 6, 118, 125. 

Joshua, 118. 

Josiah, 118. 

Learned, 41. 

Leonard, 118. 

Lydia, 118. 

Margaret, 118. 

Martha, 118, 125. 

Mary, 102, 118. 

Mehitable, 118. 



Scott, Mercy, 10 1. 

Miriam, 1 18. 

Moses, 102, 1 18. 

Rachel, 118. 

Reuben, 118. 

Richard, 11, 118. 

Ruth, 118. 

Samuel, 118. 

Sarah, 37, 117. 

Stephen, 118. 

Submit, 118. 

Susanna, 49. 

Thomas, 118. 

William, 5, 53, 118. 
Scovil, Ebenezer, 118. 

Elizabeth, 55. 

John, 118. 

Mary, 57. 
Searl, Sophia, 80. 
Sedgwick, Abigail, 82. 

Prudence, 82. 
Selby, Lyman, 75. 
Selden, Abigail, 119, 156. 

Azariah, 119. 

Bitterne, 119. 

Ebenezer, 119. 

Elizabeth, 119. 

Esther, 118, 119, 146. 

Felix, 119. 

Hannah, 119. 

Hester, 118. 

Isaac, 76, 119. 

Jabez, 119. 

John, 63, 119, 155. 

Jonathan, 62, 76, 119. 

Joseph, 18, 118, 119. 

Joseph Dudley, 23. 

Martha, 119. 

Mary, 118,119,141,142, 

155- 

Mercy, 62, 118, 119. 

Obadiah, 119. 

Rebecca, 118. 

Rhoda, 96, 119. 

Ruth, 119. 

Samuel, 118. 

Sarah, 118, 119. 

Thomas, 89, 118, 119, 
141, 146. 
Sellon, Sarah, 147. 

Sergeant, , 109. 

Severance, Elizabeth, 47. 

Joseph, 81. 
Sewall, Jane, 23. 

Margaret Elizabeth, 
148. 

Stephen, Maj., 23, 113. 

Susanna, 113. 
Seymour, Caroline Mary, 



Seymour, Edwin Henry, 
120. 

Elizabeth, 119. 

Fanny, 119. 

Harriet Rebecca, 120. 

Henry, 119, 120. 

Horace, 119. 

Horace Dwight, 120. 

Levi Dwight, 120. 

Lovisa Cooley, 119. 

Maria Sophia, 120. 

Mary, 65 119, 165. 

Mary Ann, 162. 

Nathan, 119, 120, 148^ 
165. 

Rebecca Elvira, 120. 

Rebecca Moore, 120. 

Samuel, 119. 

Samuel, Col., 134. 

Sarah, 119. 

Sarah Ann, 119. 

Susan Elvira, 120. 

Thomas Y., 162. 

William, 119. 
Shattuck, Amasa, 135. 

Daniel, 13,127,130,137. 

Daniel, Capt., 77. 

Gideon, 77. 

Phebe, 77. 

, 20, 25. 

Shaw, David, 66. 

Elsie, 66. 
Shearer, Leonard B., 42, 
Sheldon, Aaron, 11. 

Anne, 25. 

Benjamin, 82. 

Ebenezer, 9, 14, 73. 

Hannah, 152. 

Isaac, 90, 146. 

Israel, 149. 

Mary, 14, 73, 84. 

Mercy, 73. 

Naomi, 102. 

Oliver, 49. 

Ruth, 48. 

Samuel, 146. 

Susan, 49. 

Thankful, 96. 

Theoda, 90. 

Thomas, 70, 119, 126. 

Timothy, 48. 
Shepard, Deborah, 153. 

Isaac, Dea., 139. 

Mase, Rev., 15. 

Olive S., 43. 

Rebecca, 57, 157. 

Samuel, Rev., 43. 

Solomon, 47. 

Wealthy, 38. 
Sherman, Ruth, 159. 



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Sherman, Thomas, 159. 
Shipman, Elizabeth, 29. 

Ellen Elizabeth, 166. 

George Smith, 166. 

John, 29, ^^. 

Lucy Miller, 166. 

Mary Warner, 166. 

Sally, 166. 

Samuel, 105, 166. 

Sarah Wells, 166. 
Shumway, Betsey, 40. 

Rufus, no. 

Zilpha, 31, 164. 
Sikes, John, 25. 

Nathaniel, 94. 

Sarah, 57. 

,78. 

Skinner, Aaron, 103. 

Lydia, 103. 
Smead, Ebenezer, 61. 

Elisha, 84. 

Elizabeth, 151. 

John, 6. 

Joseph, 51. 

Judith, 67. 

Rachel, 78. 

Thankful, 61. 

William, 67. 
Smith, Aaron, 76, 125, 
127, 131. 

Abby Phillips, 136. 

Abel, 131. 

Abial, 58, 128. 

Abigail, 25, 49, 74, 82, 
95, III, 120, 121, 124, 
126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 

131. 133. 135. 144- 
Abner, 120, 127, 147. 
Achsah, 130, 133. 
Adeline, 137. 
Agnes, 120. 
Albert Douglass, 136. 
Albert G., 135. 
Alethea, 11, 133. 
Alexander, 120, 121, 

122. 
Alfred Little, 135. 
Allen, 134, 136. 
Almena, 136. 
Almira. 86, 135 
Amasa, 128. 
Amy, 145. 
Andrew, 131. 
Andrew Murray, 136. 
Anna, 37, 48, 66, 124, 

132,133.134,136,165. 
Anne, 128, 133. 
Ann Porter, 135. 
Anson, 132, 136. 
Arad, 131. 



Smith, Aristobulus, 84. 
Arthur, 138. 
Arthur Hampden, 135. 
Asa, 121, 128, 131. 
Asahel, 128. 
Asenath, 9,1 19,134,136. 
Aurelia, 29. 
Azubah, 127. 
Bathsheba, 121. 
Benjamin, 31, 80, 120, 

121, 122, 123, 124, 
126, 129. 

Benoni, 124. 

Benoni Mandeville, 133. 

Beriah, 130. 

Bethia Chapin, 136. 

Betsey, 122, 133, 136. 

Betsey Adeline, 136. 

Bridget, 99, 125. 

Caleb, 121, 122, 123, 
128, 135. 

Calvin, 131, 136. 

Caroline, 134, 136. 

Catherine, 127, 131. 

Catherine Amelia, 123. 

Catherine Mary, 138. 

Charles, 133, 134, 137. 

Charles Frederick Har- 
rington, 137. 

Charles Hitchcock, 137. 

Charles Porter, 123. 

Charles Sidney, 135. 

Charlotte Carrina, 137. 

Chester, 122, 123, 134. 

Chileab, 39, 56, 95, 
100, 123, 124, 125, 
126, 129, 133, 139. 

Chloe, 133. 

Christopher, 108, 122. 

Clarinda, 122. 

Clarissa, 79, 123, 136. 

Clarissa Cook, 133. 

Clarissa Delphia, 137. 

Clement, 27. 

Cordelia, 136. 

Cotton, 58, 97, 122, 
123, 133- 

Cynthia Maria, 137, 

Daniel, 25, 120, 121, 

122, 124. 
Darius, 130, 156. 
David, 25, 38, 84, 125, 

126,127,129,130,132, 
133. 134. 147. 166. 

David R., 37. 

Delia, 115, 134. 

Dennis, 135. 

Dinah, 126. 

Docia, 122. 

Dorcas, 138. 



Smith, Dorothy, 93, 116, 

117, 120, 127, 131, 

138. 
Dudley, 114, 133, 136. 
Dudley Porter, 136. 
Ebenezer, 13, 36,81,82, 

124, 125, 126, 129, 132, 

138, 139- 
Ebenezer Dennis, 138. 
Edmund, 122, 123, 166. 
Edmund Hubbard, 123. 
Edward, 120, 121, 122, 

124. 
Edward Chester, 123. 
Edward Taylor, 137. 
Edward Warner, 123. 
Edward Worthi., 135. 
Edwin, 13s, 137, 138. 
Edwin Clapp, 123. 
Eleanor, 100, 126. 
Eleazar, 120, 124, 127, 

128, 130. 
Eleazar, Dea., 25. 
Electa, 129, 131, 133. 
Eli, 37, 79, 105, 130, 

132. 135. 138. 
Eliakim, 56, 72, 82, 

120, 126, 128. 
Elias, 121, 122. 
Elihu, 24, 74, 123, 131, 

\33' 134. 137' 166. 
Elijah, 120, 121, 130, 

131, 132, 133, 135, 

158. 
Elisha, 20, 125, 126, 

127, 129, 132, 133, 

139- 

Elisha, Dea., 12, 125, 

Eliza Ann, 138. 

Eliza Augusta, 137. 

Elizabeth, 9, 25, 35, 63, 
76, 78, 93, 102, 104, 
120, 121, 122, 123, 
124, 125, 128, 129, 

130. 131. 133. i34> 
139, 166. 
Elizabeth Edwards, 

133- . , 

Elizabeth Little, 135. 
Elizabeth Marsh, 134. 
Ehzabeth, Mrs., 83. 
Ellen Maria, 135. 
Eloisa, 132. 
Emily Wright, 137. 
Emma Elizabeth, 137. 
Enos, 38, 41, 115, 123, 

128,132, 134,137,139. 
Enos, Dr., 106. 
Enos Dickinson, 134, 

137- 



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GENEALOGICAL INDEX. 



Smith. Ephraim, 57,115. 
121, 125, 126, 127, 

130. 132. 133. 135- 
Ephraim Orlando, 135. 
Erastus, 27,41,122,123, 

132, 133. 
Esther, 20, 41, 51, 76, 

83, 126, 127, 128, 129, 

130. 
Ethan, 65, 121, 130. 
Ethelinda, 88. 134- 
Eugene Jonathan, 137. 
Eunice, 27, 122, 126, 

129, 132, 133, 139. 
Experience, 47, 82, 124, 

125, 128. 
Fanny, 122. 
Flavia Ann, 136. 
Frances Eliza, 137. 
Frances Mary, 138. 
Francis Dwight, 137. 
Francis Towner, 136. 
Frederic, 133. 
George, 134, 13S. 138- 
George Barlow, 134, 

George Dickmson, 135. 
George Edmund, 123. 
George Ely, 137. 
George Franklin, 138. 
George Hunt, 138. 
George Purdy, 136, 138. 
Gideon, 19,129,131,132. 
Giles, 134- 
Giles Eastman, 134, 

137. 
Hannah, 20, 25, 26, 85, 
95, 121, 122, 124, 125, 
126, 127, 128, T29, 
131. 132, 133. 134. 
135. 137. 139- 
Hannah E., 136. 
Harriet, 135, 136, 165. 
Harriet Cornelia, 123. 
Harriet Louisa, 138. 
Harriet Victoria, 138. 
Helen Maria, 123. 
Henry, 42, 133, 134, 

136. 
Henry Dwight, 137. 
Henry Edson, 138. 
Henry Parks, 123. 
Henry, Rev., 117, 123 

138. 
Herman Kellogg, 138 
Hervey, 122. 
Hester, 124. 
Hewitt, 121. 
Hezekiah, 36, 41, 126 
129. 



Smith, Hinsdale, 123. 
Hiram, 134, 137, 138- 
Horace, 133, 134, 136, 

138. 
Horace William, 137. 
Ichabod, 23, 76, 124, 

125, 126, 127, 128, 

138, 139- 
Irene, 122, 132. 
Isaac, 10 1. 
Isaac Damon, 138. 
Israel, 129, 133. 
Ithamar, 130. 
Jacob, 89, 121. 
James, 48, 95, 124, 126, 

132, 138, 139- 
James Fowler, 134. 
James William, 123. 
Jane, 134, 138- 
JaneWorthington, 135. 
Jared, 132. 

Jemima, 127, 128, 139. 
Jenne Bell, 138. 
Jeriah Stockwell, 135, 

138. 
Jerusha, 7,43, 125, 127, 

128,129,130,133,156. 

Joanna, 25, 58, 79, 117, 

124, 127, 130, 131, 

133, 135, 138. 
Job Marsh, 137. 
Joel, 14, 27, 66,86, 121, 

127, 130, 133. 
John, 24, 25, 36, 72, 
78,81, 83, 95, 96, 120, 
121, 122, 123, 124, 

126, 127, 129, 130, 
132, 133. 134, 135. 
136, 153- 

John, Dea., 82, 83, 96, 
102, 126, 127. 

John Debell, 122. 

John Edwards, 135. 

John, Maj., 24, 38, 41. 

John Milton, 44. 

John, Rev., 131. 

Jonathan, 7, 17, 20, 23, 
34, 39. 43. 44, 48, 81, 
120, 121, 124, 126, 

127, 128, 129, 130, 
131, 132, 134, 137. 
138, 159. 

Jonathan Dwight, 134. 

Jonathan, Jr., 127. 

Joseph, 19, 35, 37, 72, 
100, 102, 105, 108. 
120, 121, 122, 123 
124, 125, 126, 127, 
129, 132, 135, 136 
138, 139, 144, 159- 



Smith, Joseph Chester, 

123. 
Joseph Emilius, 123. 
Joseph Henry, 123. 
Joshua, 125. 
Josiah, 25, 29, 47, 104, 

121, 127, 128, 129, 

130. 133- 
Josiah Moody, 137. 
Josiah S., 27, 121. 
Josiah White, 136, 138. 
Julia, 134, 135. 
Julia Avis, 137. 
Julia Catherine, 138. 
Julia Elizabeth, 135. 
Julia Maria, 123. 
Justin, 130, 133, 136. 
Laura, 80, 134. 
Laurana, 122. 
Levi, 130. 
Lois, 99, 130, 133. 
Lorenzo, 43, 134- i37- 
Lorinda, 27, 135. 
Loomis, 12 1. 
Louisa Hannah, 138. 
Louisa Helen, 138. 
Lovisa, 132, 133. 
Lucius, 134, 137. 
Lucina, 130. 
Lucinda, 133. 
Lucretia, 43, 56, 133, 

134, 166. 

Lucy, 121, 128, 129, 

130, 132, 133, 13s, 

136. 
Lucy Jane, 137. 
Luke,2S, 32, 36,115, 124, 

126, 128, 129, 139. 
Luna Chapin. 136. 
Luther, 79, 130. 
Lydia, 60, 96, 100, 120, 

121, 123, 125, 127, 

128, 129, 130, 132, 

135. 139- 
Lydia Maria, 135. 
Lyman, 44. 
Marah, 124, 132. 
Marcus, Rev., 108. 
Margaret, 126, 128, 135, 

139, 166. 
Margaret Prentiss, 134. 
Maria, 123, 133, 135. 
Maria Dickinson, 135. 
Maria May, 138. 
Martha, 69, 84, 94, 97- 

102, 125, 126, 128, 

129, 130, 132, 133, 
135, 139. 

Martha Hitchcock, 1 23 , 



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199 



Smith, Martin, 20, 124, 
127, 130, 131. 
Mary, 7, 9, 52, 59, 85, 
95, 97, 108, 115, 121, 

123, 124, 125, 126, 

127, 128, 129, 130, 
131. 132. 133. 134. 
135. 136, 137. 139. 
157. 165. 

Mary Ann, 123, 134, 

135. 138- 

Mary Bartlett, 136. 

Mary Berintha, 136. 

Mary Elizabeth, 123. 

Mary Ellen, 137. 

Mary Jane, 137, 138. 

Mary Wilson, 123. 

Medad, 130, 137. 

Mehitable, 120, 121, 
122, 124, 127, 128, 
132, 142. 

Mehitable Morgan, 134. 

Mehitable W or thing- 
ton, 135. 

Melinda, 122, 123, 133. 

Mercy, 22, 47, 91, 92, 

124, 126, 128, 129. 
Mindwell, 124, 139. 
Minerva, 136. 
Miranda, 133. 
Miriam, 120, 121, 125, 

128, 129, 139. 
Moses, 91, 125, 127, 

128, 130, 131, 133, 

139- 
Nancy, 15. 

Nancy Emeline, 136. 
Naomi, 129, 131, 134. 
Nathan, 122, 126, 128, 

129, 132. 

Nathan Emilius, 123. 
Nathaniel, 6, 15, 34, 
39, 76, 112, 117, 124, 

125, 127, 138. 
Nathaniel Alexander, 

65, 121, 122. 
Nathaniel, Dr., 93,130. 
Nathaniel S., 16. 
Nehemiah, 125. 
Noadiah, 128, 131. 
Noah, 25, 26, 31, 126, 

127, 129, 131, 133, 

139, 141. 
Obadiah, 128, 133 
Olive, 66, 123, 136. 
Oliver, 25, 40, 47, 93, 

loi, 123, 127, 128, 

130, 131. 134- 136- 
Orlando, 133, 136. 
Orra Louisa, 137. 



Smith, Pamelia, 135, 136. 
Park, 166. 
Parks, 122. 
Patty, 86, 122, 133. 
Paul, 121. 
Paulina, 136. 
Peletiah, 100, 125, 128, 

131- 
Perez, 90, 129, 130, 

131. 132, 133. 157- 
Permelia, 105, 106. 
Persis, 121, 135. 
Peter, 126, 129, 132, 

133- 
Phebe, 105, 128, 132. 
Philetus, 136. 
Phillip, 123, 124, 125, 

127, 130, 140, 154. 
Phillip, Jr., 140. 
Phillis, 122, 150. 
Philothea, 19, 122, 126, 

127, 129. 
Phinehas, 19, 122, 126, 

129, 130, 131, 157. 
Phinehas Clark, 136. 
Plinny Edwards, 137. 
Polly, 79, 131, 133,134- 
Preserved, 95, 124, 138, 

139- 
Prudence, 37, 122, 124, 

125, 131. 
Rachel, 120, 122, 126, 

129, 131. 
Rebecca, 25, 32, 35, 50, 

72, 120, 121, 124, 125, 

127,128,130,131,137, 

140, 141. 
Rebecca Allen, 137. 
Rebeckah, 10 i, 128. 
Reuben, 98, 120, 121, 

128, 131. 
Rhoda, 121, 131. 
Robert Leighton, 135. 
Rodney, 122, 134. 137. 
Roger Robbins, 133. 
Roswell, 122, 134, 137. 
Roxana, 121. 

Rufus, 123, 134, 136. 

Rufus May, 123. 

Ruth, 7, 36, 126, 128, 
129, 133, 135. 

Sabra, 130. 

Sally, 43, 52, 122, 130, 
136. 

Salome, 122. 

Samuel, 12, 18, 19, 50, 
66, 88, 100, 109, 116, 
120, 121, 122, 123, 
124, 125, 126, 128, 



131. 132, 133. 13s. 
136, 138, 139, 142, 

149. 157. 158- 

Samuel Augustus, 136. 

Samuel Dudley, 136. 

Samuel P., 135, 136. 

Samuel, Lt., 59, 63, 
108, 123, 158. 

Sarah, 49, 52, 81, 83, 
100, 109, 120, 121, 
122, 123, 124, 125, 
126, 128, 129, 130, 
131. 134. 138, 139. 
159- 

Sarah Ann, 134. 

Sarah Augustus, 136. 

Sarah C, 123, 166. 

Sarah Eliza, 137. 

Sarah Elizabeth, 135. 

Sarah Hillhouse, 136. 

Sarah Jane, 137. 

Sarah Lydia, 135. 

Sarah Maria, 123. 

Sarah W., 121. 

Selah, 79, 121, 131. 

Sereno, 122, 123. 

Seth, 79, 121, 128, 129, 
130, 132, 135. 

Seth Pomeroy, 135. 

Seth, Rev., 114. 

Sibil, 121. 

Sibyl, 121. 

Sibyl Kilbourn, 122. 

Sidney, 122. 

Silas, 80, 115, 119, 127, 
130. 134. 136, 137- 

Silas Allen, 136. 

Silas Moody, 136, 138. 

Simeon, 108, 127, 130, 

131. 133- 
Simon, 63, 139. 
Solomon, 130. 
Sophia, 27, 123, 132, 

134, 166. 
Sophia Lewis, 138. 
Sophia Louisa, 123. 
Sophronia, 135. 
Speedy, 48, 122. 
Spenser, 122. 
Submit, 42, 121. 
Stephen, 93, 122, 124, 

127, 130, 131, 132. 
Susan Hubbard, 135. 
Susan Partridge, 135. 
Susanna, 35,122. 
Sylvanus, 131. 
Sylvester, 123, 131, 

132- 133. 134. 137. 
138, 148. 



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Smith, Tabitha, 130. 
Thaddeus, 123. 
Thankful, 126, 129. 
Thankful D., 134. 
Theoda, 129. 
Theodocia, 123, 138. 
Theodore, 134. 
Theodore French, 137. 
Theodore Worthing- 

ton, 135. 
Thomas, 120, 121, 122, 

132, 163. 
Thomas Hunt, 138. 
Timothy, 98, 121, 122, 

124, 129, 133. 
Timothy Eastman, 131. 
Titus, 103, 127, 129. 
Tryphena, 121. 
Ursula, 133. 
Walter, 122. 
Wareham,86, 129, 133, 

136. 
Warren, 134, 136. 
Washington, M.D., 65. 
Watson Loud, 138. 
Willard, 25, 129. 
William, 28, 88, 93, 

108, 121, 125, 128, 

132, 133. 134. 13s. 

136, 137- 
William Dickmson, 134, 

137- 

William Henry, 138. 

William Hubbard, 123. 

William Kingman, 135. 

William Parks, 123. 

Windsor, 11, 64, 120, 
126, 129, 133. 

Worthington, 132. 

Worthington, Rev,,i3S, 

Wright, 130. 

Wyman, 105. 

Zebina, 123. 

,19,60,75,143.144- 

Snow, Azubah, 79, 140. 

Ebenezer, 80, 139. 

Elizabeth, 140. 

Jabez, 139. [140- 

Josiah, 37, 79, 80, 139, 

Lucy, 79, 140. 

Lydia, 140. 

Mary, 139. 

Sarah, 80, 83, 136. 
Southmayd, Anna, 140. 
Southworth, Abia, 14. 
Spaulding, Mrs., 149. 
Spear, Joseph, 31. 

Sarah, 66. 
Spencer, Isaac, 118. 



Spring, Sam., Rev., 71. 
Sprout, Louisa, 41. 

Nathan, 33. 
Spur, Nancy, 165. 
Stacy, WiUiam, 137. 

, 160. 

Stafford, Abigail, 112. 
Stall, Isaac, 160. 

William, 134. 
Standish, Mary, 119. 
Stanley, Abigail, 29. 

Bennett, 140. 

Caleb, 29. 

Edward, 54. 

Hannah, 79, iii, 140. 

John, 96. 

Joseph, 140. 

Mary, 140. 

Nathaniel, 140. 

Sarah, 140. 

Susanna, 140. 

Thomas, iii, 140. 

Timothy, 7, 29. 
Stearns, Daniel, 86. 

Lucy, 74. 

Thomas, 74. 
Stebbins, Edward, 59. 

Eleanor, 105. 

Elijah. 37. 

John, 21. 

Luther, 78. 

Mary, 22, 166. 

Thomas, 22. 
Stedman, Elizabeth, 139. 
Steel, John, 146. 

Stephen, Rev., 112. 
Stephenson, Sarah, 129, 
Stetson, Charlotte, 31. 

Gideon, 31. 

Jacob, 16. 

Mary, 40. 

Nancy, 85. 

Sophia, 40. 
Stevens, Betsey, 20. 

Elizabeth, 25, 163. 

Linus, Dr., 23. 

Sarah, Mrs., 83. 
Stickney, Caleb H., 140, 

Caleb Howard, 140. 

Chester, 140. 

John, 103, 140. 

Jonas, 140. 

Walter, 140. 
Stiles, Henry, 87. 
Stillman, Ann, 140. 

Benjamin, 140. 

Elizabeth, 140. 

George, 124, 140. 

Hannah, 140. 



Stillman, John, 140. 

John, Dea., 53. 

Lydia, 140. 

Martha, 53, 140. 

Mary, 140. 

Nathaniel, 140. 

Rebecca, 140. 

Sarah, 140. 
Stockbridge, Abel, 119. 

Abigail, 42, 166. 

Allis, 166. 

Betsey, 165, 166. 

Caleb, 26, 166. 

David, 105, 122, 166. 

Eber, 166. 

Esther, 166. 

Henry Smith, 166. 

Jason, 105,163,165,166. 

Levi, 166. 

Samuel, 166. 
Stocking, Lyman, 160. 
Stockwell , Abel, 119,157. 

Abigail, 140. 

Clarissa, 56. 

Eleazar, 140. 

Hannah, 135, 141. 

Jeriah, 141. 

John, 140. 

Josiah, 141. 

Levi, 80. 

Quintan, 140. 

Sarah, 157. 

Submit, 141. 

Timothy, 26, 57, 132, 
135, 141. 
Stoddard, Christian, 161. 

Israel, 161. 

Margaret, 71. 

Sampson, Rev., 71. 

Solomon, 107. 

, 161. 

Stone, Sam'l, Rev., loi. 
Storrs, Cornelius, 112. 

Elizabeth, 112. 

Huckins, 112. 

Joseph, 112. 

Joseph, Maj., 92. 
Stoughton, Ame, 86. 

John, 38, 39. 
Stratton, Hezekiah, 67. 

Julia Ann, 159. 
Stream, Mary, 8. 
Strickland, Francis, 56. 

Hannah, 38. 

John, 55, 64. 

Sybil, 42. 
Strong, Abigail, 19, 88. 

Esther, 154. 

Hannah, 90. 

Hezekiah Wright, 141. 



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Strong, Jedediah, 88. 

John, i8, 131, 141. 

John Elder, 8, 151. 

Joseph, Rev., 161. 

Martha, 161. 

Mary, 14. 

Mehitable, 90. 

Nathaniel, 21, 131. 

Nehemiah, 14, 141. 

Peter, 73, 82. 

Rachel, 130. 

Sally, 141. 

Samuel, 88, 141, 154. 

Sarah, 130. 

Simeon, 141. 

Simeon, Hon., 141. 

Solomon, 141. 

Susanna, 88. 

Thomas B., 43. 
Sturdevant, Timothy, 13. 
Sumner, John, 158, 166. 

Margaret, 166. 

Samuel, 166. 

Sarah, 166. 

Susan, 166. 
Sweetser, Joseph A., 46. 

Sally, 141. 
Sweezey, J. A., 16. 
Sykes, Samuel, 53. 
Symonds, Mark, 148. 

Priscilla, 148. 

TAINTOR, Michael, 
Jr.. 52. 
Talcott, Mary, 
117. 
Taylor, Aaron, 142. 
Abigail, 143. 
Benoni, 142. 
Catherine, 142. 
Daniel, 142. 
Dinah, 142. 
Dolly, 55. 

Ebenezer, 124, 142. 
Edward, 104, 137. 
Elisha, 142. 
Elizabeth, 142, 143. 
Elvira, 80. 
Esther, 142. 
Eunice, 104, 142. 
Experience, 142. 
Hannah, 142. 
Hester, 141, 149. 
Huldah, 142. 
Isaac Sylvester, 137. 
Ithamar, 142. 
Jacob, 88, 142, 155. 
Joanna, 142. 
John, 119, 141, 142, 
149, 155, 163. 



Taylor, Jonathan, 64,1 42. 
Joseph, 116, 142. 
Joshua, 142. 
Katherine, 142. 
Laura, 79. 
Lois, 142. 
Louisa, 137. 
Mary, 43, 142. 
Mercy, 143. 
Moses, 142. 
Oliver, 142. 
Paul, 142. 
Phebe, 142. 
Reuben, 142. 
Ruth, 79, 142. 
Samuel, 81, 142. 
Sarah, 142. 
Shubael, 142. 
Silas, 142. 
Stephen, 69, 142, 143, 

153- 
Susanna, 142. 
Thankful, 142. 
Thomas, 67, 141. 
Violet, 142. 
William, 130, 142. 
Zebulon, 165. 

. 159- 

Temple, Archelaus, 143. 

Beulah, 143. 

Dorcas, 143. 

Elijah, 143. 

Frederick, 143. 

John, 143. 

Mary, 143. 

Rosina, 143. 

Sarah, 143. 

Silas, 143. 

Thomas, 9, 143. 

William, 143. 
Terry, Abigail, 81, 143. 

Elizabeth, 117, 143. 

John, 143. 

Mary, 57^ 143. 

Stephen, 57, 81, 117, 
143- 

. 33- 

Thayer, Israel, 31. 

John, 54. 

Relief, 122. 

Samuel, 41. 

. 130. 

Thomas, Eliab, Dea., 54. 

Joseph, 143. 

Mary, 143. 

Samuel, 143. 
Thompson, Artemus, 44. 

Lydia, 71, 130. 

M. L. R. P., Rev., 165. 

Phineas, 157. 



Thompson , Theodocia , 
80. 

Thomas, 71. 

William, 69. 
Thorp, Celia, 80. 

Elvira, 80. 
Tilton, Peter, 47, 143. 

Mary, 47, 143. 

Peter, 143. 

Sarah, 143. 
Tolman, John, Dea. , 105 . 
Tower, Lewis, 160. 
Towne, Abner, Rev., 144. 

Nathan B., 135. 
Towner, Betsey, 135. 
Train, Ebenezer, 19. 

Peter, 30. 
Trayner, Francis, 143. 

Elizabeth, 143. 

Isabel, 143. 

Jane, 143. 

James, 143. 

Mary, 143. 

Nelly, 143. 

Sarah, 143. 

William, 143. 
Treat, Richard, Jr., 22. 

Susannah, 150. 
Trip, Nancy Jane, 79. 
Trowbridge, Julia, 65. 

Levi, 65. 

, 10. 

Trumbull, Mary, 91. 

. 31- 

Tudor, Samuel, Rev., 125. 
Tufts, Lucy, 80. 
Turner, Eliza, 80. 

Nancy, 71. 

Robert, 52. 
Tuttle, Henry, 137. 

Louisa, 137. 

Luke, 43. 
Tyler, , 26. 

VAIL, Elizabeth, 65. 
Vincent, Joseph, 
165. 
Vinton, Abiathar, 143, 
T44. 
Abigail, 144. 
Abigail Smith, 144. 
Alvin, 144. 
Clarissa, 144. 
David, 144. 
Hannah, 143. 
John, 143. 
Lydia, 144. 
Medad, 144. 
Plin, 144. 
Rachel, 144. 



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GENEALOGICAL INDEX. 



Vinton, Rhoda, 144. 
Samuel, 143. 
Samuel, Dr., 129, 144. 
Samuel Farley, 15. 
Samuel Finley, 144. 
Sarah Eliza, 144. 
Simeon, 143, 144. 
Tamar, 143. 
Ursula, 144. 

WADE, Sally, 30. 
Wait, Asa, 121, 

125- 
Bathsheba, 145. 
Benjamin, 11, 125, 144, 

145- 
Canada, 144. 
Damaris, 103. 
Daniel, 65. 
David, 145. 
Dolly, 67. 
Eleanor, loi, 144. 
Elijah, 147. 
Elisha, 52, 84, 144. 
Elizabeth, 103. 
Esther, 10 1. 
Eunice, 115, 144. 
Gad, 145. 
Hannah, 113, 145. 
Hepzibah, 145. 
Jeremiah, 59, 144, 145. 
John, II, 12, 54, 64, 

65, 144. 
Joseph, 144, 145, 147, 

158. 
Lucius, 130. 
Lucy, 145. 
Luke, 85. 

Lydia, 20, 144, 148. 
Martha, 144, 145. 
Martin, 56, 76. 
Mary, 7, 66, 144, 145, 

15.8. 

Minam, 145. 

Moses, 145. 

Nathan, 12, 145. 

Rachel, 78. 

Reuben, 145. 

Rhoda, 145. 

Samuel, 66, 145. 

Sarah, 11, 144. 

Simeon, 145. 

Thomas, 129. 

William, 103, 1x5,128. 
Waite, Benjamin, 151. 

Canada, 126. 

Mary, 151. 
Wakefield, John, 58. 

Hannah, 58. 
Walbridge, , 112. 



Wales, Anna, 68, no. 

Jemima, 39. 
Walker, Ebenezer, 145. 

Elijah, 145. 

Ephraim, 145. 

Hannah, 145. 

Isaiah, 145. 

Israel, 145. 

John, 23. 

Nathan, 15. 

Susanna, 145. 

Walter, 145. 
Walkup, Beulah, 31. 

Wallace, , 129. 

Wallis, Addi, 145, 166. 

Amy Saxton, 145. 

Daniel, 145. 

David, 145. 

Elijah, 145. 

Polly, 145- 

Ruth, 145. 

Ruth Sexton, 145. 

Sarah, 145. 

Sarah Sumner, 145. 

William, 26, 141, 145. 
Ward, Betsey, 145. 

Grace, 145. 

Isaac, 145. 

Lebbeus, 109. 

Lois, 145. 

Lucretia, 67, 145. 

Lucy, 145. 

Mary, 53, 145. 

Mary Dexter, 146. 

Nahum, 74, 145. 

Nathaniel, 90, 145. 

Obadiah, 145. 

Samuel D., 133. 

Samuel Dexter, 56, 146. 

Samuel Gaylord, 146. 

Sarah, 145. 

Susan, 45. 

Susanna, 145. 

Sybil, 145. 
Wardsworth, Elisha S., 
162. 

Elizabeth, 143. 

John, 140. 

William, 89. 

, 72. 

Ware, Samuel, Rev., 14. 
Wares, Emma, 144. 
Warner, Andrew, 146. 

Aaron, 39,98, 119, 146, 

147. 
Abel, 148. 

Abigail, 147, 148, 149. 
Abraham, 146, 147. 
Achsah W., 106. 
Adonijah, 149. 



Warner, Andrew, 32, 146. 
Ann, 73, 147. 
Anna, 90, 146, 147. 
Asher, 149. 
Charles, 160, 166. 
Comfort, 147. 
Daniel, 13, 56, 57, 73, 
76, III, 146, 147, 148, 

149. 155- 
David, 146, 147, 148. 
Deborah, 31. 
Dorothy, 42, 148, 166. 
Downing, 149. 
Ebenezer, 146, 147. 
Eleazar, 11, 128, 141, 

148, 149. 
Eli, 147, 149. 
Elihu, 148, 149. 
Elisha, 148, 149. 
Elizabeth, 112, 119, 

142, 146, 147, 148, 

149, 166. 
Emily, 166. 

Esther, 128, 146, 147, 

149. 
Eunice, 23, 147, 149. 
Gideon, 146, 148, 149. 
Giles, 148. 
Hannah, 76, 98, 146, 

147, 148. 
Harriet, 148. 
Henry Phelps, 166. 
Hester, 149. 

Hope 147. 

Ichabod, 146. 

Isaac, 13, 32, loi, 146. 

147- 
Israel, 147, 149. 
Jacob, 57, 146, 147. 

148. 
Jahiel, 99, 149. 
Jemima, 57. 
Jeremiah Chapin, 149. 
Jesse, 1 20, 147. 
Joanna, 99, 149. 
John, 13, 100, 146, 147, 

148, 149. 
Jonathan, 6, 60, .to^'», 

146, 147, 148, i49,'.6(j. 
Jonathan C, 42. 
Joseph, 74, 146, 147, 

148. 
Joshua, 147. 
Josiah, Jr., 49. 
Lemuel, no, 134, 148, 

166. 
Lucy, 28, 148, 149. 
Lydia, 146, 147, 148, 

149. 
Marah, 149. 



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Warner, Maribee, 147. 
Mark, 95, 148, 149. 
Martha, 87, 120, 146, 

147, 148, 149, 155. 
Mary, 32, 45, 60, 66, 

130, 146, 147. 149- 
Mary Ann, 123. 
Mehitable, 146,148,149. 
Mercy, 146. 
Miriam, 149. 
Moses, 40, 51, 87, 130, 

146, 147. 
Naomi, 149. 
Nathan, 147, 149. 
Nathaniel, 55, 142, 146, 

148, 149. 
Noadiah, 28, 87, 147, 

148. 
Olive, 148. 

Oliver, 23, 116, 147, 148. 
Orange,6o, 1 19,146,148, 
Patty Hunt, 148. 
Phinehas, 102. 
Polly, 134, 148. 
Priscilla, 148. 
Rachel, 149. 
Rebecca, no, 121, 146, 

147. 149- 
Reuben, 147. 
Robert, 146. 
Roxelana, 148, 158. 
Ruth, 146, 147, 149. 
Sally Shipman, 166. 
Samuel, 19, 51, 100, 

146, 147, 149. 
Sarah, 146, 147. 
Seth, 149. 
Seth M., 86. 
Sewell, 149. 
Sophia, 148, 149. 
Stephen, 95, 149. 
Thankful, 37, 146. 
Tirzah, 40. 
Violet, 149. 
Wareham, 147. 
William, 32, 148. 
Wm. Freeman, 148. 
Wright, 32. 
^ /f Ten, Cotton Mather, 

157- 
Daniel, in. 
Moses, 40. 
Orange Hart, 157. 
William, 32. 
Warriner, Abigail, 150. 
Daniel, 99, 103. 
David, 99. 
Dorcas, 150. 
Ebenezer, 150. 
Elizabeth, 150. 



Warriner, Hannah, 150. 

Joanna, 150. 

Joseph, 95, 150. 

Mary, 150. 

William, 7, 150. 
Washburn, Fanny J., 71. 

Mabel E., 15. 

Royal, Rev., 108. 

Susannah, 69. 
Watson, David, 40. 

Mary, 43. 
Way, Ebenezer, 150. 

Nancy, 150. 

Philip, 150. 

Ralph, Jr., 150. 
Webb, John, 50. 

Sarah, 50. 
Webster, Abigail, 150. 

Agnes, 150. 

Anne, 150. 

Elizabeth, 90, 117, 150. 

George, 150. 

John, 150. 

John, Gov., 90. 

Mary, 150. 

Matthew, 150. 

Robert, 88, 150. 

Thankful, 150. 

Thomas, 150. 

William, 150. ^ 

Wells, Aaron, 150. 

Abigail, 150. 

Agrippa, 151. 

Amasa, 158. 

Asa, 152. 

Ashbel, 83. 

Augustus, 151. 

Benjamin, 60. 

Cornelia Hubbard, 70. 

Daniel, 151, 152. 

Daniel, Hon., 152. 

David, 151, 152. 

Ebenezer, 88, 144, 151, 
152. 

Eleazar, 151. 

Elijah, 152. 
- Elisha, 152. 

Elizabeth, 150, 152. 

Ephraim, 5, 151. 

Esther, 152. 

Eunice, 107. 

Frances, 22, 150. 

Frederick, io6. 

George, 156. 

Gideon, 107. 

Green, 156. 

Hannah, 103, 150, 151, 

154- 
Hepzibah, 35, 151. 
Hester, 150. 



Wells, James, 118. 
John, 10, 91, 150, 151, 

152. 
Jonathan, 6, 8, 72, 125, 

150, 151, 152. 
Jonathan, Jr., 9, 36. 
Joseph, 150, 151. 
Joshua, 151. 
Lucy, 151. 

Martha, 144, 151, 152. 
Mary, 11, 150, 151, 152. 
Noah, 150, 151. 
Oliver, 152. 
Rachel, 150. 
Rebecca, 152. 
Roswell, 158. 
Rufus, 151. 

Samuel, 36, 150, 151, 
^152. 
Sarah, 52, 72, 94, 105 

150, 151, 152. 
Simeon, 152. 
Susannah, 152. 
Thomas, 9, 10, 11, 35, 

67, 72, 78, 146, 151, 

152, 154- 
Wid., 52. 

. 153- 

West, Dan., 24, 152. 

Christopher, 20. 

Hannah, 152. 

Jerusha, 152. 

Mary, 152. 

Rebekah, 152. 

Roswell, 152. 

Thomas, 152. 
Westcarr, John, 8, 152. 

Hannah, 152. 
Westwood, Bridget, 152. 

Sarah, 23, 152. 

William, 23, 152. 
Wheeler, Elijah, 99. 

George, 103. 

John, Rev., 71. 
Wheelock, Rhoda. 143. 

Sally, 30. 
Whitcomb, Sally, 106. 
White, Aaron, 156. 

Abigail, 6, 155, 156, 

159- 1 

Albert Rensselaer, 160. 
Amy, 104. 
Ann, 154. 

Anna, 154,156,158,159. 
Anne, 159. 
Asa, 156. 

Asaph, Col., II, 129. 
Aurelia, 78. 
Bela, 159. 
Betheiie, 158. 



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White, Betsey, 159. 

Celinda D., 160 

Charles, 159. 

Charity, 157. 

Christian, 155, 156. 

Clarine, 46. 

Cotton, 158, 159. 

Cynthia, 134, 159, 160. 

Daniel, 26, 28, 32, 36, 
75. 89, 97, loi, 151, 
153,154,155,157,158, 

159, 160. 

Daniel S., 60, 159, 160. 
David, 148, 154, 155, 

157, 158, 159, 160. 
Delia, 160. 
Dorcas, 159. 
Ebenezer, 19, 144, 153, 

155, 156, 158, 159, 

160, 166. 
Editha, 157. 
Edward Sherman, 160. 
Eldad, 157. 

Electa, 158, 159. 
Elihu, 62, 155, 156, 

159, 160. 
Elijah, no, 158, 160. 
Elisha, 154. 
Eliza, 78. 
Eliza Ann, 160. 
Elizabeth, 78, 96, loi, 

153, 154, 15s, 156, 

158, 159. 
Elizabeth S., 160. 
Elizabeth W., 160. 
Ellen Jane, 160. 
Emeline, 160. 
Enoch, 156. 

Esther, 58,77,153,154, 

155. 156. 
Eunice, 154. 156, 158, 

159- 
Ezekiel, 156. 
Ezra, 156. 
Flavia, 157. 
Gad, 157. 

George, 80, 159, 160. 
George Smith, 160. 
Giles, 157. 
Grace Grant, 158. 
Hannah, 36, 64, 75, 153, 

154. 155. 157. 158. 
Harvey, 160. 
Henry, 63, 95, 160. 
Huldah, 156. 
Jacob, 153. 
James Porter, 160. 
Jarib, 157, 159. 

Jay, 159- 
Jerusha, 155, 156. 



White, Job, 157. 
Joel, 104, 154, 156. 
John, 19, 59, 69, 127, 

142, 151, 152. 153, 

154,155,156,158,162. 
John Baker, 159. 
John, Dea., 64, 155. 
John Elder, 153. 
Jonathan, 58, 116, 154, 

155,156,157,158,160. 
Jonathan Cole, 159. 
Joseph, 6, 31, 58, 59, 

98, 153, 155, 157. 
Joseph, Dea., 48. 
Josiah, 128, 155, 157, 

160. 
Judith, 158. 
Keziah, 157. 
Lois, 157, 159. 
Lucy, 154, 158, 160. 
Luther, 158. 
Lydia, 156, 157, 160. 
Mabel, 157, 159. 
Margaret Smith, 160. 
Maria, 157. 
Mary, 36, 48, 66, 144, 

151. 153. 154, 155. 

157. 158. 
Mary Bumps, 160. 
Martha,26, 154,155,156. 
Mehitable, 153. 
Mercy, 158. 
Mindwell, 156. 
Miriam, 157. 
Moses, 78, 134, 155, 

156, 157. 159. 160. 
Nabby, 159. 
Nathaniel, 38, 153, 154, 

155. 156. 157. 159- 
Nathaniel, Dea,, 36, 153, 
Oliver, 119, 154, 155, 

156, 159, 160. 
Orra, 159. 
Pamela Wells, 159. 
Patty, 159. 
Permelia, 158, 160. 
Perez, 159. 
Phebe, 156, 160. 
Phineas, 156. 
Rachel, 155. 
Rebecca, 58, 99, 153, 

^55. 157, 159- 
Reuben, 157, 160. 
Roxelany, 32. 
Ruth, 142, 154, 155, 

159, 160. 
Salmon, 155, 158. 
Samuel, 46, 48, 155, 

156, 157- 
Samuel Sumner, 160. 



White, Sarah, 26, 59, 69, 
89, 127, 142, 153, 154, 

155, 157. 158, 159. 
160, 162. 

Sarah Ann, 160. 

Sarah Jane, 28, 159. 

Seth, 154. 

Silva, 158. 

Simeon, 74, 125, 154, 

156, 157- 
Solomon, 66. 
Submit, 155, 158. 
Susan, 159. 
Susannah, 156. 
Sylvester, 160. 
Thankful, 156, 157, 160. 
Thomas, 154, 155, 156, 

158. 
Thomas, Lt., 156. 
Timothy, 154, 156. 
Tirzah, 157. 
William, 119, 142, 147, 

^153. 155. 157. 158. 

Zenas, 157, 160. 

Zeruiah, 62, 159. 

64. 

Whitehead, Richard, 89. 
Whiting, Abigail, 117. 

Dorothy, 38. 

John, Rev., 117. 

Margaret, Mrs., 91. 

Mary, 141. 

Rebecca, 117. 
Whitney, David S., 109. 

Mary, 161. 

Whiton, , 127. 

Whittemore, Lewis, 49. 
Whittier, Mary L., 46. 
Whittlesey, S., Rev., 18. 
Wiard, Thomas, 125. 
Wier, Sarah, 124. 
Wiggins, Hannah, 114. 
Wilbur, James, 160. 

Wilcox, , 59. 

Wilder, Dea., 79. 

Lewis, 160. 

Nathaniel, 145. 

Nathaniel Adams, 44. 

Samuel C, 119. 

Susanna, 43. 
Willard, Hannah, 129. 

Josiah, 95, 129. 

Wilder, 74. 

, 51. 

Willett, Rebecca, 153. 
Williams, Abigail, 12. 

Abraham, 160. 

Abraham, Rev., 132. 

Anna, 109. 132. 

Ashley, 132. 



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Williams, Charles, 87, 

160. 
Charlotte, 113. 
Chester, 71,113,160,161. 
Dorothy, 161. 
Ebenezer, 40. 
Ebenezer, Col., 113. 
Ebenezer, Rev.. 160. 
Elisha, 161. 
Elizabeth, 87, 108, 160, 

161. 
Emily, 161. 
Enos D , 165. 
Erastus S., 162. 
Eunice, 161. 
Ezekiel, 108. 
Gabriel, 73. 
Harriet, 108. 
Henry Dickinson, 16. 
Hinckley, 16. 
Horace, 161. 
Israel, 161. 
Jacob, 73. 
Jerusha, 161. 
John, 100, 1 10, 160, 161. 
JohnC, 40,97, 160,161. 

Justus, III. 

Lieut., 76. 

Lucretia, 161. 

Martha, 109, 161. 

Mary, 54, 58, 65, 161. 

Nancy, 122. 

Nehemiah, 160. 

Penelope, 56, 160. 

Priscilla, 87. 

Ruth, 33. 

Samuel ,112. 

Samuel, Rev., 112. 

Sarah, 63, 91, 133, 161. 

Solomon, 112, 161. 

Sophia, 120. 

Weeks, 160. 

William, 103, 109, 161. 

William, Col., 151. 

William, Hon., 114. 

William, Rev., 108, 
109, 161. 

Zebadiah, 6. 

Zipporah, no. 

, 63, 76, 97, 99. 

A'^illiamson, Martha, 163. 

Wm. D., 15. 
iVilmarth, Lydia, 144. 
iiVilliston, Mary Ann, 42. 
kVilson, Benjamin, 41. 

James, Doct., 136. 

Lucretia, 41. 

Wilson, , 10 1. 

iVinchell, Jonathan, 72. 



Wing, AustinE., Hon., 15. 
Wolterton, Gregory, 140. 
Wood, Asa, 1 19. 

Caroline, 159. 

Firmin, 104. 

James B., 136. 

Jane, 20. 

Lavinia, T19. 

Samuel, 148. 

William, 165. 
Woodbridge, ^neas, 161. 

Benj amin Ruggles ,161. 

Caroline, 161. 

Charlotte, 162. 

Dorothy, 161. 

Elizabeth Octavia, 162. 

Emeline, 42, 162. 

Jahleel, 16 r. 

John, 161, 162. 

John, Rev., 42, 161, 162. 

Louisa Christmas, 162. 

Martha, 161. 

Mary Ann, 162. 

Mind well, 162. 

Rebecca, 162. 

Ruggles, 161. 

Sophia, 161. 

Susan Augusta, 162 

Sylvester, 161. 

Timothy, Dr., 162. 

Tryphena, 115, 161. 
Woodbury, John, 145. 
Woodford, E. M., 86. 
Woodruff, Alfred, 109. 
Woods, John, Capt.. in. 

Harding P., 45. 
Woodville, Milton, 49. 

Isaac, 119. 
Woodward Family, 162. 

Dr., 114. 

Fanny, 107. 
Woodworth Family, 162. 

. 17- 

Woolcott, Ebenezer, 162. 

Eunice, 15. 

Josiah, 154. 

Roger, Jr., 154. 

Solomon, 64. 
Worcester, Elizabeth 
Lydia, 164. 

Leonard, Rev., 71. 

Samuel, Rev., 164. 
Worthington Family, 
162. 

Daniel, 121, 162. 

Eilzabeth, 55, 162. 

Nicholas, 153, 162. 

Rhoda, 121. 

William, 59, 100, 162. 



Wright, Abner, 35. 

Albert, Judd, 78. 

Anna, Mrs., 154. 

Asahel, 145. 

Asahel, Jr., 158. 

Azariah, 51. 

Benjamin, 127. 

Benjamin, Capt., 11. 

Benoni, 127. 

Charles, 14, 162. 

Daniel L., 163. 

Dorcas, 162. 

Eleanor, 163. 

Eleazar, 48. 

Elizabeth E., 29. 

Esther, 162, 163, 166. 

Eunice, 162. 

Fidelia, 78. 

Hannah, 12, 127. 

Joseph, 19, 24. 

Josiah, 162. 

Judah, 72. 

Justis, 78. 

Levi, 29 

Lucius, Dr., 137. 

Lucretia, 163. 

Luther, 93. 

Lydia, 38. 

Moses C, 80. 

Nathaniel, 70. 

Noah, Dea., 118. 

Orinda, 163. 

Ozias, 163. 

Paul, 163. 

Phinehas, 52. 

Pliny, 163. 

Rebecca, 35. 

Reuben, 129. 

Roxana, 93. 

Samuel, 34, 35, 162, 166. 

Sarah, 141, 162, 163. 

Sarah Jane, 137. 

Silas, 57, 163. 

Solomon, 162. 

Stephen, 141. 
Wyatt, Elizabeth, 63. 

Israel, 163. 

Joanna, 51. 

John, 51, 59, 63. 

Hannah, 163. 

Mary, 59. 

Sarah, 59, 163. 

Susannah, 163. 
Wyman, , 23. 



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Yeomans, Sally, 157, 
Younglove Family, 
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